The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-20
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another name for systematic and eff
cient farming Western Rural.
Many Australian wool-growers, the
North British Agricuhurta says, shear
sheep with machinery driven by steam
Hens are early risers, and do not
like standing around on one foot wait
ing for their breakfast. The morning
meal is the most important one of the
day. Toronto Globe.
1t is much easier to keep an ami
NAL fat than to fatten it; hence the
stock should always be kept in good
condition, and they can be then more
readily prepared for market. Troy
Times.
1t is said to be an established fact
that rotten and rotting potatoes are a
prolific cause of diseases of the diph-
liberia natute. No potato should be
used which has the least indication Of
rot.-N. Y. Examiner.
When the ground is frozen and
there is but little snow, it is an admirable
time to cut brush in the fields and else
where; there is also no better time for
going through the wood lot and cut
ting those old trees that have COM
menced to decay and working them up
into stove vocabulary Journal.
"A correspondent of the Western
Rural succeeds in keeping his flock of
sheep in good health. By no means
the least important of his appliances be
counts a Winchester rifle, two good
shot-guns and a bottle of strychnine.
The sheep live, but there is a frightful
mortality among dogs at times.
Apples and other fruits, says the
C%ultirator, should be gathered and
saved, however low the price, since
they are at least worth gathering for
their feeding value. If left on the
ground they are positively injurious.
the acid of the fruit poisoning the soil
and destroying all vegetation beneath
them. A dressing of lime will correct
this acidity and restore fertility.
1t can easily be seen that the big
COW needs more food than the smaller
one. So does the COW giving milk
want more food than the dry one stand
ing by her side. Yet it is a common
practice to feed all alike, great and
small, the workers and the idlers.
This is all wrong. Common sense
teaches us to feed each individual COW
according to its needs. This is also
economy.-7oledo Blade.
A writer in the RuSshaia Media
says that he has had great success in
the cure of over three hundred eases OF
acute and chronic catarrh or cold in
the head by the use Of ice-cold water.
The legs from the knee downward are
washed with it in the morning and ut
night and rubbed vigorously with a
coarse towel. 1t is necessary to do this
for two days only, and many patients
are said to have been cured in one day.
Remember that all the butter made
by a cow no matter how good the
breed, if the animal is sheltered by a
rail fence or on the lee side of the straw
stack, and if it gets exercise by SILVER
ing on tip-toe in the piercing cold, will
cost Il full dollar per pound. The
question is, can any ordinary farmer
afford such a costly luxury, to say
nothing of the inhuman cruelty to the
cow. 1t would be well for every farm
er with unhoused stock to take time to
think this matter carefully over and
decide whether it shall be continued
Prairie Farmer.
-Linseed meal is laxative, while cot.
ton seed meal is the reverse. The use
of the former in the feed of horses, if
given in small quantities three times a
week, will loosen the skin and greatly
assist the animal in condition. \
mixture of the two substances, if given
to mich cows, greatly increases the
flow of milk and adds to its quality.
For mothers and breeding eve it
should be used in moderate quantities
of hay or straw. Linseed meal should
be used rather as a condition powder
than as u part of the food, but cotton
seed meal may be fed more lit orally to
mich cows and growing stocF.-M Y.
Herald