Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — Live Stock Notes. [ARTICLE]

Live Stock Notes.

Kentucky cla’ms and probably receives more for her fine stock than any other State. Rasping the hoofs of horses when shod i< greatly abused. It weakens and softens the horn and causes cracks. Many hogs are dying from cholera near Burr Oak, lowa. The Breeders' Gazette says the disease is steadily marching north and west In a single week Great Britain imports for home use 5,000 cattle, 300 pigs, and 30,000 sheep, besides a large amount of dead meat, including beef, pork, ham and bacon; and also over SBO,OOO worth of poultry, and game, and 12,000,00 Q. eggs. Frozen roots, or, indeed, frozen food of any kind, is very pernicious to swine and all other stock, as it is apt to sjout them badly, and in any event disturbs their digestion and renders the other food taken into the stomach less nutritious to the animals. The United States Veterinary Journal recommends the following as a remedy for heaves: Powdered resin, two ounces; tartar emetic, two ounces: Spanish brown, two ounces, and cayenne pepper, two ounces. Mix. and give two teaspoonfuls twice a day in soft feed. An lowa farmer, writing to the Homestead, gives as his experience that an exclusive diet of corn is the cause of hog cholera. He claims that the hog should be treated to a variable diet like any other animal, and that ctMa is not a complete article of food, the hog requiring suitable food for converting into bone and muscle as well as fat Pref. Arnold in a recent essay remarked that the superiority of the imported Jerseys for milk and butter animals comes largely from the confinement in stables, and tethering during the Summer, which have prevented the development of muscle, and hence the extra formation of milking qualites. The plan of giving them liberty, as in this country, will give the muscular development and in time this formation of muscular tissue will increase their size* and probably will have its effect in reducing the butter value of the Jersey milk. The time will undoubtedly come when it will be found that milking qualities can best be secured and retained by breeding and selection from what is called the native stock of this country. The best breeds of Europe are secured in this way, and it is rather against Yankee progress to have it said that lines and families of milkers cannot be bred and maintained in the country. '