The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-29
Cold a. = Stimnlant.

one rule cannot be eStabli shed that
will apply to all farm animals. The
dairy cow is at one end of the line
and the sheep at the other. A certain
amount of cold is a stimulant to farm
animals, especially to those with warm
coverings. The natural covering of
the sheep is a much better protection
from the cold of winter than that pos
sessed by most other domestic ami
mails 1t is evident that with a cover
Ing that permits little escape of heat,
the food required to supply heat is
greatly lessened. Among the keepers
OF sheep there is wide divergence of
opinion concerning the extent to
which they should be housed in winter.
mere are cases eXtant where sheep
have been fattened in open pens and
compared with sheep fattened in
closed pens. The ones the most ex-
posed made the largest gains. Also,
where sheep have been fattened under
natural conditions as to temperature,
a close record of the gains and of the
daily temperature have shown the
greatest gains during the coolest Pc
RODS. In such cases it is evident that
the cold was a stimulant. If so, then
cold has as certain value in feeding
operations as have the various feeds.
The problem is to find just where cold
ceases to be a virtue, and becomes q
menace. This field of inquiry is as
yet practically untouched.
1t has been suggested that sugar
might sometimes be made out of sugar
melons. This perhaps has naturally
suggested itself because OF the great
sweetness to the taste Of the white
heshed melons. The fact. however,
that the sugar in all melons is in the
form OF deXtroSe is likely to interfere
with the plan of making sugar out of
them. OF the edible part of any kind
or melon two things constitute about
the who1e-water and sugar. The an
afySfs of the edible portion of a large
number Of sugar melons gave an aver
age of water 95.15 per cent sugar
(dextrose) 3.430 per cent, total for
the two OF 9S.5S per cent This leaves
only 1.42 per cent to be divided be-
tween the potein, fat, nitrogen-free ex-
tract, crude fibre and ash. 1t may be
surprising to learn that analysis of a
large number of water melons showed
them to have a larger amount of dex-
trose than did the sugar melons, CIV
ing water $4,000: dextroSe 421e
Confining Turkeys.
From Farmers Review: We think
turkeys that roost out of doors the
year through do the best. They can
withstand wind, rain and snow without
injury if they are used to it. A wind
break of some kind may be of ad-
vantage, but our turkeys always show
a decided preference for trees to roost
in. Turkeys will not do well in a
small Enclosure. One spring we con-
fined four hens and one tom with ten
chickens in pen of one-third acre
with the result that our turkeys wor-
ried, got poor and laid very few eggs.
but the few proved fertile. Since then
our enclosure for turkeys is of about
three acres. We only confine them
during the egg season, and they do as
well in every respect as turkeys which
have unlimited range and are much
less trouble.-Nellie Bullock.
Varied rations give best results in
feeding for eggs. This is truth quite
generally proven. We cannot reason
the matter out because we know little
of the action on each other of the diff
feFent kinds of foods II is NOT