The herald., 1897-04-16

| to the FEEDER The cost per pounu lor
| carcass increases with age. The year
ling steer will put on weight cheaper
| than the 2-year-o and the latter more
cheaply than the S-year-old. All ami
mails fed for market should be highly
bred. Scrub stock will not put on hesh
| fast enough.
| In some of the interior valleys, where
! the heat In summer is very great, many
| fruit trees suffer from the burning heat
of the sun. especially where the trees
| have been trimmed high. They should
be protected by thin shakes set up on
! the south side. A strip of yucca entire
| ly encircling the tree is better, as 1t not
only protects the tree from the sun, but
| from the rabbits.
| Alfalfa alone is not perfect food for
the dairy. 1t should be reinforced. The
lack of bone-forming material in alfal-
ia is painfully apparent. as calves are
often born with weak loins and backs,
when cows have been fed exclusively
upon alfalfa. Horses also exhibit weak
ness in the back when fed alfalfa. and,
indeed, sometimes become entirely help
less and have to be killed.
Jackrabbit meat, stewed with pota-
toes. vegetables or scraps. makes ex-
cellent food for laying hens. Red pep
per may be added IL desired, though we
always thought that stimulation only
fastened egg production at one period
to lessen 1t at another. Fish makes
good poultry food, but decays quickly.
All scraps should be removed from the
poultry yard daily to avoid decay.
In stock feeding, the fact should be
L.. g. all
the nutritive elements in their proper
combination for the best results. A va
riety of food Is needed not merely to
tempt the appetite, but to keep animals
in good health. Corn. which is the staple
food in the east is too heating for
summer feeding in California unless it
is supplemented by other things. Wheat
is more suitable here, but all animals
need a wide ration.
Clean out the horses feet occasional
ly. Horses are often forced to stand in
the worst kind of filth. and decaying
vegetation and other matter collect in
the frog of the foot until the odor be-
comes sickening. If a human being had
to have such a mess bound to the soles
of his feet. he would die in less than
month. The fact that the horn of the
hoof is less absorbent than the cuticle
of the human is often all that saves the
animal from death by the absorption of
poisons.
Gov. Budd has signed the acts con-
tinuing the dairy bureau and establish
ing state system of branding cheese
according to its grade. In reference to
this last act. each California cheese man
ufscturer isreqpired to brand his cheese
as full cream. If containing over 30 per
cent butter fat; half-skim. if between 10
and 80, or as skim, If less than Is per
cent. The bureau furnishes free stem
ellis for the purpose, with the number of
factory upon them. A penalty of from
s25 to $3.50 or imprisonment goes with
the law, and, with a possible export
trade in view, this is a commendable act.
Not every one knows just what dock
ing is 1t is not merely cutting off the
hair of the tail the length of the solid part
the late humane convention has not
asked prohibition of that. though well
il might-but it is amputating the solid
part of the tail for some length and tying
UP the stump with a rope running
through pully overhead with weight
attached to the free end of the rope to
keep the tail elevated. Then the under
portions of the solid part of the stump
are incised with sharp knives and some
of the smaller cords severed The
wounds are kept open with the
tail thus trained aloft so that
as they heal they will fill with flesh,
and thus, when after long period, the
animal is released, he cannot put his
stump of a tail down If he would. He
is then nobby cab and fit for the sports
of ''sassiety. y."-Sacramento Record
Union.