The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-12-22
FARM, GARDEN AND DAIRY.


more readily and pay better price for
IT, We growl over our tough steaks.
but the butcher never puts them on his
counter from choice.
or this country ever having too MANY
sheep there is but slight possibility; the
| danger lies rather in more attention
oeing given to number than to the quail
lty o. the animals making the increase.
Keep the pigs for December slaughter
growing with milk. cooked vegetables,
small potatoes and boiled pumpkins,
thlckened with fine wheat middlings or
ground wheat. They will grow and fat
ten rapidly; their meat will be sweeter
than II made from corn or corn meal.
That pork will be found most delicate
which has no corn in it's makeup.
Both the public taste and the study
OF profits have made a revolution in the
pork and bacon trade of the country;
there is a difference in the form. size
and quality of the raw material: i. g..
the fattened hog. The huge monsters
are seldom seen, fattened within ian
inch OF their lives" MiIder curing of
hams and substitutions for lard have
| much to do with it,
The long, heavy coat of hair on Gallo.
way cattle gives a new value to that
breed; their value is divided between
their beef and their robes. A we'll
tanned hide is almost equal to buffalo
robe. and is worth anywhere from SO
to $500. depending upon the style and
finish.
The low price of cotton and wheat ia
compelling Southern farmers to raise
other crops and more stock. The mild
winters and perpetual grass in green
state are great advantage over the
farmers living further north, who must
stable and feed their stock half the year.
The improved stock interest is growing
all along the line.
1t has been surprise to the Southern
people that they could raise sheep and
swine so well, and the improved breeds
are developing live stock enthusiasm,
with their early maturity and fine form
as compared with the scrub hogs and
sheep they formerly had, and that gave
no profit. AS yet their home market is
greater than the supply.
Car loads of scrub cattle continue to
pour into the market, and too many.
content themselves with breeding to
grade and scrub sires, while the market
for high class stock is improving. Farm
stock pays at present prices if of the
better quality, but no other pays for the
feed it consumes.
Let the farmer have team large
enough to pillow one and half or two
acres day without worry. 1t saves
time when they can pull reasonable
load with ease and do days work with
out harm. All this is source OF much
satisfaction, and the farmer should grow
no other kind for his own use or for
sale.
There is no need to keep a supply of
hay before the horses all the time. 1t is
wasteful, and is sometimes hurtful to
animals which are large eaters. A bet
ter and cheaper way is to give them all
the good wheat, oat or barley straw they
will eat during the winter, and a ration
of some grain in addition.
The steam car. electricity and the
bicycle have thrown out of use thous-
ands of horses, but only of the cheap
and scrubby kinds. They have brought
as many more thousands into use, and
these are of the better and heavier class.
1t is the march of progress.
Have no hope of increasing the
quality of your stock by using grade
bulls or stations. Half whisky and half
water makes feeble mixture, but you
will never make it stronger by adding
more wa er. Better put more blood or
more whisky to our compound to make
purer blood or stronger whisky. There
is nothing which gives the farmer profit
all the year around like sheep. with their
lambs, their wool and their mutton. If
given constant care they will pay we'll
for their feed, enrich the soil, keep down
the weeds, and in many ways help to
make the farm pay.
Hay or grass, with roots, ensilage and
a variety of wheat, corn. oats and barley
ground together, furnishes the best ele-
ments of growth in the young horse, and
maintains the matured animal in the
best condition. Oats and corn only are
not the best to build up bone, flesh and
muscle.
After five years the age of sheep can
not be told by the teeth. At one year
old they have two teeth in the center Of
the jaw; at two years, four; at three,
six; at four, eight; at five. ten. At this
latter age they have a full mouth"