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BE SURE IT HAS THE 
WHEEL 
THE STRONGEST AND BEST WHEEL MADE 
orally perfect steer, Clarence Kirkleavingtou, 
that took the highest prize at the Chicago Fat 
Stock show in 1W4. His carcass was sold to 
a leading hotel proprietor and served in form 
of steaks, roasts, corned beef and otherwise, 
and greatly to the disappointment, if not to 
the disgust, of the bon viva tits there staying 
and eating, the meat proved to lie far from 
tender, lacked the true boefv flavor, and the 
leanest portions were altogether too greasy to 
he relished, and the tat was not true fat that 
could be eaten, hut tallow, or more correctly 
blubber. This prize steer was a good demon¬ 
stration of oarly maturity, and the meat was 
only a little worse than that of the average 
highly-grained steer fed to ripeness before or 
by the time he is two years old; veal is one 
tiling und beef another. It is no more absurd to 
claim that a six-months-old cull’ makes just as 
nice veal as another six weeks old, than to say 
a steer under two years makes beef equal to 
another four years old or over. 1 Ugliest qual¬ 
ities in the meat of all, or nearly all the ani¬ 
mals of the farm, furnishing our meat supply, 
are not at their best till the individual has at 
tained complete maturity and that maturity 
cannot lie advanced beyond a certain narrow 
limit. Ago, and mature age, Ls as essential to 
bring out the highest qualities in the flesh of 
the sheep nud the ox as in wine or the spirits 
nf wine, otherwise called brandy, the best of 
the first being ilasliy stuff whan now and the 
choicest of the other not distinguishable from 
absolute alcohol, when warm from the still. 
Hut the doctrine or dogma of early matur¬ 
ity not only gives us tough, greasy and flavor¬ 
less beef and mutton, but tends to Urn weak¬ 
ness of the individual and the deterioration of 
the race, because it means breeding from 
witli sweet milk for a drink. It usually acts 
at once. j. h. n. 
Bohemia, Wis. 
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BY 
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STRETCHES IN SHEEP, 
We have lost many sheep from “stretches.” 
Our sheep range over the fields in flue weather 
all winter and eat the dry grass. They be¬ 
come constipated. We have tried feeding tur 
nips—half a bushel to every 15 sheep also 
Stewart’s sure preventive, sulphur: yet there 
are one or more cases every week. Four 
ounces of salts generally relieve, but in some 
instances cathartics have no effect, and the 
animal will mope around for a week and then 
die. Turnips were almost a dead failure last 
year. We have kept a mixture of four ounces 
Epsom suits and l‘J ounces of common salt al 
ways in the salt box before the sheep. This 
helps the trouble. A heedless ewe came home 
one night without her lamb. Rain was fall¬ 
ing. It is no fun to carry a wet lamb half a 
mile. By the use of an old fertilizer sack he 
was brought home quite comfortably. The 
land) curled down in the sack like a puppy. 
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R. N, - Y.—Stretches or costl veil css, mani¬ 
fested by colic, is ofteu fatal unless the bow¬ 
els are promptly opened when the sheep first 
shows the symptoms by stretching itself inces¬ 
santly, twitching about its head as if in severe 
pain and lying down and rising frequently. 
Care in changing feed is a preventive and a 
few ounces of linseed meal will obviate the 
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LIMA BEANS WTTIIOUT POUT 
young and immature individuals. This er- 
roneous practice together with unlimited corn 
in the case of the hog, has so far lowered the 
constitutional vigorol' the leading breeds that 
every chill wind tlmt blows is liable to give 
them a cough or a cold and every sudden 
change of the weather is almost sure to develop 
some form of disease we have come to call 
‘hog cholera.” At present brooding from 
young and immature sires nud dams shows its 
bad effects in horses and cattle in diminished 
size and increased delicacy of organization, 
and of course, less power of resistance to hard¬ 
ship whether of food, work, or the weather. 
On the other side of the Atlantic, the subject 
is being discussed with great animation by the 
zoologists and breeders of intelligence, and by 
general consent the conclusion is arrived at 
that nothing so seriously threatens the future 
well-being of races of high-bred domesticated 
animals us the pernicious doctrine of early ma¬ 
turity. Only a few weeks ago I saw a car-load 
of b> mature and perfectly healthy aud vigor¬ 
ous bulls in a pen ready to be sent forward to 
the Chicago market for the canning factories, 
leaving their places to be supplied by one and 
t wo-year-olds, to the certain dotcroration of 
the herds they will bo ut the head of. But 
judging from the later and better knowledge 
ot animal physiology beginning to prevail 
among breeders and feeders of intelligence, 
such errors of judgment are not likely to be so 
common in the near future as in the recent 
past. 
trouble. Injections of warm soap-and-water, 
or of oue ounce of linseed oil will relieve the 
bowels, aud one ounce of linseed oil given by 
the mouth will generally cause a cure. If the 
costivcncss is of long continuance, a teaspoou- 
ful of flowers of sulphur mixed witli a little 
molasses or lard, may be placed on the tongue 
to be swallowed, mice a day, for a week. If 
a regular allowance of a mixture of four 
ounces of sulphur with one pound of salt tie 
placed where the sheep can get at it, there 
will be no trouble from costiveness or 
stretches. 
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A FEW FACTS ABOUT POULTRY. 
Potltry food, such as cut clover steeped 
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Do not keep old fowls and young chicks in 
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