The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-11-30
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shipping poor butter to any market.
There always has been and there al
ways will be an livestock of low grades
of butter, and it is equally true that
the stock of firstclass butter rarely ex-
ceeds the demand. Those who do not
know how to make good butter had
better sell their cream to some one
who does.
An exchange says that man who
has 70 COWS apd 400 hens finds his hens
pay him the greatest profit but that
does not prove that it would be ad-
visable for him to sell his COWS and put
the money all into hens. 1t is better to
have several sails and all drawing a
little than to have only one large sail.
Every stock.grower knows the i'm
portance of starting the young animal
off in good shape. But go to the bottom
OF things, and begin by giving it a
good sire. That is the most important
point of all, for without it good feed
and good care are only half effective.
Overlooking and undertaking
both lead to the same end-a reduc-
ton of the profits. Undertaking
stints growth and overlooking is
waste of food and time. Never place
before an animal more than it will eat
up clean, with any intermission to
consider whether it wants it all.
One running a dairy farm can
have other sources of profit besides
butter and pigs, for his manure will
enable him to enrich his best land SO
as to grow heavy crops of such things
as his market calls for and as will give
the best profit.
Had it not been for careful swine
breeoers for the past score of years the
markets would still be filled with the
old razor back hogs that required
from one to three years to mature.
The farmers of this country an
nually use $4,000 tons of Irvine upon
the self binding harvester, equal to a
string long enough to go more than
six times around the earth.
Whenever a farmer gets labor
saving implement for himself, let him
think if something to save his wife
from kitchen work cannot also be Sc
cured
The farmer that depends on his
guessing the weight of anything that
he may have to dispose of is snre to be
left.
Experiments show that in raising
cream by the gravity system the milk
Immediately under the cream is very
rich and fat.
SWINE NOTES.
Hogs prefer running water as
much as any other kind of live stock.
The more comfortable you keep
feeding hogs the more flesh will they
put on for given amount of feed.
The farmer who does not see his
hogs from one weeks end to another
does not deserve to have good luck
with them.
The best quality of meat is Sc
cured from apig and not from hog.
Therefore we should crowd our pigs
from birth so as to get them fit for
market at the earliest possible age-six
months.
"A good way to experiment in pig
feeding is to divide good sized litter
into few lots, and then see what diff
ferent rations will do for EACH This
may be a little trouble, but some good
ideas may be obtained.-"exas Stock.
man.
Hog lice are easier disposed of
than any other kind of vermin on the
farm. Crude carbolic acid diluted
with about three fourths of water and
sprinkled on the hog, and especially
along the neck, back of the fore legs
and back part of hind legs, or in any
other usual hiding places, will dispose
of them quick enough. While hogs
are kept in pens it will be necessary to
apply the carbolic acid, not merely to
the hogs, but to the beds and where
ever they frequent. The main point,
however, is to guard against their In
PRODUCTION, which can only be done by
treating any strange hogs brought to
the farm, whether from breeders or
others, and making sure that both the
lice and the nits are killed before the
stranger is admitted to the herd.-Ex.
ABOUT HORSES
If you have more horses than you
need it is better to take q low price for
them now, unless they are very good
ones, than to carry them through the
winter on high priced feed and risk
getting your money back next spring.
"A horseman says it is a mistake to
play with colts when they are very
young, as they soon learn that kind
OF familiarity which breeds contempt,
and pick up such tricks as biting,
using their heels and striking, not only
with their hind feet but their fore feet.
They are, however, all the b.tter for
being nicely handled, taught to lead
and to understand the voice and
gestures of their attendants.
WEATHER ANN CR0pE