Farm and Garden.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 127, 1 February 1909, Page 3

Farm and Garden.

There cannot be a greater service at times than the killing of ancestral forms of rule of thumb, or practices which are based on ignorance and perpetuated by love of ease. *

Pigs suffering from scours ' may be helped and many times cured by feeding them with milk that has been boiled and to which a pint of scorched flour has been added for each gallon.

AH kinds of growing stock should have plenty of exercise. Animal growth cannot be made successfully unless every muscle has had an opportunity to be brought into use.

Molasses are of value to feed both horses and pigs, but the value does not lie so much in the nutrition it contains as in its making the food it is mixed with more palatable and thus more readily acceptable and digestible.

If we breed cows with a large capacity and then follow with feed and care insufficient to meet their wants, they will not only fail to respond profitably at the pail, but degeneracy is sure to follow, often attended by disease. ••■.'■•

Many Texas farmers in the vicinity of San Antonio report from six to nine cuttings of alfalfa, averaging a ton per acre each cutting, during the past year. The price for alfalfa ran from 10 dollars to 12 dollars per ton on board the car in Texas.

"Show me red and white mixed in a shorthorn," says a breeder, "and in nine cases out of ten I will show you a good milker."