Middletown transcript., 1908-08-08
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS
Good care will tend to ward off hog
cholera.

cholera.
Hogs with solid feet, or feet not cleft,
are being bred. A new organization
called the Mule Foot Swine Breeders As
sociation is said to have just been formed.
Experienced horsemen generally be-
lieve that crushed oats are not nearly as
suitable as whole oats for horses requir
ed to be in hard condition and worked at
fast PAGES. Crushed oats are not as con-
ducive to hard condition and bard muscle
in horses as are whole oats, which fact
renders it advisable to feed oats in their
natural state in preference to crushed
ones in all cases where hard condition is
OF Importance.
Why salt should be regularly supplied
to stock is thus put by famous Eng
lish authority: Because in the blood
Of animals there are six or seven times
more sodium than potassium, and that
the composition of the blood is constant.
To keep animals in good health definite
amount OF common salt must be assimilat-
ed. The excess of potassium salts in
vegetable foods causes by chemical ex
change an abnormal loss of COMMON salt.
This is proved by the fact that the crav-
ing of an animal for common salt is most
noticeable when the food contains large
proportion of potassium salts, such as
wheat, barley, oats potatoea, beans and
peas. The addition Of salt to animal food
increases the appetite, promotes the re-
pair Of tissue by its searching diffusion
rathrough the body, and stimulates the
rapid using up OF its waste products. Bous-
singault's experiments showed that salt
increases muscular vigor and activity,
and improves their general appearance
and condition.
Indigestion in calves may be due to
eostivenesa, a too liberal supply of milk,
too rich milk, the furnishing Of the milk
COW long after calving to very young
calf, allowing the calf to suck the first
milk of a COW that has been hunted,
driven by road, ship by rail or otherwise
violently excited, allowing the calf too
long times between meals, so that, i'm
PEELED by hunger. it quickly overloads
and clogs the stomach; feeding from
pail of milk that has been held over in
unwashed (unscaledl buckets, so that it
is fermented and spoiled; feeding the
milk of COWS that have been kept on un.
wholesome food; keeping calves in cold,
damp, dark, filthy or bad smelling pens.
A fine of $500 for the third offense
against the Canadian fruit marks act
should have a deterring effect upon the
fraudulent marking and packing OF fruit.
Thus are Canadian fruit-growers bound
to 60 to the head by practically prohibit
ing the packing and shipping of inferior
fruit.
A cultiyator with square-pointed
shovels is the best type to use among the
raspberries.
The orchard may make good pasture
but it is not good plan to make a pas
ture of the orchard.
Moss can be we'll cleaned from fruit
trees by spraying during the dormant
season with concentrated lye-one pound
to six gallons of water. This gives &
clean bark, not only making the trees
look better, but contributing to theil
thrift by destroying the parasity growth
which renders the bark bard and brittle
The Missouri Experiment Station hal
just found by repeated tests that the
cheapest gains OH hogs were made BY
feeding skim milk and corn. Hog raising
and dairying 60 together, and togethe
furnish safe and sure income for thl
farm.
| Keep the cattle out OF the wet, mir!
pastures uless you want to loose some o
the weaker ones. The marsh pastures
should be saved for later in the sea
son, and the cattle should be kept oil
high land at this time.
Stagnant water is unfit for any anima
todrink,
An excellent liniment for all kinds o
swellings on dairy cows, as we'll as ol
other farm animals is made of equal part
of turpentine, sweet oil and spirits o
camphor. Apply literally and frequent
| ly to the swollen parts.
Many young bulls are ruined at thi
time of the year by letting them haV
free range with the herd. They ar
likely to overexert with excessive service
and also get into the bad habit Of tearin
down fences, etc.
The following remedy for securing il
pigs is recommended by veterinar
surgeon: Wash their feed troughs thol
oughly with hot water and soap. Rims
with cold water and then wash wit
soda and water. Do this every morning
Their milk should be kept as cool 8
possible and free from contaminatin
influences. Discontinue their run o
grass. Put a little powdered sulphat
copper in the water they drink-nc
over two or three grains to each pig.
There is an objection 10 alsike by som
farmers, it is claimed. for the reason thi
its foliage has slightly bitter taste, an
stock do not take to it as readily as the
do to red clover, but they will learn
eat it in a short time if they are allowe
no other grass.
= Nature has provided leguminOus crol
for every part of the earth where it VI
intended that man should farm. Co
peas, aoy beans and Japan clover in IL
South, crimson clover in the Eastern slop
red clover in the Central States alfalfa
the West and Canada peas in the Mort
show how thoroughly the distribute
has been effected.
See that the names, as we'll as the &C
lar, is properly adjusted. You may thl