Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20

them mas lea many people TO discontinue
eating them, on the ground of their being
thought dry and tasteless.
PIGS THAT ARE ovERFED.
Swine are proverbially greedy, but it is
the duty of the owner of an animal to
control its natural habits when these are
opposed to its well-doing; SO that the first
thing to be done in feeding young pigs is
to measure their feed judiciously. They
should never have all they will eat. Only
fattening swine should be so fed, and they
would soon die from over-feeding if they
were not killed. When young pig chokes
at the trough, squeals and falls over in
fit, it is overfed and when it goes to the
side OF the stall, champs its jaws, foams at
the mouth, and does nothing else than
this, it has been oyerfed, and in both cases
1t is suffering from congestion of the brain,
due to indigestion and disturbed circala-
ton. 1t is in a state of apoplexy and
will probably die anyhow, but the Others
may be saved by at once reducing their
feed to about one-fourth of what they
have been getting. The prevalent
paralysis Of the hind limbs is caused by
overlooking, by which the kindeys have
been overtaxed and the nervous system of
the lumbar region 1.-THE loins is disturbed.
Thus the power of motion of the hind legs is
lost. Recent experiments in feeding young
pigs go to show that pig of 10 pounds
needs no more food per day than two
quarts of milk and four ounces of solid
food, such as bran or oats or cornmeal. On
this allowance, gradually increased, pigs
made a steady and healthful growth while
two others kept in a pen by themselves,
became stunted, stopped growing, and in
the third week one was attacked by con-
gestion of the brain and had to be starved
out of it, losing fully two months growth
When young pigs are weaned they should
be fed in a shallow trough, from which
they can take their food only slowly. a
pint sf milk and two ounces of boiled
cornmeal mixed with the milk will be
enough for daily ration the first week,
and gradual increase may be made, sub
stituting raw meal, not exceeding the
limit above mentioned for six weeks or
eight weeks old pig of the best kind and
less in ratio with q less weight Over
feeding is the common bane of the pig.
GOOD WAY To HANDLE A BULL.
A short time ago a well-known Western
stockman was killed by vicious bull
which he was trying to lead from the barn
to the yard. The case was 4 sad one, and
has called forth the following advice from
an old stockman: Never go around bull
without stick in your hand. When he
Is six months old put a ring in his nose
If he should prove vicious and hard to
handle, buckle SUI ngle of leather three
inches wide around his body, and where it
crosses his back bone have an iron ring
sowed to the belt; have a belt for cup
per to run back from the same point
Have another strap made to buckle around
the base Of his horns, and in the middle of
that have loop or guide. Take a stout
hitching-strap with a snap on the end and
snap it into his nose ring, pass the other
end through the loop between his horns,
pulling the ring and head up as high as
he can comfortably bear, and tie the strap
in the ring on the surcingle 1t is evident
that the bull cannot get his head down,
for at every attempt the ring hurts his
nose, and he may be tied up as high as
safety may seem to require and led any
where, for unless he can get his head down
he cannot do any mischief 4 tempo
rary arrangement Of this sort may
be made with a stout rope for belt and
cord to fasten in the nose ring, but the
thing Is so useful in an emergency that il
ought to be properly made and kept in
every barn where there is a bull The
guide between the horns is only to keep
the hitching-strap in place so it cannot be
thrown off at one side of the head
BUTTER IN CREAM.
DR.. Sturtevant concludes from many
analyses that some creams may yield three
times as much butter as others. In other
words, that one milk yielding 10 per cent.
Of cream may furnish more butter than
another indicating 80 per cent. of cream,
and that there is not necessarily any con-
nection between the cream percentages
and the butter yield The modest COW,
giving small percentage of cream, may
make more butter than another which is
supposed to average $3.50 per cent. of
cream. These facts may seem merely
nominal, but when cooperative cream
cry using the milk from, it might be
scores of herds, and when the surplus is
divided pro rata, some herds may re-
ceiye more than their dues. In the
starting Of dairy, where the cows are to
be bought or where butter is to be made
from the cream, the product of each indi-
vidual animal should he tested. In view
OF the close competition in everything, the
time will soon come when a four year-old
COW yielding small percentage of butter
will be a very scarce article in the butter
world.
SOW ALFALFA THICK.
Farmers in some portions of the State
are having great deal of trouble in keep
ing their alfalfa fields clean from the
growth of other plants, says an exchange.
The particular trouble about which COM
plant is now made is the presence of
fox-tail grass IL the alfalfa. 1t is said
that a large portion of the hay raised
in some sections contains so much of
this Objectionable growth that the
price has fallen fully fifty per cent.
below what is paid for the clean alfalfa
One of the causes for this trouble NAV be
found in the parsimony with which alfalfa
is sowed. While the seed Is not so high
priced as to enforce economy in its use,
still many will be found who recommend
that no more than fifteen or twenty pounds
of seed be sown to the acre. The result of
this unwise economy is seen in the slender,
scattering growth of the alfalfa, which is
easily to be choked out by foxtail and
other noxiods growths. An alfalfa field
upon which too little seed has been sown
is melancholy spectacle with its patch
work Of good grass and weeds-the latter
often largely predominating.
HORSE DENTISTRY.
More trouble and lack of condition are
caused by liberated and irregular teeth
than is generally supposed Such teeth
should be promptly removed with forceps.
There is no reason to doubt that a horse
with liberated teeth suffers as intensely
from toothache as a human subject. If
regular growth or fractures Of the enamel on
the outer edges make the teeth so rough as
to iniure the inside of the cheek, sometimes
causing ulcers. In other cases some of the