The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-12-25
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.

gested but there is not much profit
In it at the best. a
Bees work without clothes or har-
ness or machinery, and the poor man
with his little home and small busl-
ness has the more time to devote to
| his hives, and provide an article of
food which will make life sweeter in
many senses.
Every extra dollar expended WISE
ly in a stallion will return more than
one hundred per cent. profit if it Is
rightly followed. We should never
begrudge paying good stallion fee.
The product of a cheap sire is of no
value water.
There is much more in mating
horses than in coupling like colors.
First of all, our farm horses should
be matched perfectly In gait; then
in strength and size. Important as
color and style may be, they are an
after consideration.
Heavy draft horses are adapted to
the paved streets of our cities, as the
number employed in every city Of
Europe is evidence. The heaviest
horses in the world are in the streets
of London, Liverpool and Paris.
Thousands of such must be grown to
meet the improving demands in our
own cities.
Healthy and diseased hogs should
be separated as soon as disease is
recognized. Their diseases are due
to germs, and can not exist without
the germs being present. They are
taken into the body with food, water
I and air, and the closer hogs come in
contact the greater the danger Of
spreading.
Fall pigs, in order to be carried
through the winter with much profit,
should be Uttered by the 1st of Octo-
Der. There is chance then to get
them we'll started and on grain ra-
tions before being put into winter
quarters.
The sucking pigs may be growing
nicely, but do not cheat yourself
with false idea of the profits unless
you are also observing the mother.
She may be falling off as fast as her
progeny is gaining. Give her the
best food obtainable, to keep up both
flesh and flow of milk.
Some of the experiment stations
say there is an absolute loss in cook
ing food for animals, but it at least
lends the advantage of variety, and
nothing is better for the winter pigs
than little batch of cooked pota-
toes, with a little shorts, for one
I meal each day. They certainly
thrive under such treatment.
| Dakko. God LOT Of ,oin., in, he
year to 200 pounds than one lot to
400. Young pigs pay better than the
old ones for the feed they eat. Better
fatten the pigs than make hogs OF
them. Light, lean pork encourages
the use of pork, and stimulates one
to the growing of swine.
The breed of cattle which will be
ever most in demand by beef raisers
will be the one which will make the
best weight at two years old, and
which will fatten at any age. This
is what we are after now-the sort
which will turn over most rapidly
the money invested in them.
To make the feeding of cattle pro.
fitable through the winter, begin
early. Do not leave them to starvt
1 dllO lOoO A0Sll Ou Qly pbobulGS duN
bare stalk fields through October
and November, but get them safely
! into winter quarters while they are
in good condition from the summers
pasturage.
1t has been shown that a milct
4 COW can be fattened for beef at si1
years old without actual loss, while
one eight years can not thus be dis
lposed of. AS no one wants to feeC
] off good mixer at six years, this i:
r certainly an argument against the
3 general purpose COW.
r By proper care and management {
Q calf raised by hand will develop JUS
7 as rapidly as if it had run with the
COW, and it is very certain that Il
] will cost much less. Do not let il
: run with the cow at all. Feed at th,
start new milk only, and feed often
: never let it overload its stomach
: Our production Of really good cat