| Show ACRI agricultural CULTURAL NOTES I 1 cure CUBE DOGS OF KILLING SHEEP sheer if you have a good dog that kills or runs sheep and dont want to shoot him build a pen sixteen feet square and run a pole polo across the top and then tilen pick the largest and oldest buck of the flock put him in the pen iet get get your dog with a collar aroun around his neck and rope to draw up over the middle of the pole so that the dog will have his forefeet swinging off of the ground round a few inches get out of til the e pon pen and let the buck give him several good bood butts and then turn him loose loose this tilis is a sure cure I 1 tried it on my fa fathers therIs dogs when I 1 was a boy never knew them to even cross a nield field where the sheep were grazing try it itt cor cof rural kural sun THREE BEST REST ROSES rose fifteen of the tile most distinguished rose growers in england were separately asked to name thirty six roses and i out of that number to designate twelve which they tiley considered the tiie best twelve the result was that of the roses roes which were named only three were nvere on the record named by am all as worthy to be placed on i the tile first twelve these three roses rows ought to be universally known as every one who bhoj cultivates cultivate flowers wants the best roses as a matter of course they are L 1 Mare marechal chal ebal niel niela a 2 baroness rothschild 3 mane niarie Ba baumann naumann umani it will bo be observed that at the th head of the three stands bia Bla marechal rochal niel sweetest of the tiie sweet prairie farmer earmer farmer NOT many months since we went through the stables of the best s stock ock raisers misers in this cpu opu country how clean were the calf pens and the pigs looked like pets not a corn stalk was in the tile wrong place not a dust of ashes oi ou the furnace where the food was cooked every rake and brush and shovel hung ilung on its nail f ghow dhow do you manage to keep things so clean we asked oh was the reply uve ive discharged many a man because he do things well 11 9 this stock raiser miser will have everything litt little leand and big done in tho the very best manner and just here is the secret of his success Anic anlo american rican Jour rial fial of education BREEDING TOO YOUNG ewes should not be permitted to breed at one year the lambs laijas of such young mothers will be of little euse use always small puny and unprofitable and the mother will not grow much afterward besides there is no profit in this early breeding for the first fleece will be so much less and the tile young ewe of so much less value as to quite overbalance the gain in the tiie lamb iamb the owe ewe should not breed at less than two years yeara old and she should be fed most liberally a ll 11 y the first winter to keep up bilat li healthy a althy growth made the first summer on her mothers milk and good pasture green food seems even more necessary for sheep than cattle therefore a small quantity of turnips beets carrots or potatoes should be provided for lambs let the young ewes owes be healthy and strong and the lambs will be beilke like ilke theland them and sell at high figures to the tile butcher nut but early lambs always sell best and sharp breeders bleeders bre eders edera should provide such warm quarters that lambs jambs may safely be dropped in february rational nat yat lional ional live stock ro butner burner sump SHEEP tf ff growers of combing wool should raise nadre sheep primarily to produce iodice mutton should ch ouid also alo al awo o try to mature them early so as to sell the carcass we shou ghou should rid have wool from well fed healthy strong fat sheep which is just the wool wooi wanted for delaino purposes farmers cannot keep these large sheep on lean pastures but little care of them thom and have good wool and the great reason the combing wool aliee sheep finout run out when brought from F england I 1 to ig ra nd and canada is that t thoy they 11 4 r do not get the same stame care and treatment they had in those countries and are often kept on soil they are axe not adapted to and are not fed sufficiently the tho wool from a leicester sheep that has been in the united states two years is is generally harsher leaner and worth much less than it would have been if tilo th e sheep had stayed in canada or england Eng tand now this will lii ill not always be so for growers will yet learn that these large sheep need more to earthan eat than the tile small merino and their food should not consist of indian corn but they should have some roots aud and mangold when sheep are fed on corn they are too liot hot and fo fe vorish and the wool becomes harsh and brittle while a proper supply of roots with other food would produce soft sound and elastic wool ex KIND TREATMENT TREA TO HORSES mr N J T coleman caleman Cp leman ieman in a lecture be fore it li illinois industrial university on breeding horses pleads for kinder and more judicious treatment of those noble animals their stables are frequently too close with too little light and air the hor horse lias ilas lungs and consumes a great deal of oxygen he is often confined in a close stall which hardly permits him to lie down he requires ures abundance of air and light dark stables being the cause of diseased eyes in in many horses stables require r u re windows I 1 as well weli as houses brood rood mares a of which the tile lecture lecturer keeps forty should be worked or ebere exercised ed a little every day after foaling coaling the work should be very moderate they require comfortable stables and land they and their colts should be frequently handled otherwise the colt may bo as wilb wild wild as a deer and not easily controlled at breaking time colts thus handled from froin the first are very easily broken the horse has more intelligence than lie he is credited for he mii mil can se se 9 and hear better than a man and smell and feel just as well these facts should be borne in mind in taming him convince him that you are his friend and will not hurt him approach him by degrees let him smell smell of your whip and bridle put on his bridle an and when that is in your hand you are his master and in ten minutes he will lie down completely your slave with a few lessons of this kind he will know his place and obey your voice voide in training colts tact is as necessary daryis as in rearing children A yearling 1111 liri colt may become accustomed to biho the tho locomotive umbrella wheelbarrow and other 9 objects b and after being boing once oneo convinced by touch or smell that no harm comes from them them he remembers and all su such sueh cn matters of education tend to make lili him eia ela fia la safe horse hom c ever after of i i |
