Farm and Garden.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 87, 19 June 1908, Page 4

Farm and Garden.

To force the pig to live on foods as j bulky relatively as would be suitable i for the horse would be a great mistake. To feed the horse at work with food as bulky as would be suitable for the cow'giving milk would also be a mistake. The necessity for salt increases with the amount of concentrates given. From three-fourths to one ounce of salt daily is a reasonable allowance for a cow. It should be supplied daily rather than at irregular or infrequent periods in larger quantities. The practice of placing large lumps of rock-salt where they are accessible to the herd is satisfactory, provided the salt is keep under cover in a clean box. Stock heavily small paddocks and keep changing from time to time so as to enable the feed to recover and sweeten. On a farm in which shevp arc extensively kept no field should exceed fifty acres in area, and many of them should be smaller. Cream should be cooled as soon as it is removed from the milk, and warm cream "should never be mixed with cold cream. Half a pound of salt well stirred into the cream (five gallons) on the farm will ensure its arrival at the factory in better condition. A rich cream, testing forty or fifty per cent, of butter fat, is most satisfactory to dairymen andifactory managers. Never mix cold .and warm cream together; always reduce them to uniform' temperatures before mixing, otherwise the warm cream will cause rapid fermentation. It should be the pride of every owner of a flock to have one uniform in qualitv and of a high average ol excellence. This cannot be unless the flock is regularly culled. Sheep are not only the most profitable animals to depasture on cheap lands, but they are beginning to be justly considered as an absolute necessity of good farming on choice graingrowing soils. Besides breeding properly you must feed well. No well-bred sheep poorly feed was ever an outstanding good one, and no poorly-bred sheep well . fed was ever perfection, but the wellbred sheep well fed is the right one and the money maker for its owner.