1210 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



water removes the caseine better than elbow grease. The mar- 

 ket weakens as the butter grows stronger. Pregnant ewes must 

 have exercise. Merinos for poor land and the range ; English 

 breeds for good land and small farms. Give the sheep fodder 

 for breakfast, grain for dinner, and hay for supper. Eternal 

 vigilance is the price of lambs. The best articles in the shep- 

 herd's medicine-chest are good feeding, good care, exercise, water, 

 and salt. It was a wet foot that made the sheep sick. Grow 

 and fatten early spring pigs on pasture (mostly clover) during 

 the summer and early fall, and then rapidly fatten on grain. 

 Clover and swine plague had a contest, and clover was victor. 

 Always have some hogs to connect with the kitchen by means 

 of the slop-barrel. A hog loses profitableness when brought on 

 rolling land. It is of very doubtful profit to furnish a hog with 

 a cook. The only valuable remedy for swine disease : inherited 

 vigor, pure water, a variety of wholesome food regularly given, 

 and clean, airy quarters, equal parts ; mix, keep shaking the 

 bottle, and give every minute. 



It was dampness that made Biddy take to her bed. It was 

 a sad day among the insects and grubs when the poultry marched 

 into the field. Set out plums and small fruits in the poultry- 

 yard. Make heat the first thing on the breakfast bill of fare in 

 the poultry-house in cold weather. Ground bone put the egg 

 foundry in operation. When the hen has gone to grass she 

 goes to lay. Give poultry green food, vegetable scraps, pure 

 water, lime, gravel, dust bath with sulphur in it, and warm, 

 lighted, ventilated, white-washed quarters. Three things are 

 there quoted firm in the market reports : whisky, tobacco, and 

 April broilers. Hamburgs and Leghorns for many eggs, Hou- 

 dans and Black Spanish for fewer but larger eggs ; Brahmas, 

 Cochins, Plymouth Rocks, and Langshans for eggs and dressed 

 meat for winter market; Plymouth Rocks, Dominiques, and 

 Wyandottes for early broilers. Do not choose the chicken- 

 hearted cock for breeding. Build the apiary on promptness and 

 persistence. The quiet colony needed little crape during the 

 winter. The three points of successful wintering : uniform tem- 

 perature, sufficient food, pure air. 



