Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-06-20

! finely ground. Yhis will keep the floor
free from all odor.
Some odOr is unpreventable in a
sheep pen. 1t may be due TO the large
natural perspiration of the sheep.
caused by the warmth of the fleece.
but care is to be observed that it is
not due to lot of fermenting ma
nure under the feet.
A sheep is a nervous, querulous
thing, and apt to fret, and fretting
uses up flesh, and this weakens the
heece. One of the most important
matters just now is to preserve precise
regularity in the feeding, so as to
give no occasion for fretting.-Ameri-
can Sheep Breeder.
Value of Good Barns.
There has been some controversy
whether 1t was profitable to put stock
in barns during the feeding season.
Many OF our largest cattle feeders
J feed in open lots. but some of them
| feed in bank barns, which in most
cases is even worse than feeding in
open. I know of one breeder partic-
ularly who built a cellar barn at a
cost of about $1,000, and it proved
very unsatisfactory. During a rainy
season the water would run continu-
ally into the barn and the result was
that the cattle would stand almost
knee deep in mud and water during
the feeding season. We believe it is
a good plan to stable stock just as
soon as cold weather comes on and
feed we'll; especially is this so with
dairy stock. If the COWS are cared
for properly they will milk we'll right
along through the cold winter
months, but if they are fed scantily
and are poorly housed they will moi
pay for even the food that is giver
them. The stable should be kept
clean and we'll bedded. I tie up my
cows in good strong stalls and fur
nish them with good food in box ant
manager, and keep them in these stalls
until morning. This lis the best way
that I have ever found for having
plump COWS and good mixers RICH
straight along during the year, jay
III i IdlI10 Il dI1u0T.
Selling Cows.
If the farmer is trying to keep uairy
with COWS only fit for raising steers
he must look chiefly to steers for hi
pay. If he has lot of COWS that ar
good neither for steer raising nor 70
milk production, no skill in tn
| .
farmer a good dividend. But tn
canned beef man will pay littl
something for the poor cows. Wha
he pays is clear gain. Sell to him
not to a neighbor. You want to keel
good neighbors as we'll as good cows
and if you sell poor COWS to a neigh
Dor you are rid of your COW AM
have lost a neighbor in the transac
tion. If you sell a good COW to ;
neighbor you keep the neighbor blu
you have lost the good cow. 81
never sell COWS to a neighbor. Al
ways sell to shippers, and always sci
those which are not profitable tt
keep.-New England Farmer.
Keep Clean.
In the management of the pigs dur
ing the winter, if the best health
to be maintained, it is very importan
that the feeding floors and eating
places be kept clean. In the seepins
quarters more or less bedding mus
be provided This should always b.
dry, as sleeping in wet bed tends tx
induce rheumatism. Then the bed
ding should be changed every weel
or ten days at farthest, in order tx
prevent it from becoming foul The
cid bedding can be put on the manure
pile The feeding floor should also bt
kept clean. 1t will require but {
few minutes every few days to SWEEP
off the floor. A little care in keeping
clean will add greatly to the health
and thrift of the hogs. This is es
pecially the case during the winter
when of necessity the hogs will re
main in their quarters a good dea
more of the time than in summer
Ohio Farmer.