Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — LIVE STOCK. [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK.

, About Hogs. Good feeding does not consist In drawing a load of corn, dumping it into a lot and saying to the pigs, now heip yourselves! Judicious, intelligent feeding from birth to block is the only sure road to success. Much depends on the right selection of sires. Buy a sire calculated to supply deficiencies existing in your* dams; then feed all, including the future progeny, to still further development and improve the type you selected: Old corn fed to hogs should be soaked and fed on floors, not in troughs. The change from old corn to peas or sweet corn should not be abrupt. Plenty of good, clean water is a prime essential to healthy and thrifty pigs in hot weather; not in the form of swill. Swill should be more' of the nature of a grain ration and less that of Vt drink. Shove the pigs toward matury by every available means. The dragging pig is not a profitable one. Those who planted a few acres of peas will be able to see a new and rapid growth of flesh when the pigs are turned into thdm. • • The January, ’9l prices of hogs ranged fr0m83.60 to $3.90 cwt.; the July prices ranged from 84.70 to 85.80. The July range in’B2 was from $7.00 to 89.00; in ’B3, from 84.70 to $6.60; in ’BB, from $5.40 to 86.75. With 1 these exceptions the July raDge for ’9l to the highest since 1880—[Farm. Stock and Home.

Australian Moot ana Sheep* The number of sheep in Australia now exceeds 100,000,000. The wool clip is estimated at 1,060,000 bales. A report from Melbourne states that the pastorial season was,, upon the whole, a particularly favorable one for the wool growing industry. Copious rains have fallen over the great pastorial areas of New South Wales and Queensland, though, on the other hand, Western Australia and some parts of Victoria have experienced an unusually dry summer—sufficient, it is feared, in the case of some of the fine Western district clips to justify fears of broken fleeces being rather common. Sheep Raising; in Montana. Some idea of the immense sheep raising and shearing industries of the State of Montana, and the speed with which they have grown, may be gotten from the following figures: In 1877 there were 79,228 sheep in the State, in 1878, 107,261; in 1879, 168,891; in 1880, 259,878; in 1881, 260,402; in 1882, 362,776; In 1883, 465,667; in 1884, 593,896; in 1885, 798,682; in 1886, 968,298; in 1887, 1,162,141; in 1888, 1,153,771; in 1889, 1,363.848; in 1890, 1,555,116; while it is estimated that there are over 2,000,000 this year. Use Caro in Fending. With a drug store in tho stable there will always bo sick horses. Without drugs and with careful feeding and good care a horse may go through a long, hard service and die of old age at 30 or 35 years. THE DAIRY. Bitter Cream. When the milk or cream are held too long, although it may be in a cold temperature in which the ordinary aedity may not be developed, a bitter taste is often developed which is imparted in butter and destroys its value. It is the opinion of our experts that this bitterness is another form of putrefactive ferment, which is peculiar to a cold temperature not active or marked as the acidulous ferment but more iusidous and sure to manifest itself more or less rankly according to the conditions. The remedy is never to hold the milk for the cream to rise longer than twenty-four hours. Under specially favorable conditions and surroundings tho time may possibly be extended. It is not, however, a safe rule to insuresweet and good butter, the earlier churning and skimming aro reccommended. If the conditions for buttter making will not admit = of these safe rules being applied, the conditions should be made to conform to them.—[N. Y. Dairy Commissioner.

What His Jerseys Eat. Mr. Havemeyer, of New York, gives his Jerseys these following rations, which we copy from an address of his. For winter his cows are fed as follows, as he has found nothing to pay better for winter than: Corn meal, 8 tbs., wheat bran, 2 ibs.; ground oats, 4 lbs.; linseed meal, 2 lbs.; Silage, 25 lbs.; hay, 7 lbs. Given in three feeds during the day. Tho summer ration is: Corn meal, 4 lbs.; bran, 2 lbs.; ground oats, 6 lbs.; linseed meal, 2 lbs., silage, 30 lbs. The winter ration is fed about 270 days, the summer about 95 days. Dry cows and bulls are fed: Ground oats, 6 lbs.; bran, 2 lbs.; hay, 7 lbs.; silage, 20 lbs. December 31, 1890, the Mountain Side herd consisted of: Milking cows, 200; bulls in service, 9; heifers of all ages, 97; bulls of all ages, 4. The average milk per head per day during 1890, was 16% lbs. The average milk to a pound of butter, 15 lbs. The average quantity of milk to a quart of cream, 15 lbs.

The Self-Sucking Cow. In answer to an inquiry in the Stockman lor some plan to cure acowof sucking herself, I give the following, which 1 have tried with excellent satisfaction: Place a common straight bridle bit in her mouth, by attaching it to a common bridle or fastening it in the mouth by small fopes passed from the rings in the bit and tied together on top of the head. The bit does not seem to interfere with the animal’s feeding, but acts as an effectual check on her sucliing herself.— [National Stockman.