The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-01

poultry raising.
Swill for hogs should be fed while
fresh, and not allowed to stand until sour
and disg isting
From this time forward grass is worth
more to the pasture for winter protection
than to the farm animals for food.
The great secret of successful farming
is to keep the soil increasing in fertility
by the abundant application of manure.
Sparc-ribs to be used while fresh.
may be hung up where they will freeze.
and will not spoil so long as they remain
frozen.
Onions are said to be valuable as
cape remedy for chickens. They should
be chopped up and mixed with the food
in winter.
The manure-heap should be packed
tight enough to avoid the escape of
ammonia, and loose enough to avoid
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Combining sheep husbandry with
grain growing pieces out an uncomfort-
able gap in the finances in the opinion
of Rural Home
Most of the apples now upon the gen.
eral market are supplied from the State
of New York. Systematic orcharding is
good business.
The dairy requires careful manage
ment to be profitable in winter. Good
cows. good food, good care and modern
appliances make it pay.
The Americdn CQltipator calls atten-
tion to the great amount Of waste there
is in feeding grain unground to any
stock except sheep and poultry.
According to Southern correspond
ent of the Americdn Agriculturid a crop
of COW peas is one of the surest ways of
restoring vegetable matter to worn. out
soil.
The most critical period in the life Of
calf is the first winter, but it will bring
no serious risk if the animal has abund-
ant food of good quality and good, COM
Portable quarters, with freedom from
parasitic insects.
A poultryman claims that milk will
give far larger and quicker returns if fed
to fowls than if given to pigs. Milk,
he says, resembles in composition the
egg far more than almost any food it is
possible to obtain.
If land is plowed in the fall for corn in
no way can manure be more advantage
ously applied, according to one author
ity, than by hauling it out in the winter
and scattering it over the plowed ground
direct from the wagon.
Loss sometimes occurs from not sailing
pork promptly after it is cut up. If it
freezes it cannot be we'll salted until
thoroughly thawed out, and the expan-
sion and contraction caused by alternate
freezing and thawing does no good.
Major Alvord says that in nearly all
cases Objectionable odors and havors do
not exist in milk as drawn from the COW.
but are absorbed from the air, the ex-
terror of the cow or the clothing and
person of the mixer, or while the milk
stands in the stable.
The consumption of mutton is increas-
ing in this country, especially in our
large cities, and it has become profitable
to supply this demand. 1t is profitable,
first, because the price is remunerative,
and secondly, because it is promotive of
good husbandry, the improvement of the
soil
Beans are good food for cows. The
bean meal is probably the best form. But
If the beans are boiled until soft they
may be fed with profit Waste beans on
the farm, or damaged stock that can
sometimes be bought cheap, should al
ways be fed. Beans are rich in protein
or heterogeneous matter.
AT the Ontario Agricultural College.
an experiment of feeding eighteen head
of store cattle with twelve pounds ofhav,
thirty-tive pounds of turnips and nine
pounds of wheat bran per head daily,
and also the same amount of hay and
roots, but with different kinds of grain.
resulted in the lowest cost of production
on the bran ration.
There are no secrets in sheen raising.
1t has to be done by feeding. The sheen
have to eat something, and that some
thing has to be sweet feed, grass, grain,
vegetables, fruit, or anything that is
wholesome and nutritious, but must be
abundant and unfailing. Weeds. brush
and briars will keep sheep alive, but
don't ask sheep to grow mutton on such
pastures; no, nor wool.
A writer in the Breedrs' Gazette sums
up the general purpose COW question in
this way; Any farmer who expects to
raise calf and grow steer needs cow
which will bri G him large, growthy
calf; and any farmer who expecte to make
money raisinga calf or growing n steer
must get the calf from COW which will
pay at the pail the expenses of her keep
and care, in order that the calf may cost
the least money.
No dairyman but knows that if his
cows are exposed to inclement storms or
compelled to submit to privations in the
matter of food they will Immediately
register the effect in diminished flow of
milk. Because these effects are seen at
once and produce an imme late rednc-
tion in income, they are understood and
to some extent guarded against by every
body. Other cattle, while kept for diff
ferent purpOses-for stock purposes or
for breeding-feel the same deprivations
and to the same degree as cows kept for
milk, although they cannot express it 80
plainly and so promptly.