Memos for the Farmers.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 120, 16 April 1884, Page 2

Memos for the Farmers.

— . • . „ . J . A little linseed meal mixed with the feed is good for 'scours m sheep?-- --^?^- It is even more necessary to keep sh&p dry underfoot by a sufficienSof litter than to protecfcthem liy robbing. They never stand or lie m mud or water. a, . '..;.-. ;.,.,.. ; , - ;: ; Keep poultry well supplied with gravel and yon will prevent tbemrfi;oinr\T haying many diseases. Too' mtiuy far- x " mere thiuk that a hen is glad to supply hej* own system with everything Milking m the barnyard, says an exchange, is an old foslupnithat should be! abandoned. It is inconvenient and .unclean. It should go with the wooden, pail and the hairy Gutter, and n«Ver iSP. heard of any more. f An expetienced - cattle breeder of Tenessee thus classifies the different breeds of cattle as to relative merits: Thjj Jersey, fcf&- butter breed';' "We DeVon, a beef or fancy breed; the Shorthorn and Hercfoid,' the beef-pro-dticing breeds ; Ayrshire and Holstein, the milk and cheese producing breeds. Everyone knows that the last milk drawn from a cow a l , each ;m#king.is:y, much the richest. The reason is the same as that afc r the top of> au.pan,.',©!^ milk. The cream being the lightest part of the milk rises or remains afc'tihe tbb of the udder, while the heavier watery portions settle lit the bottom*.:: .a. . If you have not one, be sure to get a straw-cutter. Cut the- straw fine, dampen it a little and spread bran, and the horses cattle and > sheep will eat it greedily. Alfalfa hay is much better cut ug, and the .amount. say/ad .^ihafc-. would otherwise, it* fed longVhave^beenr wasted will well pay for the trouble of ; .cutting. Besides, old animals will do much better on cut straw. Salt is now recogn&edlaa a i n^bggsijy for stock, and that it should be given regularly, is beyond question.- Eor iT stock at pasture it is best to keep roelc salt m such a position that ilney^ can gut it as required. When animals are hand-fed give them salt on the foHqwr^ ing scale : Half an ounce daily for v ft r • cow or a horse, a dram (one teaspoont'ul) for a sheep or a pig, and m pro-' portion for a fowl evem, And it w betler to give it with; the food to which it ad is a needed element, and consequently a desirable flavour. An English authority remarks that high land and dry land, with dry food, have sometimes been inferred to as the best preventive of sheep-rot. -Few tiockruasters deny that sheep pay. for corn from the time they first commence eating until the day of slaughter. ■ 'Byt j a judicious coin diet sheep are ke£t m. better health. They clip more wool, and yield a greater number of lambs, and the land on which they #raze is rapidly improved m condition. .■■:> ••.;.•; :l