The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
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to be made an inveterate baker.
Take a day off with your boys-let
them become acquainted with you.
Horses are usually less to blame
than the drivers for the habit of start
ing too
The production of wool is very
greatly dependent upon the nitrogen
in the ration.
Geo. Wylie says: No brood SOW is
at her best as a brood SOW until she is
two years old or over
To lead a horse from a burning
building throw a bag or something OF
that sort over his head.
Wire screens in the stable windows
to keep out insects will enable tired
horses to rest better at night.
Why take six months to grow a
lamb for market when it can be done
in four-with a little extra food?
Don't let the pigs stop growing
during the hot weather. Shade, water
and plenty of green food, with some
middlings, will do we'll for feed.
Nine bulls and eleven COWS were
the Holsteian, Friesisn transfers re-
ported to Thos. B. Wales, Secretary
for the week ending Aug. 2, 1890.
Probably no class of horsemen get
so much work out of their teams as
transfers in u great cities. They
look after their teams with the great
est care.
Always let your horses face the
object of his fear; and, when fright
ened, remember the slower you move
your horse the more power you have
over him.
Word comes from Geo. McKerrow
Sussex, Wis. l have just received a
fine lot of Shropshires and Oxfords
from some of the best English and
Canadian focks.
Why not sell the old-fashioned
wether when a lamb ? For the first
few months the lamb mutton can be
made at about half the cost of gro With
in the old sheep.
A t%easpoonful of clean wood ashes
Ou OhCu uOIS0 3 1S0O OuC0 d "00h Is oil
excellent condition powder. Afarmer
who has used nothing else for thirty
years has had remarkably healthy
horses.
The headquarters of the National
Chester White Record Association
has been removed from Emmenia,
Kentucky, to West Chester, Pa. The
new secretary is Thos. Sharpless; A.
D. Strobe is president.
Not long ago at the Union Stock
Yards this city, a lot of twenty,four
head of fat little Hereford yearlings
were sold at $3.50. They were owned
by T. G. Ashby, Norwood, Ia, and
averaged l,l78 pounds.
Some of our best stock men are i'm
porting beautiful specimens of differ
ent breeds Of sheepfrom England, and
the American breeder is renewing his
interest in the mutton and wool branch
of the live stock industry.
A good stretch on the longitudinal
cushioned seats in the caboose of a
freight train is many points ahead OF
the best upper berth ever invented
for a palace sleeping car, and we don't
care who knows it.-Iera8 Sl5ttings.
A large part of southwestern Wy
oming, with sections of Montana,
Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, have
become so parched that there is prac
tically no grazing whatever for stock,
and herds are being moved into better
quarters.
The true policy is to ship out moth
ing that is not good beef unless forced
to do so by want Of money. Lean
steers are worth more on the range to
market on the higher prices of 1891
than they are or will be on this sum
mer's market.
Jane Simmons, of Middle E igeville,
Ca, is the first woman in the South
to adopt the business of butcher as a
regular calling. She is very expert
with the knife and c~leaver, and can
kill, clean and cut up more hogs than
any man in the country.
The Chester White Swine breeders,
nov have two record books. The
new society Of which Nh. Morris,
Room 6, Jackson Place, indianapolis,
Ind, is Secretary and Ellis House,
President will send out in one volume
all the Pedigrees including the three
volumes of the old or reorganized
society.
The Holstein- Friesian bull Mahomet
289, H. H.. B., is dead at the age of
fourteen years. His dam was the
famous old Aegis, founder of that
highly-esteemed tribe, and he has to
his credit twenty-five COWS with milk
records of over fifty pounds a day,
made under ordinary conditions of
keeping.
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