Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-03-22
LIV c STOCK.
ANIMALS.
The Science Of Breeding, Feeding, Protecting
and Doctoring Them.

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the farms:
This is a farmers meeting, and in a meet
ing of farmers my mind goes back thirty
five years, to the time when | was Il boy
upon a. farm in Western New York.
have lone many hard days work on a farm,
under a master who practiced farming scien-
titically. Ltook an interest in, and studied
this subject then.
Hygiene is defined as that branch of med
icine which relates to the preservation and
highest standard Of health. 1t has been the
policy of all nations to protect the lives and
health of their subjects, and no laws are
better guarded than those that relate to the
health of citizens. All things are made sub
~servient to health. This has been q subject
of great study with reference to the protec-
ton of the army, the navy, and everything
that relates to,a civilized country. This is a
matter of importance as applied to domes-
tic. animals. Most animals are raised for
profit. Their health is important both to
the producer for profit and to the consumer.
No manner of feeding can produce health in
an animal that springs from unhealty pas
tl,rage. Animals inherit ills and tenden-
cies to disease. the same as do human be-
ings. If you would have a health pig, you
must get one that has healthy parentage.
Measels, scrofula, ETC., in hogs, are handed
down to, the young. If you have an I'M
healthy sow, knock her in the head, don't
make a breeder Of her. Don't make q brood
,,So ,n ~ a cr,or,pol ,;n ~ hn,aI l,oJ,o,
down old plug. ] know in this country a
family of horses that are all ring. homeland
spawned horses. IknoW their family; they
came from. a spawned and %ring-boned an
cestry. Disease is handed down from either
side.
The Arab,does not keep the pedigree of
the.male horse their p~edigrees are all on
the side of mare. The mare that is all COW
cred with blemishes should be disposed of
and the best way to dispose of her is with
the rifle. 1t is no wonder that the Short
horn cattle have lost their milking qualities.
They have not been bred with a view of
keeping up the flow of milk. They have
been bred tor beauty and size for ages. The
buffalo is bred by nature, it is true; but the
weak are deyoured by the wolves, and their
increase is only from the healthy, and that
is the reason they are. healthy.
Color in, cattle is also bred, as discovered
as early as the time when Jacob herded cat
tie for the spotted increase, and finally own
ed the whole herd, as we read in the Scrip
lures. If health and color can be bred, how
much more can we propagate disease?
Don't breed from unhealthy cows. 1t may
not show in the first, nor in the second gen
Grafton; but by-and-by it will crop out.
Like the saying that we hear, if there is At
rican blood it may not show for generations,
but by-and-by "out pops q niger" |
mean no reflection, but it illustrates the
point. 1t is true that certain crosses will
produce better results; hence the impor-
tance ofa healthy foundation in stock-rais-
ing. hepuny cannot breed healthy stock.
Poultry can be entirely changed in color
and size in fifteen years breeding. 1t you
do not select the healthiest fowls, you will
see dwarfs and runtlings in three genera
tipns. | could Illustrate by relating an ex-
pertinent if / had time.
The Arabian horse was much improved
by the crossing with the English horse, and
the result is Il horse that far excells it in
both speed and power of endurance, and
the. Arabian horse is not to be COM
pared with the English and American
horses. Proper attention to the young is of
great importance. Of all young, the hui
Is the most dependent. Domestic ami
mails require less care, but there are certain
Times thu must be observed hv tho rniSnr