The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-02

S144A O4liy Adil ylSIuS dpIOdu-
The millions must be fed, and the
stock-raiser will continue to find a mar
ket Tor his hogs, sheep and cattle.
Plow around your hay and grain
stacks. Plow half a dozen burrows and
make them some distance from the
stacks.
The dairy business is not suffering
from lack of good cows, but from lack
of men who win take care of them
properly.
All horses sleep standing. but most
of them lie down once in twenty-fouf
hours, and by so doing relax and ease
the muscles.
There being no law against the sale
of horse-meat in Chicago, the slaughter
of horses for that market is assuming
large proportions.
There is a world of good advice in
the two lines of an old ballad:
IF your wife is dearer to you than life,
Kiss her and tell her SOL
Oil meal has % per cent of protein
or nuscle-forming food and is an ex-
cellent addition to the food of young,
growing animals.
1t pays to consider mutton first and
wool afterward; therefore do not worry
much over the price of wool. Enough
else TO worry about.
Sweet milk is the very best food for
young pigs. 1t is worth more when fed
to them than when it is made into but
ter at 10 cents a pound.
Save every scrap of fodder. Many
farmers are short of corn, and even if
you are not it will pay you. Save all
Fodder you can, and sell your corn.
Cattle will eat almost any amount of
grain if given a chance, but there is a
limit to the amount they can digest, and
this marks the limit of profit ingram
feeding.
Bank the stables before cold weather,
goatten the creviceS and ventilate from
above, give liberal bedding. And then
be sure to protect the manure from
A good warm shelter may be made
for your stock with a, few poles and a
good supply Of straw. With these at
hand no man is eXcusable for letting
stock suffer.
Any good breed of cattle will bring
success to the man who has liking for
his business, knows what he wants to
do and has perseverance to work steadi-
ly toward that end.
When the porker is fat enough, sell
him. After he has passed $50 pounds
1t is doubtful if the average farmer can
put another ounce on him with profit.
It is the profit we are after.
One-year-old peach trees appear to
transplant better than older ones, and
Towering at once as they do, it is more
profitable to purchasers to handle sthe
one-year-old peach trees.
Varieties of corn have been produced
that have yielded twice as much as the
original from which they were taken.
Carelessness in selecting seed has much
to do with the ''running-out' idea.
evenly balanced are caused by careless
milking; caused by milking the smaller
side first He claims that it can be
reInedied by reversing the operation.
IL a man is g good grass and grain
.-grower he would better manufacture
4 these products into meat upon his
farm, that he may have the ultimate
profit from both branches of his bust
ness.
Stock raisers have the matter of
prices in their own hands to greater
degree than any other class of farm
ers, for by good selection and feeding
they can produce just what the mar
ilet wants.
1t will add materially to the comfort
of the stock if care is taken to give
them water pumped fresh from a good
well than to compel them to drink
from a frozen pond or even a running
stream.
As every advantage must be taken
to make the best out of the feed, it
will pay to take considerable pains to
see that every animal kept through the
winter is provided with comfortable
shelter.
IL there were fewer horses and more
hogs in this country just at this time
there would be more money in view
for the stock raiserS. Just now only
certain classes of horses are in demand
at all, while hogs are cash any day.
Seeding down a crop as it should be
requires skill. or the use of a perfect
implement for that purpose. Nothing
is so unsightly as a field that is bare in
spots and we'll covered with growth On
che other portions.
When all orchardists recognize the
necessity of spraying the fruit trees
the large crops Of fruit viii be had
again which we were accustomed to be-
fore fungi, Goblin moths, etc, We're as
destructive as they are at the present
day.
1t does not matter what time of the
year a COW comes in, she will give
about the same amount of milk during
the year, If well cared for, but if she
is kept as a winter mixer her products
will be worth much more than they
The cool weather common at this
season of the year is the very best
kind during which to repaint the build
ings, fences and implements. By very
little outlay for ready-miXed paints,
the salable value of every home can be
greatly increased and comfort assured.
The fall of the year often brings an
epidemic of fever and malaria to coun-
try and village residents. The cause
is usually using water at a, low stage
out Of old wells. Boiling all water used
for drinking is the best preventative OF
such diseases.
A responsible authority states that il
Spain irrigation doubles the yield of I'M
irrigated lands, though the climate is
humid. and that lands possessing the
right and means for irrigation are now
sold at from S720 to $500 per acre, be
Ing nine to ten times the prices Of un.
irrigated lands in the same vicinity.
1t viii tend to profit in breeding and
fattening if farm stock is fed separate
ly, using the halter for horses and
stanchions foi cattle. II this is MOI
practica bic, separate into small groups
putting animals of like physica
strength and disposition together. Be
just as careful to DO this with hogs nno
sheep.
The opportunity the country girl has
for living out of DOORS riding horse
back, etc, is envied by the city girls OF
the best class. 1t is wholesome fash
ion our girls have this cultivation OF
freckleS and tan from exercise in sun
and wind, and since it is the fashion
country girls ought TO make the most
of it.
The best way Of feeding wheat is tc
y grind it, and this holds good whether il