The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., June 25, 1910, EDUCATIONAL SPECIAL, Page 455, Image 11

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□ LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. □ I
WHY WK NEED MORE LIVE
STOCK.
The One Way to Permanently Main
tain Soil Fertility.
Messrs. Editors: It is a well-es
tabllshed principle of good farming
that there should he at least one head
of stock, including cattle, cows,
horses and mules, for each acre of
feed stuffs, and one hog for each of
such animals. This in the West and
North where for at least one-half the
time every thing has to be stabled
and fed.
While our principal crop, cotton,
might ordinarily make some differ
ence in tills rule, yet our longer sea
sons of growth, enabling us to raise
two or three crops in one year, more
than offsets any difference that tnn
raising of cotton might make. Then,
too, when we raise cotton, we raise
for each bale at least 100 pounds of
the most valuable feedstuff, cotton
seed meal, containing nearly as much
protein as Is to he found in an acre
of corn yielding twenty bushels. If
anything then, this proportion of live
stock on our Southern farms should
he Increased. As it Is, we have half
thin many.
The Importance of more and bet
ter live stock upon the farm Is all
the more Impressed upon ns when
we remember that these live stock,
instead of taking fertility therefrom,
will actually add thereto. We all ap
preciate the fact that more humus
means better soils. Wo also know
that, than through live stock, there
is no more economical way of getting
humus. The old adage of raising
more live stock to get more manure
to Improve our land to raise more
feed to feed more live stock to make
more manure, etc., is not far from
true. Within certain limits, this cir
cle can go on almost Indefinitely. The
kind of live slock to get depends
largely upon the Individual taste of
the man. The kind that It Is easiest
to get and that will probably pay bet
ter than any other Is “Ills Hogshlp.”
As Dr. Knapp so happily puts It;
"The hog is the greatest fellow to run
his snout under a mortgage, root It
up, ami bite off the tap root that you
ever saw,” and he doesn’t get con
ceited over bis ability or tired of do
In It. either.
Thea It is about time that, if we
must work mules, wo were at least
raising them ourselves. One or two
good mares to he used for light work
and for driving, will return a hand
some profit In n mule colt apiece each
year and I needn’t say what this colt
would he worth. Those who bought
mules this year have a pretty definite
Idea. 1). N. BARROW.
Treatment for a Wormy Horae.
I linve bought a very poor
horse, and ho is awfully wormy.
PleaBe give me a remedy for
the worms. They are small white
worms—also how to feed him
to fatten him up. I. L. S.
Kditorlal Answer.—There Is no
one remedy that Is best for all sorts
of worms which Infest the Intestines
ef the horse; but the following is
perhnps as good and safe as any for
use by the average horse owner:
Reduce the feed or withhold It en
tirely for 2 4 or 3G hours, and then
feed very sparingly for several days
longer. Give one quart of raw lin
seed oil and 3 tablespoonfuls of tur
pentlne after the horse has fasted
2 4 hours, and 2 4 hours later glvt
one pint of raw linseed oil and i
tablespoonfuls of turpentine. Repea
this smaller dose once a day until th(
bowelB move freely.
After the bowels have moved free
ly continue the light feeding for a
few days longer and give twice a
day one dram each of dry sulphate
of Iron and powdered nux vomica;
continue this for ten days or two
weeks.
To obtain the best results, a horse
should probably be fed almost all he
will eat up clean three times a day.
If he Is fed all he will eat up and
still want just a little more, the
best condition Is obtained. This, of
course, Is only to be done after he
has been gradually brought up to a
full ration. To get a horse on full
feed should take two or three weeks.
We are not told what feeds are
available, but if the hay ration can
be half pea vines and half corn fod
der or grass hay, this should be sat
isfactory. If no greater variety can
be furnished, we suggest 5 parts of
corn to one of cottonseed meal as the
concentrate feed.
llepraved Appetite.
I have a mule that eats dirt,
and I think eats his excrement,
too. Will you please tell me
what to do to break him from
the habit? I keep rock salt in
his box all the while. I feed on
corn and hay. Would it be best
for me to mix some oats with
the corn? A. E. C.
Editorial Answer.—The habit of
eating dirt indicates a disordered di
gestion, or that the animal is not
getting what it needs in the feed.
We suppose "corn and hay” means
some sort of grass hay. If this be
the case, the ration is entirely out
of balance. Some legume hay, or
some such feed as cottonseed meal
or oats should be substituted.
We would suggest equal quantities
of grass and legume hays, and one
part of cottonseed meal to 3 parts
each of corn and oats. Or if oats are
too high-priced, 1 part of cottonseed
meal to 5 parts of corn. Care must
be taken not to over-feed.
Give two or three times a day, for
ten days or two weeks, the following:
l ounce of hyposulphite of soda, 1
dram dry sulphate of iron, 1 dram
powdered nux vomica.
C.lve the Hog What He Wants.
We believe It would be a good
thing If In every hog yard there was
a supply of charcoal or slaked lime,
salt and wood ashes, preferably mix
ed, soft coal or soft coal cinders, and
bone meal lying around, whether In
a self-feeder or some other way al
lowing them free access to it. In
that case each hog can be trusted to
take what he wants. His natural In
stincts are a good deal safer guide
than the judgment of the owner or
of any one else.
Corncob charcoal will answer as
well as wood charcoal, and perhaps a
little better; and the yard will look
all the better if you rake up the cobs,
char them, put them in a box, and
let the hogs have all they want of
them. There should be no difficulty
about having a box of air-slaked lime
anywhere.
We never knew a hog to root just
for the fun of the thing, or with
purely malicious or mischievous in
tent. It was fluding something that
it needed, whether worms for variety
or some mineral ingredient. The
best way to keep them from rooting
is to satisfy what is apparently an
abnormal but really a normal appet
tite.—Wallace’s Farmer.
If I gain only an average of $1.00
i a head for the cattle and hogs which
I feed and sell, it pays me.—D.
■ Rankin.
V *- A / * v
A JUNK PILE MOUNTAIN
OF VERY EXPENSIVE
CREAM SEPARATOR
EXPERIENCE
(A sample pile of scrapped competitive separator bowls—the frames being I
broken up in the field to save freight on same). II
During the year 1909 more than 10,000 enlightened and disgust
ed American users of poor or wornout competitive makes of separa
tors threw them aside and replaced them with new
DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS
on top of 8,500 having done so in 1908, 7,000 in 1907 and 5,000 a
year for several years before, or at least 50,000 within ten years.
If it were possible to put these 50,000 machines into one huge i
“junk pile”, as they have in fact gone into a thousand "junk piles”,
it would make a veritable mountain of cream separator experience,
as impressive as Pikes Peak and representative of as much costly |
acquired separator experience as though it were a great mine of gold
or silver.
These 50,000 “near” and “just as good” cream separators cast
aside to be replaced with De Laval machines within ten years, and
so many of them within a couple of years, cost their users at least
three and one-half millions of dollars in the first place and prob
ably wasted three times that much in quantity and quality of pro
duct, excessive repairs and excessive time required to put the milk
through them while they were used, or a total of at least fifteen
millions of dollars, and more likely twenty-five millions.
wnat nas happened In America in this way has in the same time
been doubled throughout the rest of the world, so that the total ag
gregates twice as much, or perhaps fifty millions of dollars. And
worse still, this accounts only for those users who have recognized
the facts and remedied them. There are thousands more users of in
ferior separators who have yet to do so, and unfortunately some
yet embarking anew on this expensive separator experience of their
; own. :
These figures are monumental, but they deal with a problem of
enormous importance to everyone who has cream to separate from
milk, which the average man can better appreciate put in this col
lective way than he can when applied to himself alone, ^though It
means exactly the same thing one way or the other.
These facts are all capable of proof to the man who cares to have
them proved and who doesn’t want to contribute at his own ex
pense to this enormous and ever-increasing “junk pile” mountain
of cream separator experience, or, better still, to the man who has \
been doing so and thinks it about time to stop.
To such owners we would say that the De Laval Company will this
year continue its “trade allowances” for these old machines, be
cause of the opportunity such exchanges afford in an educational
way for the most practical illustration possible of the difference be
tween good and poor separators, and thus putting a stop to the
sale of others like them in the same neighborhood.
Any desired “trade allowance” information may always be had
of the nearest De Laval local agent or of the Company directly.
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