The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-03-20
AGRICULTURAL.
SELECTED PROM THE PRAIRIE FARMER
ANGORA GOATS.


goats in the South, instead of sheep, is
Informed that the business is complete
| failure, so far as we can learn, except to
very few persons who breed the goats
for sale, at high prices, instead of for
their fleece. Stick to the old and time
honored sheep, is our advice. Goats are
| unmitigated nuisances, as rule, and We
do not believe the Angora is an exception.
N. o. Home Journal.
HEAYES.
II. J. F., Valparaiso, Ind.-Queyy: /
have got horse that has got the heaves
bad. Have been feeding clover and
timothy mixed since last harvest, which
was very dusty, mp to the first of Febrll-
airy; since then I have fed marsh hay. 1
want to feed timothy hay when / COM
mence blowing. if you please 1 would
like to have youinform me through the
| Prairie Farmer the surest cure for nv
horse.
Reply: In confirmed cases no remedy
will remove the distress in breathing.
Proper atteniont O the diet can alone anne
llorate the condition, which will return by
such feeding and management as he has
been productive of the evil in the pres
ent case. Such horse should be fed on
nutritivc food i'll small bulk, such as cut
hay of the best quality, mixed with
ground oats slightly damped; also, fire.
quent allowances OF sliced carrots or
tnrnips. Hay should be given in very
limited quantities: and the best hay for
such horse is well made upland prairie
hay, with plenty of rosin weed in it,
Timothy or other similar coarse and bul-
ky hay, is certain to keep up the evil
His food and water should always be con-
| sumed an hour before he is put to only
SLOW work.
ODEBoLT, IA, March 4th.
Would it be advisable to SOW our grass
seed with small grain in the spring? How
much seed should be sown TO the acre to
get good stand? Answer in next week s
paper. There are many farmers here
| talking of sowing this spring.
-d7sWcr:-With spring wheat grass
seed may he sown with good results; so
1t may on fall-sown grain. Sow quarts
OF timothy, or 6 quarts of timothy and 3
or 4 pounds OF red clover.
! FOUR HUNDRED WHITE COWS WITH RED
EARS.
Ii you were in England now, and should
inquire about them, you would hear Of
only one place where any of them are to
| be found, and that is up in the border
country, as it is called, next to Scotland,
| III Northumberland county, near by the
famous Cheyiot Hills-the region where
the brave Percys lived, and where the
battle of Chevy Chase was fought.
1t is up there that you would hear Of
the cattle, and perhaps get chance to
see them; they do not range over the
country, however, although they sre al
most as wild as if they did, but are kept
on the estate Of great nobleman, Lord
Tankerville, and are known by the name
of "the wild cattle of Chillingham Park. :"
Lord Thankerville says that in the
summer, sometimes, there are weeks
when he never can get a sight of the cat
tie, for on the approach of any one they
VIII flee to the depths OF the woods
their sanctuary" as he expresses it.
Sanctuary, you know, is sometimes used
to mean safe place. Bat in winter they
are more tame, and Coming down for
food IN the inner park" will let persons
go among them especially if on horse
back
He says they have a cry more like
Wild beast than like common oxen and
COWS; and that when they come down in
to the lower park, they are in single files,
with bull at the head of each line, to
protect the others; and when they 90
back, the bulls are at the ends, for the
same reason.
They are timed, and will run like deer;
then turn around and face you, come n
little nearer, then gallop off again, wheel
around and gaze at you again, then fee
away once more, and so on, every time
getting nearer, and at last the whole
herd IS ready TO charge upon you like q
regiment OF soldiers, and you are ready
to retreat
There are other curious things about
their ways; for instance, ''the cows hide
their calves for week or ten days" and
go and suckle them two or three times a
day, and II any one approaches calf, the
scared creature will "oiap his head close
to the ground and lie quiet like hare.
When ona OF the cattle is sick or injured
OF feeble, the others set upon him and
gore him to death.
Many visitors go to SOC them, and ev
erybody describes them as most beauti-
ful creatures. They are rather small,
with straight backs, short legs, and fine
forms; and they never vary "a particle in
color. They are always pure, creamy
white all over, except that the tips of
their horns are black, and the tips of
their noses, their eyes, and eye.lashes
black, and their ears are red or reddish
brown in the inside, and one third of the
way down the outside from the point.
Can you imagine heard of creatures
more elegant2