The Globe-republican., 1895-06-28

remecy Is not applied In time and fatal
results follow.
| told this gentleman and the audi
ence of sure preventive, but I do not
suppose will ever get that $500 for he
claims he has the whole future" to
prove whether or not am right, and
that is long time to wait. Be that az
it may, will tell my way to the read
ers of the Farmer gratis.
When I first turn my cows out in the
spring, and that is after the clover in
/ the pasture has got . good start, they
are given their regular feed of ensilage,
clover hay. bran and meal first. Then
when they go out they are not hungry,
and they eat but little Of the green
clover and that not greedily. At night
they are put in the stable and fed good
clover hay and small grain feed again.
II the weather is warm they are turned
out again for the night, but IL cool they
are kept in during the night, and after
being fed turned out in the morning
My cows are always put in the stable
and fed some nice early cut, we'll cured
clover hay, and a small grain ration,
twice every day all summer, no matter
what the pasture Is. They always, eat
some. Since commenced this practices
many years ago have never had the
least symptom of clover bloat, while
my neighbors who give their cows moth
ing but pasture have at times suffered
badly from bloat My cows do better
in giving milk on account Of the feed.
they get in the stable. 1t is also econ
omy, think, for, with land worth from
$50 to 800 an acre, pasture is dearer'
feed than feeding in the stable.
If one has young cattle he does not;
want to take out of the pasture and put
in the stable to feed. good way to dc.
is to have a stack of clover hay in the
field where they can have free access
to it. One will be surprised to see the.
cattle leave the rank green clover two
or three times day and eat greedily
a few minutes from the stack. Cattle
know something, frequently much
more than we give them credit for, and
if given chance.
Even a straw stack where they can
come from the green clover and get at
it, will help some. If the pasture has
a variety of grasses, such as timothy.
blue grass, wild grass, etc, aside from
the clover, and these in abundance.
there will rarely be any trouble from
blOat.
I wish to say again that sure pre-
ventive Of bloat tit may or may not be
the only sure one) is to put the cattle
in the stable twice a day and feed
them all the good dry hay-preferably
clover hay-they will eat. Do this and
you can turn them into clover at any
time at any stage with perfect safety
Shipping Coops for Fancy Poultry.
H. B. L., writing in Tennessee Fan
cier, very sensibly says: This is very
important item in shipping fancy poul-
try, as there is great deal of kicking
on express charges. You can very
easily make a nice, neat and substan-
tial coop of pine boxes picked up about
stores, by splitting Stats say about 1
or ~ inch wide, half inch thick, tackled
to good bottom, then cover with cheap
domestic, leaving top open and lacking
on enough Stats after putting your
fowls in to keep them from jumping
out A coop on this pattern necessary
to hold trio of fowls would not weigh
over three or four pounds net. l re-
ceived trio of S. L. Wyandottes a few
days ago from point in Georgia; they.
arrived in a coop large and stout
enough to ship three good sized hogs
in; it was about 21a feet square, made
of green oak and green plank inches
wide by q of an inch thick, covered
with coffee sacking, and weighed net
22h pounds. The express charges on
coop alone would have been $3.50: the
charges on coop and the three birds
was $3.50 or nearly as much as / paid
for the trio. This kind of shipping is
out of the question and is enough to-
keep any one from ordering fancy
poultry any distance OF. They can, In
most cases, pay for the fowls, but to
think of paying from $3.50 to so per
hundred pounds on old gum planks
knocks them out.
Express rates are high enough at
best, and would advise shippers to
make coops as light as possible, but
stout and securely nailed. Express
messengers, as rule, try to handle
such class of freight as roughly as pos
sible. when It would be very little more
work and trouble for them to handle
with care.
am an express agent myself. and
know Just how they do; they will throw
a COOP of fowls or basket Of eggs at
you rather than hand it out to you.
Be careful to make light coops. but at
the same time substantial; it will pay
you in the long run.
San Francisco Egg Supply.-Poultry
and eggs to the value of s.. SOC. 900 are
consumed by the people Of San Fran
cisco each year. Strange as 1t may
seem, two-thirds Of this consumption,
as to quantity, is supplied from the
east, chiefly from Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri Think of Il! A million
dollars going out Of the state annually
for what might and should be profit
ably produced at home! And Fan Fran
cisco is by no means the only place.
in California consuming eastern eggs.
and poultry. Every city and large
town in the state contributes to the
revenues of eastern producers Of the
same commodities. It IL safe to say.
that the extent Of this ridiculous con-
tribution Of California to eastern pro-,
ducers il not less than 81. 000. 900 year..
This, at least, - the estimate Of an
ooofnpm avnoPf ~hn haQ Napofu11Y In.