What “Snodowner” Hears

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 201, 8 August 1928, Page 8

What “Snodowner” Hears

Scours is one of the most'common troubles to be met with when calves are raised by hand. This Torm of indigestion is usuallyxcaused in the first place by over-feeding, sour or old milk, cold milk, dirty pails, or unclean troughs and stalls. • • » We all know that abundant exercise is essential to a growing animal, and is supplied by nature in the gambollings of the lamb and calf while being suckled by their mothers. Later, especially when in a state of nature, this exercise is forced on them in their search for food, which, even when ample supplies are present, keeps them ever on the move. Such animals develop every, organ healthily —we may assume that it is the exercise combined with a sufficient food supply, and not exercise with starvation, that produces the profitable, healthy, and hardy animal. From this reasoning, we can see that hilly, country with good but not rank, mixed pasture would provide the conditions perfect for development. » • • In his boow on dairy cattle and milk production. Professor Ecklee discusses crossbreeding as follows:— “A farmer having perhaps a goodgrade herd of Jerseys observes the much larger yield of milk secured by his neighbour, who breeds Friesians and decides to make a Friesian cross, thinking he will combine the quality of the Jersey with the quantity of the Friesian. Occasionally this end is partially attained, but just as often the animal inherits the quantity of the Jersey with the quality of the Friesian. The next year the farmer possibly decides his animals are too small, and uses a Shorthorn to increase the size. The result of such practice is. Jo lose the breed characters, and the occasional good animal that appears from such a mixture does not transmit any definite characteristics.’’

Although under pressure from producers the United States Government has arranged its tariff and enacted regulations to prevent, as far a* possible, Argentine, meat entering into competition with home-grown meat, the feeling is growing in the South American Republic that the time is not far distant when its beef will be needed for United States consumption. That opinion is also held by leading exporters of meat in Australia,

Mr. F. H. WTiyte, stock inspector for Wagga district, announced at a meeting of the Pastures Protection Board that an outbreak of pleura had been reported among cattle in the district, says the “Australasian.” At present the outbreak was confined to a mob of 50, which, with all contracts, had been inoculated. The quarantined cattle came from Queensland.

Under natural conditions the pig is for ever rooting in the soil looking for something. Undoubtedly it finds the very things that go to develop the animal body, and not the least of what it secures are minerals in one form or another, tinder the system of confining pigs to be penned TE is important that minerals in some form or other be added to the ration. Pigs kept in confinement very often show a strong craving for seemingly unnatural substances—charcoal, ashes, mortar, soft coal, decaying wood, etc. Such cravings should be satisfied. It may be done by feeding charcoal, air-slaked lime, wood ashes, bone meal or rock phosphate, copperas, and a little salt. Possibly these substances will aid the pig in making better use of the grain. Pigs do not require as much salt as other farm animals, but it should be fed regularly. In an experiment at the lowa Station pigs that had been allowed free access to salt made better gains than those receiving no salt or others getting a very limited allowance. The salt may be fed with a mineral mixture or a little given in the feed trough. A tramp called at a farm, and the farmer offered him a job and three meals a day. The tramp asked what kind of work it would be. The farmer replied, “Digging potatoes)” The tramp thereupon stretched him self and yawned. “Don’t you think,” he suggested, “you’d better get the • man that planted them? He knows just where they are!” e e • Jack was learning to play the bagpipes. One night while he was strutting about the room, skirling for all he. was worth, his wife attempted a mild and very belated protest. “That’s an awfu’ noise you’re making,” she said. Jock sat down and took off his boots, then got up and resumed his piping in his stockinged feet.