Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-08-06
Saint Maru's Beacon
ALL AROUND the FARM.

Professor Golf, of Wisconsin,
got twenty times as many straw
berries from a plat irrigated in fall
and spring as from another plat of
same size and varieties irrigated in
the spring only.
Every time a tree has too much
fruit it weakeus its vitality to such
an extent as to require two or three
years to recover, or so checks its
growth that it begins to decline,
and is permanently injured.
A whole livery barn full of horses
in Michigan died from eating hay
cut in an orchard that had been
sprayed with a poisonous solution.
The owner Of the orchard also lost
four horses from being fed on the
same hay. The Breeders Gazette
is authority for the statement
Young cattle like sweet corn,
green fodder and oats, barley aud
other kinds of green fodder just as
well as the mich cows do. When
You are planting soiling crops for
the cows to fall back on when the
pastures begin to fail don't forget
to put in enough to give the calves
and colts a bite, too.
A flock Of sheep in good times
should return 100 per cent. Profit
in wool and lambs, beside doing
the pastures good AID paying for
ell they consume. Almost any
young man can begin with small
flock and learn to care for increas-
ing numbers as his pastures and cir
cumstances permit.
1t is important that pigs get used
to full feeding before they are wean-
ed, otherwise there is danger of
stunting them. An effort to wean
them is not usually necessary, il
properly managed they will stop
sucking at the proper time without
any check to their growth.
Fall calves subsist largely upon
milk and take but little room in
the shed and there is more time
in the winter to give them attent-
ion. They will be ready for the
spring pastures and make good
progress from the start and enter
the barn in the fall again to get
full benefit of solid rations there
provided for them.
Skinned milk contains all the
clements of full milk but the fat,
and that can be made up in meas
ure with cheaper substances. The
best of these probably is fiaxseed,
which should be boiled until re-
duced to jelly and small guam
tity stirred into the milk at each
feed; oil meal is cheaper, more cas-
lily obtained, and does nearly as
we'll.
The latest trials reported in the
the matter of sloppy feed are from
the Ontario experimental farms,
Canada. Their conclusion is: There
does not appear to be any advant-
age in feeding cows wet meal, nor
is there evidence to prove that this
method of feeding will make the
milk poorer in fat to any extent.
Digestion tests at the Texas sta
ton show that there is little differ
cnce in the feeding value of the diff
ferent kinds of sweet sorghum; a
pound of sweet sorgum has great
er food value than a pound of nom
saccharine sorghum as sorghum
rlpens woody fibre decreases, and
the fats, starch, sugar, and flesh
formers increase /; hence sorghum
increases in food value till fully
ripe.
Corn and cob meal show up well
in the experiments at the stations.
At the Kansas station they tried to
find how much it would take to
make 100 pounds of pork. The
result showed that when the corn
and cob were ground together it re-
quired $50 pounds of the mixture
to make hundred pounds of gain.
When pure corn meal was fed 67O
pounds were required for 100 pounds
OF gain.
The Farm Journal says: Give
the work horses a night pasture
near The stable. After the davis
work they should receive the same
care. in the stable as if they we're to
remain there-and after being cool
ed, fed and cleaned turn them in
the pasture or large paddock where
they can get generous bite of