The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
PLANTATION TOPICS
TESTING WOOL.

/ TESTING WOOL.
| To test the quality of wool, take
lock from the sleeps back, and place
on measured inch. If the spiral
count from thirty to thirty-three il
the space of an inch, it equals th
finest Electoral OF Saxony wool grown
The diminution of the number o
folds to the inch shows the imfcriority
PUMPKINS FOR MICH cows.
A recent experiment was tried il
feeding pumpkins by New England
farmer, who says: az first fed my
cows one week with one large or two
small pumpkins to each COW twice 8
day. Their milk decreased two OF
three quarts to each COW day from
what they gave the week previous. ]
then fed them one week with the same
quantity of pumpkins as before, and
took out the seeds. They increased in
a greater proportion of milk than
they had decreased the weak previous.
l fed them alternately three or four
weeks, and they varied in their milk
very much as the first weeks"
SALT FOR HOGS.
/ have seen salt fed to hogs for fifty
years, and in the last twenty years
have fed many heavy hogs, ranging
from 800 to 500 pounds net. / fed
them all literally with salt; have
never lost one, nor has one been sick
an hour. These hogs have been fat
tened in a close pen, and their princi-
pal food was corn-meal made into
dough. This dough / have salted at
least once day. Sometimes my hogs
would fail to clean out their trough; in
that case 1 would put handful of salt
into my bucket with some water, pour
it into their trough, and they would lick
it up with much relish. In addition to
salt, feed Goals frsm the stove. ]
make it a regular custom to feed Goals,
and it is astonishing what quantity
hog will eat, and how healthy and
robust it will make him. Let the
hogs have plenty of salt and charcoal,
and we shall hear less of the cholera
j. L., IN Country Gentleman.
VERSUS WELFARE OF AMI
MAILS.
There are men in this sc having
ANIMALS in their care, who seek more
persistently to discover how much
torture creature will endure and live
than to learn even its natural wants,
leaving out Of sight the question Of
mere physical comfort. 1t would be
but reasonable to suppose that man
who has had the benefit of warm
clothing, a comfortable house and
plenty of good food Gall of which are
being wholly artificial addi- |
sions), might think how acceptable |
'ome of these things would be to his |
snimals during cold, stormy weather.
L is trne that our domesticated ami
mails, through long exposure, have be-
come able to withstand the seasons |
Inference, but whether they are better
or it, or man is to be exonerated for !
permitting their suferings, is quite
mother question.
There exists, among large class of
,ur farmers, an idea that protection
rom cold storms and plenty of rich,
nutritious food tend to make their AMI
mails tender and are actually debili-
ating.
These men win leave their colts,
'alves and other young stock out in
he barnyard, or perhaps in woodland
PASTURES, during the winter months,
holding to the erroneous idea that such
Exposure tends to tougher them; and
their hair turns the wrong way before
pring, and their ribs stand ont like
loops on a barrel, they say it is-a good
Ign of the toughening process.
These abuses are perpetrated to an
farming extent, even in the most
lorthern states. while in the middle
md southern it is even worse; for in
mild climates less care is bestowed
Ipon animals than in cold; hence an
quail If not greater amount of suffer-
ng. The loss of animals in proper
ion to the number kept, as we'll as
heir appearance when in health, is all
he evidence required to show the i'm
'ortance of better care, even in mild
L
Again, the same class of men who
lain that shelter, with an abundance
f rich, nutritious food, is not neces-
airy nor conducive to health, will tell
IS that salt for stock is but a foolish
ray of indulging an acquired taste,
nd that animals will do Just as well
,ithout it. As a clincher to his anti
at theory he says; EMO carnivorous
nimal eats SALT" which may be true
4 the abstract; but we would like to
now what a lion or tiger is doing but
liking good dose of salt when drink
lg the blood of his victims?
Now, would it not be far the better
Ian to lay aside all these discussions,
) well as experiments in regard to the
mount of suffering animals will en- ].
ure, and try to learn what will give {
lem the greatest pleasure and most t
omfort during their brief existence? I
his, we are pleased to say, is the {
umane and enlightened system now {
racticed by the most successful breed t
rs of fine stock. They do not seek t
, learn whether animals can do with |
ut salt, pure water, variety of food, {
r shelter in winter; but if these are
,nducive to health and comfort, they {
re freely given. Cows commanding $
| 900 and upward each, and yielding I
utter which sells at dollar pound ,
our markets. are not produced under t
lc toughening system" or fed upon
~ hay withour water or salt Our {;
nest and most valuable horses are q
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