The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-09-14

ing.
The first sheep that touched what
Is now the United States came from
Spain to Old Mexico with Francisco
Vasquez de Coronado in 1910, but they
did not last. Fifty years later Juan
de Onate brought the Merino whose
descendants remain to-day.
There are to-day plenty of farm
dairymen who are following up-to-
date methods who receive from TO -
cents above quoted prices for cream
cry product for their butter. Cleanli
ness, system and painstaking are the
prices paid for success in the farm
dairy.
On every farm where hogs are
raised there should be a pen strongly
built to keep by themselves all hogs
that may be purchased for the farm
This same pen may also be used for
the segregating of animals that may
show signs OF being sick. A precau-
an attack of cholera at its beginning.
Texas growers are asking the rail-
roads to furnish transportation for
one man with every car OF produce
shipped, this man to accompany the
car to look after its contents en- route
and its disposition when it reaches its
destination. And why not? Why not
furnish this transportation, when
shipments of livestock "s furnished
it?
Over 400 gallons of Iilk shipped to
Chicago from one of the suburban
towns We're recently returned to the
shippers, who had been feeding brew
ery malt to their COWS 1t was learned
that thirteen farmers had been using
this feed and they will not be allowed
TO sell any milk in the city until they
have changed the food of their cat
tie.
A pound of salt is sufficient for six
teen to twenty pounds of butter. The
difference in cost between the very
best salt and the very poorest is but
the merest fraction of a cent per
pound. How foolish 1t is to use any
thing but the best. In buying salt the
thing TO do is TO purchase the best
that can be had and figure on price
afterward
Sheep are really long lived animals
and with good care they have been
known to live and bring lambs up to
fifteen years old. This age is reached,
however, only under the best care
and special feeding Pasturing is not
90 conducive TO long life as special
feeding, in which roots are used album
dainty. On the whole it is not profit
able to keep sheep over six or seven
years, which is about the average life
of sheep under good ordinary care.
The sheep-killing dog is evidently
M important factor in keeping down
the supply of sheep in this country.
1t is difficult problem, but if every
stray dog found on the farm is shot
that will help the cause some. Then
it is possible to fence dogs out. Fine
meshed wire fence is not expensive,
and either permanent fences of this
material can be built or hurdles may
be made and used. The use Of hur-
dies is common in some countries and
Il has its good points.
In states where hog cholera is an
annual yisitant the small hoghouse is
to be preferred to the large one,
though with the small house it re-
Quires more work to take care of the
hogs than in the large house. The
houses that are movable present adj
vantages that the big houses do not,
as the small movable ones may be
placed in any field where it is desir-
able to pasture the hogs. The danger
from disease Is thus greatly reduced
and the grazing of the swine may be
better controlled than in any other
way.
SOAAAAiiCit Adf "A III 6lVNiAi ccCiuc W
be steadily moving southwark and
westward. Not SO very many years
ago New York was one Of the great
est apple shipping states: New Jersey
and Delaware We're the banner states
for peaches. Now many other states
| are ahead OF these in the production
of these fruits In number of south
fern and western states there are both
apple and peach orchards that abso-
| lutely dwarf eastern orchards Of all
sorts. In Michigan, too. is famous
peach section, where they are grown
on a huge scale.
The following are the conclusions of
a fruit grower Us TO how it is best to
pillow an orchard: shorten the evener
and whiffietrees, equip the harness
with muley names, procure a wood
beam plow having the advantages Of
wide range of adjustment as above
mentioned, muzzle the horse to keep
him FROM browsing. which is not only
an injury to the trees, but he can't
eat and at the same time give his at