Show DAIRY AND ANID POULTRY INTE interesting CHAPTERS FUR FOR OUR URAL READERS now ow farmers operate nr raf this ariit at t the th rara we rw hint hinto as to the h rr care of 0 live LI block a d elry Indu industry in ireland according to the registrar gemeril gener ls a report port says british dairy horld the number of 0 cows in irel ireland ind in WS as a 1129 2975 as or 13 42 belew the average of the preceding five ears cars irom this 1 ig is would ar it foreign in bitter was telling its talf tale A bile it Is a good thing to stuby dairy bleds it is I 1 even better to audy dairy cowa success with the cow la Is the fundamental problem in dairying the th dairy industry in some districts has maje made about as much 6 aa 60 0 it can under I 1 resent conditions until the cow an ani I 1 lur m ui la is im proved it H 1 universally recognized that many of our butter makers ank among the foremost tore fore moet ol 01 the world but too many ot of our dairy herd berda aa as a class all fall far behind one of the first Me Ossel tisla la Is to be able to a bood dairy eov from one oce that Is not L t dairy cow tit t all it will be obber observed ved that there la is wider range of varia aria tion between the individual cos in any one breed than the breed so the ao election lection of a breed ie is only 1 j I initial step in dairying generally there Is a alder ider relative varla ion bet beten mevia the cowa cows at 0 a single dairy herd than between the several dairy breeds A great many farmer farmers say they have no time to read this Is just the reason as a rule why by they do not succeed better ahe I 1 he man who does not read nu MA be a hard worker but he ie Is apt to have hae i A poor judgment A look over the country will convince any man that the meet successful farmers a we invariably the most intel gent at a mating of the edinburgh association of science and art arts mr john laing F I 1 C reed read a piper paper on dairy products from the producer to the consumer Co neumer as we got them and aa as we ought to get them la in order to get the beet best re suits from ala dairy cow cows should be fed and dept under the beat possible condition conditions he wu of at opinion that ar geruas on sewage lande land was wax not a proper proter or clean feeding tor for rows milk obtained from cowe cows fed exclusively on sewage grass was wits very rauch much interior from every point at 0 view to the milk obtained from cows fed oo 00 natural sweet meadow grass milk from sewage grass gave way very readily not so 10 much to acidity but to putridity and lad the buttor and cheese troia from such milk were very tery interior in quality using raper I 1 information has reached us that some of at the western Wea tero solicitors for new york houses have been telling the creamery men that there was no necea alty tor for sing using parchment paper lining in their tubs and that goods packed in that way not sell any more readily nor bring a higher price says the new lork ork produce review we am ar surprised at the length of time it tek to get a good idea through some men s heads why anyone comer conversant sant with th new now york trade and who attempt to keep in touch with the changing needs of this his market marke should try to convince a butter maker or a creamery secretary ecret ary that paper lining Is unnecessary and hats ao no practical use Is I 1 beyond our comprehension the proof of the pudding la is in the atlig mating runs an old saying and the value of too paper lining has been determined by the seve severest resit kind of use tor for more than a rear ar II 11 has grown in favor steadily and a very large number of chomor if iti are using it all the time pw page alter attar page has been written about its it value as a protection to butter the tho am given in tripping stripping etc and buyers at borne and abroad have boire coice to loot upon the paper lining as contla to tit perfect packing As toon soon aa foie foi elg ggs buyers became in our baiera butera butters they asked for tubs with the parchment lining having to know the value of that class of pf goods in the english markets marick ts NOT novi comes an art interesting demand from ahme h buyers for that style of packing and there are strong evidences to prove that within another year three fourths of the trade will call for paper lined but ter there cave been instances al this leabon ason where the butter brought a little more noney money became because the tube tubs were lined with parchment and moat most receivers can che cite cares where the preference was given to that kind of packing over other it will only be a matter of time ben creamery men will be b forced to ue use the paper lining to maintain tho the star ding ol 01 heir product and the be u this Is recognized and the newer method adopted the better it will be b for the trade the th water I 1 now let us consider the th of water it li Is a very important question and an one which ha has not received much special attention writes E 9 0 Ito esele in Co country gentleman it hae has something to do with egg more in ill tact fact than most of us imagine there it no more serious made in caring for a flock of bayors than to gle give them ice fee cold water al at 7 a binck in the morning with their fool and yet hor many thousand breeder breeders are doing this every winter if we giro gire them a warm nah mash and sometimes put plit red ader in it we do it to warm them up and then we give them ice wll cill water of coillot this Is not cono comment Went and it Is I 1 in my toy opinion if you have havo a flock of fifty running at large in your barnyard and roosting in your wagon gon shed do they run at daylight IP to the bore trough for a drink ef of lc leg katr thi this is an IastAn instance coi became because it 12 1 xu no farmer would bother r himself to water the ae hens la Is winter allen hen they want water they kaow know when and where to get it if it yos yo watch witch euch such a flock carefully vou will find and them drinking atter after the sun has been up moral several hours and atter after they havo picked d up a breakfast from the manure heaps and have actually done halt half a day a 0 work ie Is it ne cesary therefore for u us with our more talus ble thoroughbreds to put water before them tempting them to injure the very quality we are to cultivate namely egx egg production some breeder ers ne gle their nock flock hot water thie this la is P good idea but difficult to follow it if the flock Is 1 a very large one with a few aundrel head it would work perfectly but alth a thousand or more it would require too much labor layer layers I 1 consider lon sider should not be watered until they are well toned tolled up by exercise anil and food or until the sun haa has w warmed armed the coop coops ten Is a good hour and it could be combined with the stain rain teed feed at this time hint flints on mating the Acott lah fancier says the aim to be kept steadily in view la Is the an exhibition bird r requires to win if you have a cock alth ith too much white match him to a hen dirker duker than the color required or vice versa in breeling for color always select birds a etude shade darker than thin the color you want to breed aa as bowls are inclined to breed lighter and can never gel get depth of color unless you breed from birde birds very deep in color themselves this be very good advice tor for a plymouth rock breeder A k very good standard rule Is what the male bird ie is deficient in see that the ben lien has extra developed cocks with coaree coarse big comba combs should be mated to hens with small fine combe combs or vice versa and so on all through the points i Is very good advice but it would be better not to use euch such cock cocks at all it the must be used then the advice ad ice should be followed in breeding cochin cochins look morn to sound color and heavy feather than to slie size here again breed iron from bird birds rather darker thau than the exhibition hade shade and avoid all mealy specimen specimens and those wanting cushi cushion crt not bad advice cepe tor for breeder breeders of butte butts so far As color I 1 Is concerned still all ought to be omitted I 1 in breeding dark brahma and you wish good penciled pullets elect a hen with a well penciled 1 1 breast and throat and the color of the brast feathers the ame same as those on the back and wing avoid light breasted hena hens as the pullets from such are generally far too light in color but the cockerels from such a pen are often very good in color liens hens bare of leg feathers fea there should be mated with a very heavy feathered td hocked cock cocks light in leg ling feather generally rene trene rally throw a large percentage of t birds with too little leg feather exchange else slag n of flock the question of keeping many together Is one that has been fr frequently considered it has been and believed that chicken chickens did better in small flock flocks than in large ones we are very uncertain that this Is true with the one exception of health N S erf er it not tor for contagious diseases wj be item that chickens could be made to do well in large flocke flocks unfortunately when many hen hens are together it make makes w way ay for or the spread of contagious dis e ease if it one started with clean pens and bred all of their own stock using incubators and having their flock so far from neighbors that the disease gem gems s would not crosa cross the intervening pia it might bt b possible to have im flocks tl P more would thi this be b ro isible it if the fowls bad the range of a whole farm an they would not in that case be so likely to crowd together and infect one another did a contagious disease appear but most people that raise are not equated so that they can have these conditions small flocks of not more than fifty should bt be the rule A hundred may possibly be kept but it will require great grut diligence and watchfulness to make that number a success when disease breaks out in a flock the tick sick fowls should be killed inless it be merely a u rafic of indices slon ion then the other fowls should be b liken from the pens and the latter cleaned and purified for reon orny it werno hardly likely that any farmer readers of at the farmers re view lack ill good flock of poultry there may be however reader living in the town towns or suburb suburbs of towns thai that have forgotten what a help the flock ol 01 1 I poultry is I 1 to the housewife A emall number of hena hens nay may be kept at no expense when one has not 31 flock of 0 hans the waste from the kitchen if painfully apparent F especially specially Is I 1 thill so it the family be large and more cape dally so it thero be many children in it much food mint must be thrown away it becomes old before it can be disposed of when one haj has a flock of t hen hens all of this surplus food may b turned into eggs biresh egg eggs should be b used in large quantities next tr te yuck they are the most convenient to m ot of food and have nearly sit many uis it it a it pity that american americans catt net nit be of the necessity ol 01 lits h banding their rp resources sources it Is alad tot tbt the rench could live alv on w wat blat the american nation throat away we ue need to learn how bow to util lz t the stile lle products product A and instead 0 of th away turn them into thoi thugs of comfort for or the family tiec in agriculture 1 cay tay un de stand antl y that the young of our corti callary call try vo wo will bring to agriculture thet educator edu ducat caton on and intelligence the th la in demtry ant eee enU to luco lu su co cess ie in ivary other career whether industrial or professional profesa lonal will in th course of the next twenty years attain a far greater degree of material pell fall being on the tb average them in any other calling lavair H terow SON fm on an un tm 4 41 besing wall while it Is necessary I 1 to 0 ted ako tko tit cutiss while they are nursing the lambe lambs with generous liberality it I 1 also necessary to feed the lambe lambs as aril says a correspondent spon dent at of american sheep breeder eder the ewe must not be overfed for there Is no other aulman that will suf fer more easily than i sheep from excessive feeding so it I 1 la ls desirable deal rable to have some saint waya ways provided that lambe lambs may get their food while the this ewes cannot reach it this Is done by the provision of what are known as lamb creep creeps pens of any simple con at ruction with entrance i which the lambs can pass but too email for the ewes several of these hould should be nude matte about a large pasture and one or more in a small one to prevent the wool of the lambs froia from being torn or the tha lambs getting fast in th narrow entrances the sides ot of those are fitted with upright roller set on tome sonic kind of simple springs I 1 ba that hat as the lambs press to get into the enclosure they push back the rollers and set in and out ant with ease this ds de vice ice and tae the feeding made ble by it II will largely increase the tho growth ot of the lambs iambs the net and stormy weather of the past few weeks has been disastrous to young lambs the cold heavy ratna rains and chilling wind winds bave have hilled killed tho thoi thousands sands of new now born borm lambs even ei en in the sunny south A new bar born lamb needs a little littles warmth or at least a dry try coit for a day or two to to get strength to withstand nith stand the future storms proverbs are and the shepherd find finds that to the effect that the winds are tempered to the shorn lambs lenot Is not t to be depended upon shelter should be b provided and the shepherd should take care that as the lambs are drop pins ping they and alid the dams darns should be led or driven to the sheltering shel terin shed which needs only the tha simplest protection against winds mostly but also ac alast the cold rain rains the dry cold wind la is not nearly so 0 o injurious to the ves lamb as the cold rain thie this eva tion from the orin produce products excessive cold which te Is fatal to the weakling weaklings t in lar a breed it must be considered that the mutton will be th the s main source of protia tor for the future the fleeces being the second consideration consider an example A small 0 flock well managed may bring even SA as much as one dollar a head tor for the th wool but dat with equally good management the lambs may bring in when I 1 or 9 months old 5 or 6 a head and it may easily be that these iamb iambs may be one and a halt or even twice as many an a the ew ewes the iambi lambi my inky cost for or feeding the nine months 1 or 2 a head th balance goes to how show the greater profit of the meat W wf think of 0 thin this and at fit the nan same time also think not so much ot of the th special market lamb reared in ft a bo hot house at great cost but those that come in the early spring costing aoth ing tor for care or feeding over the pasture lt the wool pay the th coat cost ot at keeping the ewe and there to 1 a of per cent from the mutton lionet ionel the prevalent disease discus of young lambs during the iret three month months ot of life Is diarrhea ps with cramp cramps and pasma spume by abich the weak young thing things perish very quickly thie this Is a la in most all cases due to something wrong with the feeding of the ewe ewes the ewe escapes because the poison la to carried 01 through the milk rind we roust must al way consider the th results of any disease in a nursing ewe as so much polson to the sucking lamb then the owe must be trea treated teil but with care for or the th same reason that the medicine will affect the milk it will be sufficient to chance change the food or water of the owe ew and give the lamb a ingle teaspoonful tit of castor oil followed in an hour by a dose of five to ten drops of a mix ture of tinctures of laudanum 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