The Red Cloud chief., 1877-03-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Regularity In Feeding.

Regularity I'm Feeding.
1t is very comfortable in cold weather
to sit by a warn fire. Many who have
the art of stock dislike to leave warm
quarters. and cling to the fireplace, let
ting half hour after half hour pass by,
while the hungry stock are shivering
and hungering for food and water. In
thus waiting for food and water, an
animal loses flesh rapidly. Brutes are
the best time-keepers in the world.
They know the very minute their food
should be supplied, and are disappointed
if it does not come. The good stock
breeder, therefore, should see that regu-
larity and prOmptness prevail in the
are and management of stock. Their
various wants should have attention at
the very minute daily. If hired men
will not he prompt in taking care of
stock, if they don't sympathlZe with
brutes in winter, they ought to be dis
charged and more humane men en-
plOyed in their places.
Another Remedy for Hog Cholera.
A simple cure for hog cholera, says
u cOntemporaryOf the Kentucky Live
Stock Record, is an infusion Of peach
tree leaves and small twigs in boiling
water, given in their slOp. Peach leaves
are laxative and they probably exert,
10 a moderate extent, a sedative influ.
ence Owe the nervous system. They
have been used us a worm DESTROYER
with reported success. They have also
been recommended Is an infusion for
instability Of The bladder, in sick
stomach and whooping cough. Cases
OF fatal poisoning from their use in
children are OF record, as peach leaves
contain prassic or ~hydrocyanic acid,
but as it is almost impossible to poison
ahOg, their use would not be Objectiona-
bic. The specific is worth d trial. .
Holland Cattle.
1t is natural to expect. that with a
humid climate and a soil generally al.
luvial. Holland ought to have a breed
of cattle to correspond, and that milk
ing rather than fattening qualities
ought to be the predOminating charac-
teristics of that ace. Such is found to
be the case in practice. Dutch COWS
are large and heavy; are excellent
mixers. and put up flesh readily. 1t is
. curious custom of the country, that
while the milking qualities of the local
race are not SO excellent as in former
years, the farmers pursue a strange
method for upholding these. They give
as little nourishment as possible to the
calves, in the belief that this plan pre-
vents precocity in running I'D fat.
They send the heifers to the bull when
very young. and pending the period of
CESSATION the animal is hberally fed.
The average yield Of milk of a Dutch
COW Is about 600 gallons per annum. and
oftentimes as much as $50; the propor-
ton of butter is about five per cent.
The average weight of a fat COW is
from six to nine cwt. The construc-
ton OF the sheds is curious. The build.
Ing consists ordinarily of double stalls. |
The separate space is filled with straw
md grape stems in summer, which d.
mlnishes thus the excessive heats of
season; there are also aperturest ten
'eet from the ground for the admission
of fresh air. In winter the space be.
tween the walls is filled with turf. and
,nly 50 much air admitted as is required
'or ventilation. The apertures are
provided with green curtains to exclude
Insects and excess Of light. The cattle
ne partly grazed, and partly house-fed,
md there is a decided objection to the
of other races-Durhams
or example-for crossing purposes.
Besides, Holland claims to be the cradle
4 the Durham breed. Improvementof
aces is kept up by tie scientific selec-
ion of the best specimens of local
Row to Keep Hogs Healthy.
A correspondent of Colman's Rural
says: About five millions of
ogs were slaughtered the season that
as :"st closed. This is about one hun.
red and twenty thousand head more
nan were slaughtered in 1875. Proba-
" no farming business is paying better
! the present time. than hog raising.
|, behooves farmers to begin now to
AXE arrangements to produce agood
t of hogs for fattening purposes for
fall of 1877. 1t will paw to get good
,gs, to take good ARE of them. and
70 every precaution to keep them In
rfect health. If one has scrawny,
KY pigs or hogs hanging around the
,emises, he should knock them in the