St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-03-17
STOCK ITEMS.

| John W. Bramley, of Boyina, N. Y,
MIXED thirty-six cows the past season,
| from which he made 10S09 pounds of but
| ter, and he received S2,6642 "a for it. Feed
bought cost 1902 25.
| With six Jersey cows Maine man pro-
duced /, 452 lbs of butter, sold SIS worth of
cream and S65 worth of milk, besides
furnishing family of six with milk and
cream during the year 1887.
Mares employed on the farms, if judi
| clously handled, will rarely lose colt, but
If ploWed one day, driven to a carriage the
next and then ''put around the race track"
by the boys, there will be few colts.
Prof. Arnold states that it costs more to
make milk from old cows than it does from
young ones having the same milk capacity
AS a rule the best effects do not last be-
yond the eighth year of the cows age.
If a heifer kicks at her first milking,
! don't swear at her and thump her with a
milking stool just because you saw some
| one else do it, but try to have more sense
than a foolish COW, and perhaps she may
learn somethingyet.
When you buy sheep for purposes be
sure that it is better than the best one in
your flock in blood and physical develop
| ment and see to it that it is cared for like
any other piece of valuable property.
Good livestock like good clothes, can not
be exposed to all kinds of hardship with
out showing the effects of such harsh
treatment.
F. M. Woods, the stock auctioneer, re-
ports cattle selling good, far better than he
had anticipated. At the James sale nearly
| all the cows sold between $50 and S35.2
At Eagle they sold strong, from s25 to s35.
At the James sale five heifer calves COM
ing one year old averaged $22 per head.
They were half Holstein. This shows that
blood tells when you come to sell.-Lincoln
(Neb) Meas.
Sheep should be entirely secure from any
exciting causes Or liability to be worried by
other animals. Let them have all the sweet
hay or corn-fodder they will eat, in addi-
tion to the grass, and feed half a pint to a
pint of corn meal per day per head, in two
| feeds, varying occasionally with an equiv
alent of peas or oats. 1t is well to give
some kind of succulent roots, as turnips Or
potatoes, once day, as much as they will
eat, in place of one of the feeds of grain.
However great the care working animals
may have had during the winter, they need
| to be set at work very cautiously. Having
been deprived of large share Of exercise
| AoA . 4OAS tiHlEs gACy Will AUG NC dUlC w No
o full days work at first, as their muscles
| need that strength which only judicious
exercise can give. Allow them long
| incoming, and give good rubbing down
when they are through work for the day
american Agrieulturist.
The disease of the skin known as mango
in horses is easily recognized by the dry
scurfy appearance of the skin from which
| the hair falls off, The skin cracks and yell
low matter oozes out and forms crusts,
which must be broken up to give effect to
| the remedies applied 1t is caused both by
an insect and plant which burrow in the
skin and form different varieties of the
| disease. The most effective remedy is sui
| phur rubbed up with four times it's weight
Of lard with one-fourth its weight of Gre
osote added, well rubbed into the bare
patches after thorough washing with soap
and water and rubbing with corn-cob to
break the crustS.