Show IN FARM 1 AND GARDEN Subjects that arc Seasonable and of Great Interest DIFFERENT BREEDS OF CATTLE Cheap Chicken Coops chat are Easily Made Habits of Italian UccsThe Butter Color Question I Coops for tiio old biddy and her young ones are no n order and cuts of two coops pronounced good by Southern Fancier arc hero given These illustrations illustra-tions aro so plain as to need no explanation explana-tion except as to size i 1 1 FID lcoop FOR CHICKENS The coop shown in Fig 1 should be 2 feet wide and 3 feet long or deep 2 feet high in front 1J feet high at the back Fig 2 is a front and back view of the coop in most general usethe cheapest and easiest glade FIG 2 KIMMJTAJfD BACK VIEW OF A COOP In width and length this coop is the same us the first Both coops can be made much lighter by using a lathe frame for tho roof putting lathes two or three inches apart and covering the same with two or threo ply ready roofing Tho plank in front is used for feeding the young chickens on during tho day and to close the coop at night Tho Pig I on Dairy Farms The pig is an important appendage ol the butter day He is a machine for working up tho perishable byproducts Into a marketable article He used to be kept over a year and killed when eighteen months old or more nut it is I found that moro money and but little less weight with considerably less trouble and expense result from having him farrowed in tho winter or early in the spring and killing him when eight or I ten months old Tho larger ho gets the I more it costs to put a pound of pork in him after he reaches the weight of forty to sixty pounds Through his means skimmed milk and buttermilk have a value of about twentyfive cents per 100 pounds without him much of it would go to waste Give him a clover pasture and a little corn with all tho sweet ekinimoJ milk ho wants and he will live contented if not happy grunt his satisfaction satis-faction and mako pork for market The Butler Color Question American Dairyman says Dairymen are in the habit of usingtoo much butter color While the fact is that puro white butter will not sell at tho same timo too deep a red is suro to injure tho price Alight I A-light straw is tho proper color and if the I ows can do this without let or hin I Irancc all the better but be sure and see that they do or else uso tho commercial article that tho law does not prohibit I Hoards Dairyman commenting on the above says Glad to see that the head of the old American Dairyman is level on I the morals of coloring butter It is a 1 sound view to take that tho higher I grades of butter aro colored artificially less and less for the reason that tho gospel I gos-pel of good feeding and breeding is being more and more practiced and this necessitates ne-cessitates less artificial coloring We are for the good butter breeds and for the big feeds for the cash there is in I themnot so much for the color that comes with them But if it comes as an I inherent adjunct the better but chiefs chief-s Iy so because it saves paying out ash for coloring matter I Relieving Contracted Feet In Horses I The belief very generally prevails that there is nothing better for relieving contracted I con-tracted feet in horses than water The great trouble is to apply it properly with the ordinary bandages recent invention has been introduced to take the place of j i I the old time swab This contrivance is in the shape of a metallic foot lined with I sponge and having leather pads covered with sponge to fit inside the shoe cover tho sole and frog which cannot be touched by the ordinary swab and also j go up back of tho heeL It is claimed I that this boot is not only much moro convenient to adjust than the swab but that it will hold the moisture much longer These boots are made of different differ-ent sizes so as to fit the feet of both largo and small horses I Weight of Eggs The following table of the weight of eggs per pound of various breeds of fowls and tho number of eggs laid in a year is approximately fair though it may vary I under exceptionally adverse or favorable conditions Eggs No Eggs Varieties Per Ib Per Year LIght Brahma 7 ISO Dark nras mss 8 130 Partridge Cochins 7 130 Black White Buff Cochins 7 120 I Plymouth Rocks 6 150 jEIoudans 6 I 155 I laFlecho 7 135 CreveCooura 8 H3 Black Spanish 8 155 I OLeghorns 8 160 Hamburgs 3 153 I Dominiquos 8 135 9 140 Cm < t pfjima 10 W i i j Thero ia no clover seed in tho world so good as that raised on a sandy soil affirms a Wisconsin farmer |