News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02

An advocate of warm water for cows
says it will increase the yield of milk
One-fourth.
Though dishorning does not always
| render a naturally vicious bull docile, its
tanning effect in general is we'll attested.
Fine-cut hay, slightly salted and
scalded with boiling water, is relished
by fowls, says California poultry man.
Authority on poultry advises feeding
salt in the proportion of level teaspoon
lul to two quarts dry ground grain.
Never give it in excess.
John NJ. Stahl considers the COW truly
and provOkingly feminine, and thinks
that in no place does politeness pay
better than in the cow stable.
Large profits do not always depend
upon large crops. One may grow an eX-
traordinarily large crop, but the expense
OF so doing may balance the receipts.
A Connecticut dairyman tried warming
the water for his cows to drink in winter,
and the increase of butter in ten days
paid the expense of piping the trough.
10 wholly abandon staple crop or
product because it is temporarily I'M
profitable is to lose ones hold on the
market when it becomes profitable again.
At the Ontario Agricultural College
an experiment with peas showed that it
required thirty-fve pounds more of
| cooked than uncooked to make 100
pounds of pork, live weight.
Professor McMurtrie seems to prove
by investigations that the much praised
and sought for ''folds" in merino sheep
are detrimental, in that they do not in
crease the yield, and do decrease the
quality.
Sheep here do not pay as good profits
as those IN England. Everything de-
ponds on the mode of management. Our
farmers compel sheep to forage, while in
England they are treated as carefully as
are cattle.
In speaking about the preparation of
fodder for cows, A. B. Allen says:
when the appetite and digestion of the
| animal seem to conflict with the teach
ings of the chemist, take sides with
the animal"
The improved mutton breeds of sheep
cannot be kept in the manner usual with
common sheep. They demand good
pasture, liberal feeding and attention,
but they pay well for the care bestowed.
There lis great demand for superior
mutton.
At the recent English dairy show
shorthorn COW proved the champion
mixer and buttermaker. After PA
days from calvlng, her milk amounted to
453 pounds daily, and her butter to "A
per cent, equal to 2! pounds per day.
The total solids in this milk amounted to
Az per cent, which shows that the COW
was not only an excellent buttermaker,
but exceptionally good for cheese.
The value of barley meal as a feed for
hogs is not half appreciated. Trials at
the Wisconsin experiment station show
that $50 pounds of uncooked barley meal
were required to produce 100 pounds of
pork, live weight, while to corn meal 463
pounds were required, of corn meal and
shorts half and half 574 pounds were re-
CURED. This is not a very striking
showing in favor of barley meal, but it
demonstrates most conclusively that pork
can be proftably produced on barley in
Northern regions where corn cannot be
grown at a profit.
In discussing ways and means for the
Improvement of highways it should never
be lost sight of that the roadbed can
never be satisfactory as long as it is not
thoroughly drained. In majority of
cases this can be done by grading up
cutting bitches along the sides. But the
tendency is toward the following out of
the centre of the grade; and, as the
ground is somewhat compacted, water is
held for some time, to the great injury of
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the weather will permit, the grade
should be dressed, filling up the de-
pressed paths made by the animals.
When thorough drainage cannot be Sc
cured in any other way, underdrain.
The same principles apply as in the
draining of land for crops.