The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-07
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The first thing in breaking young an.
imals of any kind is to govern your own
bad habits; then you are ready to and fit
to break the animal.
Prof. Gamgee recommends that animals
SICK from eating smutty corn should be
given some purgative, as a pound OF EPSON
salt or pint of linseed oil for a grown an
imal, and that the animal should be in
duced TO drink water freely.
All American sheep will produce credit.
able mutton. But to produce ton there
must he the proper food, and food will
greatly improve the quality of Merino
mutton. Still the mutton breeds are the
more natural mutton producers, and with
proper care readily produce the best NUT
ton.
Great trotters are frequently great road
sters. 1t is very much TO be regretted that
some great trotters are very mean brutes.
and tit only for track service. The skill Of
the breeder is gradually changing all this
and the best OF dispositions and of staying
qualities, together with the first order OK
speed, are more and more sought to be
combincd.-Efchangc.
Cows should always be in thrifty condi.
ton to give the highest profit to the dairy.
After the frosts have taken the goodness
from the pastures cows should have hay
and grain and should not be allowed to
enter the pasture; for although they will
eat the frost-bitten grass it not only does
them no good, drying them up, but is
positive injury to them.
There has been a great deal written
about hog cholera, but the hogs keep
x-ip in.
vestigation, but the hogs die; and they
will keep on dying unless we quit stufiiny
our swine with corn. 1t does not make
any difference what the real character of
hog cholera is. The important fact to
know is that hogs that are strongly de-
veloped In bone and muscle are able to
ward off disease Western Rural
dairy farmer who ought 20 know says
that the skin of cow is as necessary for
the publication of the blood as lungs are,
and it discharges in offensive vapor a
greater quantity of matter every day than
the kidneys do. While a COW may dis
charge twenty pounds of water through
the kidneys, she will take into the stomach
enc hundred pounds. The eighty pounds
pass eff through the skin chiefly, and take
along the dead waste matter, which is
thrown off from the fine capilaries through
the pores of the skin. with the perspira-
ton. When the milk has a cowy oior you
may be sure the skin IS not working right,
end needs thorough brushing to remove
the scurf and dried matter which covers
up the pores.
1t is thought by some farmers tina. in
breaking young mules the first thing to DO
is to knock them down five or six times.
and then some thing can be done with
them, writes a correspondent. In break
ing mules. begin when they are young ;
handle them gently but firmly: avoid the
possibility OF their breaking away from
YOU, for success depends upon the result
OF the first effort and the impression made
upon it. Having all the harness strong,
and in gearing, be gentle, steady and con-
tident. After being hitcEed do not en-
deavor to repress too great eagerneSs in
the animal, lest it become discouraged.
In all things be quie;, gentle and firm;
this will give the mule confidence i'm itself.
And, in breaking them to a wagon, never
let them start until told to.