The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-09
STOCK NOTES.

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horses is poorly ventilated stables. Their
quarters should be made as warm and cOul-
Portable as possible, and at the same time the
matter of ventilation should not be over
looked. Better let them feel the cold little
than to suffer from disease.
1t has been the experience of one of Iowa's
successful hog-raisers that the best market
for hogs in the past ten years has been in the
months of July and August as rule. Would
it not be advisable for some of the farmers to
delay the corn, now, little, and give the
hogs grass and try later marketP Should
not all sell at once?
No farm animal chills sooner when ex-
posed to the cold than hog, and no animal
works more industrionsly to protect itself
against cold than it. But we think hogs suf-
fer more from wet than cold. A cold rain
cbills the body, drives the cold inward opens
the pores of the skin, and makes an animal
doubly liable to contract disease. When the
ground around the pig-pen is thoroughly
drained, as il should be, bare earth makes
the best and certainly the most desirable
fioor.-FaTmers' Review.
In the days OF pen-feeding tc hogs, hog
cholora, thumps and pork which people
would not use because they could not eat il,
were things not heard OF. These are all the
outgrowth and natural result of rearing ami
mails on one kind of food, and that food
corn, not adapted to make healty body or
good, palatable meat We shall have less
troubles more and more until we progress
backward to the more rational and natural
way of the fathers who studied economy with
close construction, and reared hogs which
had the elements of food in them, and food
suited TO the hard labor of the pioneers. We
want more peas and less corn-more muscle
and tissue and less fat. Such crops are al so
cheaper grown than corn.
Groom the horses outside the stables The
horse is rather fastidious, and detects any
bad odor or any filth about his food. He is
not apt to relish his bay and oats IL the ma
nure, etc.. from his body, removed and con-
verted into dust by the comb and brush, has
settled in the feed trough. Besides, part OF
the matter removed from his body is the
dead -matter thrown off by the glands, and
taking this into the stomach and lungs, as
he will be compelled to do il the grooming
is done in the stables will poison his blood.
Groom thoroughly. The comb is good in
strument in its place, but the brush should
be used more than the comb. Clean the
hide as well as the hair. Grooming is to
preserve the health of horses even more than
to give him decent appearance.
The we'll being of both the eve and the
lamb requires that the latter be weaned at a
certain time. Weaving before this time will
stunt the lamb. If delayed too long, the eve
is unnecessarily injured, and the lamb is
cOdXeO 10 uepeDu upon the ualn Tor part OF
its susienance when il should subsist entire
ly upon other food, and would be more
thrifty If it did Lambs need not run with
the ews longer than four months if they are
as thrifty as they should be, if there is water
in the field, they are usually disposed to help
themselves; though il should be seen to that
they get sufficient drink. The same is true
of shade. If they persist in wandering aim
lessly around in the hot mid day sun. pen
them up in the shade. They should have a
pasture of short, tender and nutritious grass.
In addition to this, give them wheat bran
enriched by the addition Of little shorts or
oilcake meal.
Why should hog be allowed to wallow
This is a pertinent question at this season.
A hog should be allowed TO wallow. first, be-
nose of the hog is near the ground; his body
is compact, and is composed largely of fat
compared with muscle; hence he gets hot,
ard needs a cool wallow. Another reason
for allowing the hog to wallow is that in this
way he gets rid of any vermin which may
be upon his body. The lice. etc., are inn
prisoned in the mud, and scratched off with
it. But the best reason of all is that this is
the hogs way OF cleansing his hide and
keeping the millions of glands open. The
mud and water loosens the filth, and the hog
scratches himself clean. As these glands
opening on the surface of the skin throw of
more dead, poisonous matter than the lungs
and kidneys combined, preventing their
closing is of the highest importance, and
this the hog accomplishes by wallowing.-
Western Plowman.