HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 30 December 1905, Page 4

HINTS FOR STOCKMEN.

Improve the pastures. Epsom’s salts are the best physic for the cow.

There should be ample pasture for the swine.

Better drive the horse fast up hill than downhill.

Always feed any animal light when changing feed, , When the frog of the horse’s foot becomes hard, use poultice. Build the swine pen so as to facilitate easy handling of the swine. Pine tar may be smeared over the nose of the sheep for snuffles. Cabbages can. be fed profitably to swine, and they arc a cheap feed.

Powdered charcoal is an absorbent of gases in the stable or in the animal.

As a rule it does not pay to attempt to cure a horse of viciousness. Get rid of it.

If your blacksmith puts a red-hot/ shoe on your horse’s foot, go to a blacksmith that won’t. f It is just as important to carefu/ly select the breeding stock for mules as it Is for horses.

If your horse, cribs, sell him, is t’he Advice of a writer; and our advice to', don’t buy such a horse. / The horse often shies because its eyesight is not perfect and it mistakes the character of objects. / medicine is good for apple root as as tied. only during process, it may be much than if they are confined fora linger period.—Western Plowman.

Function* of Live Stock, true function of live stock on the farm should' be to consume all food products raised and return to owner a fair, not an extravagant, for the food consumed; to convert material into higher-priced prodHHfeof the fertilizing materials conconsumed’ the farmer has made Ht would be considered a reasonable in other lines of business—the fertility of his land is of itprofit, and one which often entirely overlooked. —