Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-10-28
agricultural
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Size in cattle.--Mere size In cattle Is
fast becoming as Objectionable as
more size in hogs has already become
Size Of itself, of course, is not objec-
tionable provided 1t unites quality
with It. But as In the case OF the
hog, the young and the quick matur-
ing beeyes are In demand because they
give the best and most desirable meat.
The temperature for churning.-At
the New York state dairy school cream
was churned at 68 degrees In fifteen
minutes. It had been raised In
Cooley dreamer, In ice water at about
40 degrees, in twelve hours and ripened
a, 66 degrees, or thereabouts, In "a
hours. The temperature at the sepa'
ration point was SO degrees. The but
ter maker who usually churns that
cream. said he churned his cream at
65 degrees, and was an hour to an
-Four and half doing It. Mr.. Gilbert
cLurned it at So degrees for the pur-
rose of showing the difference In time
three degrees would make.
Pure bred fowls. Is much
dispute as to whether pure-bred fowls
ray The progressive farmer Is not
quite certain on that point, and the
nom progressive IL positive that they
don't. The trouble with the former is
that he has been more particular about
the quality Of the fowl. In other
words, he has gone In for looks and
become fancier. Fancers make
money, but their business Is very
different from that of the ordinary
poultry keeper, and 1t will not do for
the farmer to confuse the two. Fancy
points In his case do not pay; but 1t
will pay him to buy few bred birds
and grade his common ones up. This
can easily be accomplished by using a
little judgment as TO which birds to
keep and which to reject. Care should
DO taken each year to infuse new blooA
into the flock. If he keeps an exact
account of the profits and expendi-
lures, he will soon be able to convince
his non progressive nelghbor that
purity of breed will produce larger
and better eggs and meat of n superior
quality, even II he is so unreasonable
an to deny the increase in laying
powers,
Profit In early lambs. There is no
quicker product and none other that is
profitable as the early lamb. One sells
for much In May as two In November,
and the farmer not only gets the better
price, but he saves twice or even four
times the feeding. Any large town or
city furnishes the market for them
and tho early sale makes 1t possible
to fatten tho ewes after the lambs are
sold and market them out of the way
for another flock In the fall. The kind
of lamb, however, is to be thought Of
The best of all Is cross of u Shrop-
shire ram on native ewes-that is
considering Tho profit for tho pure
lamb IL to be preferred before the
cross wore 1t not that the pure owes
arc too costly to be made into mutton,
as with tho common ones. And the
disposal of the ewes and the lcss first
cost make the larger profit, The ewes
should be purchased early In Soptem-
Der so that the lambs may come not
later than In February, and If the
hcck In gathered In August 80 much
II better. for the earlier they are In
the market the more they bring. In
this business one has three dividends,
end tho first cost returned within
year the lambs, the fleece, the profit
OH the ewes and the first cost re-
tnrnpH fFhIu IA npnDt al an
When to INTERPRETATIONS expert
ments have been recently made abroad
~ determine whether horses should or
should not he fed before watering.
The first question to be settled was the
effect produced on the process of d.
gestion by the presence OF Il quantity
o. water In the stomach while the food
was still there. In the course of the
experiments n horse was fed four lit
tors of oats and Immediately watored.
shortly afterwards II was killed
About one litter of oats was found In
Its stomach swimming In water, the
rest having been washed into the In
tcstinos and so lost for purposes of
nourlshment. second horse was
frst watered and at once fed four lit
ters of oats. After u quarter OF an hour
1t was killed, when the whole of the
oats was found In its stomach, and
were seen to be already under the in
'lnence of the digestive juices. Similar
experiments, conducted without kill
Ing the animal showed that II mass of
undgested oats was always evacuated
II water was given immediately after
feeding. The conclusions drawn from
the experiments are that horses should
always be watered before feeding and
that 1t Is better not to feed immediate
ly after work, but to allow the animal
n little rest, then give them a little
hay and afterwards feed with oats