River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-24

SCONSIN, THURSDA'
weight. 1t does not pay TO winter
shoats. Spring pigs Should be ready
for the market in seven or eight
months and should bs made to weigh
from 200 lbs to $50 lis. Fall pigs will
need more time to mature to this
size. When a good breeding sow is
found keep her as long as possible and
raise two filters year. The Berk-
shire and the Poland China are both
good breeds, not much preference
between them. A cross of these is
excellent to fatten for market, but
not 10 pcrpetGatc. ioc ration for
pigs skinned milk and Germ meal
com bined in the ratio of 56lbs of meal
to 100 lbs of skinned milk is about
right. Glover pasture is great help
! in raising hogs. Corn will put on fat
most rapidly. In selecting hogs for
| breeding. keep those that stand up
square on their toes To keep hogs
healthy it is a good practice to feed
ashes with salt, charcoal or soft,
bituminous coal in which there is
considerable sulphur.
A. Il. Weld delivered a mastery ar
gument in favor of
GOOD ROADS.
His speech was replete with facts and
figures that carried conviction to his
hearers, and displayed much study and
observation. W. ID. Parker reinforced
Mr.. Yields argument on the necessity
of better highways. w. j. Brier con-
fessed that he would like TO see better
roads for the pleasure and benefit OF
his friends and colleagues who kept
a horse, but as personal matter he
was not Inconvenience since his only
domestic animal was of the bovine
species and not built to perambulate
| highways.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
The session was opened with an in
vestigation OF the comparative value
OF several samples Of new milk as de-
termined by the B5bcock test. Also
sample OF skinned milk to deter
mine the amount Of butter fat left
after Swimming or separating. The
test showed that the cream had been
entirely taken out by the separator
After the determination of the tests
the question of churning was briefly
considered. To seclre all the cream
a separator is need sary. Examples
were shown where the old method
of Swimming one-tf rd of the cream
remained in the milk.
Cream should be all ripened alike
| for churning. Sweet cream can be
churned at a temperature as low as
~ degrees, but requires more time in
the operation. 1t was stated that
one pound of butter fat would make
two and one half pounds of butter.
Luther Spalding. opened the dis
cuSSion of
SHEEP RAISING
People would be healthier if they
used more mutton and less pork.
Sheep at this time of the low price OF
wool should be bred more generally
for mutton. A good selection for
this purpose in view would be the
merino yew with cross OF some Eng
lish mutton sheep. One hundred
pounds of mutton can be raised with
less cost than one hundred pounds OF
pork. The lamb can be prepared for
market at the age of three or four
months. Quick returns may be
obtained from the sheep. They are
good stock to keep up the land. 1t
was shown that wheat screenings was
a good food TO faJten sheep. 1t is "a
good time TO invest in sheep since the
price of these animals is very low,
aud must be higher.
The last subject on the program,
HORSES,
was presented by H. a. Briggs who
makes speciality OF this branch oil
farming. Horses'are cheap, yet at
Lnis time may be raised at a profit, ii
the breeder will use Judgment III
the consideration.of the subject in
ali it's details. Horses, considered
with reference to their market value
may lie divided Into four classes.
fnis value will be determined Largely
by the size OF the 3nimdl.
/. In the first class, the cheapest
grade, Weighing Iv0O To loo pounds,
Une prices will range in the market
at 80, 40, % dollars. Bought iii
Chicago for the Southern markets.
,. The next are the street car
horses. These are selected mostly for
europe and range in weight from 100
TO 1900 and sell at an average of $75.
3. The farmers general purpose
horse, 1870 to 400, valued at from SO
20 SIPS. Many are bought for tram
ways and Umnib' es.
4. The heavy express horse used ex-
clusiyely as draft animal weighing
1900 and over. Every one hundred
pounds above l2Oawil add $40 to $50
60 the value of the horse. These
neavy express horses bring the highest
price of any except
3. The fancy coach horse. Some Of
these bring $3.50 to $500 a span. To
command this price they must be
perfect in form, limb and style, and
| we'll trained. These are rare:
How to raise. Select the best grade
mares, which may be used to do the
farm work. but procure blooded sire.
| If both are bred animals use the same
kind and quality, Don't stunt the
colt. Keep him growing all the time.
| Don't let them fellow the dam, shut
them M in the stable, he will wean
more easily and will continue his
growth when wea med.
Horses raised north of the corn belt,
Illinois, will sell better because fed on
variety of food instead of on corn
exclusively. A variety of food makes
the horse more sturdy, more hardy
than if fed With 100 much corn. X p