Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18
For Farmers.

An Eastern editor describes a sec
ond crop of clover on a farm where
nasturing has been entirely abandon
ed for the last four years. lie says If
farmers will quit pasturing their till
age land entirely and adopt the soil
mo system, their farmers will in ten
wears double their present productive
capacltv. The field of clover was 40
per cent. better than any other seen
since harvest, and was better because
il had not been pastured for anumber
of wears. The corn and other crops
are also good, and the fertility and
productiveness are almost entirely
owing to the soiling system as practlc-
ed by the owner.
Farmers in New Jersey use goats
to protect their sheep from dogs Two
goats can drive away a dozen dogs,
and two are about all each farmer
puts with his sheep. As soon IS a
dog enters field at night the goats
attack him, and their butting propen-
titles are too much for the canine,
who finds himself rolling over and
over. A few repetitions of this
treatment cause the dog to leave the
field, limping and yelling. Formerly,
when a dog entered a shoep-feld at
night the sheep would run wildly
around and cry piteously. Since the
goats have been used to guard them
they form in line behind the goat, and
seem to enjoy the fun.
The difference between the yield of
eggs in the most prolific cases, as com
pared with poor layers, Is as three or
four to one. Individual hens are
known to produce $50 eggs a year.
Yet 200 is reached so seldom as to be
called a remarkable yield. The
greatest average yield that we have
ever hal ourselves, i'll a flock of
twelve hens, was 147 eggs, while the
greatest average in twelve tlocks,
numbering in all 200layers, of various
breeds, was 102 eggs In the latter
case there were eight different breeds,
and some were old hens and others
were pullets, and many of the mum
Der were employed part of the time
in Matching and rearing chickens.
A Western newspaper says: For
the last two years a couple of buck
mountain sheep have been running
with Mr. Bailey's flock in Bull Run
Basin, Nevada, and there are now be-
tween twenty and thirty half-breed
lambs in the lot They are mostly
covered with hair, although there is
some wool interspersed with it. They
carry their heads like the wild sheep,
but are as easily herded as their half
brothers and sisters of pure domestic
breed. They are OF course OF no &C
count for shearing, but are said to
make excellent mutton. This is the
only instance of which we have ever
heard of the crossing of the wild and
domestic sheep"
A correspondent of the Breeders
Gazette says that his hogs being much
infested with lice, and hearing that
coal-oil would fix them, he determin-
ed to try it. So he took his coal-oil
can, and while the hogs were feed
ing he poured a stream of the oil on
them from the top of their heads to
the root of their tails, applying it par
ticularly where the lice were more
numerous, and it was really amusing
to see them run to their rubbing
places and rub. The result was that
it not only killed the lice and nits on
the hogs, but there was enough coal
oil rubbed off on the posts to kill the
lice and nits on them. He applied it
some few weeks ago, and to-day there
is not a louise to be seen on the prem
Uses.
-Dairymen should demand an
equitable recognition from the man
agements of agricultural fairs There
is very large expense attending the
exhibition of dairy of the moving
of the cows and their care at the fair,
and the labor involved in preparing
dairy products is by no means small.
This must all be paid for or a chance
given to be paid for it, or dairymen
will not exhibit either their cattle or
their products or work.
The regular use of salt is indispen-
sable to the health of a COW, and con
Sequently to the successful manage
ment of the dairy. Salt is one of the
necessary ailments, and Is not requir-
ed simply because animals desire it.
1t is necessary to health and life, and
no uOuDl luOuSdluS Vi dIlluldlS hit
from common disorders for want of
1t. 1t is an antiseptic as we'll as sup
plies the necessary acid for digestion
of the food, and to a large extent it
may be truly said that Indigestion of
the food, and consequently imperfect
nutrition, is the cause of the largest
proportion Of diseases and deaths a
certain quantity Of salt should be CIV
en- daily with the food, precisely as
we take it ourselves,
An excellent lesson for mixers is
given as follows, in the Rural New
Yorker: The large flow of milk of
our cows is not natural, but artificial
In a state Of nature, animals gives
only sufficient milk to nourish their
young This illustrates one Of the
great truths OF ethics and physics
that nature allows no waste. Calves
did not MAKE butter and cheese. so
nature did not provide milk for that
purpose. Nor is it hardly correct TO
say that this large flow is produced by
breeding. 1t is continued bv breeding,