The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21
FARM GARTEN.
Topics Of A1~irsF' wgsI ard Domestic Jn-
feFGst.
ABOUT sALTING CATTLE.

how much salt per day each dairy COW
would consume throughout the year.
He reports that they will eat (when they
have free access to it) from three to five
ounces per day each that they will con-
same less in June, Or when the grass is
young and tender, than i'm July, and less
in July than August. The quantity of
salt eaten by u cow is also varied by her
being in milk or being dry. When Civ
ing milk she requires more salt. His
conclusions on che whole are that the
dr1er. older or harder the grass Tor other
feedl is, the more salt the COW sneeas to
assist to carry on the digestive process
everything else being equal,
Last November, at the request of Mr..
Hardin, I 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 or grass
alta few weeks old till November; and
then from November till February first,
moi having one grain of salt.
Almost every one here ~prophesied
that they would not do we'll. But I
have never had ten head of young ami
mails winter any better. When, on Feb
ruary first, we gave them salt, they ap-
peared to be just moderately pleased
with it, and ate it with the same relish
us il il had been their weekly or daily
allowance.
Is it the fact that cattle can use salt
Ito assist in softening and digesting food,
and in its absence does nature step in
&ad 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 d~iscusser Of "dairy
h~usbandry'> who was never suspected OF
knowing anything about the matter, but
who ia good talker, and can tell us all
abQaItiI?
FATALITY AMONG SWINE.
A Clifton, ILL.,, correspondent writes
as follows TO the Prairie Farmer:
I wish to state a few facts that have re.
Gently come under my observation. ]
have not myself lost any hogs. l never
kept over thirty at one time, am. never
had a sick one / feed slop, AID pasture
on timothy and clover; give coal, salt
lime at all times, and Pat rings in theil
noses. The so-colie.a cures fail in ex
treme cases. I AVE seen it stated tina
s~laughter-hs Disc oRal was a remedy to-
the eor~ghing disease, but one of m!
I%snBors has a slaughter-house, ant
Kills every day or two, and his hogs hav'
mostly died, and the remainder ar
wasting away. I know some cattl
feeders who have lost from eighty to tw'
hundred head: they bought copperas b,
the barrel. These hogs had no rings il
their noses. Some one said that tlmbe
hogs were exempt. know atgentlema
who has three hundred and twenty acre
of timber in hog pasture, a perfect pars
disc for hogs, and he has but n hur
dred head and they are dying at the Isl
of eight ard ten a day. They arc p
landFghina and have no rings in the
snouts. He has tried everything /
ever heard of. He cut senie of thel
open and their lungs were rotten-bi
and little all alike. Another man 10
some fat hogs, cut them open and the
were eaten through and through wit
; bony, hard wora1s like snakes and SO
goes. Now what isthe cause? It is n
rings, it is<not the want of timber; off
will net1saye them, nor do / belive tn
all the professors in this country G;
help the nlavssr. / venture to suggge
chat we are OVERRIDING the bushes
Large droves seem to be the nurseries
disease. Years ago, hogs were col
paratiyeiy healthy; they were few
number also. In the old Bay state,
kept our six or seven hogs on pla'
fioorsin smafi pens; but sick pig
never saw. OF course that is small bu
rless for a western man, but / respectful
submit that we must keep smaller |
together. at all events, and keep them
q rational maaner; not on the stroot /
or die principle, or confined TO b.
corn and water, and up to their eyes
mud, unsheltered fromthe storms. Y I
way many farmers treat their hogs
disgraceful and cruel, and if they W
the only losers | would not pity thu
tt is possible also that the hog Nh
such treatment has lost constituti
This may pass away like other Wis
tions; like the ~epizootic in horses, or
potato rot, or the cholera in man b
believe in small lots, and good care.
APPLE TREE BoRERs.
There has been much said about
destroyer If the apple tree, and still
cry comes to gs, 'tlNhat shall we do '
the borer?g, 10 the reader Of this
me say, don't have anything TODD J
the t"rarmintn do not treat ii 30
aud you can depend upon It, it will
trouble yen. You furnish it plent
muck, weeds and filth at the foot Of
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