Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4433, 8 July 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

BglfeV. 1 ♦ HE DANGER OF DRENCHING rnmmmmmmmtm Kgg*? Owing to the great 'danger of penching cattle, and knowing r»nsively of so many valuable animals eing killed by being drench ad, I con« Bmn the practice of dienching cattle, lyi Mr Robert#, State Veterinarian t Wisconsin An animal might be ranched without being disturbed, and le attendant might feel sure that the rench had passed into the stomach ithout any difficulty, and at the ime time the animal may die in*

itantly, or even months later, from ihe effects of the drench, if anv portion of it passes down the windpipe, is it so often does.

■ Perhaps the best way of demongating the danger of drenching catt’e is to advise the reader to throw back

his head as far back as possible, and attempt to swallow. This he will find to be a difficult task, and he will find it much more difficult and almost impossible. to swallow with his mouth open. It is for this reason that drenching cattle is a dangerous practice. If a cow’s head be raised as high as possible, and her mouth kept open by the drenching bottle or horn, a portion of the liquid is verv apt to pass down the windpipe into the ] Jugs, sometimes causing instant death by smotherirg, at other times causing death to follow in a few day# from congestion or inflammation of the lungs. The proper method in administering medicine to cattle is in powdered form, dry on the tongue or in the feed ; or in liquid form by the use ef the hypodermic syringp, injecting the prepared fluid underneath the skin. In the place of salts and oil, a laxative and tonic should be given dry on the tongue.

COLD WEATHER FEED FOR POULTRY.

The cold days of winter urge all tr, feed in such a manner that the hens may be warm and comfortable. Shelter is very important as an aid in sav ing heat, yet the body of the fowl is, after all. a stove, and the heat-pro-ducing food the fuel. The aim should be to supply all the necessary heat; the feed, too, supplies the hen with egg material. Maize, though rich in carbon, or fat, is deficient in muscle and . bone elements. We need not stop the maize, however, for heat is necessary, but always add something else. Meat, milk, wheat, barley, oats brau and pollard are all good leed for fowls. It is a wise plan to have a variety, which give* value as a whole. —Australian Farm and Home.