Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1889, Page 8

OF INTEREST T0 THE, FARMER The Value of Harly Maturity in Ra! ing Cmtln For Market. SALT FOR THE DAIRY STOCK. Cows Shonld All Timos~Winter Breedine Hogs — Ualves—Bees. Have Access to It at Care of Pall Bnrly Maturity. It requires good managment at cnc prices to raise and fatten cattle and realize a fair per cent profit. Unn item in this is early maturity, writes a correspondent of the Western Agriculturist. The small amount of food saved while the stock is making a slow growth is more than made up by the time required to mature. . Animals can be made ready for market at o less cost if o steady gain is secured from birth to maturit It may | require a little mo feed to maintain a steady growth than to only keop them alive, but by pushing they can be made ready for market when past two years old, while otherwise it w 1l often require three, if not four, The longer an animal must be fed the greater tho risks, while all tho time that they are fod and no gain is gecured is adding that much to the | cost without a corresponding gain, It is, of course, an item to secure their | gain at as low o cost 18 possibl Good shelter, regular feeding and wateri are necessary, The kind of na that should be used will vary in difl ent localities, and what may be the omical in one locality will not prove so in another, and the farm m ust be able to determine this for him- self. A certain amount of food is necessary with each animal to maintain life and heaty these will come from the feed first | and the gain in growth or weight after- ward, so that a suflicient amount of feed more than is neces: to maintain ani- mal life must be supplied if a good wain | is secured, andif wellfed a rapid growth may be realized, The of couvso, | considerablo in the breed, but as yet we have no breed that will make a vigor- ous,healthy growth unless plenty of feed is supplied, and if an early maturity is secured good breed, good feed and rood caro must all be given and in propor- tion as these are supplied will be the growth of the animals. With cattle at the present time the cost must be lessened it will be difii- cult to realize a fair profit, and securing an carly maturity when it can be done wn.houl too much increase in the cost is an important item with cattle. pres- Salt tor Daiey Stook. We have never had any doubt of the fmportance of free access to salt by dairy stock. But we now and then meot with people who think salt an injury to both animals and men, and some have gone so far as to deprive their animals of salt altogether, except what they de- rive from the food they eat, every kind of which contains at least a trace of common salt, writes a correspondent 10 ¢he Nebraska Farmer, Lack of salt for cows used to be considered a cause for hard churning and is nowso considered by ‘muny good judges, who at once ad- minister salt to their cows as a. remedy . for the evil. Bnt in earliery days datry- men had not yev reached the point of keoping salt constantly within reach of their cows so they could at will help themselves. All these early no- tions were founded on tradition and loose obscrvation, but it is interesting to ‘mote how close- ly they agreo with modern scientific conclusions. The experiments of Euro- pean nations—uotably of the Erench— seems to have defimitely determined the value of salt for ail kinds of stock. Modern observers have reached the conclusion that salt is necessary to the best health and pesormance of a cow. Praf, Robertson of the Guelph experi- mental station, Ontario, Canada, says a serics of experiments convinced him that to deny cows salt for even one week reduces their flow of milk 143 to 174 per cent in quantity and lowers the Milk given when tke cows are of salt, he says, will sour hours sooner than that given when they have a full supply of it. 1t is greatiy velished by all animuls, which is strong presumptive evidence in its favor, and there cannot be a rea- gonablo doubt, at this late day, that salt is beneficial to them. Breed sows in Winter, It is not advisable to attempt to win- ter too many hogs. In fact, when it can/be done, it will prove more econom- fcal to have only the breeding stock— the sows and boars—to winter, says the Waestern Agriculturist. Whether the pigs are to come in Kebruary, March or , April, it is quite necessary to keep the sows in good condition. ‘They will do better and bring better pigs f they are only kept in a vigorous, healthy condi- gion than if fat. Neither the sow or boar will be as good a breeding animal it kept too fat. It 18 quite an item in wintering to lessen the cost as much as possible, and one very important item in doing this 18 to provide a warm, dry shelter. Un- less a much larger number than the average 18 kept, during the greater ‘part of the winter they can be kept to- gother and will do bettoer than if sop- for | | pounds ench. arated, They should have bedding supplied them, and this should be changod overy week or ten days in order to keep them free from lice. A woek or ten days before farrowing thoy should have a'separate pen so that ench sow can haven place to herself.and she should bo placed in her pen so that she will become aceustomed to it before farrowing. A sufficiont amount of bed- ding to make her comfortable should be rovided, and a A{ralluul change of feed made, especially if they have been . fed lavgely on corn, It is never a good plan with stock of any kind to make a ohunge of feed suddenly, and especially at this time. But corn is mcllfinea to make the sows Lflllflfl?llwd and feverish, and other materials that will loosen the bowels and secure a better condition w 1 prove more satistuctory, One of the best materials to use is wheat bean, ground outs and barley, Commence with a smull feed at first, decrensing the amount of corn and in- ereasing, daily, the amourt of this mix- ture until they are given all they will eat up clean. Waterregularly and let alone the rest of the time, An ear of corn and a bucket of bran slop should be given as soon ns she feels like getting up and Bnllllg it. Be careful about feeding until her milk comes, and then crowd her as much as ru»aihlg. That Il. ive her all she will eat up clean, aking up & good variety rather than dewndina upon any one material. ¥ Calves. The cow that ealves in the fall should give as much milk as the one which *oomes in” in the spring, and the milk must be of more value. Butter is al- ways high during the winter months. To make fall calving profitable, how- ever, there must be good care und warm quarters, If not well cared for by spring the cow will be nearly dried up 80 nearly that grass will Dot brin bor “'out ¢’ the kinks.” The fall call THE OMAHA DAILY ONDAY DECEMBER 23. may also be made as profitable as the spring calf, but it also requires better care. The most eritical period in the life of A call is the first six months, says the Nebragka Faemor. The spring calf has the advantage here of warm weather, sunshine and good pasture, aud what the fall calves lack 1n this direction we must make up for them by better care. Give them full milk until they are a week old; you can them gradually chungo it to skim milk. Skim milk fed in connection with oil meal boiled to a thin jelly is, as good for calves three weeks old and upwards as is now milk, tho oil meal must bo used with ¥ to use 100 much. f to eating =olid food s Tho call will quickly lo i s possible green foed isoxcellent and it quickl goos from these to driea feed. Clo hay is good and for grain a mixture of oats, corn and wheat bran may bo fed, Corn and oats should be ground very conrse. Ior the first six weeks give the calf all it will eat, and do not forget to water it, for milk alone is not suffie- ient to quench thivst, Winter Oar o There is but little opportunity doring winter to give hees attention, and the proper time to put them in shape is during the autumn months, Feeding should all bo done before cold weather sets i and they should be settled in theie winter quarters before real winter is at hand. It often occurs that win overtakes us with colonies that food. Jn such cuses wo cannot p use syrup for food, as the weath cold for the bees to seal it ov sealed stores will not serve winter, suys the American Agricul- turist, The moisture which always i from the bees in cold weather the \um-ulu! honey and dilutes \ln\\lml(-mnnn Our and un- erly for good i healthful it and administeced. It is by melting dding w little water—no move than will thoronghly melt the sugar—when itis boiled fora few minmtes and poured out into cakes or slates of three or four When cool this becomes very hard, almostliko rock candy. In fecaing this it is placed on frames just over the cluster of bees where they can have access to it av all times, When 1n this position it receives the heat arsing from the bees,and they re- main on it _all the tim It is so hard that it will last them a long while. This candy may be given bees at inter- vals during the winter, und colonies muy be brought through in good shape would have otherwise perished. This, o any other work that is neces- sary to do with bees in winter, should be done on warm days. It will not do to molest thom on a cold day, but it should al be done on days when the bees are flying ours rast Law. Thero is just now a very great inter- est 1n all parts of the west 0ver theout- come of the enforcement of the anti- trust law o Missouri. Under the pro- ‘L the secretary of state has been empa statements from the officers of all poratio) whether home or foreign, that they were 1n no trust, pool or com- bination which had for its object the artificial enhancement of the price of these products, Some mine hundred corporations have failed to furnish the affidavits, and the secretary has accord- ingly revoked their charters, and they are now deprived of the use of the courts to collect any debt in the state. It is not to he expected that the law witl be enforced without ere struggle, says the Towa Homestead. We notice man Neidringhaus of the tamping company will head the resistance to the law. In refusing to make the required aflidavit, the.at- torneys of the stamping company make the following claims: ‘Thav they are operating under patents granted by the United Stales; that some of their stockholders are living in other states, and that the Missouri law contemplates an abrogation of the interstate commerce rights granted by the constitution of the United States. For theso and other reasons they propose, as specdily as possible, to carry the secretary before the United States court, where the power of the state In the premises will be definitely determined. Nearly every kind of rascality tries to hide under a patent. Notico has been served on all foreign corporations that at the end of thirty days proceedings will be instituted against them in the courts. Wo hope that the farmers of Missouri will stand by the secrotary in his efforts to enforce the law. The Mis- souri law is not a toothless babe, like so many of the anti-trust laws. It hasa full set of teeth, and can take hold. We would like to see such laws in overy state. In fact, the states will be com- pelled, for the protection of the people, to0 enact and enforce them. Sunday on the Farm, We shall nover forget how clearly the sun shone and how still the winds were on those Sunday mornings of our childhood, muses the editor of the Iowa Howestead. The horses seemed to be half asleep asthey stretched theirnecks lazily over the fences,and the sleck oxen wandered leisurely over the hills, George ElLiot has a vivid deseription of a farmyard on Sunday moruing, She says: “You might hive known it was y if you had only waked up in the farmyard, The cocks and hens seemed to know it, aud made ouly croonng, subdued The very bulldog Jooked less sav as if he would have been satisfied with a smaller bite than usual. 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