The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-02-24
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STOCK
Fall Feeding Of Stock.


Most of our farmers are learning
that it pays to feed stock we'll during
the fall that they may go into the win
ter in good condition. find, however,
tnat here and there among my neigh
Dors is man that continues to de-
pend upon the pastures for most of the
iced his stock receives during the fall
months. This is not very bad during
the years when there is abundant rain
IAN from the end of August to the
tlme when the pastures freeze. but
tnere have been great many years
When the falls were very dry, when
there was almost no rain fall during
september and October. The pastures
OF course had no chance to recover
from the August drouth. The habits
tnat these men had formed in the
years when pasturage was abundant
remained with them through the dry
years, and more than once have seen
these farmers starting their stock into
winter In condition that could not
pe improved upon for months There
IS an old saying that well summered
IS half wintered." Generally, stock
Will look after itself during the first
nail OF the summer, for food is al
most always abundant in the spring
and early summer, but it is far. other
wise after midsummer. The man that
does not feed his stock all that they
can use during the latter half of the
growing season will find that it will
cost great deal more to winter them
tI-
IMAM 1t would otherwise cost. He will
save money if he will use some of the
surplus feed in the fall months when
it is needed. have known Of men
that did not feed their cattle mouth
1ul OF hay until they were put up for
the winter, and yet when spring came
they had a great deal Of. hay left
That same hay could have been fed
out IN the fall months to very great
advantage to the stock.-Joseph Bow
Ter, Carroll Co., Ind, in Farmers Re-
view.
The Horses Teeth.
Ihe teeth of the horse
should receive attention and
at the first indication that, 1vt1s;zsz ;;z
is wrong with the mouth of the horse
| veterinarian that knows his busi-
ness Should be called. The graduating
OF SO many competent veterinarians
is good thing for the horse, which
IN the past has suffered many things
because his owner did not know that
anything could be the matter with
him. Horses have toothache as we'll
as other animals and human beings,
and sometimes the horse needs the
dentist quite as badly as people do.
Horse dentistry is a new feature of
veterinary science, as it came in only
with the advent of the qualified veter-
marian.
Distribution of BIooded Hogs.
Probably pure-bred hogs are more
widely distributed than any other class
of farm animals. Go where we will in
the United States it is not difficult to
find hogs that hear the unmistakable
signs of being well bred. There is no
such impediment in the way of pure
breeding of hogs as there is in the
pure breeding of cattle and horses,
namely, the expense of using a blood
ed sire of good conformation. Blood
ed hogs early began to be exported
from one country to another. as we see
by the records of the importation into
England Of the hogs of China and 9TH
er parts of Asia, and the subsequent
expectation from England of the new
breeds that had been developed.