The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-07-28

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Ing to be fed during the winter. AS rough
age in the winter the stalks of the sweet
corn are smaller and more easily maSti-
Gated by the stock. Don't abuse sweet
corn as food for stock until you have Test
ed It.
SELL THE SURPLUS COCkERELS
If one has selected the cockerels from
the spring Matched birds which are to be
kept for breeding purposes the remainder
should be marked as soon as possible.
Take a week to feed them in good shape
SO as to make them as plump as possible
and then put them on the market. Moth
ing is gained by keeping them until early
fall unless they are wholly kept on what
they pick up on the range and it is doubt
full if even then they are more valuable
than now. In selecting the cockercls for
breeders look out and select the birds that
are good representatives of their breed.
After selecting them give them good care
so that they will go into winter quarters
strong and vigorous.
SWINE AS WEED DEsTRoYERS.
While it would scarcely be desirable to
attempt to pasture the swine wholly on
a plot Of weeds, where they have pretty
good pasture they will get some variety If
turned into lots that are particularly
weedy. That pest quack-grass is particu-
larly well liked by hogs and if there is a
I'oA VI ~ my " ii'iN 6iN' tii'if " 'iioii' At
it as well as any other weeds which both
er you. A good plan TO get them started
in a patch of weeds is to scatter a lot of
corn over the fields and the swine will
soon get down to business. To get them
properly working on the wed patch turn
them into 1t while they are hungry; give
them a half day at it and then fill them up
Oh god pasture with whatever grain they
are to have fed at night. Then don't for
get that a god supply of fresh clean water
is as essential to the we'll being of swine
as to other animals during the summer.
While calculating for the welfare of hogs
during the summer do not forget that they
must have a variety of feed in winter and
that alfalfa. COW peas and soy beans are
especially desirable when the winter ration
for swine is composed largely of corn, as
it is in most sections.
HANDLING TENDER TEATs.
1t is quite often the case that the best
COW in the herd has a tender udder and
teats and in such cases extra care must
be taken in milking as we'll as in keeping
the uder and teas from becoming infamed.
The best mixer is apt. at times, to be a
little rough in handling the cows, espe-
cially If he is in a hurry. The COW with
tender skin cannot be handled in that way.
A better plan is to see that the udder and
teats are washed with luke warm water
before milking and then carefully dried.
This will soften them and the milking be
easier. Be as gentle and patient as posi-
bic in milking and after milking rub the
udder and teats gently with vaseline or
linsccd oil. DO his every time after milk
ing and little trouble will he had even
with the COW afflicted with tender skin.
This plan is mucn is much better than the
one sometimes adVoC1 ted of applying a lo-
ton TO tougher the skin. Most such To-
tons have alum II them and as this isan
astringent it is apt TO make the passage
in the tcats smaller, a very undesirable
thing with most COWS.
THE HORSE IN THE PASTURE.
Those who are familiar with the popular
book David Harum will remember how
this old horse trader prescribed for a
young person who was rather tagged out
in the words :" he should have has shoes
taken off and turued out to pasture"
There is no doubt that many people need
precisely this treatment and certainly
there are many horses who need it applied
literally. If it is not possible to give the
horse a vacation of this kind why not try
the plan of a man known to the writer
who has a town milk business, the farm
from town. This man has two horses on
hsi milk wagon and at night he drives out
to the farm for the supply of milk and
leaves the horse drove there to 10 on to
pasture. taking back the one who was on
the farm. The next night this horse goes
back to pasture and the one left the night
pelolt lduiS tnt wagon DdcK 10 town ana
over the milk route the next day. Two
horses can be handled in this way very
nicely. If this is not feasible the horses
can, at least. have a portion of the night
on the pasture and be all the better able
TO do the work of the following day. 1t is
worth some trouble TO keep the horses in
good condition during the summer and
thus save the work and fed usually neces-
sary beyond the usual to carry them
through the winter and fit them for the
work of the next season.
FEED TROUGH FOR FOWLS.
When soft food is fed 70 fowls in the
same troughs used for grain or other food
there is likely to be considerable dirt in
the trough which cannot be easily re-
moved. a special trough should he used
for the mashcs and a good one for this
purpose is readily constructed from strips
of galvanized eve troughs or may be made
of lumber, as one prefers; in some sections
the galvanized iron troughs would be the
cheaper. The trough Is fastened to the
side OF the house high enough for the
fowls to reach it, but not so low that they
will betenlptcd 70 get into 1t with their
feet. The ends may be strengthened by
wire. See A in the drawing. This trough
is open at both ends though it would he "A