Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-10

recovered AS the disease is fever,
plenty of cold water may be given.
little brown ginger and powdered sui
phate of iron in the food is beneficial.
All dead birds must be deeply buried
away from the yard
The less of wool is due to some i'll
condition Of sheep, which acts injuriously
upon the skin. Poor feeding, exposure
to cold rain, by which the skin IS chilled;
Indigestion, oVercrowding in pens, by
which the skin is overheated, are the
most frequent causes of this trouble. The
most probable remedy is to give small
doses of raw linseed OIL not over one
ounce each third day, and then restore
the condition of good feeding. This may
consist of cut hay, with some chopped
roots, which are essential to the best con-
dition of sheep. adding a pint daily of
linseed oil meal and rye bran mixed in
equal quantities. The sheep should be
kept by themselves, al otherwise they
will be crowded from the feed by strong
err ones. Crowding together in the pens
is to be carefully avoided.
The choice of food for a COW kept for
butter-making is one of cost more than
anything else, and as some foods are
higher than others for the quality, it is
best to consider this. AS a rule, there is
nothing better for the making of good
butter than a mixture of corn and meal
and wheat bran in the proportion or
three parts of the former To two of the
latter. If the COW Is well fed on pasture
or hay, ten pounds day of this mixture
may be given, or somewhat less at first,
as basis for test as to the erect or III
on the product. And. as long as the cow
increases the product with profit, the food
may be increased. Thus 1t is a question
of what the COW will digest profitably,
and when this point is reached the ration
may be considered fixed for that COW.
The question has often been discussed
as to whether or not salt is injurious to
hogs. 1t is not Injurious If hogs can have
access to it all the time, but If they are
kept away from 1t for some time and
then allowed to help themselves disas-
trous results are liable to follow We
have heard of a case where couple or
nice shoats were killed by slop made out
of the liquid in which sailed corned beef
and cabbage were boiled. 1t is good
idea to place rock salt where they can
have access to 1t all the time.
No kind of feed is so handy for feeding
milk cows as wheat bran; 1t is light and
bulky in proportion to it's nutrition, and
it has the elements needed to make
large milk flow. But 1t does not make
rich milk and needs to be supplemented
with grain meal, or the COW will give so
much from her own fat that she will be-
come thin and flesh and be of little use
for butter making the following season.
The future seems to offer excellent in
ducements for meat products, not only
in the form of beef, but also as pork, NUT
ton and poultry. 1t is an excellent open
ing for profit, and, as stock raising pro-
vides home market for much that is
grown on the farm, there is something
gained in that respect, while more ma
nure and increased fertility of the soil
will result from the keeping of stock.
The growing of seed potatoes can be
made a profitable industry. One farmer
in New York last season raised 5000 bush
els on a little twenty-five acre farm, all
of which were sold to seedsmen at 90
cents bushel, bringing $4,000. Let our
Alabama farmers who have been wearing
out their lands raising cotton at low
prices, and barely getting support for
all these years, make note of this.
To destroy the melon bug take road
dust or dry earth of any kind strongly
impregnated with kerosene and sprinkle
freely on squash and melon plants, and
the bugs will not touch them. Wheat
bran, tainted with the oil, is likewise
good thing to repel all insects. Sprinkle
1t on the plants when the dew is on them.
The Dairy, an English paper calls at
tention to the superiority of cream and
butter to cod liver oil, especially for
young people Growing quickly, nervous
invalids, all who suffer from wasting dis
ease (such as inf1uenza) and are often
condemned to course of cod liver OIL
which, however, seldom agrees with
weak digestion
Bees seldom rob other hives when the
honey can be obtained from flowers, and
they then attack only weak colonies. The
remedy lies in removing the honey from
the weak hive to save 1t and In feeding
the other bees. A colony so weak as to
submit to robbers is not worth the trou-
BILE of trying to save it.