Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-28

mixed, and applied with mop; apply in
tie ears first, to prevent them running
from the body into the ears.
About one and half pounds of corr
will suffice as grain ration for one sheer
If the animal is given all the hay or grass
it desires. The breeding ewes, however
should be allowed oats in preference tc
corn. To fatten wether give a mess oi
cooked turnips and cornmeal with the
other food and it will gain rapidly.
The Bronze is the largest breed of tur-
key, and gobblers three years old have
been known to weigh fifty pounds before
being killed and dressed for market 1t is
not very hardy breed, but does well
when crossed on the common variety. The
white Holland turkey is smaller than the
| bronze, but is more active forager and
can secure nearly all of its food.
Mixed rations are more economical than
the, feeding Of any particular article of
food exclusively, as some foods assist in
the digestion of ,thers. There are grow
ing rations, which are best for growing
stock, and there are rations that promote
tat more than others. The stockman
should have an object in view, and feed in
manner to obtain it at the least cost.
Potato vines contain large amount of
potash, and a writer advises for that rea-
son to compost them with manure. But a
better way is to leave them evenly on the
ground and plow them in If dug by hand
then bury the tops as you dig. This is
cheaper and easier than to draw them in,
compost them and draw them out again,
all OF which adds nothing to their value,
as they quickly decay when buried.
1t is a remarkable fact that farmer
who produces large or unusually profit
able crop, or one that has been unusually
successful, you will find that he com
menced farming with small farm and
only increased its size as his means in
creased and only as he could give the
same care and attention to the additional
acres that he formerly gave to the origi-
nal. Small farms, as a rule, pay better
than large ones.
Professor Sheldon, one of the great agri-
cultural college authorities, now comes
forward to disturb our old faith in the
value Of hauli manure to the field as
fast as it is made. He says it should be
only handled IL the spring-otherwise the
loss of manure is sure to be very great, the
waste in the course Of six months amount
ing to full one-half the gross manure and
nearly forty per cent. of the nitrogen
which it contains.-Americdn Dairymaa.
Since the invention of the steel-wire
rake there is no temptation to good farm
ers to turn stock on grain stubble. The
raking gets about all the grain, and if an
occasional head is left ON the ground it is
better left to grow than to leave cattle or
horses to tramp and destroy the clover and
grass seedlings merely to save it. If the
stubble is to be plowed under for wheat
the scattered grain is worth more to germ
mate and be plowed under than it can be
for stock feeding.
Professor f. w. Stewart, in the Country
Gentleman, tells how 10 put flesh on either
a poor or an old animal; "Cut clover hay
short, say one-half inch, take cheap mo-
lasses and dissolve one pint in one gallon of
water and sprinkle this upon three pounds
of the cut clover with two pounds of buck
wheat flour and two pounds of wheat bran.
Feed this amount 10 each horse or animal
three times q day, commencing with lit
tie less per day for two days" The pro-
fessor says he put 100 pounds additional
weight upon a horse thin in flesh in thirty
days by feeding him said ration