Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-16


Hog Troughs.
Hogs need all Of the pure fresh
water they can drink every day, and
if they are given a good feed of slop
every night and morning they will
keep healthier and make better gain
in proportion to the amount of food
supplied. But to supply water and
slop to the best advantage, good
troughs should be provided. One ad-
vantage with the dat-bottomed troughs
over the V-shaped ones is that they
are not so easily overturned. 1t
seems the natural inclination of a
hog is to root trough over, to get in
side of it and lie down, and with a
V-shaped trough this often wastes
considerable feed. But no matter
what the particular shape of the
trough may be, they should be suf-
fciently long to admit of all the hogs
or pigs eating at once without UNI
necessary crowding. \ Stats should
be nailed across every twelve or
| fifteen inches, SO as to keep the pigs
from getting in and lying down.
T. Care should be taken to keep
them clean as filth tends to breed
disease, and disease, usually among
| hogs is hard to cure. It will be best
to have the trough fastened down so
as to prevent them from turning it
over 1T is best to arrange the
troughs so that the water and Stops
can be poured into them, away from
the hogs, as there will be more or
less wasted.-Ohio Farmer.
Peach Bud Protection.
Peach growers will be gratified to
learn of a cheap and efficient method
of protecting their trees from injury
in winter. Experiments made in
Missouri have proved that spraying
peach trees with whitewash will pro-
tect the fruit buds from winter in
! jury, even when the temperature falls
10 degrees or 20 degrees below zero.
| The injury to the buds by the cold
] is due to the fact that on warm or
bright days the action of the sun
] heat on them has caused them to
swell and thus they are in condi-
ton to be injured by the cold weather.
The whitewash reflects the heat and
the buds remain dormant and are
able to sustain the low temperature
/ The whitewash consists of four parts
water, one part skinned milk and
1ch h Ivy lob %0
as thick wash as can be convenient
ly pumped through a Bordeaux spray
nozzle. In the experiments made
the first spraying was given the last
of December and subsequently, at
intervals, three more we're given dur
ing the winter.-Vick's Magazine.
Teeth of Sheep.
| There is popularity in the mech
anism Of a sleeps jaw and grinders
that helps one to understand the
reason why sheep are able to get so
much nutriment from their food. In
noticing sheep chewing it's cud it
cannot be observed that the jaw has
a peculiar motion from side to side.
The branches of the lower jaw are
closer together than the molars are
in the upper. Then in the molars
their edges have different slopes. In
the upper row the face of the molar
slopes very decidedly from the higher
i inner edge to the lower outer, while
in molars Of the lower jaw the face
slopes from the outer edge to the
inner. These things, together with
the rough surfaces of the molars,
gives sheep the power to thoroughly
grind its food.-Wool Record.
Warmth of the Poultry House.
warm quarters that are heated arti-
fcially they will become tender and
more liable to colds and disease
should they at any time be exposed.
On the contrary, a 1ue that will
warm house only sufficiently to dry
it and prevent dampness during the
prevalence or northeast storms will
be beneficial. The temperature Of a
poultry house should be kept above
forty degrees, if possible, in winter
That is-avoid the freezing point. If
house is close the bodies of the hens
will create heat enough ut night to
keep the temperature above the freez-
ing point. It is best to use the arti-
fetal heat only ON occasions when
it may be required-Mirror and Far
mer
Keeping Potatoes.
! One way that is recommended for
burying potatoes is to place them in
long narrow ridge, after the
ground becomes cold, and cover with
few inches of earth, 1eaving open