HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 421, 12 May 1904, Page 6

HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Improve the pastures. Epsom's salts are the best physic for ,<!;(• CGW. :■ : S " There'should be ample pasture for .'"..1-:!-'.: •'ino. Ve:.ter drive the horse fast up hill *• --. it dowihbiil. ■■-•■■■■«-.'■....• ■.,---,-.-,.*,.,- ays feed any animal light when ' ■•■';|';.;nu; : t«P§ei|. . J *;V>''" " ''Vr.in the Trog of the horse's foot bei.v- hard, use poultice. ' ,,i;il solas to facilitate , .-I:.-;, the.swine. '-i.-.o !.ir may be.smeared over the : ' s 'yo' slieep.jfor sniffles. "('.-!"■!ibilges can"Tje fed profitably to vviue. «iid.they arc a cheap feed. . !*' ■.vclr-red charcoal is nfeab-sorlieut :>".iia*s in in tp: animal. As a rule it B©£s not tempt . . of rid .-;.'.*>ui; bjgkwjiith 'puts.,n'i-ed-hoi - ■.' an vdiir horse's foot, gflrto;u black- ■ "|n.<t,4is'Tmpcir.taji'! lu carefully -■'*"" ;-*t_'| he breeding stottic'f or fi?'i|les as it &i*.tf iVorses'^ \ 'V ".'.''•-'•f' »' %.,' : ;.'t ybjiir"^fs l e;crlibs,;Kejl'hi l m,is the r. n■'^of.a writer; an&OUTadviecitLs, dor't uv such a horse'. • ' v fM -'he ;;->•'it is-not !ii#lfctandit : ttJ|t||kes the '■J;, iracter of objects, . ..'„'. fpfj f * ol ' horse,'.-.Aldose;-of, M#y "itpple root Vivi 11 .out the .'■np'itfuilf r - ; : -i ■ ?<'|negWto^break' v ;'-he ;;eol>3 i it to ..Hcl'ig-handle'd tied. :,;,,:.! ;.I?e faUxMiing process, jt-may be nine;. ----fli'tflter than, if they ay<£con;fined for-i ]X'riod.—Western .Plowman. "' ''""' " u—l—. — -Md~ " fc

Function** of Live Stock. The stock;on the : be' to consume all ihe food products rqi.sed and i ct, 1 n ( < a fair,' price for tlie food consumed; to convert coarse material into higher- priced prcducts of the fertftizfng materials e.c-.-.-sumed. If his live stock for the food cQusumed'.iM farmer has mtnW what would Reconsidered .a rejagcnnT:"-. profit hi, other,,,lines,, ot business —tl:a jncrenJt-(L fertility of biVkyr:d..i£ of s*-. •£elf a* profit, apd*oiie \vh : ch is qttrie' "often entirely overlooked.— RuwKWJIrU} ;>.-?, ~ i ■ '■'■■'■■■. •■'•• /'«■''