The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-01-25
With the Live Stock and Poultry.

I With the Live Stock and Poultry
/ Never whip horse when he SHES
| It will increase his fear.
! In fittingshorses for hard work in
crease the grain ration, but not the
hay.
Horses are very fond of variety
and fussing always pays in the better
condition and greater usefulness Of
the horse.
The sheep know their masters
| voice-but there is no doubt abou,
that; but it is more important to know
what they do when they hear it
whether they flee in fear or come
with expectancy.
Sheep, like other animals, are crea-
lures Of habit, and should always be
handled by the same attendant, who
should move among them gently and
give notice of his approach by speak
ing to the flock.
4 Take care that none of the soapy
water from the house gets into the
milk fed the hogs. Almost sure to
cause bowel troubles.
Ground oats, wheat bran and little
oil-meal, together with some alfalfa
or clover hay, will keep the brood
sows from becoming feverish.
If a young pig becomes chilled,
take it to the house and plunge it in
warm water las hot as you can bear
on your hand) several times, and then
wrap in warm flannel and put in a
warm place.
Don't let the cows out in the storms
to stand around. 1t doesn't pay.
1t is best to reduce the milk pro-
ducing food, SO that a mature COW
will dry and rest for a month to six
weeks before calving.
The first milk of the cow is of a |
peculiar character called colostrum-I
acting as purgative, and this puts the
bowels of the young calf in perfect
working condition.
Keep little gas-tar on hand and
apply it for scaly legs.
You can tell a laying hen as far as
you can see her. Her comb is always
bright and healthy looking.
February Matched chicks are apt to
mott in the fall, and will not be worth
for egg production in winter.
Turkeys more than any other poul-
try seem to require fresh air. They
will roost in trees during snow-storm
and not seem to mind it a bit.
Forcing laying hens with stimulants
of any kind, except those nature sup
plies in good food, is dangerous and
costly process in the long run.
Soak stale bread in sweetskim-milk,
press out the milk as completely as
possible, and feed the chicks. Also
Keep coarse sand before them; with
,ut it the chicks can not grind their
God.
Put some oats in box that will not
eak; wet them thoroughly with warm
water, cover them we'll, let them !!
stand one whole day, then turn them
nto box that does leak. Keep put
ing warm water on them morning
md night till sprouts are we'll started. |
Spread them out thinly, moisten more,
md keep this up till the sprouts are
# the. required length. Some folks
ct them grow foot long. No finer
east for the birds than oat sprouts.
Hens will soon be bringing good
'rices, and the high price will tempt
many farmers to sell their hens off too
loosely. 1t will pay the average
armer to keep goodly number of |
lens the year around. When hatch l
ng time comes, if incubators and .
'rooders are not used, it takes several r
lens to do the work of Matching and
caring the chicks, and we like to
ave enough others to keep the egg
asket filled. Eggs to sell every
week means a small bill at the
rocery. Can't have the eggs unless
We hold on to enough hens.-From
'ebruary Farm Journal