The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-09-23

et000 real hard work Tor quite i ltttI0
time after fosling, 30 that to man
his work the question Of raising spring
1oals 10 one of considerable impor-
tance. Tho objections that apply
In the case Of spring foals
however, do not apply with equal force
regarding equal foals. To be sure tho
trotting-horse breeders have strong
objection to breeding their mares so
but rs their objection is based almost
solely on the ground that autumn foals
are not Of the requisite size and age to
trot in yearlfng stakes the following
season. it has no bearing in the case of
farmers who are not raising trottcrs
for turf purposes alone.
AS q general thing and speaking from
experience 1t may be taken as almost
certain that the foal that is dropped in
autumn, after the flies cease to be
trou blesolne, and the scorching hot
weather is over, will in it's yearling
form surpass the one that was foaled
any time between the middle of July
and the first of September. Indeed
for some reasons it is preferable to
have the autumn foal dropped nearer
the first of October than the first of
September.
A very large number of foals dropped
In the two months of July and August
die before they are q week old from
the troublesome bowel complaints that
are always much more fatal in the ex-
tremely hot seasons than at any other
time, and even when they live, the eS.
fects of the weather, the flies and the
short pasturage on which their de- ms
arc oftentimes forced to get their liv-
ing give them a setback that the we'll
cared for autumn foa1 never gets.
Farm mares that are bred so as to
produce foals in the fall are in no way
incapacitatcd from doing their full
share of the spring work, and as the
farm work after that time is not hard
they need not be thrown out of use at
all excepting for the first ten days after
the birth of the foal. Then with lit
hearty growth that need never be
checked.
In the early fall a ration of green
forage will be found an excellent as
well as convenient way of keeping up
the mares flow of milk. Slowed corn
isa frst-class article for this purpose,
and where it is grown alfrlfa may
also be used. AS the cooler weather
comes box stall should be provided
for mare and foal and the ration for
the mare should be of food calculate ted
to keep up the milk supply. The usual
feed of oats should give way to ground
oats bran, middlings and even g1 ound
y
feed should be fed in a box in which
the foal can also get to it and he will
begin to partalSe of it in a surprisingly
short time, in fact the writer has
known of some foa1S that CONNIE need
to eat such feed at five weeks of age.
When spring comes. autumn foals
that have been treated in this manner
will be found to be not much behind
the spring foals in point of size. and
ahead of those foaled in July and Au-
gust. They will also be eating grain
nicely and may be weaned without
their growth. Then, tao. the
pastures will be all ready to turn them
into aud the dams will again be ready
to take part in the spring farm work.
National Stoc<man and Farmer.
Pulverlzed Soil.
We performed an experiment many.
years ago which exhibited very dis
the difference between a crop
growing in h finely-pulverized soil and
in one cultiva ted in the common. rough
manner. The land was hard and
and was not fit for n fine crop.
1t was taken in HI nd when the wea Their
was dry enough to favor fine pulveriza-
ton. PARALLEL drills were made for
roots, and to make them perfectly
mellow. n log, drawn with a horse by
one end, was passed successfully along
these proposed drills. The whole was
thus finely powdered. Iseets were then
planted in these drills, and the mellow
kept up through the season.
The result was, in high degree, salts
and the beets raised in these
drills far exceeded those under con.mon
better mode Of pull
may be devised, but til Is ex-
ample is given, not to show the mode,
but to give the result-American Gull
tiva tor.