Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-29
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
SUGGESTIONS ron oun
RURAL READERS.
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stock Breeder. s-hssPsr' Assssvass,
MN, Kitchen Maid.
THE srocK-RANcH.
Lice on awlne.

common annoyance is lousy hogs.
ID Il is sometimes difficult thing to
%et rid of, particularly in large herds.
+ il we'll known to most people what
'roii6c and rapid breeders lice of ali
ENDS are, and the hog louise is no ex-
"antion. When any hogs are seen in
cessantly rubbing, and present naked
snots in their coats, lice are suspected
os the cause, and examination generally
shows it TO be SO. The breeder himself.
Or those who have the care of such ami
mails, may we'll use caution in leaning
against the pens or sheds in the hog lot.
The hog louise is prodigious insect.
the largest of the whole family. They
are sometimes three-sixteenths of an
inch in length. Their sucking apparatus
skin of the hog. Coal-oil with a few
drops of carbolic acid added is. how.
ever, sovereign remedy. Not onIy
must the hog be treated, but the bed and
surroundings also. A want that I have
felt with other hog-breeders, and which
il is hoped some instrument maker will
supply, is that of good hog syringe.
II should be of the piston pattern, to
hold ut least twelve ounces, with one
nozzle eight inches in length and not
oyerthree- eighths of an inch in diameter,
and spray nozzle throwing eight to q
dozen streams each the size Of large
pin. With such syringe, using the
spray nozzle, it would be easy to fight
lice. 1t would also be useful in sun
scald and all skin troubles. In the alb
sence of something of this kind one can
employ spouted oil can, using enough
back eight or ten inches wide from the
ears to the root of the tail, and in three
or four days second application, hav-
ing in the meantime used it freely in
the beds and around the sheds. A favor
able time to use it is when the hogs are
eating, but the animals must all be
treated, and it is best TO do it all ct once.
Some have used coal-oil and lard in
equal parts, coating the whole animal,
but have not found this necessary. and
have seen no bad results from the free
use of coal-oil and carbolic acid
American Agricultural.
Stock Notes.
The disposition of swide is to pile up
in cold weather, and the warmer we can
keep it underneath them the less liable
they are to do this, and unless they can
be prevented from doing it to great
extent disease is much more liable to
break out among them.
ONE or two days care of the early
lamb will save it. The first forty eight
hours is the most critical period with
lambs.
CONSIDERABLE attention is being de-
voted to Angora goats up in Idaho, says
the Pacific Farmer. Mr.. Hash, who
owns 1000 goats, is moving his band
from the camp just south of Shoshone,
on Little Wood River, further north
near the foot-h hills. He has recently
shipped 1000 pounds of mohair Cash
mere goat wooD, and Mr.. John Harris,
of Goose Creek, also has about eight
thousand, both shipments going to New
York. The average clip of we'll bred
cashmere goat ranges from three to five
pounds, and formerly mohair brought as
high as rs cents to 81 per pound. We
believe it now runs from 40 to 60 cents.
In hog pastures where amovable fence
is used so as to change the hogs and
thus prevent waste of the clover from
,tramping down, in fair season an acre
of clover will furnish forage for ten
shoats.