The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-12-23
but cut off all the grain; if less fat
cut off half or one third of his grain.
CATTLE.

but cut off all the grain; if less fat
cut off half or one third of his grain.
CATTLE.
| Milk fever, which takes off the
best cows just as the aboye disease
takes off the best horses, is pre-
vented in a somewhat similar man
ner. Feed the cow moderately for
month before calving, and certain
ly for two weeks before, and if you
fear any danger give a pound of
EPSON salts in a pail of water thir-
ty-six hours before calving, or i'm
mediately after. A heifer or old
cow rarely has this trouble.
For mango in cattle we may use
on small patch equal parts of Gre
oline or crude carbolic acid and
|glycerine. Scrub the affected parts
before this is applied. This is not
a safe application for large areas.
Corrosive sublimate in proportion
of fifteen grains to pint of water
for cattle, and seven or eight grains
to a pint of water for horses, is
good to apply on larger surfaces.
The danger oflumpy jaw is after it
breaks. ween the affected animal
should be removed from the
healthy ones. For mild cases give
every dav for ten days a drench of
iodine of potash 2H drains in a
pint of water. After two days
treat again, repeat often.
GRASSES.
Prof. Hoverstad concluded the
morning withTa talk upon grasses.
In answer to questions he said he
preferred to sow mixed seed rather
than one kind. He finds all the
clovers do we'll with him. but Al
sike clover likes low land rather
than up land. He sows eight
pints of clover to six of timothy.
A gentleman in the audience said
he had excellent results from SOW
ing by measure, two parts timothy
to one OF clover.
INCUBATION.
About sixty ladies gathered in
the opera house in the afternoon.
Mrs. Tilson took up the subject of
incubation, giving those about to
invest in incubators a few hints.
also how the natual process might
be improved upon was described,
by setting a number of hens at
once, giving them some practice
upon artificial eggs, coping the
chicks on warmed hay and in
broods not too large for the hen to
hover.
COOKING LESSON
Mrs. Hoverstad's subject was the
cooking of meats, previous to
which she took up the nature of
foods, especially meats, by means
of her large chart, incidentally re-
marking that we do not enough APP
'preciate those. important foods of
the system-pure air and pure
water. A person should drink
pint and a half of watera day, and
though country air is free out of
doors, our sleeping rooms especially
need more ventilation. She made
very plain the fact that different
pursuits, ages and states of health
require US to eat fool in different
proportions. Children building
frames, needs to eat often. and re-
quire more protein and mineral
matter than adults, and less of
starchy or sweet foods.
HORSES.
At Grand Opera house DR.. Rey-
nolds spoke on barb wire cuts, fol-
lowing the same lime of thought
of the morning, that prevention is
better than cure, ard natures
work better than mans. Turn the
horses out to pasture and let the
wounds alone, and they will heal.
Most of the liniments put on simp-
ly initiate and the wound gets we'll
inspite of them. but more slowly.
APPLE GROWING.
Mr.. Gibbs took up his favorite
topic of apple growing. Look at a
map of Russia, he said, and find on
it Kazan, 100 miles north of line
running through Minneapolis, and
there the Russians are growing ap-
pies, pears, cherries and plums.
Contrasted with other localities he
concluded that it proves that it is
neither too hot, too cold nor too dry
in Minnesota. Very promising ex-
periments are being made with
these Russian varieties, and nearly
every nurseryman carries we'll rec
commended varieties on his list.
SHEEP CULTURE.
Mr.. Greeley spoke of the profits
OF sheep culture. Old land yearly
gets more foul seeds and weeds in
it, and loses its fertility. We need
to raise stock, and he was happy