Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-03-20

aud bring the dogs home and in case
their dogs come.your way do the same.
Coyotes, as you know like deer,
have certain Stands, which they
pass when the dogs are running them.
Place men on these stand, one man
in place, who are "stayers" and
shooters" and places them before
you start you. dogs. If your dogs are
all right you will be surprised at
success in killing your coyotes.
Don't take any brass band along and
don't have more than one man on each
stand and let them keep well secreted.
They are even more on the alert and
like the proverbisl war horse sent
scent the battle afsr off. but unlike
the horse, to scent the battle afsr
off is to skiddoo ill..farther of.
find that renegade dogs are about
as bad enemies of goats as the coyotes.
used to be troubled very much with
dogs and hesitated to shoot them.
even when l caught them in the very
act of chasing aud catching the goats.
When l would tell the owners about
it they would be very indignant over
il and say that their dogs never went
away from home. l have adopted
the plan Of keeping two guns at my
goat barn-a shot gun and rifle. If
dogs simply pass through the place 1,
do not molest them but if they chase
the Angoras plug them. OF course
they don't belong to the parties to
whom have gone to before about it,
because their dogs never 60 away from
homo
: A very important matter in hand.
ling goats is the care of their feet. l
do not think. however. that you will
be troubled so much here with their
feet, as We are, in the Willamette
valley. l find that the most effective
method to deal with fOotrot, or sore
feet in goats is to pare the foot with a
ssharp knife until it is like deers
foot, then dip the. foot into a solution
of Blue vitrol, white arsenic and
warm water. To .one gallon of hot
water and one pound blue vitrol and
two tsblespoonsful of white arsenic.
Keep this dip in wooden bucket as
it will very soon eat through a tin
vessel Foot rot is caused by a mi.
croscopic parasite, which gets between
the goats toes and eats into the foot.
When once established on range you
ill be bothered more or less with it.
If you are just getting a bunch of
goats | would suggest that you go
through them and dip their feet with
the above mixture. 1t may seem like
good deal of work, bat will pay YOU
we'll in the long run. While many
cases of losses in Angoras flocks is
due TO insufficient feed and shelter,
lack of dipping. etc. Ithey are not all
due to these causes. Did you ever
have your goats get weak, commence
to scour, get pale around the gills.
ewes dull and watery, hair stand on
end begin to lag behind the band. get
down and die in from three to Six
days, and all the while they were on
good feedH l have; and l lost about
100 goats before l found what was
the matter. The cause was intestlus
parasites aud / lost about 20 more
goats before hit on remedy. l feed
this vermifnge regularly to my goats,
putting it in their salt and have moi
had the least recurrence of the
trouble.
| am often asked when is the pro'
per time to breed? That OF course,
depends. Have you a small flock
and plenty of shed room aud some
: xreen feed coming on? Then turn II
YOUR buck October /, so the kids will
, commence coming March l. If you
have a large flock. turn your buck IL
| Wltn Iilt uOto dpOhb -
that the kids will commence comins
April /.
, We almost always have good
| weather in May, hut it always seemed
: TO me that May kid was lacking il
! vitality. l would prefer to have then
g come earlier in the season. have
j breeding pens Sxs. that will accom-
t modste four does with their babies
. also have hurdles, so that / can Gu
o off a corner of one of these pens for
b doe due to kid or one with yer.
: young one. When doe kids. tax
s hand shears and shear her be II.
:. and cut the mohair we'll out OF he
g flank and see that the little fello'
II nurses and there is no more trouble I
n 7 I.t thu suckliuR does out ever