New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-02
THE FARM.
Agricultural Notas

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At least two varieties Of gra1r
should be given to young stock.
1t is reported that many farmers
IN the northwest are turning from
wheat raising to the dairy.
lfan animal is worth keeping over
winter r he is surely worth protecting
from the cold. If he is worth any
iced at all, he is worth keeping On
liberal rations.
Animals to be slaughtered in early
winter will lay on two pounds Of fat
before cold pinches than one pound
after that condition comes; besides,
when fat, cold will not pinch.
Undoubtedly the badly kept, I'M
ventilated stable is the cause Of Sc
rious diseases in horses. Think OF
an animal being shut up for twelve
hours in a place filled with ammonia
and exhausted air
Make pets of your colts. Make
hiends Of your horses Treat them
kindly and you will not be troubled
with unsafe and unruly horses. It is
but the humane way to treat them
anyway.
Tt is a good plan to feed some Of
the bone and muscle forming foods,
during the fattening process, what
ever the system of swine husbandry
may be, says the Western Rural.
Some people think that feeding this
class of food is wasting it. That is
an error. If the food makes muscle
| it increases the weight and what is
more it makes the valuable part OF
The hog.
| There is no doubt that hogs can
Toe fattened quicker and with less
I6dod if provided with good warm
houses, and the food given in
thoughts. Use literally of salt and
IWpod ashes, cinders, refuse coal,
Stacked lime, birthstone and charcoal
labout once week, each in small
Iqnantities. Above all things see that
lyour hogs have unfailing appetites
land are in good condition physically.
Swine Breeders Journal.
Get the COW that gives milk all the
year. round as far as possible. It is
a great loss to dry up cows when
tbs not necessary 1t takes two
J thirds Of all the good COW eats to
kesp her alive and without loss Of
i ae;h, and the other third of ordinary
| gopd rations to enable her to yield
milk. The expense of tWo-thirds Of
thu money earning rations has to be
injured when the COW is earning
noihing Live Stock Indicator.
] #Ir. S. M. Babcock has shown that
thane is a clear loss Of 2.73 pounds Of
butter per 100 pounds of cream,
Though churning the sweet cream
4 bebre mild acidity was developed
He tried it.so many times, say Mr..
Hoard, that it may be considered
| beTond all cavil. But who will be
the next stupid man or woman to
poar the latest skimming into the
ch1irn, the last moment, SO as to
have all the cream churned, and out
of The way?
t Al correspondent of the Maine Far.
mes takes great pains to give his
cattle all the open air exercise they
require throughout the winter on
warm sunny days. Sunlight and
exercise are two of the greatest fac
| horsSin promoting health. Shut up
human beings in a cotton, oil cloth
or shoe factory, month after mouth,
carrying them their food and allow
| ing them no exercise at all, and how
long before consumption will seize
upon them? It is silly to think that
cotton seed meal or any other high
ly concentrated food will originate
tuberculosis or pleuro-pneumonia.
A Montana sheep breeder offers te
rent ewes at fifty cents a year, the
man taking them to have the WOO
and increase, but bound to return
the full number at the end of the
specified time. AS the sheep are
worth perhaps $3.50 each, the CAPT
talist makes twenty per cent, for his
money and risk This seems large
but in the Territories farmers offer
] pay higher rates than this. Two
per cent. "a month is q frequent price
/ for the use of money there. This il
tWentyfour per cent. a year, and az
it is often compounded several times
in twelve months, itamounts to con
|ssii 1' "a Kly more than this.
To Keep Fresh Meat.
M the utter season it is oftende
sia 1efo keep pieces of fresh nIaat