The Advocate and news., 1897-11-24
Notes.

NOU6S,
Only the best sheep return a profit;
the poor ones are a burden to the others.
City and town people prefer to pay
better prices for the better things they
consume. The remedy for depression
in agriculture is to produce high class
stock, dairy products and farm crops,
and proceeds from the orchard and gar
den.
The food properties of corn are not
changed by grinding; 1t is still corn,
whether served as meal, mush or slop.
When feeding hogs, grind only for the
aged sows that have lost their teeth,
and 1t is doubtful il they will pay the
miller.
Quality gives to the intelligent, pro-
gressiVe farmer who raises improved
stock a premium on his high grade
beef mutton and pork as well as on his
high class horses, and places him above
the wild ranch stock breeders Of South
America and Australia in European
markets.
1t is stated on the authority Of Thomas
Dixon and Professor Lomas, that hay
or straw Is remedy for bloat-natures
remedy; and that cattle on clover, sor-
ghum, or the green succulent feed, as
soon as threatened with bloat instinc-
lively turn to the remedy, if accessible.
They recommend that stack or pen
of hay or straw be placed in the field
where the animals can go to 1t at will,
and that then there will be no fatality
from bloat.
The fact that the country Is short on
swine and long on corn renders 1t espe-
cially desirable this year that growers
should feed and care for the pigs in a
way that will develop them rapidly and
perfectly. The tendency is to feed the
growing pigs too much corn. Some
corn is all right, but the ration should
contain some more heterogeneous food
to give good development of bone and
muscle; then when you come to fatten
on corn you will have something to
build on.-Rural World.
The results of various trials declare
corn to be the most profitable grain for
fattening sheep. But practice teaches
that other grains must be fed with 1t
TO maintain the appetites of the sheep
and keep them otherwise healthy. 1t
will likely be safest and best under
most conditions to start the fattening
with oats or bran, then introduce as
much corn as possible, and finish the
fattening with "a mixture containing one
part oats, one part oil meal, and three
parts corn, by weight.-Prof. j. A. Craig.
The American Cultivator says that
young men are leaving New England
daily, either because they dare not
marry such women as work in the mills
and factories, or because having mar
ried such one they cannot live either
happily or comfortably together. 1t is
not as it was in the early days of the,
Lowell mills, when the mill girls were.
the daughters of farmers, who had en-
joyed all the advantages of the district
school, and were well taught in house
hold duties at home before they went
out to seek for labor
The question of quality in bacon is
one Of experience. Most bacon raisers
say, first, that swine used for this pur-
pose should be long in the body with
! tendency to put ON fat slowly, that is,
grow muscular; that they should have
plenty Of exercise and pure air. Both
these may be secured in the open field
and wood. They should be from ten to
! fifteen months old and not what, in these
days, we call "fat." From the expert
ence of bacon raisers both North and
South, we come to the conclusion that
the best bacon is not produced from
our most highly improved breeds as
they are commonly fed. AS rule, the
bacon Of the South is far superior to
the North. 1t Is usually secured from a
nOndescript hog nearly mature, one
which has had to hustle" for a living
except during the last few weeks of its
life, when it is finished of by feeding
! full ration OF corn.-Country Gentleman