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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1920-9-30, Page 6i Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide St, West, Toronto Buying and Feeding Feeder Sheep, 1 all the time, but at night omitt To Success in buying and feeding lambs! determine whether a .ewe has been Aepends upon the man who buys and/ bred and at what time, the ram should feeds them. A year ao I was talking be painted on the brisket so that he with a feeder who was in the yards! will leave his mark on the wool of looking for some lambs. He told are! the ewe. that be bought a car -load the year be- Suitable feeding troughs should be ;fore just before they started down, provided for hay and grain. Light Ile waited until they struck the bot, l portable racks prove most satisfac- tom and then purchased another load! tory. to offset the loss on the fist. He Pure drinking water should be sup - didn't like the idea of just breakingl plied in abundance; it is the cheapest even, so he bought a third load andIpart of the ration and often is. the made money on the operations. The. most lacking. Each sheep should have profit would have been three times i from four to six pounds of water daily. greater had all three loads been #Sheep will not take so muck unless it bought right, ! it available at all times. To have success in feeding sheep the Salt should be kept before them =- feeder must know how to select hiss! stently, for an irregular supply in - sheep and the hest kind to select. He' duces scours. For the first two or should be acquainted with the market three days they should not be allowed Qonditians and the different market ! all the salt they will take, but at first classes. tit should be dissolved in Seater and the brine sprinztled on their hay. The first thing to look for in buy-the There are several pi-acautions to ob- Mg iambs is thrift, If the lambs nee serve in fee . zzg sheep and starting very thin, make sure that their condi-'t thein on feed. flan is due to hunger. The lambs! If the sheep have lice or ticks they slioizld carry their heads up and their, should be dipped before they leave the ears alert, and show a bright look in yards. They should not be shipped their eyes. They should carry a heavy, the day they are dapped, as the cold compact fleece. Long, loose, shaggy night air fanning on them will de - fleeces do not protect the lambs from velop colds and a loss will result. Feed the cold rains. The best weight is : them hay and allow them to rest in tram tifty-ziye to fifty-eight pounds.' the yards overnight. Give them plenty In frons sixty to nine#y days such? of fresh water. They will then be in lambs, '.f properly handled. will weigh' better condition to ship. from seventy -Ave to ninety* pounds. When driving sheep from the local Scone people think that the thinner awards to the farm let them take their] feeder !anile is, the ;faster will be the time and eat along the roadside, They gain. That is a false understanding; I will not overeat if they are driven dont be misled. The thin ones do not slowly. They will be very thirsty and ,:tit so quiet: a start and the loss is' should not be allowed to drink all they likely to be great. The feeder in` want until the second day. The first niedi:im flesh is the one that will win, night they ehotild be kept in a yard o:;r, i and fed clover or alfalfa hay. The next If you are properly equipped and morning after they have had another Lave plenty of time and patience then' feed of hay, turn them out to graze ;Feu may ca nsitler buying ewes to carry l for three or four hours. If they are rover. In this case, examine the ewes to be fed in a dry lot, start the grain eleseiy; watch their teeth and their' the second day and increase it gradu- utd iers, 11Iany ewes have teats clipped; ally. Feed twenty pounds of corn, eta when being shorn, Such ewes thirty pounds of silage and 1,5 pounds sitcuid be sorted oat if they are to be of clover or alfalfa hay a head a day. used as breeders, I Gradually increase their feed and in i If ewes are bought for carrying; two or three weeks have them on full over, mate them with purebred bucks ` feed. If the feeding period is to be of the mutton breed. There should be I short, get them on full feed in about at lease one buck for every fifty ewes.( two weeks. Sheep have a better appe- The gestation period for ewes varies'tite on a bright clear day so it is best from 145 to 154 days. Ito make increases in feed on such a With a large flock it is advisable to ¶ day. "flush" the ewes, This consists in giv-I Keep the feed troughs and the lots ing an extra allowance of nutritious, f clean and fresh. When sheep are fed highly palatable food for two weeks;in dry lot they should be fed at the or so hefore the desired date of breed- t same hour each day. Feed twice each Mg. The ewes will then be rapidly'. day, once in the early morning and gaining in flesh. Not only is the ewe' again in the cool of the evening. If then mare certain to produce a vigor- f you have the range for the sheep it is cue len b, but she is a more reliable more economical to let them gather a hreeder and more likely to drop twins, part of their roughage. If they get Also the flock will all breed within a ' off feed, reduce the grain part of the shorter time if flushed. thus shorten -1 ration. ing the lambing period with its anx- Do not allow dogs nor strangers to sous hours.enter the pens or frighten the sheep, Rams should not run with the ewes for they will lose weight if frightened. Of all domesticated poultry, turkeys are probably the most difficult to rear. From the time they are hatched, up to that period of their life when the red shoots into the head, they are more or less delicate, and must receive special attention. After that they are pro- bably the most rugged of all fowls. The turkey chick has a very small crop and should be fed every two hours for the first week. For the first three or four days hard-boiled eggs, mixed with bread crumbs or coarse oatmeal, can be given; but after that period the egg part may be dropped from the diet, although it generally is advisable to continue feeding it for a week, at least. On- ions are highly relished and they are very good for the poults. The onions should be chopped up fine and kept constantly before the poults. Meat is another essential, as well as green food, of which tender lettuce is best. A gobbler may he mated to ten hens. Pullets in their first year should be mated to a male in its second year, while hens over a year old are best mated to a vigorous cockerel. The turkey cock reaches maturity after the molt in its third year, and from then on is not reliable as a stock bird. The hen prefers choosing her own nesting place, and usually where she lays her first egg she will drop all succeeding ones. After laying from fifteen to twenty eggs she generally becomes broody. Interbreeding must be avoided. No- thing will claim more weak and 111- conditioned stock than close relation- ship, and the offspring naturally be- come prey to disease. There must be strict cleanliness— clean roosting places, clean feed, and pure, clean drinking water. The young must be kept out of the rain; a sudden shower is generally fatal to them. Smut takes large toll from it`he wheat crop every yeae. Be forehanded and prevent this loss by sprinkling on the cleaned '.seed a solution made by adding pne pound of formalin: to forty gallons of water. Use about one gal- lon of the solution for each bushel of seed. Get every kernel wet. Covet" the grain with a blanket for several phours, then uncover and stir occasion- ally until it is dry, when it is ready for Needing. My neighbor asked me once to look at his pigs. I was about to step into the pen when he cautioned me: "Bet- ter take a stick with you, the sow is pretty cross." This I found to be exactly true. The mother sow was in no humor to tol- erate visitors, I soon saw that I would enter her pen at the risk of my life. As a natural consequence I kept out, I have often contrasted the wildness of my neighbor's sows with the gentle- ness of my own. I am fully convinced that it pays to have gentle sows. At farrowing time I have no difficulty in caring for my sows; they do not mind in the least if I handle their pigs. As a result, I do not have to fight with the sows to get them to do as I wish. I do not need to go armed with a club; my sows have nofear of me and I have no fear of them. A tame sow will look after her pigs much better thanone that is wild. Because of her fear, the wild animal imagines danger to her young ones. As a result she frets and worries and uses up vital energy. Her pigs ac- quire the same fear and are hard to manage. Naturally they are harder to confine and invariably strive to break hrough the fences. The pigs from tame sows grow up tame, as a rule, and give a great deal less annoy- ance with respect to fences. In addi- tion to all this, a tame hog fattens more easily than a wild one. Queen Victoria visited Ireland on four occasions. In 1849 she landed at the "Cove of Cork" which was re- named "Queenstown" in honor of her visit. to Perhaps the most vital reason for using agriculture in the education of the country child isthat it is in strict accordance with that recognized prin- ciple of educational psychology which demands that education should be built upon past experience: . If this be accepted the daily experience of the farmyard and the farm home' will furnish the groundwork of the teach- ing in the rural school; it will be the common stock from which other sub- jects grow, and the extent to which they grow will be limited only by the age and capacity of the pupil and the interest and the enthusiasm of the teacher.• Financial Notes. Tenders are being called up to Sept. 21st on a'3,000,000 bond issue of the Province of Saskatchewan, The an- nouncement presents two alternatives; the first requestis on the $3,000,000 6 per cent. 10 -year bonds, dated Sept. 1st or Oct. 1st, 1920 at the option of the purchaser, the principal and inter- est payable in Regina, Toronto, Mout- real and New York. At the same.time alternative bids ,are asked on $3;000,- 000 6 per cent. 20 -year debentures dated optionally as in the previous instance, and the principal and inter- est payable in Regina, Toronto and Montreal. The success of certain Ontario muni- cipalities in the marketing of "their debentures "over the counter" to their own people, is attracting a good deal of attention throughout Canada. The latest city to come into this category: is Brantford, reported to have sold over a half a million debentures I to its citizens, since 'the first of the year. Others of the smaller Ontario towns and cities have also been trying oat this method of interim financing and have found it to work out well. While this method of financing will not likely do for the big ,issues, which can beat be placed throughfirms with wide organization, it has been found satisfactory for odd lots and small blocks placed in between the bigger issues, The Shawinigan Water and Power Company have now under construc- tion at Shawinigan. Falls, extension to plant that will cost over $$,000,000 and take some two years to complete. It is the purpose of the company to considerably augment the 333,700 h.p. electrical and hydraulic development now being generated at Shawinigan Falls and the Laurentide Company: Present plans take into consideration the eventual adding of 310,000 h.p., with 100x 000 hip. at Shawinigan as the first step;;' 60,000 h.p. at Laurentide as the second. unit; and later, 150,000 h.p. at Gres Falls, •Present, _demand for power is expected to readily absorb projected increases in plant. A Long Distance Layer. As a rule, hens lay two or three eggs and then miss a day. Some good hens will lay more before they take a day off and we have known individual hens to lay five and six dozen eggs and not miss a day, but a record in long distance laying without a miss has, as far as we know, been establish- ed by the Experimental Farm, Poultry Division at their Kentville, N. S. Sta- tion, where a Barred Plymouth Rock pullet laid 104 eggs in 104 days, This Barred Rock whose leg band No, is 63, did not start to lay very early, In fact her first egg was laid on the 25th of January. She laid two eggs and missed a day, laid five eggs and missed a day, four eggs and missed a day, one egg and a miss, then two eggs, but an the 13th of February she got down to business and laid every day for the rest of the month, every day in March, every day in April, and every day in May up to the 27th when she took two days off. After this time she took an occasional day off until the 20th of June when she became broody. When she went broody her total record. was 136 eggs in 147 days. ••MM11121M19d .THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON L—OCTOBER 8. who was guilty of many crimes. His wife, the beautiful Mariantne, was a Birth and Childhood of Jesus, St. descendant of the Asnionaean kings. Matthew 1 and 2. Golden She and two of Herod's sons were Text, Matt. 1: 21. murdered by him. The pian who could commit such brutal crimes in his own 1; 1-17. The Book of the Genera- household might well have been guil- tion. The author of the gospel set ty of the murder of the Bethlehem himself the task, which seemed to him children. The teacher should consult exceedingly interesting and important, Matthew's History of New Testament of tracing the ancestry of Jesus back Times in. Palestine, or Riggs' History to Abraham, the founder of the He- of the Jewish People in the Maeeabean brew race. This was made possible. and Roman Periods, for an account of by the family lists and records which Herod's reign. had been carefully preserved by many "Wise Men." Just who they were families, especially after the Baby- and from what country they came we Ionian exile. These, it seems, did not do not know. The wise men, or magi, always agree. In the Gospel of Luke! of Persia are mentioned by Greek (3: 23-28) there is another and inde- i writers, and the Chaldean wise men, pendent list, Matthew makes only, in the Book of Daniel. An early Chris - nine generations between Zerubbabel tan tradition represented them as and Joseph, but Luke has seventeen.; kings, and regarded their coming as a Many of the names are different. The fulfilment of the prophesy of Psalm matter is not one of great important' 72: 10-15. Herod was troubled when to us and need not occupy our time,' he heard of their coming, for he knew Both evangelists intend to show the that the expectation of a great King descent of Jeseph from David. - Wes -i and Saviour, which was based upon ley, in his Notes on the New Testa-' ancient prophecy, was cherished by ment, referring to the differences,+ many of the people. and he feared that. says that "The difficulties rather af-i this might mean the end of his own feet the Jewish tables than the credit' kingdom. He had come to the throne of the evangelists." I and had held it by fraud and violence, 2: 1-15. The Child of Bethlehem.; and his guilty conscience may have Herod, commonly known as "Herod i been stirred by dread of a coming the Great," was king under the Roman1 judgment. sovereignty from B.C. 37 to B.G. 4. "Into Egypt." The words of Hosea It is quite evident, therefore, that our quoted in verse 15 in the original pas - Christian era has been made to begin i sage referred backward to the deliver- several years too late. Jesus must! ante from Egypt (Hos. 11: 1). Here, have been born in B.C, 5 or 6. Herod; by a curious change of direction, they was an able but unscrupulous man, are made to look forward .to Christ. FRUIT GROWERS AND PACKERS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY GOVERNMENT STANDARD APPLE BOXES Will place your apple pack in the consumers' hands in the most favorable condition. FIRSTBROOK BROS., Limited 283 King St. E. Toronto Cord or Fabric. 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