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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3330, 12 January 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

A New Hampshire farmer, writing to the American Agriculturist on tne subject of cattle-feeding, says : —“ Most of our professors, in speaking and writing on cattle-feeding, shoot so high that we common folks cannot understand them. The other day I heard two farmers talking about balanced rations. One has kept blooded stock for the last 40 years, and the other keeps 50 cows. They both said they had read and studied a good deal abou f the subject in experiment station bulletins, but couldn’t make anything out of it. Now, as feeding right or wrong is the dividing line between making money on the farm and losing money, it is not a duty of the professors that are drawing such large salaries to teach us these facts in language that we can all understand ? The whole tendency with our experiment stations and their bulletins is to get above the ordinary farmer.” Cyclists bring a! market to the farm. Put up a notice with “ Pure Milk ”on it, and see if some of them won’t stop and buy. A great many breeders, upon Laving a pig overheated, or very warm, attempt to reduce the temperature by dashing a bucket of cold water over it. Very often the result is a dead pig in a very short time. The proper way to cool off a pig just received in a crate or one that is over-heated, is to let it lie still and commence pouring water gradually on its nose, continuing for She space of two minutes on the nose, and up to the top of _the head. Then when the head is thoroughly cooled, proceed backward gradually, not pouring too rapidly at fiist, till you have reached the tail. In this way the pig will be cooled off without danger of any bad effects from the over heating.