The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-14
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CARE or DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

suHer Intensely, ana 40 not uVe out nalI
Of their days for want Of proper care
and kindness of their owners. Hogs often
are covered with lice that prey upon
them for months, reduce them to skeletons,
and kill them, for want of single wash
ing of carbolic soap-suds with liberal
mixture of kerosene oil They are often
tormented with fieas, and take the mango,
and die, for want of the same remedy
that will kill hog lice. They often suffer
from hog cholera and other diseases, and
die, on account of the filth they eat or lie
down in, or dust in place of clean dry lit
ter.
Sheep die by thousands and hundreds
of thousands in the Southern States for
want of shelter, good winter food, clean,
dry litter to lie on, salt, tar and good at
tention. When sick they need pen by
themselves, clean, dry and comfortable,
and for diarrhea, cough, worms and other
complaints they need much the same
medicine that human beings do. Perhaps
it is good rule to doctor sheep, hogs,
cattle, horses, or even chickens much as q
grown person or child should be treated
in like cases. If asleep is foul she should
be washed. If she has diarrhea, she
should have Jamaica ginger and some
times salts-laudanum added for dysen-
terry. Some give calomeL We are in
quiring for remedies for this disease now,
and hope to give our readers more light
on this subject soon. 1t is bad disease,
and sometimes attacks a whole flock of
sheep. We have some young scrub sheep
that we purchased few months ago.
They will not eat oats, cotton-seed, bran,
corn, nor even hay. One of these is sick,
and we have to put hominy in her mouth
and compel her to eat it. She would
starye to death with the best of food be-
fore her if we would allow her to die.
Diarrhea, catarrh and swelled throat are
the worst complaints that sheep suffer
from in this country. Good shelter,
nourishing food summer and winter, salt,
tar and good attention would prevent
these diseases in most cases. Lambs
should be trained to eat hay, cotton-seed,
oats, bran, etc, with their mothers, so that
when sickness overtakes them, which may
be the case, the owner will not have to
stuff them with hominy.
The sufferings and loss of chickens by
chicken-lice are often very great. BY
having small poles, with the bark taken
of for roosts, and these smeared occasion
ally with coal oil, at an expense of a dime
or two, and half hours time, and by
cleaning their nests and washing them
with carbolic soap-suds and kerosene oil,
the chickens will save being continually
tOrmented by these vermin; they will lay
better, hatch better, rear their young more
successfully and live longer By giving
them clean food and clean water daily,
and keeping the hen-house clean and the
air pure, chickens will hardly ever have
chicken cholera, or pips, or any other dis
oaso- Those chicken posts are very ex-
pensive to the owner of the fowls as well
as uncomfortable companions to the fowls
themselves.
The farmer who does not attend to
these matters will have suffering and often
death among his domestic animals and
fowls. He will not be successful in these
branches of farm investments. Then why
should q farmer feel Indifferent to the
sufferings of his domestic animals when
he expects from them labor, milk, butter,
mutton, wool, pork, lard spring chickens,
eggs? What would his farm be without
these animals and fowls ? His land would
not be worth two bits an acre, though as
rich as the richest bottom lands. With
out them farming would be impossible,
and man would have to live by hunting
and fishing and graphing for CLAIMS and
oysters.
THE ENSILAGE BUBBLE
When ensilage and silos first began to
excite deep interest among Northern
farmers, we expressed in our columns of
the Pcdyss,se our doubts whether it would
ever benefit American farmers much, par
ticularly Southern farmers. We stated
that we could not understand how a far
mer could handle nine tons of water to
get one ton of forage, and make or save
money by the operation Green corn fod-
der, clover, and most all forage crops con-
tain about one-tenth forage and nine
tenths water. In putting this green fod-
der on the cart in the field, hauling it to
the silos or forage cellars, putting through
a feed cutter, slowing it away in the silos,
In taking it out in the winter to feed to
cattle, sheep, horses, mules, ETC., nine tons
of water have to be handled to one of solid
feed And this water in corn fodder or
clover does the stock no more good than
water from the well, or from the pond, or
running stream. Where is the advan-
tage ? Cattle do not crave this green.
food during winter. They
keep fat and satisfied on plenty of good |
hay or dry fodder. In fact, cattle, as the |
cold weather approaches, seem to crave
dry food. and will run the farmer down
for it when he has an armful to feed his |
work animals before he is ready to feed it |
to other stock.
Then the expense of forage cellar,
from two or three hundred to thousand |
dollars or more, makes it Questionable.
And the labor expense. 1t win take more
than twice as much labor and expense to
prepare ensilage to feed stock on it As it
will to feed on dry forage. Where, then,
is the advantage Of ensilage? We can
not see any. And the Northern farmers
are beginning to crawfsh out Of the new
silos into the old barns.
NEARLY THE WHOLE THING IN NUT
SHELL
MIR. A. 81. Hilzheim, the well informed
md practical manager Of poultry, of Jack
ION, Miss, writes for the Southern Live
Stock Journal as follows:
have found that prevention is the
best cure fer fowls. The man who wrote
.he axiom, IAN ounce of prevention 10
worth . pound Of cure" certainly must
nave owned some fowls that disease had
for Of al things that live and
1reathe, they are the the most difficult to
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