The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-08

Use a currycomb on the COWS in spring
to take out the loose hair. :
Hogs dislike q wet bed in cold weather.
Give them shelter and straw. :
II is estimated that Ohio hockmssters are
able to maintain as a limit, about three
sheep to an acre.
Illinois has recognized the claims Of Il 9
Aberdeen-Angus cattle to a place on the
premium lists Of her Fat Stock Shows.
Australians pay round prices for good
stock. AT q. b. Fishers last great sails tho
enormous price Of 1000 guineas $50. 244)
was paid for his prize Australian.br bull.
1t is said that the number Of horses in
the United States is now H. 800 900. Two
thirds Of these are draft or general purpose
horses and one-third are used for pleasure
driving.
The American Dairyman says: A hay
seed in a cows eye will turn it white. 1t
will come all right in a day or two If left
alone. lf.doCtored We don't know when it
will get well.
A writer recommends lime and salt.
mixed with the soft feed, as an excellent
remedy Tor chicken cholera. He claims
that he entirely stopped it's rayages in q
large flock in few days by lis use.
The following is a record for one month
Of mary Anne Of ST. Lambert in milk and
butter: Total weight OF milk for thirty.
one days, 6l4 pounds 10 ounces; total
weight OF uasalted butter, 65 pounds 8
ounces; total weight Of marketable butter
for 279 consecutive days, 1871 pounds 0
ouncea.
Though We read Of heavy fleeces being
clipped from merino rams, it should be
made known that while a lsece NAV weigh
thirty pounds when clipped the washing
and cleaning removes enough dirt and
grease to reduce the weight as low as six
pounds.
The influence Of good feeling, good care
and kindness in increasing the aow Of
milk Is well illustrated by the Channel
Islands cattle. On these islands the COW
is the pet Of the household, and her great
milk yield has been developed solely. BY
the extra solioitude shown for her.
Scalding the milk before feeding will
usually remedy scours in calves if taken in
time. Checking the discharge too sudden.
]y ia a common mistake, as the drugs usu.
ally given for this purpose permanently in.
jure the digestion, which is all important
Tor the animal either Tor beef or milk.
The following remedy for hog cholera ia
said 10 be an excellent one: Sulphur. 9
pounde; copperas, 2 pounde; madden, 3
pounds; black anthony, poundi salt.
petre, ! pound; arsenic, = ounces. The
quantity ia sufficient for 100 hogs, and is
mixed with slop enough for q few doses all
round-a pint to each hog.
The fat call, if fed milk all winter, will
be a large strong animal in the spring, and
by the following winter, or when one year
old, vii! not need much more care than
the other animals. The spring and sum.
mer cali will be weaned in the fall, and
the chapCoG ars that it will not get the ex.
ira care it needs the first winter.
In Australia shou. two years ago tho
then high price OF 1900 guiness ($G, l79)
wac paid for a colonial. bred ram, which
amount was then considered a biz lgure.
but this was lar eclipBed when September
8 Of Last year, J. F. Cumming paid the
largest price on record-viz: $3.50 suineas
(Sl5,94O) for a colonial. bred ram,
Although Devon cattle are not consider.
Cd the bsst Tor beef production, yet two
steers exhibited at the Chicago fat stock
show took premiums Zone Of them the sec.
ond premium) over twenty-one Shorthorn
and Hereford steers. They made an aver.
age gain OF 100 pounds in thirty days, ous
weighing 1910 pounds and the other oO35
poundgat four years old. Neither had been
fed any grain until they were three years
and four months old.