Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-01-14
Items of Interest to Farmers and Stock
Raisers.

culturist, paper that ought to be !
the hands of all our farmers:
If cattle are always kept in goo
condition. they are always ready fo
the market.
Comfortable blankets may save
veterinarians bill or the life of
horse or two.
The Morgans have more horse +
the square inch than any other bree,
in the world.
Never allow your horse to lose con
fidence in you. To keep it's conf
dence is half the battle.
Simply keeping life in the ANNA
during the winter is the old plan, bu
it is not q paying one.
Wire fence without barbs will stol
ordinary stock and it is cheaper thar
barbed, besides being more humane.
At present prices better sell oats tt
people who have horses to feed ano
buy bran for cattle.-Prof. Henrya
Cobs ground fine with the corn are
valuable for their potash and for pre-
venting the packing of the meal in
the stomach.
The man that gives his animals nc
shelter is trying to warm up all out
doors by burning feed. His job is
both hopeless and exspensive.
A man in Homer, Mich, is said to
find skunk raising a profitble business,
but he don't kick his stock around as
some farmers do.
Animals with such hereditary in
firmities and defects as blindness,
spavins, curbs and badly formed legs
should be avoided and rejected.
A bull that is kept at work and does
his share of hard work on the farm,
is more docile animal and getter
of better stock than the idle bull.
While keeping your animals warm
and comfortable, be sure to have good
ventilation and to keep the air clean
and sweet, if you do not want to de-
velop tuberculosis.
An Englishman was lately senten-
ced to fourteen days hard labor, with
out option of fine, for causing horse
to be worked in unfit condition and
while suffering intense pain.
One hired man may be worth twice
the wages of another on account of
his treatment of the horses. A care
full horseman is also generally careful
about everything else.-Nebraska
Farmer.
Don't doctor sick hogs. Take away
their rations and let them die If they
will. There is a chance that his hog
ship will get obstinate and get well so
as to be fed again.-Waverly Repub-
ican.
The horse that fair average rate
of trotting speed with great uniformi-
ty will prove more profitable for the
average breeder to patronize than the
one which gets only an occasional top.
sawyer.
W. L. Scott sold thirty-one head of
thoroughbred horses in New York on
November Goth for $94,500; an aver
age of $3,048 per head. Among the
lot was a 2-year old colt which wrought
$35, 900.
Cluck to the horses to quicken their
walk, and speak or ch1rp to them to
make them trot. This plan, if per-
sisted in, will soon be learned by the
average team and their walking gait
can be greatly improved.
By unanimous vote of Boston school
committee, "Black Beauty"-t book
of admirable teaching of humanity to
animals, horses IN particular-has
been adopted as supplementary read
ing in all the grammar schools of
that city.
A calf belonging to Will Ryan died
last week and he threw it to his hogs.
Twenty-six of the hogs were taken
sick Immediately afterward and di ed.
None of the hogs died except those
that ate of the calf, and all those died
except three.-Blade, Letcher, S. d.
Make determined opposition to the
cruel and foolish overcheck rein
abomination. How any sane person
with a drop of humanity can enjoy
riding behind a horse in torturous po-
sition caused by the overcheck is
more than we can understandable
ana Farmer.
Among the other experiments tried
at G. j. Hamlin's farm where they
are not afraid to go out of the beaten
paths. was that of mating the trottine
stallion Mambrino King with a cou.
pie of Percheron mares. The result
was a success, the product being
about as handsome team of work
horses as is to be seen anywhere.
The subject of good farm buildings
is one of vital interest to the farmers
and the public at large. Diseased
stock cannot produce healthy milk
or beef. The crowding of cattle and
lack of ventilation cause tuberculosis
and impure water is to II large degree
the cause of CHAMBERS and foot and
mouth diseases among cattle.-Dr.
Charles Harrington.
Don't rub off the horses or harness
them when eating grain; they must
not be led to gorge it rapidly, this
produces indigestion. staring coat
and general debility. To put water