Warren sheaf., 1910-02-03

Prince Edward Island, Canada, rais-
ed last year 10000 geese and 100000
turkeys, large per cent of these
birds being exported to this country.
Z Exercise is u 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 IA 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 sin
gle animal Of about the same weight
sold for an even $40 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
by projects at present completed or
under way 100000 acres at a cost
placed at $70,OOO,OOO, or an average of
$35 per acre.
The hens Of the country never did
so big business as during 1909, the
total value Of poultry products being
$625,OOO.OOO, of which amount the val
ue Of eggs alone was $780, 100000. The
total egg crop Of the year is placed at.
1,5OOOOO,OO0 dozen and cost the con-
sumer, at from 80 to 60 cents per doz-
en-, close to $54O,OOO,OOO.
1t 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 considerably larger
quantity Of fruit
Generally speaking, roup in chickens
Is 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-
tion and inserting a cornstalk brace
Of the desired length. If from q stalk
Of sufficient size such a brace is both
strong and light, while the ends are
easily notched with a sharp knife to
at the limbs ON which they are to rest.
A large per cent Of the hogs pro.
duced in the south would be a real
curiosity at a fat stock show. not hav-
ing been perverted by the artificial
conditions imposed by their owners.
Such hogs range wild in woods and
swamps, live on grass, roots, acorns
and grubs, breed at will and are
slaughtered at two or three years Of
age. weighing from so to 1875 pounds.
a far cry to the corn belt porker that
tips the scales at $50 when ten months
old.
The practice followed by some of
feeding spoiled or moldy corn or grain
with a view to saving it is very
questionable one, merely from the
standpoint Of dollars and cents, often
impairing the condition and retarding
the development Of a feeding animal
to an extent greater than the value of
the feed involved. 1t is safe to as
sumo that it is much the same with
animals as with human beings-that
what they do not eat with a relish
does them little good and often harm.
Many an animal abundantly equip
ped with pedigree is put up at the
dispersion sale as a full blooded ami
NAL fit for breeding purposes when in
appearance and getup it is essentially
a scrub and instead Of becoming sire
or dam-the progenitor of other scrubs
to be converted into beefsteak
or pork chops and it's pedigree used
to light the fire. Atavism, this tend
ency in an animal to show scrub
traits of an ancestor, is perhaps more
often seen in cattle than in sheep or
hogs. but when it or other disqualifi-
cations appear in any pedigreed ami
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