The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-11

Lady bird-Never destroy, for they
are the best friends Of farmers and hor-
tieulturists, and their presence upon
aphis- ridden plants is beneficial.
Lice on swine.
Wash the animals we'll along the back
and behind the ears with a dilution of
carbolic acid and tepid water, using an
ounce OF the former TO a quart of the
latter, or like applications OF fresh but
termilk is said to prove equally good
Fish brine, kerosene oil, soft soap and
other remedies are also recommended.
Bat whatever the remedy the applica-
ton should be repeated in the course of
eight or ten days, for, although they
all prove e1icacious in killing the lice,
they are not 80 apt to affect the nits,
from which a new brood will appear
within the above time, and therefore
the necessity for the second application.
DO Not Let Stock Run Down.
There are plenty of farmers whose
cattle are, as a general thing, we'll taken
care of and fed-luxuriant pastures in
summer and liberal feeding at the barn
in winter. But the critical period, the
weak link in the chain, is between the
time when pastures grow short and
when the cattle are brought to the barn.
Not wishing to incur the expense and
trouble of feeding their stock until
driven to do so from necessity, farmers
are very apt to allow their cattle to
remain in the pasture as long as posi-
BILE before bringing them to the barn or
feeding at the stack. While the pas
lures remain good, all very well, and so,
too, when the cattle are brought to the
barn to be regularly fed. But there is
an interval between the two which
aus the damage. The interval, it is
true, is short, but long enough to show
itself plainly in its effect upon the cattle.
The young stock especially receive a
check in their growth and development
from which they rarely, if ever, ecOve
And so with cattle intended for STALL
feeding in winter there is a direct loss
of what flesh bias been gained through
the summer, which it requires time and
extra feeding to replace. With COWS
giving milk the case is still worse. II
is very easy to cause a COW Ia shrink in
her milk, but a very difficult matter to
restore her again to her previous yield.
When once under full Roadway, it is
very easy for the locomotive to draw O
heavy train up grade, but to start a
heavy train at the bottom to ascend an
activity is quite another thing. Just
80 with a COW giving milk she can be
kept up to her regular yield with much
less trouble than to bring her back after
having once lost it. Going down hill is
easy enough, but getting back again is
the difficulty. Aud so to keep cattle
out in the pasture after the grass il
nearly gone in the fall is driving them
down hill, and if got back at all it will
only be at the expense of heavier feed.
ing in the winter. But if, on the other
hand, a little hay or fodder is given to
help out the grass, it will save a much
larger quantity in winter to repair the
damage occasioned for the want of it.
In other words, if cattle come into win
ter quarters in good condition, and there
has been no check to their growth dur.
ing the iall, much less food will be
required to keep them through the win
ter than to attempt to replace what has
been lost in the fall for the want of it.