Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-10-05
sheep In Orchards.

! agree that when pig gets an apple
containing worm there Is no danger
that the worm will cause any damage
to the future apple crop. But as an
insect destroyer the pig is nowhere
with the sheep. The trouble with the
pig 10 that it is too much like a man:
when 1t lies down and goes to sleep
II is oblivious of all its surroundings
1t sleeps just as soundly and snores
just as loud as its human cousin, and
when an apple drops 1t doesn't hear IL
or go for It until it's sleep is out. The
instinct OF the worm teaches it to get
out of the apple as quickly as possible
after 1t drops. | have stood and
watched an apple after 1t struck the
ground. and seen the worm come hust-
ling out in hurry and go for some Sc
cure place. and before the pig gets the
apple the worm Is in some safe hiding
place. Not SO with the sheep; they
never sleep SO soundly but they wild
hear an apple falling rods away, and
they are up and there before the worm
can get out, and that worm is travel
ing to the bourn whence no worm ever
comes back to curse the apple grower.
Yes, pigs are good. but sheep are a
hundred times better.-Rural New
Yorker.
To what extent does feed affect the
individuality of a COW? This is a
question that has yet to be answered.
SO far as conclusive experiments are
concerned. It is doubtless true that
feed Is constantly changing the charac-
teristics OF animals, but we do not
know how rapidly the changes take
place, nor do we know Just the effect
each food has. To a certain extent we
are feeding in the dark. The Maryland
experiment station has been feeding a
herd of common cows for several years
and noting the effect OF proper feed
ing on individuality. G. F. Doane,
very material results could be noticed
the first year from the extra feed and
care the herd received, but through
subsequent years there seems to be a
steady Improvement. Judging from
the records OF these COWS, 1t Is a aues-
ton IL the quality of a dairy COW does
not depend almost as much on the
feeding as on the breeding. 1t Is also
question IL cows that have a more or
less pronounced beef tendency, or. at
least, would not be called good ma
terial from which to build up a dairy
herd, cannot, with proper management
be developed into profitable dairy
cows" This Is view of the matter
that will not strike some of our inyes-
tigators very favorably. 1t has against
1t the generally accepted truth that we
have now so many good dairy COWS
that It will hardly pay to spend time,
feed and effort In an attempt to reverse
a tendency already strongly developed
In direction opposite to that OF milk
production.
Harvey Johnson OF Iowa says: When
our litters are of sufficient age to turn
out we usually put two and sometimes
three filters together In a pasture
where there is a good warm and dry
building and plenty of good grass.
Near where the sows feed Is a small
enclosure with a low trough in II, and
by a little persuasion and some tempt
Ing bits of food we expect to have
the pigs feeding nicely at three to four
weeks Of age. The feed is increased
as their capacity for handling It is in
creased. but we are careful TO under
feed rather than Notwithstanding no
more at any time than they will eat
clean. We allow them to run with the
dams TIL they wean them, unless we