The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19
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Recent experiments in England show
that whole wheat at the rate OF three.
quarters of pound for each sheep is not
only a safe cereal food. but one of the
best, and. at current prices for wheat one
of the cheapest.
Never attempt to work colt before it 10
four years old. While service may be- Sc
cured earlier from a well.gro VA colt. yet
it is a risk to begin with a colt too soon.
Give him plenty of time to nature. but
| break him in early, impcsing but little
work on him.
Oats make one of the very best feeds,
and especially during the summer, when
such materials are needed as will always
| develop bone and muscle rather than fat.
Bran and linseed or oil meal are nearly
the only feed that most farmers can afford
| to buy, and by cutting the oats and adj
| ding, a cheap nutritious food is secured
that furnished the elements most desired
during the summer.
Those who patroniZe creameries can not
derive iull profit therefrom unless swine-
| breeding is made a pursuit The whey
and buttermilk is sold to The patrons at a
very nominal price, and can be put to ex-
cellent use if made part of the rations of
hogs. Very often the only profit to be
made is from the hogs, the milk about
paying the expenses OF the food Of cows
| and swine.
Growing colts need something that will
aid to make good development of bone
| and muscle, and work teams need strength
which a good growth of bone and muscle
will supply. One of the best materials
| for this purpose is good, sound oats. While
| they should not be made an expensive
| food, vet only such other materials as are
necessary to make up Q good variety need
| be added, and the team will do more and
better work and keep in good condition
with less discomfort than with any other
! grain.
A cat;leman from the Indian Territory
| reports the very best range up there this
| year. 1t is the finest in years and the
grass is not wanting in nutritive qualities.
| Thinking this year would be the last
whack they would get at the 1udans'
| grass the cattlemen were disposed to make
the best of it, and the consequence was
that nearly all the cattle in the country
were taken up there to be fatted They
went up by tens Of thousands. But for
ali that the range is not at all overstocked.
| Dallas Tex. News.
| There is an astounding statement print
ed to the effect that 1.-The bulls of the cot
! ton-seed of the cotton States will produce
more beef, butter milk and cheese, more
wool aud mutton, than ali the clover and
| blue grass of Tennessee, Kentucky and
| Ohio" And vet il appears to be true.
| An Atlanta firm fattsned ), 800 beeves last
| year on cotron-seed hulis at a profit Of
5000 joel Chandler Harris, an author
| ity on fox hounds, bees and Jerseys, is
| feeding his herd on cotton.s eed hulls, aud
saws the result in milk. butter and beef is
anna zing. In the Southern Farm W. NJ.
Towers, of Rome, writes of a test between
corn. cotton-seed meal and cottoH-seed
| hulis, in which the latter produced vastly
better results. And yet until a year ago
| cotton seed bulls were used as fuel for Ell.
| gines or cast away as worthless -Atlanta
Constitution.