The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-19

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far short of them IN value, pounu ioI
pound, but this is owing To the tact tiiat
while hay and grain contain but IL W
16 per cent OF water, the cultivated roous
have from IS to 80 per cent. Making
allowance for this extra amount OF
water, existing in the roots, IL VIII De
| found that the nutritive value OF them
will compare favorably with that OF
grain and hay.-E1.
One very successful stock owner thus
briefly describes his plan of calf-feed-
ing: New milk for the first fortnight,
skinned milk and little boiled linseed
until three months old; little hay.
bran, and linseed cake as soon as they
can eat it. Discontinue milk at four
months old, and give them oil cake por-
ridges up to the age of six months, with
| hay, linseed cake, and barley-meal. NO
extra food given at grass.
| Another successful caifrearer says he
gives at the first u little sugar Iii the
milk, the sugar being first dissolved In
water AS soon as the calf takes to the
food, little oatmeal and boiled llnsee0
are mixed with the milk. He never
gives more than gallon OF rich food.
| In their after-treatment the calves get
| the best of food in small quantities.
He finds it advisable 10 keep them in
| the yards the first season, All kinds OF
grain ground into -four are given to the
calves. as well as roots. linseed cake, and
hay. while the youngsters have GOOD
clean bed of either Oat ur wheat straw,
which they greatly appreciate,
Horses should always be allowed to
drink before being fed. The stomach OF
horse is small in proportion to the
size of his frame, therefore he requires
feeding often, and though three times
day is sufficient, four times is better.
Unlike human beings, horses should
drink before they eat, because, owing to
the conformation of the horse, waite
does not remain in the stomach, but
passes through it into large intestine
called the c4cum. If horse be fed
first, the water passing through the
stomach will be likely to carry with it
particles of food, and thus bring about
collie. Whatever a groom may say. let
horse drink just as much as he likes.
If he be watered four times day he
will never take very much, or.too much
to be good for him. A horse, it must be
remembered. is fed on dry food, and
this, with the strong work done by
hunter, always produces feverishness.
which sufficiency of water tends to
allay.
A correspondent of the Western Rural
writes on the removing of horns from
cattle, and thus converting all cows.
bulls, etc., into muleys: l never knew
an animal to lose either appetite or a
pint of blood from the operation. if
properly performed. No one will pre-
tend that castration is cruel, and vet it
is the essence of cruelty, compared to
dehorning either young or old cattle.
opaying cows and heifers is largely
practiced in many places, and yet there
IS tentold more pain and tenfOld more
danger than in dehorning. The simple
ruth is we have been in the dark about |
this, and from sheer necessity l have
been driven to its practice. l have ten
arge bulls here now at my place, run
nlng IN pasture of twenty acres, held
oy a common board fence. Will some
one kindly tell me what | would need to
10 TO hold them if they had horns? L |
Kept all last winter on e hundred cows |
n close shed 80x25 feet, with two |
small openings on the south, and never |
lot so satisfactorily. Now, |
1 word as to the makeup of horns, and |
am done. All cattle's horns are hol- |
ow at the base, every one. They are
composed of two parts, shell and bone. |
There is no feeling in the bone. At the
base OF the horn the shell grows. and if |
you take a head and allow it to stand
)ut in the weather and decay, you will |
ind at the base the shell has all gone,
and left only the bone. Elk
anime the bone and you will see that it |
S part of the skull bone, nothing
nore-just a protuberance, a Joint, a
Weapon. Properly removed there is no
more pain than a ten-year-old boy feels
1t having tooth extracted.
Everyone is interested in the subject
Of pure water. Professor Erastus G,
smith, of Beloit College, in an admira-
Die paper on Sanitary Problems, stated:
The water supply is of supreme impor-
'ance, and too much attention of the
purity of the source from which it is
obtained can scarcely be given. Din
iberia, dysentery, typhoid fever and
,ther similar diseases are often traced
. contaminated water. Lead pipes
should never be used in wells. Though
nearly insoluble in its pure state, the
'alts OF lead formed by the action of air
IN the pipe, are soluble and very poison
'us. Sheet lead ought never to be Used
or lining small cisterns. Another
,redI udnger is from contamination by
organic matter; and in this respect
eternal vigilance is the price of safety.
Driven wells are vastly safer than those
lear the surface, and "Barn-wells" are
'ery poor servants at best. Cattle ought
never to drink from stagnant pools,
which almostalways swarm with germs
# disease. The study of splenic fever
n cattle has clearly demonstrated that
his fatal disease is caused directly by
organisms. The waste
rom the house should never be thrown
N the ground near the well, but carried
t least six or eight rods away, winter ,
S well as summer. Or better dig a cess
DOL at suitable distance lat least eight {
ods) and connected with the house by
properly constructed drain. Carpen- .
ers' bills are cheaper than doctors bills.
lever allow privy vault within a
adius of one hundred feet of the we'll:
nearer approach is at the peril of
afety. If the present distance is less
han four rods. remove the priyy at
nee to safe distance. Waters posses
ing in any degree bad odor, or taste,
hould be examined by the family phy-
lcian or sanitary officer. A simple
est for such as do not smell or taste
ably, is the following, recommended
y the Wisconsin Board of Health.