HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3533, 10 June 1905, Page 2

HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Improve the pastures. ' .v."' Epsom’s salts are the best physic fo» 11)0 cow. There should be ample pasture fot I the swine. Better drive 'the horse fast up lull than downhill. Always feed any: animal light when changing feed. When the frog of the horse’s loot comes hard, use poultice. Build the swine pen so as tofaicilitate . easy handling of the swine. Pine tar may be smeared over nose of the sheep for snuffles. Cabbages can be fed profitably Jo swine, and they are a cheap feed. Powdered charcoal is an albsofibeut of gases in the stable or in the animal. ■ As a rule it does not pay to attempt to oure a horse of viciousneiss. Get rid of it. H your (blacksmith puts a red-hol shoe on your horse’s foot, go to a blacksmith that won’t. It is just as important to carefully select the breedinig stock for mules •« it is for horses. If your Jiorse cribs, sellMm, is the idvice of a writer; and our advice is, don't buy such a horse. The horse often shies because its eyesight is not perfect and it mistakes character of objects. A little “spring” medicine is good lor the horse. A dose of May apple pool will clean out the animal. Begin to “break” the calf, as well as the colt, early, that is, accustom &tf to being handled and to being tied. If the hogs are confined only during the fattening process, it may be Bunch smaller than if they are confined foCM longer period.—Western Plowman. r W Functions of Live StoclC, The true function of live stock OZklhtf average farm should be to consume all the food products raised and return! to. the owner a fair, not an extravagant, price for the food consumed); to convert coarse material into higher-priced products of the fertilizing materials consumed. If his live, stock pays for the food consumed l the farmer has made what would be considered a reasonable profit in other lines of business— -the • increased fertility of his land is of it-’ self a han.dlsome profit, and one Which “ * is quite" often entirely overlooked.—