HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3550, 22 July 1905, Page 4

HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

j*y ;1 Improve the postures. i’’ Epsom’s salts arc the best physic foi the cow. There should be ample pasture for the .swine. Better drive the horse fast up hill than down hill. Always feed any animal light when changing feed. 1 When the frog of foot bei.j comes hard, use poultide. 1 ■' Build the swine pen so « easy handling of the swiften jilgrl'} H vu Pine tar may be smeared- 'over* the"' 1 - nose of the sheep for snuffles. ■: _Cabbages can be fed profitably to" Bwii,e, and they are a ttbeSlp ■ food.' t Powdered charcoal is an absorbent 11 Of gases in the stable or in the animal. An a rule it does not pay to attempt to cure a horse of viciousness. Get rid of 11* II your 'blacksmith puts a red-hot , shoe on your horse’s foot, go to a black- : •mith4itua i t.--.w i ott’lt,_ It is just as important to carefully select the breeding stock for mules as it la for horses. ( If your horse cribs, sell Mm, is the advice of a writer; and our advice is, dou’t buy such a horse. The horse often shies because -jts eye—sight and It nfistikeh’the 1! character olf objects. A little “spring” medicine is good for the tfH&e'. A'doiA of May apple root will clean opt the animal; 11 • 1 ’ | Begin to “break” the calf, as well as the colt, early, that is, accustom it to being handled and to being tied, i If th^,hfogHiiirci,(Sdninteo i on l ly'durib^/ ( the fattening process, it may be much smaller than if they’are confined fora ; longer period.-r Wostern Plowman. functions-of "Live Stock. The true function of live stock on the , avcirage farm should be to Consinhe all ' the food products raised ami return to the owner n fain,’aot-am 'extravagant, price for to convert i coarse material info higher-priced products of the,.feyiGl!;fip c r.nutterials ’consumed. If M nays for the fowl consumed, the aiyuier,has made 1 what would lie considered a reasonable profit in other linos of business—the increased fertility of his land is of itself a hipffl’somn.pvofil .-aml one which- " is quite often entirely overlooked.—