HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3587, 19 October 1905, Page 4

HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Improve the pastures;. Epsom’* salt* are the best physic ion the cow. There should be ample pasture for the swine. Better drive the horse fast up MU than down hill. Always feed any animal light when changing feed. When the frog of the horse’s foot be* comes hard, use poultice. Build the swine pen ao as to facilitate easy handling of the swine. Pine tar may be smeared over the n)ase of the sheep for snuffles. . Cabbages can be fed profitably to swine, and they are a cheap feed. Powdered charcoal is an absorbent of gases in the stable or in the animal. As a rule it does no t pay to attempt to cure a horse of viciouaaess. Get rid of it. If your blacksmith puts a red-hot ■hoe on your horse’s foot, go to a black•mith that won’t. It is just as important to carefully select the breeding stock for mules as it ia for horses. If your horse cribs, sell him, is the advice of a writer; and our advice ia, don’t buy such a horse. The horse often shies because its eyesight is hot perfect and it mistake* the character of objects. A little ‘’spring” medicine is good lor the horse. A dose of May apple root will clean out the animal.

Begin to “break” the calf, as well as the colt, early, that is, accustom it to being handled ami to being tied. If the hogs are confined only during the. fattening process, it may be much smaller than if they are confined fora longer period.-—Wes tern Plowman. Fnnetioui of I.lve Stools. The true function of live stock on the average farm should he to consume all the food products raised and return to the owner a fair, m l an extravagant, price for the food consumed; to convert coarse material into lugher-priced products of the fertilizing materials consumed. If his live stock pays for the food consumed the farmer has made what would be considered a reasonable profit in other lines of business—-the increased fertility of his land is of itself a handsome profit, and one which is quite often entirely overlooked.—

Dencedly Awkward, You Know. . Mrs. Oliver Belmont gave a picnic at f, Newport the other day, at whi-.-’i inn,- - ' ben of the colony there d-i? ported themselves with all the childish enthusiasm they could command. It, was ' | an ultra informal affair, and during I the afternoon the good old game of j j j “drop the handkerchief” was proposed ; 'j and played. The turn to carry the ' ! 1 handkerchief fell to a bright mUs. j <j who dropped it behind r. member of j > | Britain’s aristocracy, who was in the j , I game. When told he must run after j' a the girl, catch her, and claim a kiss ' | as a ransom, he looked extremely bored, stroked his mustache and said: j , “Ah! deucedly awkward, don’t you 1 J know. Really, I must be excused,” he J bagged, much to the chagrin of the j young miss. 1 j

She forgave him later, when it leaked out that the dear old chap had a cork leg and couldn’t run^—N. Y. Times. The Vital Spot of Empire. There can be no dispute for a moment as to the immense gravity of the issue raised by any question of the efficiency of the Mediterranean squadron. No mahter where our chief fighting fleet may ride, that point, and no other, is the vital spot of empire. It is the very center of our strategical system, an:! the backbone of our wh-le c!efensiv, organism. If the M.diterraneaii force were crushed in some swift and stupendous disaster, following instantly upon any unexpected outbreak of war, our entire naval organisation, for all ultimate purposes, would be like a watch with b broken mainspring.—London Telegraph, How He Fatted It. say, Mike, I have a threepenny piece with a hole in it which I sannot get rid of. at all—at all. What it all I do with itj, begorra? Mike —Sure, Past, you rrsnr-t do tha lame a« T did one at—an excel!oat plan, was mine. “And phwat wrts it, at all. Mike?" “Oh. : : was line,. Pat, I tell you. That fibre- ■ ,v piece, had hr + vpj-ed me a Iwng oh” •, cntolrely. Nobody would have -j‘> ~ at last T me'ted down, a. slxt!p ;. . -.vd filled v v Vie. Beforra, vent the ?y .-ext day, me ahoy."—London Spare Momenta.

Glass, though proverbially brittle, will stand any amount of hard usage; birt once it, is broken the omy thing that remains to be done is to throw it away. Cementing will ®ot do much good.