The morning news., 1889-03-18
Farm and Stock Notas-

Scalded bran makes an excellent food for
pigs little corn meal added improves
it. Thin it down with skim milk or butter
milk.
An abandoned well, half covered ditch, or
even a snag, may cause injury t. a colt in
the pasture that damages it hundred or
more dollars
A temperature of about 65 degrees or a
little above appears to be the best for Churn-
ing whole milk sweet. but the usual tenn
perature employed is from 60 to 65 degrees.
Vigor and strength of vitality are of
prime Importance in any breed; they give
power to transmit qualities to offspring,
overcome disease, exposure and the many
hardships which all flockS are more or less
exposed to.
tits conceded by some that a good year for
cherries is not favorable to peaches, and a
favor ble year for peaches is not beneficial
to cherries, the two kinds of fruit not being
subject to the anne conditions Some fruit
growers deny the claim.
Hiram Smith of Wisconsin saws that
winter dairying is much more profitable
than summer dairying when one has a silo
and wise combination of business princi-
pies. Mr.. Smith keeps 100 cows on 200
acres of land, and the silo enables him to
do so with profit.
The idea so stop churning when the but
ter has gathered into pellets, wash out the
buttermilk, ETC., saws an exchange, has
saved butter makers in the aggregate
myriads of hours of hard labor, and the
good yet to be done, when all the old fogies
have been converted, is beyond calcula-
ton.
The work Of inducing the farmers to dis
card common stock, and grade up by the
use of pure-bred males, has been in progress
ha1 ntt1~ h0
farms are filed with common stock. 1t is
satisfactory to progressive farmers that
they have improved, however, and they do
not again resort to the Inferior kinds.
The loss from insect ravages in this coun-
try may appear small, but Prof. Riley esti-
mates the annual damage as high as $780,
O00,0 900. This is enorm us, and equals the
entire product of some of the cereal crops.
This does not include the cost of labor de-
voted to the destruction of insects, or for
methods OF preventing depreciation, but the
value Of the amount destroyed.
Nothing is SO unsightly as the mud and
filth that gets on the cows in the winter. 1t
is not sufficient to have the cow rub it off.
She should be well cleaned by the attend
ant, and the brush and curry comb are in
dispensable. A COW that yields largely
can be made to yield more by being kept
clean and warm. The plastered filth often
nOtlcSu on COWS Is a source Oh lfTlCdUlOn,
keeping them uncomfortable and rendering
them less tractable and manageable.
In breeding and feeding cattle the first
legitimate purpose is to make the animal do
the very best that it will. TIE saving of
food-in the direction of depriving the
stock of all that it will eat-has no place in
the calculation at all. 1t is true that in
some cases the animal will eat its head of,
though that will occur only with scrub
stock. But in such cases the animal should
be got rid Of. 1t does not destroy the rule
that profitable meat production and profit
able dairying demand abundant food and
good food.
Prof Jordan has experimental with
whole corn and meal fed to pigs, and has
found that the gain made by hogs fed corn
meal cost about per cent more than the
gain made by the hogs fed corn. In all
trials the hogs were fed potatoes and milk
also, and the same qua Titles of feed. 1t
seems to me that the results would have
been more value if the animals had been
given all the whole corn or meal they would
consume, as this would have tested the
palntableness of the feeds, which has par
ticular value.