St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-16
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

We clip the following live stock notes
from the columns of the National Stock
man:
If it IS necessary to tie the colts see
that they can't become tangled up in
their haltelS in any way and be Strang-
led or injured.
Regular work is better for a horse
than occasional ''hard siegeS" Of it.
Regular work, regular feeding. ''re-
gular' care-these are what makes a
work horse profitable
Breeders of ponies in this country
evidently have a wild field before them.
A better acquaintance of the public
with the value of these horses in minia-
ture would result in an increased use of
them.
A writer gives the following mild
treatment for warts: "Saturate the
warts every few days with pare castor
oil and they will disappear. leaving the
never there" We have known OF sew
eral cases where warts were removed
from the nOSees of colts by simply
rubbing them with lard occasionally.
That defects in the sire or dam will
crop out in the offspring is we'll illus
trated in the case of the world-renOwned
thoroughbred Ormonde. Many of his
dams family were rOarers, and he in
herited this infirmity, developing it
when four years old. by careful selec-
ton of mares it is hoped that his off
spring may be free from it.
If you know of any place where you
can get a load of wood ashes for the
hauling, it will pay to get them and
store for future use for the hogs. If
they are number one hardwood ashes,
so much the better; but if a variety of
woods, they are SO much better than
zone at all that it will pay to make
some effort to have a supply i'll store.
Some men want large boned hogs
with heavy limbs. The size does not
always show the strength. The ma
terial composing the bone and the man
ner the limbs are set under the animals
have more to do with strength than the
size. A heavy, soft bone will give way
before the thin. 1inty one. The quality
of bone as we'll as of meat can be gov
erned to a great extent by the kind of
feed.
Treat tpe sows kindly, get on the
most friendly terms with them, have
their entire confidence. 1t will be
money in your pocket when the little
fellows come and need a helping hand
to protect them from cold and get their
first feeds. The value of a sow is
doubled when she is perfectly gentle.
If you have beaten and kicked her
about at feeding time while iii pig she
will pay you back with compound in
terest when she farrows.
Evidences of injudicious mating are
seen on the road and street every day in
all classes of horses. Mating a mare
faulty in some vital point with a horse
nc better in the same respect, is sure to
produce an animal with an eXaggera-
ton of the defect. A careful study of
the mare, and a close examination of
the stallion should be made in every
case before breeding. Avoid stations
inferior in any important point, and
never unite infirmities.
1t is the feeling with breeders OF pure
bred hogs that within the coming year
breeding stock will be in great demand
in many hog growing sections. On ac-
count of the scarcity of corn farmers
have sold off their stock too close. Of
the extent OF this error it is impossible
to judge. Under pressing necessity the
short supply of breeding stock retained
will repopulate the farms with wonder
full rapidity.