Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-11-29

Oh the harness twice year.
Dampness. more than cold. Kills the
bees
A little meal and milk will keep the
calf growing.
For QUICK fattening, chickens must be
confin, Il.
Begin In feed hens meet when insect
food is exhausted
Cows worth much rs mixers are voraci
Gus and noi dainty.
Bury the poor cabbage heals along
with the good, TO use in stimulating the
egg crop during the winter.
COtton-se meal is hard 10 digest and
ought not to be gwen TO breeding cows
or to young stock of any kind
Butter tainted before 1t goes to the
churn, no possible after cure Can make
good or keep it fl to eat until winter.
The standard for good COW is said to
be 600 gallsns of milk year, and OF this
there should be 10 per cent. of cream
1t is best to cut up corn before the
stalks become hard and dry. Fodder as
well as hay may be injured by waiting
until ii is too ripe
For mich cows try a meal ground
from corn and oats and mix with bran
and you may find better flow of milk
than from any other.
Warm and cold milk should not be
mixed. The new mIlk should be rid of
its animal heat before adding it to that of
previous milking.
Slight elevations are safer place for
the grape than bottom lands. the early
and the late frosts ALWAYS seek low lands,
hut are not SO apt to creep up on the
mountain sides.
Do uot disturb the bees after they have
been placed in tneIE locations for the win
ter As they have methods OF their own
for regulating the heat of the hives they
should be simply sheltered allowing all
the honey III the lower tier of COMBS to
be undistHrbed.
There is great loss annually il not
saving the leaves in the fall. They not
only make excellent bedding ma .ersl. bu5
add to the manure. Being easily rakei
Af's llLAAA btA AuD " a. 'ilor Alit4 usually NNA
plentiful, they should not be lost By de
composition in the woods or by being
blown away by the winds.
Attention is being given III Elgiaud to
training cats to p-oEect straw berry beds
and other garden treasurers from th@
vorscIOus English sparrow. The cats
wear collars and are tethered By light aud
IL :
t0 comfortable cat houses which can ne
moved about from place 10 place is de-
sirable 1t is said thai d thoroughly train
ed cat enjoys the life hugely.
The Kansas Farmer remarks When
young pigs suddenly stop eating, become
convuIsed and squeak and drop dead, it
Is an indication that they art diversified
and are suffering from indigestion
There Is no cure IL. obvious reasons, but
the trouble is EASILY prevented by feed
ing moderately. Pigs should never be
given all the food they will eat. but their
rations should be measured out strictly.
The raising OF urnip and cabbage seed
has proved very profitable, and added
materially to the income of the farmers
on the east end of Long Island One
farmer near Mattituck Is said 10 have
cleared 81 200 from baggage seed alone.
Another made $3.50 from turnip seed
raised on small plot The main crops
in that section is cnullfowers cabbages
and potatoes and the raising of seed has
heretofore been subsidiary to these crops.
but il has proved so profitable that maBg
farmers have gone into it largely.
Every man who really knows any
thing really worth knowing is aware that
the plants of nature furnish the hodies
of all animals with as much salt as is
good and necessary for them, and that
salt fed to them 10 the pure and raw state
only requires more labor on the part. of
the kidneys to throw it off and more water
to be drunk TO quench the burning and IN
natural thirst th. all animals are affl CT
ed with when indulging in eating raw
salt. Let this old superstition pass out
with the custom of killing hogs and plant
ing corn in the full of the moon. for both
of them are away behind the Other prsc-
tees of the farm. Stop it, for there is
no sense in It.--DdtryadH-
An Arizona dairyman bias Simple
remedy for blOat caused by alfalfa, &C
cording TO the Planter anu St0ckman
Last year he suffered great loss OF cows.
as MANY as seven mixers dying liz one
night. This year he struck upon slm>
pie plan of constructing trench IN the
corral, with bank thrown up on one
side perhaps eighteen inches or two feet
high. As soon as COW is observed to
be bloating-and he keeps constant
watch upon them while feeding-she is
driven into the corral and made to stand
with her hind feet up on the bank. The
result is that the gas in the stomach Of
the COW Immediately begins to belch of
and the animal is soon entirely relieved.
Out of sixty bloats in one day his plan
has proven effectual every time. When,
however, COW too far gone before OBJ
served, which is when she begins TO moan
and grunt, sticking is resoried to, but
this has occurred in only six instances
this season. SO far he has not lost a
single head ont of his large herd. The
cattle are kept in the corral at night,
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