March, 1914 



THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



throufrh the steers. In the experi- 

 ments the averaj;e };\iins per day 

 of pifjs feeding only on the grain 

 from the droppinj^s were .81 lb., 

 1.19 lb., .92 lb., and T99 lb. 



Brec<linj( on pedij^ree without re- 

 gard to shape is like building a 

 house without the assistance ol 

 architecture. A successful breeder 

 of viersey cows has said that a 

 large proportion of the nien who 

 breed cattle are not breeders- they 

 simply mate cattle, that is all. No 

 man should enter upon the work 

 of breeding who does not have a 

 clear idea of the type and form of 

 the animal he wants to produce 

 fixed in his mind, and thus breed 

 to a purpose. 



The greatest loss, probably in 

 the manure made on a farm is 

 from the loss of liquid voided by 

 the animals when tied up in their 

 sheds, and which is allowed to run 

 waste down drains and into 

 ditches. It has been calculated 

 that 1,000 gallons of cows' urine 

 would have the same beneficial ef- 

 fect on a crop as would be ob- 

 tained from the application oi 2 

 cwt. of the best Peruvian guano. 



In feeding horses there is no 

 arbitrary rule to be laid down, 

 except as to the quality of the 

 food. Mouldy or dusty hay must 



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never be g'iven. Grain must be 

 clean and sweet. Peas are good 

 for young horses. 



Moulily spots in silage are in- 

 variably due to air which gets into 

 the silage through the walls of the 

 silo, or at the time of idling. The 

 remedy is to make the walls of 

 the silo absolutely air-light, or to 

 exercise more care in filling the 

 silo ; that is, better tramping and 

 l)acking. It may be said that, 

 when maize is put up too dry, it 

 is apt to produce mouldy sila' e. 



A poor sow is in no condition 

 to make a large Utter of pigs. Of 

 course the sow should not be over 

 fat, and she is not likely to be 

 over fat if she has plenty of green- 

 feed. 



• The heed for lime in your soil 

 may be determined by the growth 

 of clover. So long as clover grows 

 luxuriantly lime is not required, 

 but when clover fails to grow on 

 well-matured land, dying out the 

 second season, lime should be add- 

 ed. Lime should always be pre- 

 ceded and followed by liberal man- 

 uring, for lime used alone, while it 

 may stimulate the land to extra 

 production for a year or two vsdll 

 in the end produce greater exhaus- 

 tion. By alternating lime with 

 manure the land will be kept iU) a 

 healthy condition, and will steadi- 

 ly increase in fertility. 



Preserving the female progeny of 

 the most valuable cows is one of 

 the fundamental and essential ele- 

 ments of the most profitable dairy- 

 ing. That it is not more general- 

 ly done is one of the vital defects 

 in our dairying, and one largely 

 responsible for the poor or ordin- 

 ary results so often obtained on 

 our dairy farms. 



The annoyance caused by flies to 

 horses out at grass is capable of 

 developing into serious trouble if 

 the animals happen to have an 

 open wound about them. Any sore 

 place of the kind will attract the 

 attention of the insects, who will 

 probably create a Very bad place, 

 if not kept off it. Naturally, the 

 most obvious course of treatment 

 is to bring the horse in and then 

 to apply a dressing in such a man- 

 ner that the flies cajinot reach the 

 sore — in fact, to cover up the 

 wound ; but, if this be not possi- 

 ble, a dressing of iodoform' \vill 

 probably keep the insects off, as 

 they dislike the smell. 



It is not by any means certain 

 that we reg-ularly give animals 

 credit for having delicate discrim.- 

 ination in sound. Horses, cattle, 

 sheep, pigs, dogs pre-eminently. 



and poultry know the footstep of 

 of any chance stranger. In a farm- ' 

 house composed of a dozen or more 

 individuals a collie half slucpiug at 

 the kitchen fireside does not stir 

 when one of liis own select commu- 

 nity is trampling over cobble 

 stones or thumping with heavy 

 steps anywhere outside ; but lot a 

 stranger coiiie along, and the dol- 

 ing critic is up at once with 

 alanued or " olhcial " bark. The 

 nicety displayed by some dogs in 

 this respect is sometimes entitled 

 to be classed as phenomenal. 



A generation ago many a man 

 went into farming because it was 

 said to be the one occupation 

 which did not need any prelimin- 

 ary training. To-day, however, the 

 successful tiller of the soil must 

 come up to his calling fully 

 equipped, as the curious fact has 

 developed that the calling in which 

 the unlettered and untrained man 

 was once supposed to have as good 

 a chance as the educated one is 

 now the calling in which wide and 

 varied knowledge is as imperative 

 as in almost every other known 

 among men. 



Some farmers are tempted to 

 buy cheap seed. Poor-quality seed 

 is never cheap ; it is usually full of 

 impurities, such as stalks, broken 

 seeds, chaff, particles of soil, and 

 foreign seeds, often weeds, many 

 of which may be noxious. 



Most people th nk that a fly is 

 a fly and that there is no differ- 

 ence between a house fly and a 

 horse fly. The house fly is a 

 dreadful villain but there is some- 

 thing to be said in his favour and 

 that is that he or she never 

 stings. The horse fly does. The 

 former only has a soft, rubber-like 

 mouth for sucking up morsals of 

 of food whilst the horse fly has a 

 sharp-pointed lance concealed with- 

 in his proboscis by which he 

 pierces the skin and then gaily 

 proceeds to suck the blood. 



It is a matter for regret that as 

 much attention is not given by 

 maize-growers to the selection of 

 good varieties and to the improve- 

 ment of seed as is given by their 

 wheat-growing brethren. A good 

 opening for enterprising men exists 

 in this direction provided the pro- 

 per course is followed. Demand can 

 only be created by supplying seed 

 of high quality. No market for 

 seed maize will ever be created if 

 seed that is of a mixed chararter 

 and 1 ttle better than feed corn 

 is supplied. Confidence in a seed- 

 supplier is only to be secured by 

 the hig'h quality, and especially the 



