Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-09
AGRICULTURAL.
THE SECRET OF BREEDING AND
FEEDING CATTLE.
The Proper Management of Seed Po a
toes-The Advantages of Well
Shod Horses-A Receipt for
Preserving Eggs.

Grooming should be thoroughly per-
formed on every horse at least once a
day. Never groom a horse in its stall
while the horse is eating, but take it
out for the purpose. Otherwise the
dust and dirt which fill the air becomes
mixed with the horses food, making it
unpalatable and unwholesome.
Breeding Sows should be given COM
Portable, clean quarters, with freedom,
or, at least, the liberty of a yard large
enough for moderate exercise. Do not
let them run with cattle or horses,
though, they should have generous
and plentiful r..tions of bran and
other muscle forming food, but not
much Indian corn or meal. Skim
milk, bran, oil-meal, boiled to a thin
Cruel, peas, ETC., are good foods for
them.
The management OF seed potatoes
is one of the important arts of the
potato grower. The chief point is to
prevent them from sprouting, and for
this purpose a low temperature as near
to the freezing as is possible, without
touching it, is desirable. Nearly ey-
erywhere farmers find that the late
varieties of potatoes are more product
i've than the early ones. Il not this
p lrtly due to the fact that early varie-
Ties have been injured by sprouting,
while late varieties are less liable to
this injury.
The following receipt has been tried
by lady who'says she has eggs that
were preserved by it four years. They
are still good. Take one pound of
unslacked lime and one pint of COM
mon salt to two gallons OF soft water.
Pat your eggs on end, in layers, in
any good tight veSsel-a jar is good.
When as full as you wish, make
enough of the brine to completely
cover the eggs. II you put the eggs
down as gathered each day, add some
of the brine 50 as to keep all complete
ly covered all the while.
In breeding and feeding cattle the
first legitimate purpose is to make the
animal do the very best that it will.
! The saving of food-in the direction
of depriving the stock of all that it
will eat-has no place in the calcula-
ton at all. 1t is true that in some
cases the animal will cat its head off,
though that will occur only with scrub
stock. But in such cases the animal
should be got rid of. 1t does not de-
stroy the rule that profitable dalrying
demands abundant food and good
| food.
Probably meal will finish up a steer
better than ear corn, but for the bulk
of the feeding there are no trials to
which we can point that show in favor
of meal over whole corn. A step still
further in the right direction is to feed
unhusked corn, fodder and all, to the
cattle. Such innovations may appal
many farmers, but what we are drift
ing toward is not more complicated
methods of feeding, but big crops to
feed, better stock to feed it to, and
simple, rational methods of getting
feed to the animals.
If the owner OF a small farm brings
to his work the business capacity and
good Judgment which the large land
owner does, it is very evident that,
proportioned to the acres cultivated,
he will have the most money at the
end Of the year. Hired help is not
only expensive, but at times very un-
certain and unreliable, but mans
own hands, with heart in his work,
which seldom accompanies hired help,
are always available for every little de
tail on which success depends. Many
men will do more with ten acres and
get more out of, and from them, than
others V i'll with Il hundred. 1t re-
quires as much labor, however, for the
ten as the hundred. 1t is intelligent
labor and good management that
count on farm, hence it is that small
farms pay the best and that farmers
continually complain that there Is no
money in farming. To our way of
thinking, and we are familiar with
every department of farm business,
and measurably so with the city,
there is no enterprise one can engage
in which offers better opportunities
for a healthful, independent and sue
cessful life than a moderate sized farm
under good management.
There are many who never take
ramble in the woods in the winter sea-
son. They seem to think that because
the trees, save the pines, hemlocks,
ETC., are bare, and because the birds
have left for warmer climate, there
is nothing to be seen in the woods in
winter. Those who have learned
properly to use their eyes, will find
that the woods present enough OF in
terest at all seasons to make visit to
them profitable at any season. Lum-
bermen, who work at telling trees, do
SO in the winter only, and can distin-
guish trees with great accuracy, and
tell one kind of tree from another as
far off as they can see them. They do
this from the peculiar way in which
the tree branches, and the color and
markings of the bark. We have
found that these same lumbermen, il
shown the leaves aud flowers Of the
trees with which they are so familiar
in winter, tail to recognize them in
deed many are surprised to learn that
forest trees have flowers. To be able
to recognize trees at all season, ana
to name them accurately, whether
they have leaves or not, is very use
full sort of knowledge which every Tar
mer should acquire. The carpenter,
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