FARM AND DAIRY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 28 November 1907, Page 2

FARM AND DAIRY

A man in .Michigan a few years ago wintered 20UU nurses on silage and straw exclusively, with no gram. 1 hey came through in line shape, and the brood mares all had line, strong colts. It cannot be too strongly enforced that a fruit tree calls for cultivation at every stage of its life. Hence the great value attaching to the thorough working of the soil before planting takes piace. A writer uu swine says:—A crossgrained man will soon spoil a lot of well-bred pigs. Gentleness is needed at all times, and with a gentle master the pigs 'will soon become orderly, and will be easily managed. There is only one lit place for the old hen now—inside a good pie. Don't carry the old hens over unless you know that she lays the golden egg. There is no laud so badly exhausted that it cannot be brought back to a slate of high fertility. To reclaim the multitude of run-down farms is not the work of a year. ft is the work of many years. And yet it can be done by any farmer that will study the condition in which it needs to be. .Nature is ready to help him.

it is better to milk the cows before feeding them, as they will then keep more quiet. Besides the dust from the hay or the odour from the silage and other things will not get into the milk that is being drawn. Tanner, remember that you were a boy once yourself. Treat your son as an equal, and iu such a way as to develop his mind and quicken his aspirations. The feeder of pigs should remember that milk anil slop are nut pure cold water, and that the hog sometimes prefers cold water to everything else. When a horse grows old he becomes susceptible to complaints due to old age. .Make his work and his feed suit his condition.

There are many farmers that never give cold water to their hogs, thinking that the water in the milk and slop is sullirient. Try some cold water. Agricultural science is living the wholesome outdoor life, and for that reason is reacting powerfully on the practices with which it is associating. It is working with living things more largely than wth theories. Many of the old facts in agriculture were mere indications of the evolution of the larger and more valuable truths which were subsequently discovered.