The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-01-16
HERE AND THERE.

Cows soon to calve should have
cool, laxative diet and not be overfed.
If they are good mixers and are highly
fed up to the time of calving there is
danger of milk fever.
Sheep should not be compelled to
feed at the same rack with cattle. They
are liable to be hooked and vicious
ram may sometimes do injury to cattle.
Separate yards and separate racks arc
safest and best.
An English court once decided that
lamb became a sheep as soon as it ac
CURED its first pair of permanent teeth.
If that is sound doctrine the lamb be-
comes a sheep when it is about year
old.
1t is fact that large grass hogs
shown at the fairs are losing their at.
fractions for the intelligent growersand
feeders. More attention centers upon
theneat, smooth hog of moderate weight
quickly grown.
The fall pigs or stoclIers to be win.
tered which have the run of the sod or
pasture fields get supply of grass in
open weather that conduces much 70
their health. When every thing il
locked up with cold some other proyis.
ion must be made.
Young ewes may be poor mothers
It is better, therefore, to have them
drop their lambs little later than the
older ewes do. The fockmaster viii
have more time to give them attention
and the weather will be warmer. April
or May is time enough for young eve
to drop her lamb.
All materials added to the manure
heap should be fine. The object Of the
heapis to have the material undergo 9
chemical process through decomposition,
and the result to be obtained depends on
the degree of decomposition. Unlessre-
duced in the heap the material is nos
converted into manure.
AS soon as the coupling season IS
over the breeding ewes should be sepa'
rated from the flock and fed on nourish'
ing food. They should not be made toq
fat, for fear of milk fever at lambins
time, but they require good feeding i
they are TO produce strong lambs. Plenty
of hay with a mess Of ground oats once
a day should keep them in good condi'
ton.
An English dairy writer says: DaiFg
work has made such gigantic strides
forward within the last ten years, ana
there has been so many wonderful DIS
coveries and inventions in this depart
ment, that we may not now be surprisea
at any thing, but may yet eclipse hai'
son and his electric marVels before many
years.
The official returns published BY mo
French University of Agriculture snoa
that the production and consumption n
milk amount every year to 1850, Ooe'Ves
gallons, which is three times in excess
Of the production of wine, and the q.
partments which produce the most HllH
are those which produce the least VINE
I'm feeding animals, especially pigs
mistakes may be easily made IN ta9
choice of food, and such food as viii nos
preserve the healthful balance may y
used in the effort to force rapid e..
vance in the fattening process. Torn :
often used to too great an excess ~
general feeding. Consequently there Y
a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS constitution Rile.s
such system prevails. Hog cholers =
often proof of bad feeding.
An old farmer puts the solution =
the renewing WORKOUT wheat ianas
problem in the following words: ~.
wheat, more grass, more stock; Hio.s
stock, more manure; more manure, -
grass; corn this year, wheat next H.
more grass after wheat; more ssgss.
more manure; more manure, mors $50
more grass, stock and manufei
moneyi more money, problem solf