HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Livestock and Dairy
Knowing the Market Demands and Raising Stock to Meet R.
WOBK THE STALLIONS.
MERE is no stallion so good that ha
I will not be a lot betteT if he is
worked daily in the harness and
made to take hij turn in all the hard
labor of the farm. What is there about
b station that he shonld be condemned
oitner to a life of luxurious ease or neg
lect more or less total! Few stallions
kpp' for service in the count .
proper care indeed few of them get
"j own. ox care at all during the win
ter season. Generally they are main
tained on a starvation diet and allowed
w grow hair several inches long, in
wtuch all manner of filth and vermin
ntay collect at will. Stalls are seldom
eleaned out, and as for cleaning up the
exercising yard, that is never thought
Why should so many stallions be
kept in this obnoxious wayt Take any
one of the farm horses and submit it
to the same treatment and it would go
wrong in a short time. Why then ex
pect a stallion to withstand such ill
treatment simply because he is a stal
Bon No matter what the horse cost,
break him and put him to wort His
fiant thews and sinews, if he is a
drafter, will be a tower of strength in
8n? P'ow and the manure spreader.
He wifl haul logs out of the Umber with
u properly handled he is the
pteasantest worker imaginable, beeause I
aiways unafraid and generally
swre intelligent than geldingB or marcs.
It is ail in the man who handles the
rtalllon. Thtn in addition to keeping
the horse in a mneb more healthy con
dition, continued labor in the harness
Win make and keep him docile and
men more easily handled than if he
is neglected and left to himself to form
bad habits, mental and physical. There
a Dig dividend in working an entire
. home, no matter what he cost.
Demand For Veal Increasing
Not Only the Surplus Dairy Calves Slaughtered, but Thousands
of Beef Calves.
f(QE demand for veal has in
I creased rapidly, and not only
are the surplus dairy ealves
slaughtered, lint )nn....
calves as well, until a ealf will now
sell for from $8 to $12 when only two
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- h"uuu irom rentier's Bul
letin 588 of tha it a t
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i B ujcaus inaj unless the farm
Ar has nnT.:x-j .i . .
, uuuuin.eu cneap feeds, it is
usually more profitable to market the
attempt to raise them, even though
n ox mem might make good steers.
While many deplore this heavy slaugh
ter nt ifll
.- , uu .rgiwiiuon against it
has been urged, the consumer's demand
must be met.
While the number of t... a
creased, the demand for meat has natu
rally grown until not only have the
exports nearly ceased, but the packers
that they may provide cheaper meat
are now buying many cattle that were
iormcriy led. The f.irtnir h fnml.
erly bought nearly finished cattle as
ieeuers nave been compelled to pay
higher prices for sueh cattle or tn tako
inmner animals.
ine eattle-feedincr tinainom hn
changed treat! v durins recent
Formerly steers from four to six years
oi age were led in larpe numbers nn
commercial feed at yards near primaries
or mills, or upon large farms where
oiuy tne roughage was grown, and the
cattle were kept on lull feed for 1t
months or longer. This method became
too expensive, so feeding is now con
ducted upon farms as a means nf m
keting farm products by converting
mem into Deei. While th irmnnro r..
dueed is utilized as a bv-nronW tn.
I . . , m r -
'maintaining Iertiiity.
Sour Skim Milk For Calves
Unnecessary to Go to the Expense of Keeping Milk Sweet in
the Hot Summer Months.
FEED COWS EEOULAELY.
IV 0OW8 are fed at stated intervals,
they wiU not worry for food until
e lor feeding arrives. If it
is then eriven to them in nn. .....
tOj they will eat and lie down, chow
i coa ana sleep or rest contentedly
natal time for another teA TN
tie grain mixture, and milk the cows
wnue incy are eating it. This routine
tt recommended because, with some
eows, the milk comes more freely while
they are eating that portion nf ;.
ration which has the most relish. Cured
rougnago Bn0ull be fed after milking
because it fills the Air in iha kn
With dust. Bueenlent feed, like silage
uu roots snouia also be fed after milk
ing, beeause of lhn nrW thot ; :
gives.
feeding twico a day will bring better
remms toan more irequent and waste
ful feeding. Give half the concentrates
and half the roughage in the morning,
and half in the evening. Cows will soon
beome accustomed to this routine. In
the winter they should be allowed to
spend the day in the stall, and for two
or three Honrs about mid day they
should not be disturbed. Turning them
oat into the yard, or giving them ac
cess to a strawstaek or field of corn
talks wiU cause them to shrink in
milk, no matter how much or how well
they may be fed in the morning and
c.cmiig. no more feed should be given
them than they wiU eat up. The man
gers should be absolutely clean and free
from any feed during the day and night.
THAT in summer time ealves do as
well on sour skim milk as they do
on sweet will be interesting news
to many farmers who hav hitiwn
been kept from raising calves by the
ejipeoBe or Keeping the milk sweet in
hot weather. This expense, niwrlrn.rii
earried out by the department indicate
w ob quite unnecessary. The calves will
uiiuj as rapid gams on sour skim milk.
In winter, it is true, this is not quite
so satisfactory. It chills th Pulvaa on i
some of them drink it With (rrttuf m.
luetance. Very young ealves have even
been known to refuse it altogether. On
the other hand, of eouran. it ! mh
easier to keep the milk sweet in win.
tcr.
In calling the attention nf fim.
theso facts, however, the department
at the same time emphasizes an im.
portant precaution. Unless the milk is
produced and kept under cleanly con
ditions it may become contaminated
with disease-produeini? bacteria Vim
ere should therefore allow the milk to
sour quiekiy and then feed it without
aeiay.
In the course of these exnerimAnta
sour skim milk was fed tn s. .ai
Holstcins, Jerseys and Guernseys, at
Altt ' . ... "
vmicien reasons or the year, in no
case did it eause dicestiva distnrh.
anccs even when the change from sweet
io sour miiK was made abruptly when
the calves were only a few Avn
Moreover no evil remilte followed the
alternate use of, sweet and sour. It
seems, therefore, that the common idoa
that sour milk leads to scours is quite
unxounaea.
The ealves. it was found, did nt lit.
the sour milk as well as the sweet, but
in the majority of eases soon Wim
accustomed to it. The aversion, how
ever, increased when the milk was fed
mem at a low temperature.
that they can get all they want to eat,
bring them down at nicht and irivn thm
a nice, bright shock of hay and a little
glim, me ewes need this if the Iambs
are to be kept growing.
That old ewe micht have lrnmM
2.50 last faU, and the two lambs trot
ting at her side will bring S5 or $8
in July. ,
An old ewe or two mir a;. j
the winter, but you can lose one out
of three and stiU make it pay to keep
them at $2 to $3 per head.
If the coarse hay in the mangers is
given to sheep they will nibble a gTcat
deal of it away.
The sheep is a dainty feeder and will
not eat musty or unclean bay or fodder.
Neither will sheep drink unclean wa
ter.
It is strange that some men will in-
sist in raising a scrub ram when a
thoroughbred costs so little in compari
son to the improvement he will nialtu in
his flock.
Our sheen farmers are beffinninsr tn
learn that thev need Permsnent him.
tures increased yearly in productive
ness oy nigh fertilizing.
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What do you think
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3,000,000 Acres
FINE FEEE HOMESTEADS
Montana Deeded Lauds
$8 to $40 an Acra
Beady for the plow.
Yields 30 to AO bu. wheat,
Oata, barley, flax, hay, etc., in
proportion.
Finest Inland CJlaate.
Land Sold on Crop Payment
Plan.
Low fare Homeseekers ' Ex
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Tuesdays of each month.
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C. M. ft ST. P. ET.
2nd and Cherry, Seattle, Wash,
Helpful Hints
DO NOT let anyone deceive you by
telling you that buck lambs will
bring you as much money as weth
r lambs, for they will not do it.
Castrate all male lambs at eight days
to two weeks of age, and any good
operator wUl not lose one out of 100.
Dip all your sheep as soon as shear
ing is over. While you are at it, just
dip the lambs too, as the tieks will leave
the shorn ewes for the wooly Iambs.
Just as long as a ewe "holds her
teeth" it will pay to keep her for a
breeder, as ewes breed Iambi up to
quite an advanced age.
The sheep get uneasy as soon as the
hot weather comes on unless they get
out in the ground. It is a good plan
other! Her sweet face met my gaze
If the pastures are not high enough so
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