Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-23
FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO RU-
RAJ READERS.
Horses on the Farm Lump-Jaw In
Cattle--TWo Bee-Feeders--
Picking Gesse--Beets
for Mich Cows.
Horses on the Farm.

No farmer should ever have any
thing but mares on his place, and if
more of them should come on than he
icanproftably keep he should sell the
worst and never the best. Ceilings
should never be kept alter they have
reached saleable age, and no fone
should ever permit a few dollars to
tempt him to part with a good mare
and keep poorer one. One span of
good mares is as good astart for real
ly profitable commercial horse raising
as fifty, and better, for there is al
ways work enough to pay for the
keeping of one span and there never is
for fifty. Breed to the best always,
for the good sells for better prices,
land that kind has a good deal less
competition to meet. One kind OF
destructive competition to which
the cattle business has been
subjected, the raising OF good
horses escapes entirely-we mean
range competition. The best coach,
trotting and draft horses will always
be raised on the farm and never on
the range, and they will always bring
a good price; and there is no danger of
reaching the end OF tile business In
raising that kind of horses, for there
never yet was a coach horse that was
handsome enough in form and action,
a trotter that had enough speed or n
draft horse with enough bone and
muscle of the right quality. However
well one may do, there is always
room to do better; however high one
may go, there are yet heights beyond,
inviting further EFFORT. We coz
very well remember when 2:40was the
synonym for matehless speed; now
breeders are dreaming of the two min
ute trotter. With other styles of
horses achievement has been equally
great and hope for further efforts is
just as promising; although it is not
quite 70 readily expressed in adelinite
figure indicating the progress made.
Lump-Jaw in Cattle.
The discussions and litigation that
has been going on with regard to the
nature OF lumpjaw in cattle and the
hcalthiness OF the meat, have awaken
ed unusual interest in this singular
disease, or, possibly, diseases. A cor
respondent suggested a few weeks since
that it might be the result of dehorn-
ing. Abiding to this, Mr.. A. j. VIM
pie, of Beresford, South Dakota,
makes the suggestion that it is the
lack of salt. He gives the following
experience with it during the last sea-
son: 1872.
Last May my herd was so badly
affected with it that the assessor
threw out a number OF head, sc bad
~ diseased that he re ,nrded them as
worthless. did not call a veterina-
rian and the Jumps in due time disap-
peared. In June | purchased a guam
tity of rock salt and left it where my
cattle had free access. 1t lasted until
October l, and from that time until
December my cattle were sailed irreg-
ularly. In December three more cat
tie, two of them dehorned, were at
tackled, and thinking it might be from
the want OF salt, | procured another
supply, and since that there have
been no new cases and the affected
mes have recovered"
The question at once arises whether
any of these cases were genuine lump
jaw, or some disease that might or
might not be due to the lack of salt.
The conclusion of our correspondent
that it pays to salt stock regularly is
obvious in either case. Are there a
number of diseases that pass under
the common name OF lump-jaw? Why
does it appear in some localities
and on some farms while
on other farms and in other
localities there is not a case in ten
years? We have never had a ease and
have not seen n case in our locality
in twelve years. May not much of
what we call lump-jaw be simply the
lack of proper diet, salt and care, or
possibly OF decayed teeth, which need
ed only the lance? At any rate we
have scriptural authority for the
statement than salt is good" and
if the scare about lump.jaw leads
farmers to salt their cattle more regu-
larly it will be a good thihg.-Home-
stead,