Show J yIN FARM AND GARDEN Subjects Sure to Interest Farm I ers and Stockmen A PLEA FOR oRE GOOD MUTTON How Our Farmers Have Neglected a 1roflt able Meat Industry by Breeding 4 Entirely for Wool The opinion is very generally entertained enter-tained that the sheep is the most stupid of our domestic animals Shepherds however well know that some sheep possess plenty of sense and that the sheeps memory is as a rule quite as good or better than that of any other farm animal fftr PflB 1 Jjq HEAD OP A CUOICE SPRING LAUB While looking about the stock yards a laonth or so ago The Rural New Yorkers York-ers artist came upon the lamb whose head is pictured here It is certainly an intelligent head and according to the j artist ought to bo an intelligent animal He was engaged in a work that will if carried out bring profit to American farmers In the words of Rural New Starker though he died for the cause the flavor of his flesh may help to stimulate stimu-late the demand for good American mutton mut-ton to such a point that farmers will see their way clearer to meeting it This was a spring lomba cross of Southdown South-down and a common ewe He was one of a choico lot from Virginia that brought first prices and gave such excellent satisfaction satis-faction that the dealers want more from tStfesaino place There is a demand in all our large imarkets for good mutton but it is im jbossiblo to supply this demand for the reason that first class mutton cannot be obtained at anything like a reasonable price The mutton that is sold in the markets does littlo besides ruining its own reputation Parties who have eaten Canadian mutton wonder why such meat cannot be found here The fact is that too many American farmers have utterly neglected the breeding of mutton sheep They have bred entirely for wool and the result is that they have well nigh ruined a very profitable meat industry It is high time that steps were taken to stop this retrograde movement A Good Cow A good cow is flat ribbed just back of th shoulders and has well sprung ribs further back She has broad flat ribs antI so far apart that one can lay two fingers between them Her skin should bo looso and flappy over the flank and her umbilical development should be firm and strong with the veins of the belly very prominent She should be broad between tho eyes should have a medium length straight face and bright anti prominent oyes Besides the poll or forehead should be long between the horns and the eye the neck should be cl < g n and thin and backbone strong the Ei ric arch high the hams thin to give mple room for a large udder and the tail should be long slim or fiat She should have a long udder extending well back and frontone that will be soft and flabby when milked outand should have a threefold wedgeshaped form the general tendency of weight being towards the udder indicating power to produce milk A Story That Is Told It is told that in some parts of South Australia a oontrivfe > to supplant the decoy wether in yarding sheep at the shearing shed has been adopted and with jqiparent success A large mirror is fixed at the end of the lane The sheep seeing see-ing themselves reflected in this march straight up to it The mirror has to be of strong plate glass and even then it is questionable whether it would stand the butting of a pugilistic old ram The idea seems very feasible and might prove effective in trucking slicep Thu Fattening of Svrlne Now is the time to commence pushing the pork hogs After having the run of tho pea field chufas and potatoes they ought to be fat enough for pork with very little or no corn at all The fatten ino hogs is a simple question of plenty of ijtening food administered sa often as three times a day with proper shelter from cold and wet A pound of food fed now will produce as much as a pound and a half will in January Dixie Farmer Agricultural lirlefs Intelligent feeding is as necessary for the hog as for any other animal it will not thrive on anything and everything Overfocding the hens may be the cause of leg weakness soft eggs poor hatches and apoplexy and is often the cause of hens becoming egg bound A writer on equine subjects gives what lie says is an Arah test Observe your horse when ho is drinking out < jf a brook if in bringing down his head he remains square without bending his limbs he possesses sterling qualities and all parts of his body are built symmetrically The whole secret of successful turkey raising is summed up by a California poultry man thus Let the little ones alone keep them shut up at night keep them free from lice Authorities in such matters advise the marketing of comb honey while fresh as fiKains the best prices while in this condition |