The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-11-08
THE ADVOCATE.
STOCK NOTES.

A good rain is a profitable invest
ment.
The colt should have all the oats he
wants.
The practice of training mares after
breeding is increasing.
The smooth beef will bring better
price than rough, coarse cattle.
The skim milk for tho calves can
be improved by the addition of little
oatmeal.
Managers should not be kept full OF
hay. Stock like it best when put IN
fresh.
A man with a first-class steer to sell
has the least trouble finding good
market.
Ifyou want beef cattle, breed for
beef; if you want milk or butter
breed for that purpose.
After using the thoroughbred sire
don't go back to the grade sire. Hold
what you have gained, and continue
to improve.
A writer very aptly remarks that
when prices for wool are low, care
must be taken to reduce the cost OF
growing as much as possible, and at
the same time improve the quality.
The breed o. cattle that will be
most in demand, by beef raisers, says
an exchange, will be the one that Will
make the best weight at two years
old. and that will tatten readily at any
age. That is what we are after now
the sort that will turn over most
rapidly the money invested in them.
The Sheep Breeder says: "When
the customer in the market buys a
long-legged ham Off he buys it at alD'
he asks the butcher to cut Off a piece
of the superfuous bone. The farmer
ought to breed that off and save the
butcher the trouble. He can both
breed the bone shorter and breed
flesh further down the bone.
An exchange says: "There are two
kinds of foot rot; one is not conta-
gious while the other is. Besides, the
entire flock does not always take the
disease, even if it is contagious foot
rot. Our advice-and it is good ad-
vice-is to separate the sick from the
well just as soon as anything like foot
rot makes its appearance.
The Live Stock Journal of London
says that the most serious disease af-
fecting farm stock in New South
Wales is contagious pleuro-pneu-
mOnia of cattle. Half the districts in
the colony were affected last year, or
very nearly so-namely, thirty-one
out of thirty-three districts. 1t is
stated that incubation was tried on
229 holdings, and in every case eX-
cepting one it is said to have been
followed by satisfactory results. That
paper adds: "Pleuro-pneumonia will
never be stamped out in New South
Wales, more than here or in any other
country, by simple incubation. This
can only be done by the compulsory
slaughter of diseased and in-contlct
animals"
1t is no argument against the value
OF well-brod stock that we occasionally
find an animal of very obscure pedi-
gree which embraces tlrst-class quail
tications for some special purpose.
The Live StOck.Journal says concern
ing this: ave have known common
steers whose feeding qualities could
hardly be cxccled, AMI some mich
cows whose origin was very Scrub
by" but the fact remains that such
eases are the exception and not the
rule while with the thoroughly we'll
bred stock it is arule that the progeny
is good and the poor individual the
exception. The pre-potency of we'll
bred stOck-Ihe power to transmit its
qualities to its ofspring-is fact that,
must not be overlooked"
The Chester, Pa, Times is authority
for the following. 1t is well to state
that Chester ia i'm Delaware cnuuty