Gloucester County Democrat., 1897-12-23
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The short horn and the Jersey were the
results Of breeding, food and environment.
A good COW should have great stomach,
good chest, slim neck, small hams and
quarters. In buying COW, don't take the
one the mans wife wants to sell. In
feeding, food goes to the maintenance OF
the COW and to production. Four-dfths OF
the food is required to keep her warm. The
warmer the stable the less food will be re-
quired. In poor pasture cow exhausts
herself racing over field to. get enough to
keep her alive. The best COW is the one
that eats the most, digests it, and puts the
results in the milk pail.
He strongly advocated the silo, and said
the way Jersey farmers use their corn stalks
is positively wicked. Those now in the
fields contain no more nutriment than so
much kindling wood Atthe point of corn
glazing 55 per cent of the nutriment in
corn is in the stalk and IS inthe ears. Hput
into the siIo, all was saved, while under the
methods in vogue here, the greater portion
was lost. He said farmers could buy bran,
oil cake, cotton seed and gluten meal for
less than it was worth to spread on the
fields.
Cows, he said. should be watered three
times day; the notion that they must
have exercise, he said, was false one. His
COWS stood 10 the stable from November to
April, and were happy, healthy and gave
best returns in milk.
George L. Gillingham, lecturer Of the
State Grange, lectured on Raising Swine
for Profit. He said the hog was the most
neglected animal on the farm. He did
not advocate any particular freed, but
wanted hog that matured early and tat
tened at any age, because the sooner you
born, the greater the profit Dealers now,
he said, were looking for hogs that ran 10
lean meat.
He kept no hogs over Winter except for
breeding because much food is wasted in
Winter in keeping up animal heat; a pen
of September shoats would gain very little
in the Winter months. He advocated
February or March breeding. The hog is
a grazing animal, and the best place for
him to Craze is in the orchard, because ne
will consume waste fruit and destroy
insects
The mother should have no food for
twenty four hours before breeding, then very
little and that of sloppy nature-warm
bran in skim milk k;after week little corn.
When four weeks old give small pigs
little corn soaked for twenty -four hours in
water; wean at eight or ten weeks old
Keep breeding stock from year to year, as
long as they behave themselves.
During Spring and hot months feed pigs
wheat bran, middlings and pasture-no
corn. Must have access to pure water.
Pens should be made of pinch plank, 4x6
feet, SO they can be set anywhere in the
field, or hitch horse to them and draw to
any portion Of the farm. The following
mixture be kept where the hogs have ready
access to it, and he has had very little ex-
perience with disease among his hogs =
Three bushels of wood ashes, l bushel of
charcoal, pounded fine; bushel of fine salt
! bushel of air Stacked lime, pounds OF
sulphur,2 pounds of spanish brown, ! pound
of salt petre, pound of coperas, mix well;
Keep dry.
Little pigs should bemade to exercise to
ayoid the thumps, disease much like
heaves in horses Air and exercise were
the only cure
State Secretary Dye, on the theme
Averages, or the Second Best and the
Best" counselled the Grangers not to let
the grass grow under their feet. He said
there were too many young men imbued
with the spirit of go ahead turning their
attention to the farming for livelihood who
were introducing new and approved ideas
of operating the farm, and it behooved the
older farmer to follow in their footsteps and
be worthy competitors in all lines of crop
raising.
| Mr.. Woodward made the evening address
on Chestnut Culture Its Possibilities
He said there were very few farm products
that would yield SO large a return for the
capital and labor employed as the chestnut.
In planting chestnuts care must be taken
to put them on congenial soil, or failure is
apt to result. The chestnut does better
upon an open soil, with deep, porous,w well
drained sub-soil.