The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
LIVE STOCK.
live sToCK ITRMs.

Don't send poor stock to market. 1t
is a losing game.
Keep the colt fat and he will make
an easy. going horse.
Badly ventilated stables are pretty
sure to iDjure the horse.
Corn is too heating a food to be fed
alone to horses in hot weather.
Kindness to the young animal is a
cheap way to increase its value.
Give the growing animals plenty Of
room. They should have plenty OF
space.
We would rather have a hired man
swear at and kick US than do it to the
animals.
Blood, food, care and training are
the essentials necessary for producing
a first class horse.
The Poland China pig has made for
tunes for many men and will make
fortunes for many more.
A horse needs exercise every day to
keep his system properly regulated,
and make his hair bright and sleek.
Give your pigs a grass ration not
occasionally, but every day. Just
notice how much more rapidly they
grow.
Nothing on the farm pays better
than treating the colts so they will
grow and develop into valuable ami
mails.
A writer to Breeders Gazette says
that spraying the interior of the hen
house with boiling water will destroy
all the vermin.
Sheep and hogs need salt and he
who would obtain the best results will
do well to give it to them as regularly
as to other animals.
A Missouri farmer saved his pigs by
putting a leather muzzle on the SOW SO
she could not open her mouth wide
enough to eat them.
Do not overload the colt in breaking
him. 1t causes balkiness and vicious
ness. "An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure"
Many men have improved the con
dition of their animals by feeding
condition powders" just because they
had to feed grain with the powders.
Zee the same gentle methods with
the mule colt as is used with the horse
colt. 1t will add so per cent to the
value Of the mule.-Western PloW-
man.
There never was q better time to en-
gage in the sheep business than now.
While they may not be very great pro-
ht in wool yet the people are becoming
more and more a mutton-eating PEG
pie. Then again a good flock Of sheep
will help to keep the farm clean of
weeds and other forage which you do
not like to have grow. They are good
fertiliz 5rs, and are easily kept. Buy a
good recorded ram and g few good
ewes. Keep up the record and you
will find the investment a good n
The necessity for wosking the horse,
and therefore for keeping him in work.
ing condition, prevents him from hav.
ing the advantage which every other
farm animal enjoys of running freely
in the fields at grass during the sum
mer season, says the American Guilt
water. There car hardly be the change
from old oats to new when the new
crop comes in without causing a loosen
ing Of the stools, which Away means a
weakening Of all the muscular system.
But though he must be kept on dry
food, the work horse should have, as
he is fully entitled to, the purest air
that blows. Stables in summer require
thorough ventilation. Horse manure
heats readily and gives off a strong
smell of ammonia. This not only rots
harnesses, but it is also very in curious
to the horses, We have known manv
herses to go blind from being kept, in
summer, in dark, poorly ventilated
stables. Whenever a horse goes blind
if the fact is investigated, the lack of
ventilation is more apt to be the ,ssuse
re-