Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-03-20
HELPFUL ADVICE To GOAT
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ar the top. / have draining bosrt
the same width as the vat, with cleat,
running disgonslly to the center st
that the dip. will run back into the
vat, as it drains of of the goat. Two
persons are required to work at dip
ping to an advantage, one at each END
of the goat. In using any of the
poison dips (Which l believe to be the
most effictive). the utmost care must
be taken to prevent any of the fluid
from entering the mouth or nostrils.
in order to prevent this, place one
hand over the mouth and with the
thumb and index fingers of the sams
hand. hold the nostrils of the goat
Follow the directions on the package
of idp, carefully. Almost any of the
standard dips are all right,
I always have the water
lukewarm. and it does more efffce-
tive work. AS to sheds, almost any
thing that is warm and dry will suf.
fee: but think it pays to build good
sheds. OF course the size Of your
sheds would be governed by the size of
your flock. If l were to build again
l think I would arrange to have a
driveway through the center of the
barn, or perhaps to drive into the
center of the barn and have sheds on
three sides; have q loft for my hay
and trap doors to force down into box
racks placed in the center of the
sheds. In this way, there is very lit
tie waste and the feeding can be done
in half the time. Feed any kind Of
hay but timothy make my racks Of
1x4 stuff with IA inch board at the
lower part and posts Of AKA. The
space between the lower board and the
IA strip above should be seven inches.
There is very little waste in feeding
in this rack. Your driveway could
be utilized as q kindding pen by cut
ting 1t up with hurdles. - prefer
to have the sheds floored and well up
off the ground.
Much depends on the arrangement
OF Your pastures. II possible divide
them; and then subdivide. Do not
keep them too long in one pasture.
Keep one pasture fresh for their
winter ranges; as that lis the trying
time for an Angora. Goats like
brush; but they are also very partial
to grass. If you haven't the grass,
SOW some forage plant for them. In
the valley we SOW clover and the
dwarf essex rape. They are very fond
of this and get in good condition on it
in very short time. l anu wintering
76 head, on five acres Of rape, that
was sown July /. but did not come
up until along in September. l feed
them Just little hay to balance the
rations. This feed will last until
about May 1. when l will take them
think that alfalfa would be good feed
for them.
Coyotes, no doubt, will cause yor
more or less trouble. The depart
ment has recommended poisoning aut
gives explicit directions as to how tt
drag the bait in radiating lines from
given center and how to prepare
sort of musk to sprinkle over the bal
and around in the vicinity of it anC
tells how yop must use new gloves
with which to handle the bait anC
that you must drag a beef hide an6
whenever you alight from your horse
alight on the beef hide. Now al
this sounds very nice and seems yer!
plausible, but the coyote is too cut
to be taken in with any such propo
sition. They are always on TIT
move and while Mr.. M-serve or Mr.
Harmon are putting out poison her
in the vicinity of Grants Pass, tb
coyote that has been doing all TIL
mischief is in all prubsbni'y kll!nl
goats for DIN foeller over on Trai
Creek, hack of Menford. Mar
Twain says that it is not uncommon
for coyote to travel 80 miles befor
breakfast. l have tried to poiso
them and 10 trap them. but withou
success. find that the only practi
cal method to eliminate them, is t
get good blooued hounds, in eac
loslty and have regular .liont day
end everyone turn out and do bushes
with the coyotes. Have an undel
standing with the people over th
neigboriDg creeks. that in case yor
dogs should RON a coyote over thsI