Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-17
Farm Notes.

1t is stated that there is a general
movement and disposition in many Sec
tions of Kentucky TO start creamer-
les.
No farmer should sit down to warm
meal while his stock is shivering for
lack of shelter from wintry winds or
from want of sufficient good food.
No animal can make milk, flesh. or
wool when shaking with cold. Stop
the shivering and start the growing by
giving a mess of warm food, If the
profits are to go on increasing.
How many pounds of mutton, beef.
and pork were blown away to nothing
by the last blizzard because proper
shelter was not provided for cattle,
sheep, and swine in this country?
A warm mess of bran. meal, chopped
and steamed fodder. or other food will
quickly quiet shiyering tlanks these
cold mornings. 1t will also bring an
immediate reward in the shape of in
creased flow of milk from the cows, or
more spirited work from the horses.
Somebody down East has discovered
that carbolic acid will prevent or cure
hog-cholera. If any pin their faith on
that hope it will betray them. The ex-
pertinent of feeding carbolic acid to
hogs, and of using it as disinfectant,
has been repeatedly tried-and the hogs
died as readily as did those to which no
acid had been given.
A correspondent of the London Lire
Stock Journal, in writing of the British
Berkshire Society, says: 1.-The demand
for well-bred stock from America, the
Continent, and our colonies is rapidly
increasing, and to attempt to breed
such stock and maintain its perfection
successfully without herd-book is to
attempt to steer ship without COM
pass"
Now, while pure-bred hogs can be
had at moderate cost, is good time
for the farmer to buy one or more pure
bred sows. If, as is well known, a
pure-bred Berkshire boar impresses on
his half-bred get in high degree GER
tain good qualities for which he is him
self noted, why not use also pure-bred
sows and thus secure in full the ex-
cellencies of the breed? Why breed
for half of what is good when the whole
may be so easily had?
Mr.. NJ. T. Brandenburg, a well-in-
formed and conservative Montana
stockman, after trip of eight days to
the Otter Creek Range, in which he
made a careful examination of the con-
dition of the stock, reported that he
found the natives doing first-rate; not
a single head of native cattle did he
see dead; he saw few dead .'dough-
ies," but as general rule the dough-
les had learned the ways of the coun-
try. and were rustling in the hills in
good shape.
A well-known writer on stock topics
who uses the nom de plume of Phil
ThriftOn says spring pigs, as arule, are
worth more than any others. 1t is of
much Importance. therefore. to save as
many of them as possible. If lost the
main profits in the business for the year
are gone. Considering them as source
of wealth to the breeder and the Ma
ton at large, great care should be tax
en- in providing for their safe delivery,
anu III 81 ahiduSi thdt tucS may
thrive and do well from the first. No
one having sows in farrow at this time
should allow them to be neglected.
The Prairie Farmer pertinently asks,
"Is it not better to discard the use of
the word thoroughbred and the term
.fuil-blood,' when speaking of stock
other than the race of horses known as
thoroughbreds? If a bull is high
grade Holstein why not say so? If tits
a Devon why not simply say it is De-
Won? What good is gained by multi
plying terms? If an Aberdeen-Angus
is of an exceptionally good family the
fact will not be made known by saving
that it is pure-bred or a thoroughbred
Aberdeen-Angus; but it might be well
enough in such cases to say that it is
pure Pride or full-blood Erica to con-
vey the meaning that the other phrase
would not have"