MEMOS FOR THE FARMERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1674, 1 May 1884, Page 2

MEMOS FOR THE FARMERS.

A little linseed meal mixed with the feed is good for scours in sheep" It is even more necessary to keep sheep dry under foolUv a sufficiency of litter than to protect them by roofing. They never stand or lie in mud or water, Keep poultry well supplied! with gravel and you will prevent them from •having many diseases. - Too many farmers think that a. hen is glad to supply her own system with everything. - • '

Milking m the barnyard, says an exchange, is an old fashion that should be abandoned. "'lf is inconvenient and unclean,' -It' should-go ; with tho wooden pail and the hairy butter, and never be heardof any more, An experienced cattle breeder of Tennessee: thus classifies the different breeds of-cattle as to relative merits; The Jersey, the butter breed; the Devon, a beef or fancy breed; the Shorthorn and.Hereford, the beefproducing breeds; Ayrshire and Holstein, the milk and cheese producing breed. l • y. y . Everyone knows that the last milk drawnfroni a cow at each milking is much the richest, 'The reason is the same as that at the top of ,'a pan of milk. The.cream being the lightest part of the milk rises or remains at the top of the udder, whilo • the more heavy "..watery portions "settle at the .bottom.' .: . ■■■• i ..., : -r;.' ■ ; 'i.lf you have not one; be sure to get a straw-cutter. Cut. the straw line; dampen it a'little aud spread bran, and the horses, cattle, and sheep will eat it greedily. Alfalfa hay is much better cut up, and the amount saved that would otherwise, if fed long, have been wasled, will well pay for the trouble of cutting. Besides, old'animals will do much better on cut straw.

•'■ Salt is now recoguLed as a necessity for stock, and that it should be given regularly is beyond question. For stock at pasture it is best to keep rock salt in such a position that they can get it as required. When animals are hand-fed give them salt on the folksy-, ing scale: Half an ounce daily fow cow or a horse, a drachm (one tearsspoonful) for a sheep or a pig, and in porporlion for a fowl even. And it is better to give'it with the food to which it adds a needed element, and consequently a desirable flavor. An English authority remarks that high land and dry land, with dry food, have sometimes been referred as the best preventative of sheep-rot. Few flockmasters deny that sheep pay for corn from the time they first commence "eating until the day of slaughter. By a judicious com diet sheep are kept iu better health..- They clip'more wool, and yield a greater number of lambs, and the land oil which they graze is rapidy improved in condition,