The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-02-15


birds being exported to this country.
Exercise is a law or requirement Of
health with hens as other animals. 1t
is on this account that they will lay
best when scratching most-because
in the best physical condition.
Somewhat oddly, perhaps. the best
way to take the chill from ones hands
is to put them in cold water, and the
best way to reduce frost bitten noses
and ears Is to apply handful Of snow.
December saw the highest prices
ever paid for steers on the Chicago
market. One bunch Of nineteen. aver
aging 1872 pounds in weight. brought
$3.50 on the open market, while sim
gle animal Of about the same weight
sold for an even SO per hundred
weight
There are 100000 acres of land in
the United States susceptible to recla-
nation by irrigation. OF this area
there will have been reclaimed by 1911
under way 100000 acres at a cost
placed at $7O,OOo.OOO, or an average Of
$50 per acre.
The hens Of the country never did
SO big a business as during 1909. the
total value of poultry products being
$6o5, 900, Of which amount the val
ue Of eggs alone was $500, 100000. The
total egg crop Of the year is placed at
1,5OO,OOo,OOO dozen and cost the con-
sumer, at from 80 to 90 cents per doz-
en-, close to $40. 100000.
It is a quite generally accepted fact
that apples from an orchard kept in
sod are better colored. but smaller in
size, than those from trees given con-
tinuously clean cultivation. A further
fact that seems to have been demon
strated is that the trees under the lat
ter condition not only attain a greater
size. but produce a considerably larger
quantity of fruit.
Generally speaking, roup in chickens
is a chronic cold or catarrh brought on
by housing under damp and unfavora.
BILE conditions or allowing the flock to
roost where direct drafts will strike
them. Dry feet and freedom from
drafts are the best preventives. Roup
is not only brought on by the condi.
tions referred to, but is contagious as
well when once it gets foothold.
Much can be done to give the limbs
Of young pear and apple trees which
grow too close in the right direction by
| pulling them out to the proper posi-
| ton and inserting cornstalk brace
| of the desired length. II from a stall
Of sufficient size such a brace is both
| strong and light, while the ends are
| easily notched with q sharp knife t.
fit the limbs on which they are to rest
A large per cent of the hogs pro
duced in the south would be a rea
curiosity at a fat stock show. not hav
ing been perverted by the arti6cia
| conditions imposed by their owners
Such hogs range wild in woods ant
swamps. live on grass, roots, acorn!
and grubs, breed at will and are
slaughtered at two or three years O.
age. weighing from so to 125 pounds
far cry to the corn belt porker tha
tips the scales at $50 when ten months
old.
The practice followed by some o,
feeding spoiled or moldy corn or grair
with a view to saving it is a very
| questionable one. merely from tn,
| standpoint Of dollars and cents. Otter
impairing the condition and retardin,
the development Of a feeding anima
to an extent greater than the value o
the feed involved. 1t is safe to as
sumo that it is much the same will
animals as with human beings-tha
what they do not eat with a relisl
does them little good and often harm.
Many an animal abundantly equip
ped with pedigree is put up at tn
dispersion sale as a full blooded ami
NAL fit for breeding purposes when il
appearance aud getup it is essential.
a scrub and instead OF becoming sir
or dam-the progenitor of other scrub
ought to be converted into beefstea
or pork chops and its pedigree use
TO light the fire. Atavism. this tend
ency in an animal to show scru
traits of an ancestor, is perhaps NOR
often seen in cattle than in sheep O
hogs. but when it or other disQualif
cations appear in any pedigreed an
NAL 1t should serve as a bar to its sal
as a breeding animal.
When the owners Of fruit ranches /
the Grand valley. Colorado tough