Show GROOMING SHOW CATTLE What an Authority in Such Matters Has to Say on this Subject William Watson the champion feeder of show stock claims that grooming is necessary with show cattlo as with horses and where it is neglected front ranks will not be gained Ho says In the case of cattle grooming need not be commenced until within three months of tho date of show The cattle cat-tle it is presumed havo for several months previous fieen well fed and kept clean In this condition to begin with three months thorough grooming should put them in form Cattle it is true come into the show yard with all kinds of coats some with long hair others with short and worst of all some with hair partly off Half the game in showing cattle cat-tle is i to have them good in their coats and stock owners who fail to handle their animals so as to make them look their very best need not expect to win against thoso who do When the show happens to be about midsummer the shedding of the coat will save the trouble of haying hay-ing to take it off by other means but when the exhibition takes place late or early in the year then we adopt measures meas-ures to cause the hair to shed and the new hair to be again well up Provide a warm rug the same as are used for horse clothing and about three months previous to the show put one on each side of the animals to be prepared if one is not sufficient take two Unless the weather is very cold the blankets do not require to be on all the time they can be taken off during the night or when at exercise If the blankets aro kept on fourteen hours daily they will soon do their work in taking the old hair off If the weather is not frosty a good washing with carbolic soap and tepid water should be given at the commencement commence-ment of tho sheeting period this will I help to lessen the dandruff in I the hide I if the bedding be well looked after once a month will be often enough to wash There is a great difference in the skins of cattlo for being easily cleaned Some are rough and so full of dandruff that it needs special means to get them into good condition Extra washing and heavier blanketing will help to smooth them down and with a little oil rubbed iu will soon raise all the scurf off the skin Until the scurf be thoroughly got rid of tho coat will never shine It takes a great deal of rubbing and brushing to I put on the last polish without it you cannot win A dandy brush a thorough good soft brush a chamois skin or piece of thick flannel are the tools for putting on tilt polish The skin becomes soft under this treatment and a currycomb curry-comb should never be used but for the purpose of combing down tho hind parts when necessary as tho comb except when very lightly applied is certain to scratch and irritate tho skin In rubbing rub-bing with the cloth it must be done quickly It takes an enormous amount of rubbing rub-bing to make the skins of cattle shine but nothing else will do it For putting on tho final touch no brush or cloth can equal the bare hand it makes the best of all polishing paste hand rubbing will also remove the old coat quicker than either comb or brush Somo fancy they can with one washing and a few times grooming do all that can bo h done but it is a mistake There is the greatest great-est difference imaginable between the one that has been prepared by months of labor and the other hastily got up The ono article is genuine and will last tho other will fade between the stall and the ring Rust In Wheat and Other drain Investigations made at the Guelph Canada Agricultural college regarding the causes of rust in wheat and other grains seem to justify the following conclusions con-clusions 1 Seasons are the chief cause of rust sudden changes of temperature and rain accompanied with close still weather arc favorable to its increase 2 Low lying rich soils are most subject sub-ject to attack 8 An excessive use of manures rich in nitrogen encourages tho disease 4 Late sown grain is most subject to attackThinly 5 Thinly sown crops seem most liable to injury 0 Red wheats arc less affected than white varieties i z 7 Rust is more common in thejicin = ity of barberry hedges than at a distance + a fc JG Importance of Feeding Sheep Well Most every farmer is aware of the fact that a sheep must be fat make the best mutton but few conceive the idea that a properly and well fed sheep produces more and better wool than one poorly fed and cared for Wool is a product from feeding just tho same as fat or flesh and the flock should be fed and managed with a view to wool growth and that of fine quality Things That Arc Told For ventilating and warming poultry houses P II Jacobs advises in American Agriculturist that the air bo always brought in and discharged near the roof as the birds will not then crowd and become be-come lame as they will when the warmth is below them In every instance when my attention was attracted to a hive l of bees by its roaring it was quieted by placing a wet spopge over the holes on the brood climber clim-ber or covering the brood chamber with a wet cloth says Charles F JIuth in Bee Gleanings According to Professor Henry of tho Wisconsin station milk made from ensilage en-silage is much more claimablethan milk mado from dry fodder Less butter fat goes out in the buttermilk Southern Cultivator expresses the opinion that it is not best to turn under a green crop or turn over the coil at all in midsummer unless tho land can be sown at once in a crop that will promptly cover tho surface again with vegetation ThaEnglish sparrow is credited with having nearly exterminated tree foreign cabbage worm in tha sexy extensive cabbage fields ariaun LChicago says B F Johnson In Rural NewYorker 4 Lr rA a |