The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-02
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

The objections raised to large,
coarse-wooled sheep is that they do
not do well in large flocks.
The movement of fine stock from
east to west is large, aud is increas-
ing rather than diminishing.
Sheep can be put out to pasture
at least two weeks earlier in the
spring, and can be kept out two or
three weeks longer in the fall, than
cows. Thus, for one-half of the
year, their keeping costs merely
nothing. Then in the winter, if a
young calf or colt is kept with the
sheep, it will consume what the
sheep leave, and do equally as well
or better than if kept alone and
waste a good share of its feed.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman suggests that it is impOr-
tant for COWS, at this season of the
year, that frequent change of food
be made. IfOne description of food
is constantly used the cows tire of
it, eat less greedily and show a re-
ductIon of produce. The novelty
of change seems to whet the whole
appetite and to stimulate the vital
ity of the whole system, and, of
course, to promote the secretions.
81 want more of your butter"
said the merchant to a first-class
butter maker. whose butter always
came to his counter in splendid
style, "for l can hardly get enough
to furnish my customers" mo,
sir" he said the next day to farmer
whose butter came to market in an
old tub, with not a very clean cloth
over the top of it, and in a rather
soft condition, "no sir 4; butter is very
plentiful, and 1 have a good supply
on hand" And he had-of that
kind.
Professor Atwater, who has been
making many experiments with
cotton seed meal food, and for dairy
cows especially, finds that five
pounds is as much as can be fed
with safety owing to its abundance
of the albuminOids. He finds that
the greatest milk effect was secured
by a ration OF 100 pounds corn meal,
eighty pounds of bran, and sixty
five pounds of the decorlcated (husk-
less) cotton-seed meal. 1t may also
be of interest to some of the dairy
men of Ohio to state that by the
same authority, glucose or sugar
meal-water free-has the same
value as bran for feed. Its greatest
value was found when mixed with
at least one-third its weight in corn
meal.
AT the late sale in England, of Sir
John Dastley's thoroughbred, six
teen animals were disposed of. The
highest price, $500, was brought by
Medicus, two years, by Joskin, dam
Therapeutics, bought by Lord
March. Candahar, three-year-old
colt, by Claremont, dam by the
Judge, brought $4,000; the brown
mare Albania, five years, by st. AL
bans, out of Lady of the Manor,
$4,000; Glen Allyn, three-year-old,
by Blair Athol, dam Maid of Perth,
$4,000. The general run of prices
were good. Rowell, a two-year-old
son of Hermit, was not sold.
A mash composed of two-thirds
wheat bran and one-third corn meal
for solids, with hot skim milk for
liquid and feed in the morning when
about blood heat, makes a good
breakfast for poultry, especially for
laying hens. Oats and buckwheat
for midday feed, and corn and oats
for supper are excellent for poultry.
Clean, fresh water is a very essen
tial article. The above feed is
recommended for poultry when the
ground is frozen and covered with
snow, but with the open weather we
have had thus far this season but
little extra feed or care has been
required. The large amount of in
sect food which poultry has been
able to pick up this season has so far
rendered the extra feeding of animal
food unnecessary.
Kerosene and lard are as essential
in the poultry house as soap and
water in the nursery, and L would
as soon think of going without the
latter as the former. | never see
sign of louise unless we are care
less, and neglect the remedy, or
rather the preventive. L do not wait
until the chicks are ten or twelve
days old, for by that time the mis-
chief would be done but l begin
the fall before, and all through the
winter, once in two or three weeks,
rub the roOsting pole with a mix
ture of lard and kerosene, half and
half, and put little on the corners
of the nest boxes. When l set hen
L use new, soft clean hay, and on each
corner of the box pour clear
kerosene it must not touch the
eggs. If very late in the season, it
will be best to repeat this a few
days before Matching. l take the
chicks out as fast as they are dry,
and keep by the kitchen stove in a
basket under a wooden blanket for
one or two days. Then each chicks
head is rubbed with the anti-louse
mixture, and any stray insect that
may have lain in wait in some IN
guarded spot will never obtain a
meal from that chick. Care must
be taken not to put ON too much, or
it will run into their eyes. Once a
young assistant used it so freely
that thirty chicks became entirely
blind, and died from starvation.