The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-17
FHEaRROGREssIVE FARMER MARCH I7r1lS86.
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year two more win drop out until
the first teeth are shed, and in this
way ono can generally tel the age
De the animal until it is>fve years
old. when a new set has been form
ed. AS has been intimated, there
will be some variation from this,
and from six years you cannot tell
absolutely by the teeth. .,o,
. SOWING TIMOTHY WITH CLOVER.
Although timothy has not nearly
the agricultural value of clover, it is
too important a grass to be neglect
| ed, and the two should usually be
sown together. If the field is in
tended to be kept ;, i q grass for a
hold better for having a clover
growth the first season TO mellow
the sulbsoil and make the grass roots
extend down farther. Besides, ',cloV-
er alone, if a heavy crop, is very
difficult to cure. The grass has not
SO heavy stems as the clover and is
not so full Of sap. It is better to
SOW. timothy in the Fall when it is
intended to make a hay crop of it
the following! season. But to SOW
i with clover, early seeding in Spring
answers every purpose. The clover
will keep it under the first year, SO
that. little grass grass will be seen, but af-
ter this the timothy will extend and
the subsequent season will occupy
the entire surface.
.,.,a WINTER, FEED FOR HORSES. .f II
|stt Too many farm horses are allowed
to be idle in Winter. It is true they
cost less to keep while not at work,
but.their feed, whatever it, may be,
returns nothing except the manure
made from it.. Hence, we always
advise keeping no more horses
through 4 the winter than can be
proftably used Failure to do this
is the chief objection to wholesale
farming. On large farms there are
necessarily many horses employed
during Summer, and if these are
made a bin of expense, during half
the year, n more, it is little wonder
1ifithe Winter consumes all the prof
its of the year. On grain farms cut
straw, with ground feed of some
kind, is much more economical than
the usual ration of hay and grain.
Cut eornstalks kept in piles large
enough to heat and moisten them
may be substituted for the straw or
hay. Iftoo dry, cut cornstalks will
pierce the horses stomach, and
sometimes cause fatal results 81 3ht
THREE~BETTBRs A YEAR.
Pigs, as il well known, breed very
fast, but their increase may be ac-
celebrated If the breeder understands
how to .manage. "A sow after far
rowing will come in heat and breed
in four or five days after dropping a
litter, and will then continue to
,suckle the pigs until old enough to
be weaned. IF the SOW is not bred
then she will not come in. heat again
until four or five days after the pigs
are weaned,' though this may not &C.
cur until they are eight or ten; weeks
old, This in most cases would make
the litter come too late in the Sum
mer for profit. A sow's period Of
CESSATION is sixteen weeks; so that
by breeding as often as possible a
breeder might have four Filters with
in the fftytwo weeks in a year.
But there is often an advantage in
getting two Filters of pigs as early
as. possible from the same SOW. - If
she has narrowed, in March it is pos
lsible to have another litter in July, |
while if the pigs were first weaned
before the sow was bred the litter
would be. two or three months after.
But this rapid breeding is very
wearing to the sow. She must be
well fed SO long as she is sucking
the first. litter. She will, besides,
need to have plenty Of green and
laxative food about the time she far
rows in Summer. as a fat granted
SOW farrowing in hot weather is
likely to become sick and. destroy
her pigs, eveniif she does not herself
die. 1fit3 91'sl - 49, affa
ii. ENsILAGE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Warren Brown, of Hampton Falls, |
President of the New Hampshire
State Agricultural Society, writes to
an exchange as follows concerning
the lsilos in his immediate vicinity,
five in number, all owned by milk
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