Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-09
live STOCK TOPICS
BRIEFLY DISCUSSED
snappy Paragraphs of Interest to
Farmers. Dairymen and
Stock Raisers.
Live Ideas About Proper Care and
Handling of Horses, Cattle,
Sheep and Swine.

Hogs like a little sulphur, and it is
good for them-in fact. they are I'M
thrifty without il. The best ways of
giving it to them. also the worst ways.
have just been determined by the Iowa
experiment station.
! Mixing copperas tsuphate OF ironl In
the feed seemed to be bad practice.
1t induced securing. When pigs had
free access to sulphur in different
forms they liked flowers of sulphur
best of all. Glauber salt tsulphate OF
soda) was their second choice.
One eighty-pound hog will eat Of his
own accord about q quarter pound Of
sulphur a month, and there is no dan
ger OF his eating more of 1t than is
good for him. Let them eat what they
want but don't, except under dfrecpon
of veterinarian. put 1t In their food
or drink. Even then don't do 1t unless
you know him to be an exceptionally
good veterinarian.
We consider oilmeal little better
feed, on the whole, than cottonseed
meal. says Hoard's Dairyman. Oilmea!
Is not as rich. in protein as cottonseed
meal. but it contains other properties
which give IL preferences. HIS 10
especially true II there are no stlase or
roots to feed. Oilmeal has good diet
tic effect upon the animals digestion
In other words. 1t tends to overcome
the constipating effect of dry feed II
helps to keep the animals digestion In
good condition.
Three of Americas biggest hogs are
Jumbo Prince. shown at the Iowa state
fair, weight, 1.O05 pounds: Long Chief.
at Indiana state fair. 1,01o pounds.
and Big Tim. Nebraska state fair, l,l2o
pounds.
land China breed and were active ana
not overfat.
The figures given here are actual
scale weights.
Under normal conditions we would
| not expect COW to vary in rat test,
but cows starved or materially under
fed are liable to produce milk some
what lower in fat per cent than
normal Cows calving in fat condi-
ton will produce milk testing higher
than normal for short time. as they
seem to convert a part of their body
fat into milk fat. The sest Will, how
ever. soon return to normal A change
of feed or a greater amount OF feed
will often cause the COW to give
| greater quantity of milk and so in
crease the total quantity of the but
ter fat produced. but her rat test
will not be materially altered from the
normal As general proposition IT
may be sta ted that the percentage or
fat in a given cows milk cannot be
materially altered for any considera BILE
/ | time by the kind or amount of feed
i she receives. Not only is this judgment
founded on experimental work. but
, | reason alone should tell US that II the
fat test of milk varied with every
change of feed and care the life of the
animals young would be seriously
, ieopardized because they are dependent
| on this milk. Reason and experience
. both confirm the statement that fat
| cannot be fed into milk.
Your horse may intend to please you.
|. but does not understand your wishes.
Pigs give the quickest return for
money invested. but carefulness and
neglect will turn the profits to loss.
This is no fault Of the pigs.
} At this season of the year a dry
sheep.
If there were fewer whips in the
world there would be fewer ugly
! horses.
If the pigs are uneasy and squeaIing
what it is.
awhile. They are apt to grow long and
bothersome.
How much do you pay your ,nilkers'
There is no work more important on
the farm. Cheap mixers ruin cows and
get less milk.
Buttermilk should be sold wherever
cream Is sold. Arrange to supply the
people in your town with good butter
milk.
| 1t is better to cooperate and pur-
| ri "a better
blood in your herd than to cooperate
to try to hold up the price of milk
produced by poor cows.
The dairyman who does not keep
records and test his cows for butter
fat may well be compared to a mer-
chant who sells goods on credit yet
does not set down in writing any or
| the credit accounts. Test: don't guess.
In making a long drive let the horses
| start out slowly for the first few miles.
You can then increase their speed. and
| the trip will be made In a shorter time
| than if they had been driven fast at
| the start.
IAaggie 150934 has broken the record
for fat production in the senior four
year class of the seven day division by
producing in seven consecutive days
| 1886 pounds milk containing 34,30S
pounds fat. She freshened at the age
| of four years eleven months nineteen
days Her sire is Ormsby Jane Paul
1854 and her dam is Segis Aaggie
Netherland S2613. She was bred by
] Ernest NJ. johnson of New York and
! New York.
Oats are good for breeding sows and
shoats, but not for fattening stock. Too