The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-20
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Too much care cannot be given to reg
ularity in feeding. Cattle suffer from
hunger if neglected too long; they
become uneasy and worry themselves (;
the secretions of the stomach become
irregular, and indigestion follows. Cat
tie often, from this cause, pass grains of
corn which remain intact. Every farmer
should make it part of his religion to
see that his dumb servants are fed regu-
larly.
The Spanish merinO was introduced
into England by George III, in 1871, and
in 1904, at public sale of the progeny,
rams averaged f19 las. and ewes Is 15s.
each. Four years later the rams aver
aged f33 los, and the ewes E23 l2s. Cd.
In 1910 rams were sold at an average o;
f5S, and ewes f37 10s. per head. Suisse
quently the Merino Society was organ
lied, under the Presidency of Sir Joseph
Banks, with fifty-four vice-pres dents.
Yet after all this imposing demopstra-
ton, the attempt to cross the merino with
the coarse-wooled English sheep was a
total failure.
WHAT shall we do with old horses? is a
question of some Importance to the own.
ers of that valuable animal. After years
of faithful service under the saddle and
in the harness, this old friend of man
becomes superannuated, and no longer
able tn do effective work. What shall
we do with him? To turn him out to
die would be cruel in the extreme to
sell him to some animal in the shape OF
man, who would overwork him, and
halfstarve him, would be worse; to keep
him up and take good care of him, would
be troublesome and expensive, especially
to a farmer or other person who is COM
PEELED by his occupation to keep ten or
twelve horses. Some individuals would
be disposed to end his sufferings by poi
son or by violence, but that is revolving
to a person of ordinary sensibilty |;
therefore the question comes up, "What
shall be done with him?"
The following is the testimony of DR..
LoriDg respecting Hungarian grass: l
believe l can make more milk with this
grass, cut and mixed with corn meal and
shorts, than can with the best timothy
hay, cut and mixed in the same manner.
And when you remember that you can
raise on ordinary land, by sowing the
seed of Hungarian grass late in June,
from two and half to three and half
tons of good fodder to the acre, and that
this crop can be sewn after we have as.
-certained whether we are to have a good
crop of hay or not, you will see the value
of this grass. have such high opin-
ion of it that on my own farm this year
and last, raised from seventy-fve to one
hundred tons of it for the purpose of
feeding to my milk COWS during the
winter"
ACCORDING to Paris correspondent,
buckwheat, when given as fodder, has
been observed to produce vertigo, alike
in cattle, sheep and pigs; in the case of
the latter, furious delirium ensues, with
difficulty to keep on the legs, and ulti-
mately finishing by long sleep. In
fammation of the head, red and staring
eyes, are the characteristics when sheep
are attacked. 1t isonly from the flowers
that the malady is produced. Bees are
even said to fall off the flowers in a state
of stupor, after alighting sometime there
on. An agriculturist states that he al
lows his sheep to crop his winter rye at
intervals of three days. By this process
ALTO he has been enabled to induce the
sheep to eat damaged hay, first shaking
out and airing the latter, and watering it
with solution containing. twenty per
cent. of salt.