The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-01-26
Farm Notes.

skill, intelligence and industry into
the work, his vocation is q safe and
sure one.
1t requires double the time to put
on flesh, when a co y has, been INSULT
GENTLY fed, that it required to take
it of.
Separate stock into different
grades, or feed these at different
times if separate yards are not pro-
vided. Strife and worry at feed
ing times should be prevented by
these or some other means.
Hard, dry walks leading from
the house to the barn and other
out buildings are great conven-
fence. They are particularly APP
preciated IN the moist weather of
winter or spring, and houses not
thus connected with the farm bull
dings are deprived of important
conveniences.
There are scores of jobs which
wait year after year because time
or labor cannot be spared. No
better time can be found to do
them than now. Lumber and other
materials are lower than they have
been for years, and if the wind is
tempered for the shorn lamb, and
end as we have q mild winter,
sheds and other out buildings, fem
ces, etc, can be put up most of the
time.
To Breed Pigs Successfully
From the experience of successful
swine breeders it is pretty well es-
tablished that to keep pigs growing
and thrifty all winter, it is impor.
tant to give them dry, warm
place to sleep; good drink, either
warm slop or fresh pumped water;
and to keep not too many hogs in
an enclosure, and they as nearly as
possible of size. If you have
large and small together, the big
ones will run over the little, and
they will not get their share of food.
There is much more danger of
cholera or epidemic diseases where
the conditions mentioned above are
disregarded than if hogs are kept
thrifty and growing, and certainly
there is more profit A dry warm
bed is a cheap luxury for hogs in
winter, and every farmer should
prepare shed and plenty of mate
rial in the fall.
Milk From Turnips.-Mr. Ma
than Hart, at a recent agricultural
meeting in Connecticut, in advoca-
ting the use of turnirs for feeding
mich cows said: A few winters
since l waa feeding common tur-
nips, and when this supply was ex-
hausted l had the curiosity to es.i-
mate the value of turnips per bush
el Tor feeding purposes from the
returns that l actually received
from the milk. We were then get
ting cents per quart for our milk.
A diminish flow of milk resulted
from disseminating this feed of tur-
nips which were worth 25 cents per
bushel to feed cows. I refer to the
common fat or field turnips. But
as to their saving hay I do not
think they do. ] think they act as
an Alternative and their use will
cause the COW to more perfectly
digest her food. 1t seems to be
adopted to the wants of the COW,
and produces good digestion. +
feed just before milking. Mr.. Hart
practiced feeding the turnips Just
before milking at night. Immedi-
ately thereafter the last feed of
the day is given. He could not
find that they produced any bad
order in the milk, but thought it
to commence feeding
them gradually, and to slowly in |
crease the amount to the full feed, |
and also important to feed them
just before milking.
Churning.-A correspondent of
the Record thus finds fault with the
time- honored plan Tin farmers
dairies) of churning but once a
week: "a fine old farmer brought
me his butter, the other day, and
was anxious for me to engage all
the butter from his dairy-about
% Jersey cows. The butter was
! beautiful color, and put up in
handsome prints, but in tast it was
stale, fiat, and Improbable" The
pride and satisfaction with which
ne looked upon that butter was
Il