The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-12-28
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Cows soon to calve should have
cool, laxative diet and not be overfed.
If they are good mixers and are highly
fed up to the time Of calving there is
danger of milk fever.
Sheep should not be compelled to
feed at the same rack with cattle. They
are liable to be hooked and vicious
ram may sometimes do injury to cattle.
Separate yards and separate racks are
safest and best.
An English court once decided that
lamb became sheep as soon as it ac-
quired it's first pair of permanent teeth.
If that is sound doctrine the lamb be-
comes sheep when it is about year
cid.
1t is fact that large grass hogs
shown at the fairs are losing their at
fractions for the intelligent growers and
feeders. More attention centers upon
the neat, smooth hog of moderate weight,
quickly grown.
The fall pigs or stockers to be win
tered which have the run of the sod or
pasture fields get supply of grass in
open weather that conduces much to
their health. When every thing is
locked up with cold some other provis-
| ion must be made.
Young ewes may be poor mothers.
1t is better, therefore, to have them
drop their lambs little later than tho
older ewes do. The fiockmaster will
have more time to give them attention,
and the weather will be warmer. April
or May is time enough for young eve
to drop her lamb.
| ALL materials added to the manure
heap should be fine. The object of the
heap is to have the material undergo a
chemical process through decomposition,
and the result to be obtained depends on
| the degree of decomposition. Unless re-
duced in the heap the material is not
converted into manure.
AS soon as the coupling season is
over the breeding ewes should be sepa'
rated from the flock and fed on nourish.
ing food. They should not be made toe
fat, for fear of milk fever at lambing
time, but they require good feeding Il
they are to produce strong lambs. Plenty
of hay with a mess of ground oats once
a day should keep them in good condi'
ton.
AN English dairy writer says: Dairy
work has made such gigantic strides
forward within the last ten years. and
there has been so many wonderful dis
coyeries and inventions in this depart
ment, that we may MOI now be surprised
at any thing, but may yet eclipse Ed
son and his electric marvels before many
years.
The official returns published by thu
French University of Agriculture show
that the production and consumption o
milk amount every year to 1850, O00,0 0'
gallons, which is three times in excess
of the production of wine, and the de
partments which produce the most mill
are those which produce the least wine
I'm feeding animals, especially pigs
mistakes may be easily made in thu
choice of food, and such food as will no
preserve the healthful balance may b
used in the effort to force rapid ad
vance in the fattening process. Corn |
often used to too great an excess TO
general feeding. Consequently there !
: Observation-Disclosures constitution wher
such system prevails. Hog cholera !
, often proof Of bad feeding.
An old farmer puts the solution
the renewing worn-out wheat lands
problem in the following words: Les
, wheat, more grass, more stock; NOR
: stock, moro manure; more manure, NOR
, ass; corn this year, wheat next; the
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