DAffiY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Bow Sueceeaftil Farmer* Operate This Department of the Farm—A Few Hint* m to the Caro of Live Stock ami Poultry. ' HE UNITED 1 states consul at f.Chin-Klang says that tho use of in cubators In hatch ing oggB has been known and prac ticed in China for several hundred years. It is a large and profitable In dustry, but the ap paratus used is of a very primitive description, xne hatching house Is usually a long shed built ot bamboo, the walls plastered with mud and thickly thatched with straw. Along the ends and down one side of the building are a number of round straw baskets plastered with mud to prevent them taking Are. A tile forms the bottom ot each basket. Upon this the heat acts, a small fire place being below each basket. Upon the top of the basket thero Is a straw cover, which fits closely, and Is kept shut during the process. When the eggs are brought they are put in the baskets, the fire Is lighted beneath them, and a uniform heat maintained. In four or five days after the eggs have been subjected to this temporature they dealer. It does not prevent selling skim milk on account of this standard established, but provides a heavy penal ty for not marking the cans In which It lg sold, or for selling It for whole milk when It Is skimmed. Another provision that will Interest the shippers of this section Is that the contractors shall clean the cans before returning them to tho farmer. This Is a provision that would hnrdly seem necessary, yet there Is no question but what the farmers are put to an Immense amount of trouble and labor to put tho cans In condition to hold milk after they have been knocked about for several days In the summer time with milk left in them, which gets rancid and fairly decayed. The Interesting provision of this law Is the percentage of solids and fat that is provided for as standard. It would hardly seem necessary to provide so low a standard an even 3.7, but 3 per cent Is certainly giving even the poorest farmer and tho poorest cow a chance to come into the procession and be acknowledged first class.—Elgin Dairy Report. Raising Lambs on Cows' Milk. The question of raising lambs on cows' milk hus been discussed to some length In the National Stockman. Writ ing In that paper J. M. Jamison says: The first point necessary to make It a success Is to have plenty of milk, and It Is best for the lamb grower to make calculations ahead. We now have over 80 head of lambs, the oldest about two weeks old. Have lost several, but Btlll have more than a lamb to tho ewe. Have not had so much cow’s milk as we would have liked, but have saved quite a number of lambs by its use. We bought a half gallon coal oil can, changed the spout from the top to near tho bottom on one side, made end of them to suck. If such a thing Is not at hand a little cloth may be roiled up and have a strong piece of cloth tied over it anil over can spout, which will answer quite as well. To do well the lamb should he fed at least eight times a day for the first two weeks, and always on fresh milk. Aft er this it may be gradually dropped down to five or six times. When three or four weeks old may have the milk for it drawn three times a day, but for a couple of months the milk should al ways be warmed up to 100 degrees every time the lamb is fed. Outlook for Cattle. Hundred dollar steers are not eo scarce Just now as they once were in ( the markets, but none of them have | been found to be scrubs up to date, I says the Nebraska Farmer. And it is I believed that figures relative to the pro- [ ductlon of this class of cattle will show the most economical way to the manu facture of good beef. The situation is certainly one full of encouragement to the producers of high grade beef cattle. There is one thing about the cattle business that distinguishes it in a marked way from any and all other meat producing Interests. This thing is the fact that it requires years to read just an unbalanced state of affairs as to requirements of trade, whereas in the case of hogs or sheep it only requires months to do this. There is at present an acknowledged deficit In numbers of good stockers and feeders in the coun try, there is a markod shortage of fat cattle as all know, and the herds of breeding cattle throughout the entire country have suffered decimation in their ranks from the fact of unprofitable prices for young stock. All these things have been going on under the noses of breeders for years, steadily but surely SUSSEX HEIFER, A PRIZE-WINNER IN ENGLAND—FROM FARMERS’ REVIEW. are taken carefully out, one by one, to a door, in which aro n number of holes nearly the size of the eggs. They are held against these boles, and the at tendants, looking through them, are able to tell whether they are good or not. In nine or ton days after this, that is, about fourteen days from the commencement, tho eggs are taken from tho baskets and spread out on shelves. Hero no tiro heat Is applied, but they are covered over with cotton and a kind of blanket, under which they remain about fourteen days more, when the young chicks break their shells and come forth. The natives en gaged in this business know exactly the day when the young chick ens or ducks will come forth, and are ready for their arrival. They are gen erally sold two or three days after they are hatched. Some Poultry SuffR*• - sole ^— WANTED-LABY {g'i; .. ,.-.11 ml* •* . .1 ir-fo. WAR ItU*"i.nu^ lit.ine: in everyth to sell our’Safety.. rP. *!***, years in physicians prha. c-.ice. A;«‘rJc* years in physicians pnva^ r in^ experience, I5o* 13*« * Topeka, Han»:ia Patents. 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