The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-03-29
FIRM III G1EDEN.
Topics Of dgricuirrral and Domestic Ia
fegfsI.
ABOUT SAILING CATTLE.

how much salt per day each dairy COW
would consume throughout the year.
He reports hat they will eat when they
have free access to it) from three to FIVE
ounces per day each that they will con-
sumo less in June, or when the grass is
young and tender, than in July, and less
in July than August. The quantity of
salt eaten by a COW is also varied by her
being in milk oil being dry. When Civ
ing milk she requires more salt. His
conclusions on the whole are that the
drier. older or harder the grass Tor other
feed) is, the more salt the COW needs to
assist to carry on the digestive process
everything else being equal.
Last November, at the request Of Mr..
Hardin, | placed my four pet Attorney
calves and six yearling Alderney heifers
on their usual winter diet, minus the
salt. This was kept up till the first OF
February. They had been in the habit
of eating all the salt they wanted, from
the time they began to eat hay OF grass
alta few weeks old till November and
then from November till February first,
not having n grain of salt.
Almost every one here. prophesied
that they would not do well. But !
have never had ten head of young ami
mails winter any better. When, on Feb.
ruary first, we gave them salt, they APP
peared to be just moderately pleased
with it, and ate il with the same relish
as if it had been their weekly or daily
allowance.
Is il the fact that cattle can use salt
10 assist in softening and digesting food,
and in its absence does nature step in
and furnish some other solvent in the
stomach by which about the same result
is attained at about the same expense to
the animals vitality Who can tell us!
Where is the skilled discusser of "dairy
husbandrY" who was never suspected oil
knowing anything about the matter, but
who isa good talker, and can tell us all
about il?
FATALITY AMONG SWINE.
A Clifton, ILL.,, correspondent writes
as follows TO the Prairie Farmer:
| wish to state a few facts that have re.
Gently come under my observation. ]
have not myself lost any hogs. / never
kept over thirty at n time, and never
had a sick one. l feed slop, and pasture
on timothy and clover give coal, salt,
lime at all times, and put rings in their
noses. The so-cslled cures fail in ex-
treme cases. / have seen it stated that
slaughter-heuse offal was a remedy tor
the coughing disease, but one of my
neighbors has a slaughter-house, and
kills every day or two, and his hogs have
mostly died, and the remainder are
wasting away. | know some cattle
feeders who have lost from eighty to two
hundred head; they bought copperas by
the barrel. These hogs had no rings in
their noses. Some n said that timber
hogs were exempt. know a gentleman
who has three hundred and twenty acre.
Of timber in hog pasture, a perfect para
disc for hogs, and he has but one hun
dred head and they are dying at the tate
of eight and ten a day. They are Po-
land China and have no rings in their
shouts. He has tried everything he
ever heard of. He cut some of them
open and their lungs were rotten-big
and little all alike. Another man lost
some fat hogs cut them open and they
were eaten through and through with
bOny, hard worms like snakes; and so it
goes. Now what isthe cause? 1t is not
rings, it is not the want of timber; ofal
will net save them, nor do | belive that
all the professors in this country can
help the matter, / venture to suggest
that we are OVERRIDING the business.
Large droves seem to be the nurseries OF
disease. Years ago, hogs were com
paratively healthy; they were few in
number also. In the old Bay state, we
kept our six or seven hogs on plank
floors in small pens; but q sick pig ]
never saw. OF course that is small bust.
ness for a western man, but / respectfully
submit that we must keep smaller lot,
together. at all events, and keep them in
a rational manner; not on the "root hog
or die" principle, or confined to hard
corn and water, and up to their eyes in
mud, unsheltered from the storms. The
way many farmers treat their hogs j.
disgraceful and cruel, and if they were
the only losers | would not pity them.
1t is possible also hat the hog under
such treatment has lost constitution.
This may pass away like other vista.
tions; like tbs epizootic in horses, or the
potato rot, or the cholera in man; but
believe in small lots, and good care.
APPLE TREE BoRERs.
There has been much said about that
destroyer of the apple tree, and still the
cry comes to us, "What shall we do with
the borer?" TO tho reader of this, let
me say, don't have anything to do with
the "varmint"; do not treat it so well
and you can depend upon it, it will not
trouble you. You furnish it plenty of