The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

At the Minnesota experiment. sta
ton it is believed that greater care
must be had in preparing silage for
sheep than for cattle. Sheep require
a sweet and dry silage. Tricky plant
ed corn cut before it is we'll matured,
does not make ideal silage for sheep.
Corn planted about like field corn.
harvested and put into the silo when
it begins to dent, has proven very
healthful to sheep, and they have
done we'll upon. If clover hay is fed
in conjunction with this silage, cheap
and satisfactory gains may be made
in sheep fattening
Investigations Which have been car
ried on for several years in Rhode
Island show that the disease known
as "black head" in turkeys is spread
! ing to all parts of the country and
that chickens as we'll as turkeys may
become victims. No certain cure has
yet been discovered for this disease
| which has so ravaged the turkey-pro-
ducing states of the East.
Much has been said and written
about the Importance of keeping dairy
utensils perfectly clean, but not SO
much about the churn, and If proper
care is not exercised in keeping the
churl sweet and clean, the butter
will be tainted, no matter how we'll
the milk has been cared for before
being ready for the churn.
It is we'll to remember that the
pigs must be kept growing from the
start if results are to be satisfactory
and if the sows and pigs are fed an
insufficient or unsuitable ration until
the work is out of the way so there
will De time to devote more attention
to them, valuable opportunity Will
be lost to the owner.
A distinct flavor of the soil has
been noticed in butter by French ex-
perts. Normandy COWS taken to
new locality yielded butter percept-
| IDLY changed, but not wholly IKE
that of the native COWS. In winter.
with concentrated food, the character
istic soil flavor disappears.
With the sheep on the farm the
problem of fresh meat for family use
is partly solved. Mutton butch
cred on the farm can nearly always
| be used to advantage and then you
will know whether you are eating
spring lamb or something else.
Sheep and other nervous animals
which are being fattened for market
should be kept as quiet as possible or
their feed will not do them the most
good. The more you handle all the
live stock in gentle and contld'ng
way the better they will do.
| We need no longer go to foreign
countries for new and better blood,
for the great number and high quail
ity Of American breeding establish
ments give ample scope for the
avoidance of the pernicious influence
of inbreeding.
In the past, and even at the present
time, most of the domestic onions
! that supply the markets of the large
cities of this country, are grown on
what is known as muck soil, in most
| cases land reclaimed by draining
swamps.
It is not always the best plan to
dispose of beef cattle as yearlings,
but in many instances in the corn belt
area it has come to be common
practice. and is followed by consid-
cradle number of cattle raisers.
The orchard is unquestionably the
ideal place for hog pasture. The
needed shade is provided. the hogs
will take care of the waste fruit and
If properly managed there need be no
damage to the trees.
II the cream is churned while sweet,
considerable quantities of butter will
be lost in the buttermilk, and the fin
ishcd product will be void of the
proper flavor, regardless of the ration
fed to the cows.
After the pigs have been put into
the fattening pen in the fall they
should be fed all that they will eat
with a relish for as rule the shorter
the fattening period the larger the
profits.
The average annual cost Of main
tanning farm work horse is approx
imately $50, and for this cost of main
tenance gives a return in work about
three hours per day throughout the
year.
There should not be wide discrep-
ancy between the value of the hog
house and its occupant. 1t is'as wrong
to put 800 sow in SO house as 1t
is to put $40 SOW in a $500 house.
A bullet that has had all the bone
II will eat will mature month quick
er than one that has had none. 1t
may be fresh bone or burnt bone-any'
kind of bone-just so it Is bone.
In purchasing new male birds, So
cure those that have something back
Of them In the line Of good ancestors.
The males are worth considering, for
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