Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-10-11
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money IN HuCn purchases IHb must TX
perienced shccp.brccders long since re-
cognized the fact that any good breed or
their graded progeny. are far superior
for general use to any scrub that ever
existed, and this will apply to any and
every locality where sheep are raised or
kept Therefore, beginners are foolish
TO invest money in something that can
not possibly afford good wool or mutton,
and it will always pay TO keep the best.
BY the most experienced and most
successful breeders in Scotland much
stress is laid upon tho maintenance Of.
unchecked progressin young stock and
it il held that, in feeding young cattle,
II loss Of flesh be allowed to occur, it
can never be altogether made good
again. Those who have carefully
watched the growth and development Of
caltlo will allow that it is at least much
easier to mako up lost time, ms regards
growth Of frame, than 10 restore flesh
wasted at an early age.
A KENTUCKY COW, raised on the farm Of
Ernstus Ellsworth, Of East Windsor hill
has remarkable record April l6, 1877,
she gave birth 10 twins, one male and
one female March 1s, 1873, she gave
birth TO triplets, two males and one fe-
male, making five calves in eleven
months and three days; July o, 1879,
che gnve birth TO triplets, two males and
one female, making ten calves in the
three yenrs five months and twenty.one
days. The calves have all been OF good
size, healthy and handsome, and have
been raised on the farm.
THE term fertility expresses the
amount Of plant food that is present in
the soil in n form TO be taken up by
the growing crops. This fertility is best
measured by the crops which tho soil
will produce, but owing 10 so many
modifying causes it is safe TO judge of
the state Of fertility of my soil only
after three or more crops have been
grown. A soil may be rich, but for
some other reason produce only small
crop this year, owing, it may be, to ex-
cessive dryness or the reverse, to poor
seed, and other modifying causes.
Cows THAT are in milk should be
watched and given extra food 80 soon as
signs Of falling off are seen. 1t is very
difficult to increase the flow after
shrinkage occurs. So soon as the
pasture begins to get short, supplement
the feed of the field by a ration o: green
fodder in the yard or stall. Many cows
suffer fron the excessive heat, being ex-
posed the whole day through to the
hot sun in treeless and shadeless
pasture. A pasture should afford
comfortable place, rs well as furnish
food for the animals, that the greatest
profit may be obtained.
d9riouiturist
CATALPA TREES We noticed recent.
ly, in a Western paper, n writer COM
planning OF want OF success with
oatalpa plantation. G. l.. Myers writes
to the Kansas Farmer thus 81 have
noticed of late in your valuable paper
several references to tho catalpa tree.
There hive been planted in tho last two
years in this country no less than 100,-
900 catalpas. and they are giving better
satisfaction than any other variety.
Especially is this true since the dry
summer of 1880, and the cold winter of
16s0-Sl, both severe tests, and very
trying to oil kinds of trees. They stood
the drought perfectly, and even the COM
mon variety was but little injured by &c
deg. below zero here. The Speciosa
variety none at all. 1t is hardy, stands
drought perfectly, easily transplanted
rapid growth and valuable timber for
all farm and ,nilroad purposes.
SOME persons are in the habit of burn
ing the bones before feeding them to
poultry. 1t is true that after being
burned they are much easier broken up,
but raw bones contain large amount of
gelatine, which is n most. excellent food
for making hens lay, and gelatine also
contains a large amount of nitrogen,
which is driven into the atmosphere by
tho heat, When fed raw this nitrogen
is retained, and, having done duty as
food for the poultry, and constituting
part OF their systems, it is still capable
OF again doing duty MS fertilizer, but,
once becoming free nitrogen in the at
mosphere, il is not so easy n matter to
combine it in such a manner that it shall
DO rendered available as plant food. In
pounding raw bones II is not necessary
to mako it so fine as people suppose, for
hen will swallow a much larger piece
than many would think possible, and
when once in her crop IL will be digested
and properly economical.
Ex.Gov. BOUTWELL,, OF Massachusetts,
has been experimenting on tho value Of
corn fodder for cows in milk as COM
pared with good hay, and reports that
In his first experiment the corn fodder
Is ahead. The quantity of fodder and
Of hay was equal, and the other items Of
food were unchanged, yet twenty three
cows lost fourteen pounds of milk after
being kept ON hay for four days, and re-
Stunning corn fodder there was gain in
ak days OF twenty-three pounds. The
fodder was cut up at the ground as soon
a. the ears were little hardened, put
up in stacks to cure, then cut into small
pieces and treated to hot water twelve
hours In nearly air-tight boxes along
with cob-meal. MIR. Boutwell, puts the
comparative cost to each COW per day at
81 cents for hay and little over IS
cents for corn fodder. 1t is to DO
doubted whether the hay fed in this ex-
pertinent was as good as II shonld Iva