The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-28
Live Stock Notes.

Live Stock Notes
Sheep must have dry location at night.
Dampness is fatal 10 sheep, being the cause
of distemper, while wet pasture fields con-
duce to foot-rot.
Cary Culyer of Colorado, says: "a
Shropshire eve ought to earn from 81 to
$40 year." He says "they beat his COWS
ali to death, and Guido his Percheron mare
100 per cent"
There are probably few men who have
fed sheep for fifteen or twenty years who
can say say that they in every case found
them profitable, says the Wool Journal, and
yet more men could probably say this of
sheep than could say 1t of either hogs or
cattle.
An Iowa man writes to theeSt. Louis
Journal Of Agriculture as folio Ts: NJ had 100
sheep a year ago. They were fed on hay
and straw, no grain. One was drowned in
the spring; sold $3.50 worth of wool; raised
fifty lambs; one died when two month
old; thirty-eight had lambs; one of the old
sheep died, sold $l10 worth of sheep; six
were killed by dogs, and have 10S sheep in
the flock noW-better sheep than l had
last year."
Prof. E. W. Stewart, who is noted for
his experiments in stock feeding, states
that one ounce, or less, of oil-meal to a gal
Ion of warm, sweet water, will make iI
nearly equal in feeding value to whole
milk for raising calf to three weeks old,
and after that another quarter of an ounce
may be safely added. The oil meal should
be dissolved In hot whey before mixing
with that OF the right temperature of feed.
1t is Just as important for horses to breed
for intelligence as It is with the human
race. A dumb, stupid colt can never
alnnofnd n no q ualnahtn hnraa With
intelligence it Will always be sluggish, auc
will never have an attachment for its mas
ter, nor manifest disposition to obey anC
serve him as pleasure, Most intelligent
horses are naturally docile, or can b.
easily trained to De kind, reliable and even
afiec;ionate.
A Farm and Garden correspondent writes ::
81 wish ali horsemen knew the value o.
sur flower seeds II is DOT only one of tn,
best remedies for the heaves, but &
horse Can De entirely cured by giving
half pint twice a day for while in tn,
feed. took an Otherwise valuable horse
last fall which wss so stiff that you couiC
hardly get it out Of its stall, and in two
weeks you would not know that anythins
WAS the matter with ii, and IL has been all
right ever since"
There can be no possible objection to
IeEOlIR eLIdW, UuL care Do
derive as large an amount of benefit
possible. It must be fed in such a way
that good gain can be secured with the
stock. Wintering stock to keep ii alive is
one thing; winteriDg so that good steady
growth will be made another; in the one
straw can be made to answer; in the other
something else is necessary. In the one
there is no profit; with the other very
fine profit may be secured.
AN old Kentucky breeder of swine
places salt first in importance as pre-
ventive of cholera, and believes that salt,
of all substances, is the best promoter oil
worms. This breeder has adopted the
plan of sailing all his animals in water.
tight troughs, keeping q supply of salt on
hand continually. He also feeds some
charcoal with the salt to swine that are
closely penned, and gives ashes occasion
ally under all conditions. 49,
9 at meeting Of the Tunbridge Nv elIs
(Epglsnd) Farmers club, Mr.. T. E. Wei
fear, who MANAGES a heard of eighty cows
stated in paper on dairy farming, that
in its purity the Jersey COW was a some
what delicate animal, and when out Of
profit would yield little for grazing pur
poses. He said the short-horn Jersey, the
Sussex Jersey or the Kerry Jersey was
however, nearly, if not quite, equal &c
most pure-bred Jerseys in milk yielding
and a much more hardy and servicesblt
animal for general purposes. -
Q. N. Clay says, in Colmsn's Rural World
that there are two leading races of shees
in the United States-the Southdown anC
the Merino. The first is especially a nut
ton sheep, the last wool-bearing sheep
For wool the Southdown Is inferior bu
little to the Merino, and its fle ce is fit fol
the finest cloths, being only less in guam
tity than that to given weight OF carcass
while the Soutbdown is the best mutton
in the world, and has the most meat or
the best points.