The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29

his practice he finds the most eco
nomical food to be four pounds of
bran, three pounds of ground oats
to one pound cotton seed meal. He
is experimenting with pea meal, in
place of cotton seed with equally
good results, and believes for those
who would raise peas that the lat
ter would be found more economical
than cotton seed meal.
Al HOW TO LEAD A cow A1s
The natural and apparently
easiest way to lead a COW is to tie
a rope around her horns. But if
she is not thoroughly broken, this
gives her too much advantage, she
can, if she will, pull by the horns SO
as to require the whole strength Of
Il man to hold her. But if after
passing the rope around her horns a
halter is made of it so that the pull
ing is from the nose, it is a very
different matter. Thus a small boy
can manage any ordinary animal.
With a regular halter, any cow a
be easily taught to lead. If she
proves very refractory ring through
the nose, and the rope or string
attached to that will easily master
the most Obdurate puller. .
WATER FOR BREEDING soWs.
1t is surprising to any one who
has not noticed the fact before how
much more water sows will drink
that have to give milk to a lot Of
sucking pigs than is needed by
others fattening on the same feed.
There is sound philosophy under
laying the prevalent practice of
giving slops and other thin watery
or milky stuff to the sows with pig.
They will make good use even of
dish water, though this is apt to be
salty and to necessitate plenty of
pure water afterwards. The milk
supply of breeding sows kept in
pens during hot weather is apt to
be curtailed by lack of drink. OF
course, plenty of good food is also
necessary, or the SOW will decline SO
much in flesh as to be permanently
injured.
CLOVER AFTER CLOVER.
One singular fact about clover is
that a sod OF this plant plowed late
in the summer or early in the fall
for wheat cannot be we'll seeded
with clover again the following
spring. Seed will start all right but
will die out before the grain is har-
vested, so that unless seeded with
timothy the fall before the surface
will be bare of valuable grasses.
Were it not for this fact a two years
rotation, clover and wheat succeed
ing each other alternately. would be
popular in some places adapted to
wheat growing. This was a com
mon rotation fifty or more years ago
with wheat growers, but in those
days the clover was plowed under
in June and thoroughly worked
until wheat seeding time. Even
then, however, with this early pIow-
ing the clover did not catch as we'll
on fallow ground as it did with
wheat sown after orr or spring
grain.
FALLEN APPLES AND COOLING MOTHS.
An item in an agricultural ex-
change advises the collection of
fallen apples daily as a means of de-
stroying the codling moth. If this
advice is given to pigs running in
the orchard it is all right, but if,
presumably, it is addressed to the
readers it is faulty. The worm in
most apples that fall is ready to
leave it's receptacle by the time this
accident occurs. In nine cases out
Of ten it has left the apple within an
hour after it has fallen. Whoever
consigns the apple to destruction
with the notion that a worm is
thereby being destroyed is sadly
deceived. Sheep are better than
pigs. for this business. The pig is
naturally lazy, or ought to be, and
does not get up early in the morn
ings. Sheep, on the contrary, will
browse around during the night and
be ready to catch the apple as soon
as it drops.