St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-18

ing. When the calf Is dropped it may
be weakly. and does not promptly assist
IN relieving the udder. The COW being
I also fat and feyerish the result is milk
fever, A COW that Is expected to calye
should receive only small proportion
OF carbonaceous food. Hay Is prefera-
bic to grain.
| Plant food in the soil is that which
can be utilized by the growing plants,
and the more soluble and available the
plant food the more rapid the growth of
/ the plants. But the soil may contain
/ unavailable plant food. which may be
! rendered available by cultivation and
the application of fertilizers that assist
] IN changing the combinations of mat
4 ter. Hence, in using fertilizers they
should be credited with the value of
| their chemical influence in creating
! available food from that existing in the
/ SOIL as well as for the plant food they
| contribute.
| Among many dairymen the main ef-
fort appears to be to get rid of work and
/ responsibility. They want to have as
| little care as possible. and we believe
they would like TO get rid Of the trouble
OF thinking. They sell their milk by the
| wholesale to some milk route OF factory,
| aud appear to do all in their power to
| get time to sit and stand around and
/ complain of hard times. If they had
| the energy to work up their own milk at
home into first-claSs butter or cheese
| they would have less time and less cause
| for grumbling.
1t is found profitable to devote large
amounts of capital to dairying. and the
| labor is also heavy item. Ii the dairy
| business, which requires constant work,
can be made to pay, there is no reason
why it should not be made to pay more,
and at less expense. There is too much
| waste OF time ana labor on some farms,
due TO lack of organization and system
attic management. 1t is often the case
that more food and labor are used than
should be the case in proportion to the
product.
A .dairyman complains that the result
OF breeding grades to thoroughbred
bulls has not been altogether satisfac-
tory. Well, while such breeding will
always raise the standard. it must not
be forgotten that if you want certain
Kind of animal the only way to get it
with absolute certainty is to breed from
a thoroughbred dam and sire. ANY
other kind of breeding, while it i'm
proves, may not be just what we would
| like it.
In summing up some of the results of
his work with folders, DR.. Goessman,
| OF the Massachusetts Agricultural col
lege, says that their milk and cream
records show that the fodder corn, corn
slower and corn enSilage, when fed
pound for pound of dry matter. in place
OF the English hay, compare we'll as far
As the quality and the quantity of the
milk and of the cream obtained is con-
| cerned.
Sheep should not be housed in large
| numbers under the same roof. saws the
| American sheep breeder. The breath
| of SO many together p0isons the air and
renders it noXious to breathe. A prac-
| tlcal shepherd estimates that not more
than fifty should be stabbed under the
same roof. 1t is much better TO build
several small sheds at convenient points
| than one large bnilding.
| Rough land alone will not support
| sheep. Sheep will find much that NAV
he utilized hy them on surn lands, but
| good feed OF grain should be given at
| night also. AS the sheep VIII eat ten
| der heritage of all kinds AMI in lustri-
Ously forage for all that can be had,
they serve to keep down weeds and
| suckers, but SUCH food will not answer
| Tor them exclusively.
| Trying to ventilate the stables at this
| season may result in too much OF the
| fresh air desired. The first thing to
| consider Is to- keep the cold out, and the
next is how TO have pure air without
! sui'lecting the animals to araughus. The
/ problem OF how to properly ventilate
| without loss of warmth is unSOlved, and
! there Is wide field open for experiment
/ in that direction.
| If the COW is the COW she ought to be
| she will give good returns for the extra
| food she consumes. But always remem-
| Der that nature takes care of herself be-
/ fore she attends to cur pecuniary inter-
! estS. Ii the cow is half fed nature will
| use the most of her for the nee Is of the
/ animal system, aud the cow owner will
| get badly left at the milk-pail.
| An exchange says that it would be a
/ help TO those unacquainted with varie-
ties If three-fourthS of the varieties of
garden seed were culled out and left
out of the catalogue altogether. A few
| standard varieties will produce better
| results and give more satisfaction than
| larger number. many of which are
comparatively worthless.
The Iiolstein .Friesian cows took the
! first and second prizes at the Chicago
| fat stock show for the largest amount of
butter fat, the highest being 3.45 per
cent. This does not refer to the per-
| centage of butter fat in a certain pro-
portion of the milk but of the whole,
while the total amount of solids was
| very large.
When milk is unfit for the farmer to
! drink it is also unfit for the young calf.
Srours frequently result from the calf
not receiving milk that is fresh and
sweet. The natural conditions in feed
| ing young calves should be observed as
closely as possible.
| Every bull on the farm should be
broken to the yoke when it is young and
| be made to work. There is nothing so
| eficaciOuS as work for temDering a saw
| age disposition. The bull is danger us
| because he is idle and has nothing to do.
Rules may be made for governing the
! dairy work, but there can be no rule
made for feeding the cows in regard to
| quantity and quality of food Each COW
Will have her special demands. and
they must be complied with.
| A farmer in Texas gives his hogs One
! good feed each year of corn boiled in
tile poke root. three parts of corn to one
! of the root. He considers the root
preventive of cholera. lie twenty-five
years experience he has never lost
hog with this disease.
The cow may work we'll. the churn
may work we'll, and the conditions may
be perfect, but if there is not all active
brain behind the whole thing, it will be
, like an engine without any fire under
| the boiler.
We reckon that good deal of the adj
vice to raise the standard of the herd is
| beginning 1t the wrong end. There ere
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