The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-09-01

from 1t, but this Is no reason for
withholding good food from them.
For all the good food they get they
will give return.
Use no ram but a thorough bred
and successive rams should be of
the same breed; for when trying to
improve there is no advantage in
crosses. A dock thus renovated
will be as good for all practical pur-
poses as full bloods-
Almost everything the land will
produce can be utilized by sheep.
This should serve as hint to way
their food as much as possible all
the year through, tempting them to
eat as much as they have the ability
to convert into mutton and wool.
When sheep eats well and APP
pears all right until it breathes
hard, walks stiffiy, then falls and
tries to eat dirt, it is suffering with
acute indigestion. The treatment is
to give four ounces of Epson salts,
dissolved in water, adding half a
teaspoonful of ground ginger. The
feed should be changed, and il dry
grain is used, change it to bran and
linseed mash, in which give a level
teaspoonful of an even mixture of
finely powdered ,sulphate of iron,
ginger and gentian. Continue this
for a week or longer.
Every sheepman in the country
and there are close to a million Of
them-can profit by the demand for
mutton lambs. All that is needed is
to breed for and raise them. 1t is
folly for one to talk about poor sheep
times, when good sheep times are at
ones door.
The old practice of expelling ticks
by sprinkling Scotch snuff in the
wool is at best mere eXpedient, for
though it may temporarily eXpel
the ticks, it has no effect on the
larvae, which soon develops a new
crop of ticks. There is one only
sure remedy for ticks and that is a
bath in the dipping tank.
An exchange well says that "fail-
ure to apply the droppings of sheep
to the cultivated fields is almost a
crime"
Sow turnip seed now on an acre or
two of we'll prepared land and let
the sheep do the harvesting in No.
vember and December.
Keep the sheltered salt box full
and always available to the flock,
and don't place it so high as to be
out of reach of the lambs.
Care OF Pigs.
MY method of handling brood
sows is as follows: In the first place
select sows from good stock and
never breed them before they are a
year old. Never part with "a good
brood sow, no matter how old she is,
so long as she does well, as one will
generally have better success with
her than with young sows, writes
Thos. Van Nice, in the prairie
Farmer" II it is possible, breed to
a matured hog, as the pigs will be
stronger and seem TO do better. A
brood SOW should never be peuned
up until about a week before farrow-
ing time. then she should be put in a
dry pen by herself. She should not
be kept too fat, but week or ten
days before narrowing her feed
should be increased, as | think a lit
tie fat put on at this time is a benefit;
making her stronger and also her
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making her bed preparatory to far
rowing to see that the ground is
level, and not much bedding should
be used, as she is more apt to lie on
her pigs il too much bedding is given
her. II one would be successful in
hOg-rsising he must be with his hogs
enough so they will not be afraid Of
him when working around them. II
several litters Of pigs come about the
same time each litter should be shut
up with its mother for two or three
weeks, so when the pigs are turned
on pasture they will stay with their
own mother. SOws and pigs must
have slop, and IL milk cannot be
had, take shorts, chop and a little
oil meal and soak them together
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