The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-05-07
ING Stock Notes.

VIUpni ". ~ hhy sy'A'1g ~ ~ lpu
first expressed.
Land in Australia isonly expect
edto carry but one sheep 70 The
acre. Shepherds do not dare u
stock tito lie iulIcapacityfor fear
ofdrougbt
The practice ofpasturing sheep
or hogs 10 orchards is excellent,
less for Che value Of the pasture
than for the benef. to the fruit by
destroying wormy specimens.
Nj. NcKinstry, Of Winnebago
City, Minns says with a dairy Of
100 COWS he can make three per.
vent more butter bycharning each
cowscream separately.
A gill Of strong green tea is said
TO be a specific for sheep poisoned
by eating Laurel. "a farmer who
has used this remedy for many
yeassaysshs has saved hundreds
ofsheep by H.
Early lambs must be, kept grow
ing TO bring fancy prices. They
will eat when they are from ten to
fourteen days old, and there is
nothing bo.t6rfor them than whole
oats. Place Tho oats in shallow
troughs where tho sheep do not
run.
Western farmers say a common
mistake is turning COWS into q
pasture in the early spring before
there is sufficient supply ofgrass.
In their search for better cropping
they puck the soil and destroy
much grass. After there is a sup.
ply Of grass care must be taken to
allow only a limited range at first.
Atthelate onondaga county fair,
at Syracuse, N. Y, the prize for The
best package Of not less than TWEEN.
" pounds Of dairy butter went to
that produced at Lakeside Stock
Farm, from the milk HOlStein cows.
The butter was judged solely upon
its merits, the makers name being
withheld, and very great surprise
was expressed when it WAS learned
that it was from the Holstein COWS.
The Hdsteia breeders are quite
iubilant over The result.
The advantage Of preserving the
American buffalo or bison to CROSS
with sar common stock has been
often urged. One farmer ia Mani.
toba has tried IL, but the result,
except as regards picturesqueness,
isaot encouraging. The progeny
are course, illouilt animals, aud
for no ordinary purpose equal to
any one Of our common breeds Of
cattle. 0fceurse, buffalos are not
good mixers, 40 wild stock il.
Even for beef they are coarse and
poor
Mr.. ]. D. W. French, Of North
Andover Mass, has u II year old
Ayrshire COW, Roxanna 1916, that
has given during the past ten years
an annual yield Of 2,905 quarts,
(which is very snail fraction less
than eightquarts per day for the
eatine period. She dropped a calf
every scar during the time. The
COW weighs 900 pounds. Her
greatest yield was in her fourth
year, when she gave S,lS3 pounds.
William Hartley, of La Crosse,
Wis, writes to the Breeders Gazette
that he has used a remedy for milk
fever which ought not to remain o
eecret, 1t is one pint and a halfoI
lard and ono.half pint Of kerosene,
givenin new milk, warm, repeat.
ing the dose every two or three
hours. Hell corroborated by Mr.
VIC. Jones, another correspondent
aud according to their experience
the remedy has never failed, tc
their knowledge, though frequent
~ resOtted TO in that section.
The use Of blood as a foodfor cat,
lie has, it is stated, been the sub.
jet ofexperiment in Denmark by
u chemist, who. rs a result, has now
invented and patented u new kind
ofcuke in which blood forms one
Of the chiefingredients. This new
food is stated to be exceedingly
nutritious and wholesome, and is
cuten with avidity by all sorts Of
animals, and even by COWS and
horses, which have naturally a
strong dislike to the smell Of blood
The stOCkman trulyremarks that
no other domestic animal seems tc
possess so strong an instinct fol
seeking The shade as does the sheep
Whatever shelter from the sur