Show IMPORTANT TO BREEDERS A fact which breeders bleeders bre eders of animals should never forgot forget or undervalue was stated by agassiz when he said no offspring is simply the offspring of 1 its ts fat father h er a and d mother it is at the same time the off spring of the grandfather and grand grandi mother on both sides in fact this dependence pen dence of offspring or liability to produce family characteristics extends much farther up the ancestral line GOOD nien mes mare MAKE GOOD horses HOUSES A horse is never vicious or intractable without a direct cause if a horse is restive or timorous you may be sure that these faults arise from defects in his education he has been treated either awkwardly or brutally commence the education of a horse at his birth accustom him to the presence voice and sight of man speak and act gently caress him and do not strike him guim all chastisement or cruelty con i fuses the animal and makes him wild they are good men who make good horses KEEP wili TIIU CATTLE GROWING the most successful breeders bleeders bre eders of horbes cat cati 4 tie sheep or swine know from exper lenco ienco that although they may possess the best breeding animals they will not be successful in producing superior stock if a continuous growth of the young animals is not kept up in order to begin in time at this indispensable preparation for success the brood mares cows ewes and sows bows are most carefully and suitably fed while with youn gand as soon as the tho young animals make their appearance they are taken the greatest care of the dams being suitably fed while suckling and when the young ones are weaned wearied they are not supposed to want for food or drink a single hour by this means a continuous and rapid growth is kept up and the animals attain a large size and heavy weight at an early age when breeding animals are not properly fed and comfortably sheltered in winter the bad effect of such treatment is not confined to their own want of condition it is shared by their progeny and can never be remedied when young stock are not fed well and comfortably sheltered in winter their growth becomes stunted and no subsequent amount of gaoa good treatment can repair the damage young animals may summer suffer for fon want of proper provender in summer and autumn as well as in winter and when this happens pens s 1 it t stops stop 8 continuous growth and prevents re v an ts ultima ultimate ate ato success in the object 0 of af pf t the h 0 breeder dorking working W orl ori n q parmer purmer FARMING florina A DULL BUSINESS talking with a very bright and ambitious young woman a farmers daughter where we stopped over aver night she said farming was a dull sort of life yes said a young man of twenty two years there is no incentive to work it is all humdrum hum drum routine and hard work no relaxation of effort and nothing to stimulate the mind 11 what nonsense P wo we replied there is everything for a stimulus E each ach farm la a world in itself about which those who have lived upon it know little or nothing comparatively sup bup suppose 0 ll 11 a ph for example we were to ask you yon how 0 w many kinds of grasses real grasses grow on your farm could you tell us with their correct names habits and history suppose we ask you how many species of plants are indigenous on your farm 1 and the names of these plants time of flowering color of flowers soil soll and locality in which they grow could you tell us suppose wo we were to ask apu how many species of birds visit your farm every year the time of their arrival and departure their habits while with you their names and their habits while absent from your locality the balance of the year could you tell us ua suppose we ask you how bow many species of insects are to be found on your farm their names history habits whether injurious to you or not upon what trees or plants they live when and how often orten they appear and how long they stay could you tell us suppose we ask you to show us specimens of the grasses and other plants the birds insects ac which may be gathered within your boundary fences could you show them to us and yet if you were to undertake to acquire the knowledge we have suggested by these inquiries you would find your life too short yet the knowledge you would ga inthe interest you would soon take in iland the knowledge of your own impotency m you would acquire would prove to you that it is not the farm that Is a du dull duli I 1 place but it is you who are dulu duil ploughman FEEDING por eor BUTTER magendie nin ila 0 endle endie sandras and Bouc hardat have shown that the fatty principles of our food minutely subdivided or made into an emulsion by the act of digestion pass without essential change into the aass lood blood where they are held at the disposal of the animal economy claims that fatty substances are only produced in vegetables and that they pass ready formed into the bodies of animals to undergo combustion immediately so as to evolve the ne esary ca animal heat or are stored up for future use dumas payen and after a long series of experiments gave a table of the percentage of fatty matters used in the different articles used as its food for stock oil cake and maize have about 9 per cent bran and oats 5 to 5 1 per cent hay 3 7 to 4 wheat flour peas lentils beans straw etc about 2 per cent and roots I 1 to I 1 i per cent by a long series of experiments made by he shows conclusively that the cow extracts from her food almost the whole of the fatty matter it contains and she converts this matter into butter he says the fatting batting ox fixes a certain proportion of these principles in the same way as the cow there is only this difference that the cow returns with the milk she yields a considerable quantity of the fat she finds in her food there consequently exists an obvious relation between the formation tion of milk and fattening allowing these deductions tobe to be true this accounts for the results claimed by jj W miller and others as to the value of cf bowed corn as compared with corn meal nearly all the dairymen at that meeting agreed with miller that corn meal is the best accessible food nood to increase the quantity of butter one dairyman said to me that the meal he fed his cows in the summer brought him per bushel when he sold butter at 30 cents the practice and experience of our butter makers singularly coincides with the statement as to therom para tive butter producing value of different kinds of food for cows I 1 the he experiments of show but little butter producing value in roots of any kind and farther that in no case does the fatty matter in the milk and other excretions equal that in the food eaten but that a certain portion is ia used in keeping up the animal heat he also shows that there is the most complete analogy between the production of milk and the fattening or of animals and lastly that fat food food which will will amford afford fat in the digestive canal alap appears to be the indispensable condition of fattening or of producing butter we find then that the peculiar fattening grain crop of america malze maize is ia the almost necessary adjunct to hay or grass in the production of butter and as in the case of the C chautauqua I 1 h dair dalr dalry dairy V man it wili wiil pay boube double its cost in its transformation into butter our butter makers east and west vest should not hesitate to feed liberally of corn meal being certain of a liberal return for the money expended AS expressed by a successful dairyman your cow is a mill and the richer the grist put into her hopper the richer will be the krist grist ready for market corrca cor reb res live stock bornal Jor nat nal |