The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-15

The alleged profits from wheat fed tc
hogs are large. if reports are reliable
In Canada several experiments would
seem to point that at present price OF
hogs, wheat, in connection with other
grain, can be fed to excellent financial
gain, even if costing upwards of 81 q
bushel. The flesh is said to be superior
in some respects to corn fed product
For young lambs, clean sweet wheat
screenings are good. Use, say, half q
pound per day, and increase it grad
ually, adding corn and wheat with q
| little oil-meal as they get older.
AS most farmers desire both eggs
and market fowls, they will seek tt
combine these two requirements in one
breed. What they should seek to OBJ
tain is a fowl that will lay in winter
as almost any breed will lay well
enough in the spring and summer. The
difficulty that farmers meet is thai
really good male birds are worth more
for breeding purposes than they are
willing to pay. They prefer to use
scrub stock and they get scrub results
If the flock which the farmer already
has is composed Of snaall-sized fowls
good Light Brahma cockerel will
make 81 good male to head the yard
The Plymouth Rock cross, particularly
in winter, are quite equal to the Leg
horn, and can be marketed. Broiler;
should be ready for market when eigh
weeks old. "A cross of a Houdan or
a large hen produces good broilers
Keep a little ground charcoal in easy
reach of the broiler chicks, also some
ground oyster shells.
After the first week most kinds OF
vegetables can be fed to the chicks
Bran is not good, because indigestible
Iif fed raw, but if cooked or scalded, ii
makes a very good feed.
Chicks that appear weak in the legs
should have two drops of tincture OF
nux vomica in a quart of water. Chicks
should always be fed on clean boards
or where the earth has not been
soiled
The reason for bitter cream is that
it is the result of keeping it too long,
or, in other words, Of having old cream.
Cream kept from thirty-six to forty
eight hours is very likely to be bitter
takes place at low temperature rather
than high when the change is sufficient
to produce bitterness. While there are
other causes for bitter cream, as, fol
instance, bitter weeds which the COWS
may feed on in the pasture, yet the
main cause is old cream. Cream should
be churned within thirty-six hours OF
the time of skimnling, and taken off the
milk inside of twenty-four hours.
Every farmer ought to have an
orchard and he should learn to prune
his trees properly. The mistake which
the enthusiastic primer makes is in
removing superhuous growth in a sin
gle season. BY this severe treatment
he not only violently disarranges the
proper proportion between the root
growth and the leaf surface, but he
also greatly diminishes the vigor of the
tree. Such treatment may be followed
by an increase in the size and an i'm
provement in the quality of the fruit
produced during the next few seasons,
but this benefit is secured at the ex-
pense of the vital forces of the tree.
By less extensive pruning, followed by
thinning of the fruit. good results
could be secured and all injury to the
tree would be avoided.
Another mistake in pruning apple
trees is frequently made in the removal
of the fruit spurs. These spurs, which
appear at intervals on the limbs and
the branches of apple trees, are es-
sential to the production of fruit. If
they are removed no fruit can be pro-
duced until new ones have been formed
and have become matured. This will
require two or three seasons. Not only
this, but the removal of these spurs
prevents the growth of a large num-
Der of leaves which are designed, in
part, for the protection of the branches.
Many an important branch of a, vigor-
Gus tree has been destroyed by the
burning sun shining upon its unpro-
tected surface. Thus, pruning which
removes from the limbs large numbers
of the fruit spurs not only prevents
the production Of fruit, but also proves
direct and serious injury to the tree.