New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-31

receipts and keep the fowls in good
condition One Of my friends tried
under feeding, with the result that the
flock was slowly starving. A change
OF plan and more liberal feeding I'M
proved the flock and gave remunera-
tive results for the increased cost.
Another neighbor was advised to
feed but once a day. He got no eggs,
and deserved none. At this time
was getting four and one-haH and FIVE
dozen eggs, from flock Of ninety
fowls, many of them three years old.
My chicks at twelve weeks old w-igh
e6lbs. to the pair, and have perfect
freedom. When one can produce
chicks Of that weight by allowing them
to enjoy the few weeks of life allotted
to them, what need of combining them
IN fattening coops and excluding all
light by green shade, to be partially
raised at feeding time. This latter
was the advice of a recent writer in an
agricultural paper. In my own expert
ence, if fowls are made comfortable
and contented they will make con-
slant gains, and believe the quality
of the chickens will be better than un-
der close conference.-the Edes. in
American Cultivator
Training Up Domestic Animals.
Solomon's sound maxim, s1Train I'M
a child in the way he should 90, and
whenhe is old he will not depart from
IT, Is just as sound, when applied to
four-legged children" Many farmers
seem either not to know this, or to
ignore it, and omit all attempts to
train their young animals until they
are OF an age when training is no easy
task. This is a great mistake.
The education OF a colt should begin
so early that it will never know when
it was subjected to authority. It
should be taught the meaning OF a
halter. and learn to submit without
resistance to being led. And gradual
", as it grows older, it should be
gently indicted into all the services
required OF a horse, so that when fin
ally put to use there will be no irrita.
ton or fright or reluctance, but a
natural and willing obedience to the
voice and hand OF it's master,
Occasionally occasionally
there may be an animal like the
famous esCreuse.,," having a DISPOSE
ton 50 vicious that ordinary training
cannot subdue him; but usually
horse carefully trained from it's youth
up will submit without trouble to
What ever is required of it. No rough
and cruel t1breaking' will be required
in such g case. Training has taken it's
place and done the Job far better.
The same method should be pursued
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her place in the dairy. The old system,
like that pursued with colts, was to
let the beifer run wild till her first
cali came, and then, when thecalf was
removed, "break her in to .airy
work-an operation in most cases
"easier said than done" Beginning
with calfhoOd, she should be taught
to have no fear OF man, and to submit
to handling as readily as when settled
down into a staid, sober-sided old
COW. There is no difficulty about
this. It only calls for patience, gentle
ness and good sense in dealing with
the young animal.
And so with sheep, poultry and 9TH
er farm stock. We like to see a man
on good terms with all his farm ami
mails. A man whose dumb beasts are
worried and shy, and try to get OUT Of
the way when he approaches, 'sgives
himself away" badly. He shows that
he is a hard master. But if his horses
Whitney when they see him, if his cows
show no fear us he goes among them,
if his sheep flock around him as he
enters the pasture, If his poultry are
glad at his appearance, if even the
imperturbable swine grunt their pleas
ure as he leans over the sty, set him
down as one who is s.merciful to his
beasts" a kind master and good
man. Such q man only is tit to care
for and train young animals.