Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1891-01-23
NO. 12
AGRICULTURAL.


buying refined sugar at six cents and doc
toring their maple sugar with it, they viii
be enabled to make snug thing in the
woods this spring.
How TO make a cheap horse blanket:
Turn four bran sacks inside out and sew
them together where the seams are with
darning needle and twine This makes
cheap and good:blanket for the stable.
In putting up ice do not pulverized ice to
fill in the spaces between the cakes if you
can get snow. II is much easier to fill
with snow, each layer of ice can be kent
level, and when removing the cakes they
come out without any trouble. Try this
plan and you will never use pulverized ice
to NIL the spaces again if you can help it.
There is no doubt that high feeding has
much to do with the increase of milk fever
and other troubles connected with partur.
ition; but the latter part of spring and
summer are usually considered the most
dangerous times Of the year for a COW TO
come in" Early spring before grass or
late fall after cool weather is much safer.
But poor COW is fairly safe at any time.
Ii Is the heavy mixer in high condition
tnat runs most risk. Lack of constitution
is doubtless predisposing cause, but no
COW that milks heavily should be allowed
to feed at will on succulent food Just be-
fore calying, nor should she have any cold
water TO drink for two days after.-FGeld
aud Farm.
Cows are MIXED too close to the ner;od
OF calving. They are thus deprived Of the
privilege of supplying the embryo calf
with that which is required for full and
perfect development. As milk also under
goes a partial change as the period
Tor calving arrives it is doubtful II
that drawn so late and close to the time
Is OF quality to fit for use. No subtance
varies in its composition more than mill.
Fowls often suffer for water when the
weather is freezing, and a dish of warm
water supplied them twice a day win not
only invigorate and warm them. but is
also cheap mode Of inducing the hens to
lay. Being compelled to drink water as
cold as ice the warmth of the bodies is les
sened, more food is required, and the hens
VIII have all they can do to keep warm in
stead of laying eggs.
Ammonia is the stables is injurious to
animals, and especially to the horse. Am
monia is quickly generated from liquids in
the stalls. To prevent this the stalls
should be well Uttered with absorbent ma.
terial and cleaned out daily. Litter once
used should not be dried and used again.
but consigned to the manure heap.
Where no stock is kept aud manure
must be made for garden, an excellent
mode of so doing is to begin with pile of
dirt, upon which all the waste water and
refuse should be thrown. 1t should be
covered to prevent injury by rain. Each
family wastes enough every season to
highly manure garden plat.
| PIGS THAT PAY.
Mr.. Connor, of Hopkinton, n H., thus
speaks about his practice
my practice of late years has been to
slaughter two sets Of pigs during the year,
the March or April pig during December.
and the September pig in May. III 1 am
keeping ten cows 1 arrange the time of
calying so as to have about an equal flow
OF milk at all seasons of the year. The
slack, if any, is in July and August With
that number OF cows 1 will fatten ten pigs
within the year, making about 800 pounds
of pork. My system Of feeding is like this:
The month old pig is fed three or four
days on new milk, then gradually in the
course Of another week. changed off on to
skinned milk.
For the first two weeks use whole grain,
sweet or western corn, then commence the
addition of middlings in very slight guam,
titles. When the pig is three or four
months old add little Indian meal and
shorts, but not to any great extent until
about six months of age A pig thus fed
up TO this time on feed containing largely
the bone and muscle elements will have
a frame that will stand the strain of heavy
feeding during the succeeding three or four
months. About 100 pounds of meal per
pig, with the addition of dollar or two's
worth of middlings and shorts during the
growing period, will make a pig weigh
from 300 to $50 pounds. The hams and
sides, the lord and pork from such pig
find very ready sale. journal Of Agri-
culture.
Curing A Balky Horse.
Old John Ferris made a snug thing foI
himself by buying at a low figure from
their disgusted owners all the balky
horses that he heard Of that were
otherwise sound, and, when cured,
selling them at handsome cd