Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-04

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milk selling In that the skim milk is
valuable on the farm rs n food for the
cattle, pigs and poultry.
A great advance In theory and fact
has been made over the old notion that
good beeves could not be made before
they are 4 years old. Better blood,
breeding and management now make
them most profitable at half that age.
A consensus Of opinion among poul-
try keepers Is that buckwheat is an ex-
cellent food for fowls. Some ascribe
their profit to Its use. briefly OF course.
this means that all the other conditions
of care and food are properly supplied
Old sheep are more profitable than
young ones as long as they are healthy.
1t Is claimed by some that any sheep
falling to regain her flesh properly
after her lamb Is sold should not be
kept, as there Is danger of her not liv-
ing through the next lambing.
No animal upon the farm requires so
long time to overcome the effects Of
overlooking as does the sheep, and
when steady gain Is necessary in fat
tening special care must be taken In
regard to this point. There Is the same
risk In feeding growing lambs.
Some have the mistaken notion that
when poultry are being fitted for mar
ket, stuffing should be commenced at
the start, but this is not the conclusion
of experience. The feeding for fatten-
ing should be gradually increased.
Care and good sense are requisite for
the best results.
For several reasons 1t Is more de-
sirable to have colts come in the fall
than'in the spring. 1t is no little item
that they are not so worried by flies
and heat. They seem to stand the
change better when weaned at the
springing Of the grass than IL taken
from their mothers in the autumn.
In a comparison OF corn meal and
corn meal mixed with cotton seed as
food for steers, recently made at the
Oklahoma experimental station, X was
found that some of the steers seemed to
dislike the cotton seed while others ate
it readily. The lot fed corn meal ate
more and gained more than did those
fed the mixture.
1t is claimed that the scab In sheep
has been completely wiped out in Aus
tralia by persistent use Of hot baths Of
sulphur and tobacco, followed by one
of sulphur and quicklime, at temper.
ature of ITO degrees. Whatever the
apparent condition Of an imported
sheep, 1t must go into the bath. There
Is no more scab, but 1t has been eradi-
Gated at great cost.
There are on almost all farms some
bits of land naturally as good as the
rest that remain unproductive for lack
of capital 1t may not be more proflta-
BILE to bring these into productiveness
than 1t Is to put the bulk of the manure
and labor on the best land, but It makes
the farm look better. Quite often when
these places are too stony for cropping
trees planted there will prove the best
use such places can be made to serve.
The Dairy.
Sudden changes In feed will cause the
cows to shrink In milk.
The food for the COWS should be of
such a nature that no bad taste will be
impaired to the milk.
Raise all the feed you can for your
cows at home on your own ground. In
that way you can get good money for
the crops themselves.
The Importance Of healthy cows and
sound milk cannot be overestimated
| Too little attention has been given to
the matter In the past.
In addition to corn meal. the COW
needs something more heterogeneous In
her feed. A combination of corn meal,
gluten and cotton seed meal gives much
better results than the former only. 1t
will make one third more milk and be
better In quality.