Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-09-22

alu,avs hest in the case of a balky horse,
to use some appliance rather than TO at
tempt to coerce him openly. III ne does
not think the driver has a hand IN the urg-
ing he is much more likely to get moVeon
and tile more mysterious the source OF the
thing which moves him, the more quickly
the balky habit Will be broken.
FATTENING LIVE STOCK.
There is something n the makeup OF
hlg grade stock, whether horse cow
sheep or what not which responds more
readily to good feed and care than when
the same is given to low grade stock. To
explain 1t is beyond the writer, but that
IL is so any observant farmer will admit.
Take a lot of we'll bred pigs, as an illus
~tration; any one who has tired 1t knows
that such animals bring more money IN
carcass fattened on the same ratiOns than
pigs of a lower degree. MIND you, this Is
in carcass form when IT is practically I'M
possible for the butcher to tell whether
the animal is a razor back or a pure Berk-
shire. The man who has worked with
we'll bred stock knows, also, that they are
much easier to handle in the process OF
preparing for market; they seem to re-
spond more quickly to the food and care
than the low grade stock. Possibly 1t is
because they have not a line of half
starved ancestry behind them which they
must fill up, but probably it is because
their fine breeding covers perfection in
every point and perfection always re-
spends more freely to training or feeding
than imperfaction. Possibly this argument
is far-fetched, but the truth remains that
those who have experimental along this
line know that 1t pays. If then, it pays
from the standpoint of the carcass how
much greater will it pay If, the sale of the
progeny, the milk, the fleece or the eggs
are to be the commodity to be marketed.
Think it over.
REFORM IN MILKING.
Additional knowledge and the necessity
for looking after every detail in order that
the dairy may be profitable, has resulted
in wonderful improvements in the care
of COW and Of the milk afterward. Strin-
gent health avs of the several cities have
forced the shiftless man to wake up or
else get out of business. There are still
many opportunities for improvement par
ticularly along the line of cleanliness of
the COWS and of the stables and milking
along more scientific lines, Only yester-
day / watched a milkman, a man who
buys his milk, and IL seemed to me that
II the dairyman was half as clean as the
milkman there would be little to complain
OF. This milkman must, of course, keep
his milk ON ice, but he uses an abundance
of scalding water in the washing of his
bottles and utensils of tin and then they
are further purified by the sun. He goes
farther and washes the little crates of
wood in which his bottles of milk are car
ried, using hot water and securing soap
and then these too are given a sun bath.
HIS ice boxes are scrubbed with hot water
daily, the milk house floor is also scrubbed
and then thoroughly dried. Now suppose
these same methods were employed b. the
man from whom the milk Is received.
Surely the milk would come up to the
standard to which the law demands. One
OF the worst troubles with dairymen is
their inclination to let things go N the
stables too long without cleaning. They
are very careful with their pals and pans.
but careless with the stables and with the
cows, forgetting, probably, how quickly
milk takes disagreeable odors. Civ the
subject a little thought and see II the ar
.rangement of the stables cannot be i'm
proved so tina things may be kept cleaner.
POOR FEED FOR HORSES.
Sometimes 1t seems as If poor or dam
aged food may be given fowls and pigs
without injury IL 1T Is skillfully mixed
with the better quality although there is a
risk In this sort of feeding. The horse. on
the other hand, does not seem TO be able
to take his share of damaged feed and the
feeding OF 1t generally results in a bad
stomach or bowel trouble. These organs
of the horse are much more sensitive and
delicate than generally supposed and
great care should therefore be used In
feeding. Poor hay is another bad thing
for horses and 1t is also poor policy to at
tempt to carry a horse very far on hay.
whether good or poor, and water feeding
small quantities of gran. Beyond all
doubt oats are the best of any grain for
horses. but it Is quite as good policy to
furnish variety to the horses as to the
other stock on the farm, but making sure
that the animal has one fed daily of first
class oats, and hat oats form one of the
grains In one of the mixtures Of the day.
Let all of the food be first class including
the hay and the horse will thrive on ii and
really eat less than OF the poor food.
ONCE MORE PLENTY OF WATER
This month is likely to be warm enough
so that stock of all kinds will not object
to an abundance of fresh water. II Is as
tonishing how many people think animals
do not particularly need water. They
give the horses and the dogs all they want
and frequently; the cows not SO Frequently
and the rest of the stock on the farm
when they think Of 1t. We frequently hear
people say that cats do not require water
anu yet those who have had experience
KNOW that cats crave water; not much al
a tine but several times q day. The lack
OF water has thrown them into conyul-
'sions. Twenty years ago the writer came
70 the conclusion that IL he needed con.
siderable water In order to be healthy
there wa no reason why animals should
mot need 1t and acting on that plan va
ihave ever since watered our poultry and