Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-19
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Agricultural.
THE CARE OF sTocK


and stall will be apparent now. All
who have failed to keep their animals !
clean. warm and well fed, win need to
take more than ordinary care in bring
ing them through the winter. Liberal
feeding is the only true economy in
wintering stock. Induce animals to eat,
keep their appetites keen with fire.
quent changes of food. and feel salts
lied, when spring comes. that all the
fodder has been consumed in keeping
the live stock plump and healthy.
Every barnyard should have an album
dant supply of pure water Animals
that are well wintered are half sum-
mered. Steady work does no harm to
mature horse. If well fed, carefully
groomed and kept from undue ex-
posture. team may labor the winter
through with profit both to the owner
and the animals. Horses when confined
to close, warm stable, become tender
and subject to colds, etc. Incoming
cows should have a limited diet of dry
hay, with a little bran, for few
weeks previous to calying The young
stock, and all Others infested with lice,
should have the skin rubbed with
equal parts. Sheep need, besides
abundant wholesome food, plenty of
pure air, dry yard and sleeping place.
The porkers should have already gone
to the market. Store pigs will make
profitable growth if well housed and fed
during winter. Light and frequent
meals are best. Eggs can only be ex-
pected from fowls that are Eat home'
in warm, dry house. provided with
abundant food, both green and dry,
lime, gravel and pure ter,-Ameri-
can 4griculturist.
POINTS IN POULTRY KEEPING.
The plymouth Rocks being the
best feathered of all varieties of chick
ems, are apt TO be the best winter layers,
and as they feather up very young, are
better suited to the incubator trade, or
the artificial rearing of broilers than the
Light Brahmas," or many other varie-
ties. There ought to be profit in buy
| ing up young roosters, caponizing them,
fattening them and selling at the usual
market price. Turkeys treated in this
way often reach weight of from thirty
to fifty pounds. A Brood of chickens
led by turkey hen to forage in the
fields, will attain to great weight and
early maturity without food or care on
the part of the owner. The best eggs
are the result of meat diet; the high
colored and well favored eggs of
Kansas during the grasshopper vista
ton, were marvel to strangers. When
grasshoppers and worms fail. their lack
should be supplied by feeding crackl-
ings and other cheap butchers offal.
The crushed oyster she'll supply, and
the boxes of road dust or ashes, should
be kept within easy reach. When NOV
| ing to an entirely new location we
secure immunity from gapes for two
years. The farmer who does not pro-
vide his wife with a good poultry house
is standing in his own light, as it need
not be fine or costly. In winter, drop
little carbolic acid in the food mix
ture, once a month, as preventive of
as cabbage, garlic. and red pepper,
with variety of grain food and not all
corn. With this treatment and pro-
per house, we may count more certain
| ly on profitable returns than when the
fowls have 10 roost on icy perches. ex-
| posed to the zero winds of long winter
nights. The products of the poultry
yard are always in demand, and judg-
| ing by the imports now made in that
line, they will be the last to glut the
market IN our large cities.
THREE PROFITS YEAR.
Sheep afford double income annu-
ally, lambs and wool. and must be con-
sidered among the most profitable of
farm stock, especially where the fences
and accommodations are adapted to
them. My experience proves that
sheep pay best which yield three profits
a year. This can be accomplished by
selecting good framed healthy, middle
aged ewes in August, or early in Sep
TENDER, and turning them with South
down or other mutton breed ram, so
that they will drop their lambs at any
time from January 10, to February Is.
Suitable warm and comfortable quar-
tiers, of course, need to be provided.
Give these ewes run at grass during
the fall, and have them come into WIN
ter quarters in good condition. If the
pasture is not fine, give little corn
daily all through the fall. When
housed for the winter, feed plenty of
good clover hay and have water by
them at all times. Give little corn
every day. When lambs begin to drop
i feed literally with turnips, or bran and
corn. After the lambs are all born,
aud the danger of caked bags has
passed, cotton seed and meal may be
fed to advantages; in fact, feed the eve
| for milk as you would mich COW. As
soon as the lambs are old enough to eat,
which they will be at an early age,
have a pen separate from the sheep, and
accessible to the lambs at all times,
containing trough from which they
can eat. Feed meal of oats and corn
| ground together, two parts oats to one
of corn, cracked corn, and oats. Change
the feed and encourage them to eat all
they will. Keep them dry and warm
with plenty of room for exercise. Sell
as early as they are ready for market
and when they will bring the highest
prices. After the lambs are sold, keep
on feeding the ewes all they will bear
Shear early, and then sell the well fat
tened ewes to the butcher. By this
process you get your three profits, viz:
lambs. wool, and the difference be-
tween finnish store sheep in August,
and fat sheep in May or June, when,
because of scarcity, mutton brings the
highest price. The Southdown ram of
course, may be retained with which to
repeat the same course the next fall.
1t is well-established fact among the
most prosperous sheep growers near
large cities, that one well cared for
early lamb is worth half dozen born
in May or June. -AmericGn .Aqricul-
t1riSt
IN GENERAL.
Two main points in good farm
wagon are lowness, to save lifting, and
a cut-under. for convenience in turn
ing. The latter, however, calls for
very low fore wheels, aud the low
wheels call for springs, TO modify the
suddenness of the lift over obstacles.
An English poultryman says that on
TIE first appearance of gapes make a
quart of oatmeal porridge, stir into it a
tailow candle and administer it warm
to the chicks. Repeat the remedy
about every two hours He states that
he has never lost single chick from
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