The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-11-22 00:00:00

Egrimlture.

gEST RODE OF PROVIDING FOOD FOR
' STOCK FOR THE WINTER.

heotOC Sernieni Club held their 2nd meeting at the
Hotel on Saturday evening, the 12th tif November,
Arl.r le &whim, of Mertinetown, Introduced • highly
gr
eboi topic to agriculturists—the pesos bion of food for
o &Tug the coming winter.
bre In the coune of an able paper, said it we.
t. Ini" knows that they could not depend on their
stet " or food for mock, viz., roota and hay, and must
' 'side a aubutitute ; what that is to be moot be
%ha price of leading stuffs, and, of course, that
00105, oswer their purpose hest was not what they
*sweet, het what would make them the hest return
ressL,e, misty. It was souring to read hew some people
fr WIWI keeping stock. One tuat. says "it Is
ItsJ__7ore 7,,, bow well horses and cows du upon cii4ped-up
/......,..17r—;gyaw, and Mustard." Another has had leaves ea •
Iron the trees collected and chafirl up with straw,
and sheep eat the mixture with avidity. 'The
c r wawim edvenatal three &veleta and acorn. a.
dittle and sheep, pip and poultry. hut a.
would not grow In the winter, all the lessee
• Mows from the trees and mattered, and only a few
, ied in the land of the elvelanut and oak, they roust look
ithernot having the natural production they n ust purchase
the xruhcial ong. This year everything In the corn way was
out hatter then wee expected, both In quantity and
sad the nem second In a more healthy modition.
• the grew wee sweet mod good, and in its natural state as
nutritious as inforke hay, but when chopped into chat and
noted with homed, cotton oake, main, peas, beans, or any
other stimulant of ahat kind, had been proved to be better for
-hop and tattle than the hest hay, and, he thought, if all the
cspensee of haymaking were taken into account, would be
f-und as cheap. Light soils the lent few ammo, bad nos pro-
iiooth expected results, the turnip crop being very parading,
✓od he awasated the soil might hmone turnip orb. It was
,svereary they should emertedn ethaly what stock they had to
keep, and what food to do it with. /key mug get rid of all
they could not keep well, and In • continual state of pro-
enthion. Me advised selling drafted sheep and lambs at WOO.
Cull lambs at 18.. to 90a , sod cull owes at in. to 305., the
*Nutritious of our lea fairs, wrinti4 not pay fiir athing this
season, fano by thew whom crops did no', *lie:" fro,n.i„ the
drought, the grub, or the turnip fiy. Ile proems.
b.)?
ooe about to whiter stock had certain quantal.. .4 routs, y,
and strew, and was prepared to buy artificial fond to supple-
ment them. To thrive stock required net only • certsin quality,
bet s certun mixture and bulk of food. Lau't lot Orin con.
some all of anyone &acerb° of food early in thy reawtl ; but
take 'Lock of the 'thetas odder. and the number of weeks It
will 'subsidy have to Imt, and then suppiernent with artificial
1...' lose the beginning. Strew, cut into chaff, west supply
, M
feria f
the bulk, whilst cake. corn. °Tme other y ofc. the numerous
foolingte molls Met sgsply qual y. _
lb,
of
4 .4.011., of smith for ~ 400110.4 or Wt.l
for a.. 604th. of fur le*, Ligelbi of beano for the., and lin-
t,,,
ate.. for Melba ; beet Unwed cake is xi:
lor too beat cotton cake Ai 10,, and la.st repo cote gd,
▪ lam; maim, barley, tots, Mid cotton tele were
itl•mi the woe woo value per immol about Fl.;
thr others were, be thought, too dew for *tore Kock, but lin.
oed they Mot have at any price to MAI. • good cutollm.,,t.
i ~1 his friends used the following mixture ; hs). and
iit into clad, bruised linseed "raked in eater for 24 hour.,
noting •, my thin gruel, poured over the char, and nisi
nod,. IMO] wheel, barley, and maize, dusted over the heap Le •
it o tuned, all well mixed and allowed to *lightly heat. Thi.
I. they given to sheep, mine, and colt., so well se to heifers,
totting bullock.; the letter, in addition, hare
perdu of • mixture of cotton, rye, And linseed cake.
They have nothing elm but 'thaw An us& rick cut into chef!
on *vital thing for van hones, given at the rate of two bushels
per day , it le Mao • very good thing for cheep with a few
• XIII, he thought it extravepnt and working In the
dart. 1114 own hop were living on meneokl pulled up some
,lay. barge, and barley thew, in cribs. not cut into chaff —fur
tiny ste It m well he did not use the nth...thy for doing so—
and half a wood of cotton cake per day. Ii; exisoing man-
II to the air some time before It are eaten it loses It. acrid
..."ring quality, and giving cotton cake having an opposite
i t, keeps the sheep in thoroughly good healthy condition.
,ardoth turnips, my. the "Farmer? Magazine" for this
iiii•iith, should be fed without being pulled op, as the vegeta-
ii Jobe being volatile, they the dissipated by exposure.
I los* the superior benefit derived by the mote being eaten by
tto wroth of the mime' over the cutting and thinng of the
: the tender mouths of young ,sheep ore easily
by okler anisin breaking the bulbs it. a cheaper way
than by ninching. Cutting and slicing eneouniges swallow.
.1 the pieces, which lessens mastication and the produe-
tom of ashen, which is 01 Vali consequence to the purpomo
sedmilstion and digenloe." He introduced this quota'
ti, knowing it to be at variance with the opinion and
practice d muslin this neighbourhood, hoping it would Wad
4, a proitabie dliecension. One gentleman iu this neighbour-
hood had used wheat mixed with chit for some years past,
and told him that he had never used anything that fathered
m well, and was such sale feeding that he had never had any-
thing the matter with his sheep since he had used IL Him
plm was to keep We sheep In yards, cut hay and straw In
equal proportions, grind the wheat and mix it well with the
chaff, and feed titres times • day, allowing each cheep one
pint of wheat daily, with a. much chid as it will cat. Ile was
now speaking of More stock. As sheep kept in yard. were
liable to get loot rot, that gentlemen, es • preventive, had a
run put up at one end of the yard, the doer of which was well
covered with quicklime, and the sheep were made to walk
through It every day; this kept their feet healthy. Winter-
ing ahem, in yards was mmetial on a fares with strong clay
land, me sheep In wet weather so puddle,' that kind of soil
that it required much axles labour to pulverise It In the
spring. Thidr chalk lane., on the contrary, were much
benefited by the treading el sheep. Dairy cows did well in
a gond sheltered yard with plenty of straw, and film • day of
ston cake, or 411 n. of linseed cake; he had no doubt they
simld de rather better erith albs, of !leased boiled and
icored over straw chair, bat chaleng and boiling were ex.
Isusive, and, if they did not do • great deal better, the labour
...hi be thrown away. A machine had been Introduced for
cutting the young Ana. of furze into fine chat; that food
•ammippeewl to he very agreeable to the palate of the hone
there was another animal that would doulnleas do well on it,
mul probably he would like his thistles done in the male way
Condimentel foods were much wed, and considered quite
wry by some to give a relish to the ordinary
Inoil and • good healthy tone to the animate.
Any nth who treed that kind of seamuing might
manufacture it himself at less than half the price
rharired by the vendor. Hero was a receipt for doing no from
" Land and Water"

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IS Ater el mime ..
IS Moues of este ..
It stones of lentils ..
18 stones of beans ..
IS Moose of linseed.. ..
stones of mustard bulbs
6 mon. of bmt mit ..
2 401111. Of 61111114Feek P 0.40, • •
1 4000 of powdered gentian ..
I stone of eulpher
7 pounds al marry seed
7 pounds of oaltcetre
V potted. of powdered aniseed ..
1011 stones WU L'J 11 4
Thee the cog would be Is. bid. per stone, or about ‘l2 per
too. These Ingredieuls to be well ground and carefully rutted.
mot one-fourth of • plot to be given daily with the usual food,
Ile thought it would pay better to keep helmets at home this
winter than to put tbsat out to keep. The mins in October
bed filled the ponds, and the enath had became saturated
enough for MI agricultural purpeee. The green of the lone.
.1,0. had been recovered, end the turnips and other esculents
which were aimoiet threatened with extinction had hcen greatly
tio that he hoped they would be able to get through the
• inter without lemming tbillt already acquired reputation for
gnitubliog.
Mr. Foots, of Corns, said the feeding stuffs he had used in
former yews were too expeadve to employ this winter, and be
ktarody knew of a substitute. AU ...raw must be laved,
and turned to account. This year he had fed his dairy min
tot the swine from the thrashing machine, and he had
fund leaves stripped from growing meogokl very useful.
before Mite year be bed wad beans and cake for his off-going
stock -maw maw particularly-Amid he had found nothing
more beneildaL Thera was an old saying that the belt was
cheeped, and that WM the principle be hail acted upon. Now
that a greeter bulk of food woe required he wished to imprees
on them the neemnity of making the beet use of everything
growing as their lanes.
Mr. Wumts mid he had found (gushed maize to answer
sell; but for the Met two months he had ',caked it in water
for 46 hours, causing it to grow out hada: using, and hones
did better with it when so malted, and if them, why not other
animals? But they could not give much of it to quay, or he
believed it would, In a great measure, supersede linseed cake.
Ile believed apples had been chopped up with strew fur loud,
Mr. Tonna suggested they were useful-with gooses-
(laughter).
Mr. Worm., said a friend of hie had told him apples were
better than seurgold. Hie dalryenana;srred 41h. of cotton
cake end ease to inferior hey, and t it advantageous
1.. provide bait the cotton mks, and be . Whittle) believed
tic manure obtained front it equal to that of linseed cake.
Mr. T. C. BAUXDUJI Analysis rye it's better.
Mr. Oases mid of late years they had learnt that the wont).
ntlcal nse of turnip wee adventegeoue, and straw could be
made largely available for Meep and cattle, but, of course, no
en, would think a ri.t.s Mum alone; there teuet. be added
Ow nutriment the anlmahe required for health and growth, and
for tide pupate the redone condiments and prepared foods
now io halloo were valuable. As to maim, Mr. Spooner told
hint ito feuding quality and manurial value were much the
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Mr. T. C. Savanna generally agreed with the lecturer.
Mr. Drmax mid the consumption of ootton cake was largely
increasing, and that of linseed cake declining, hut he had no
doubt It arose from the fact that they did not
now want to fat animals, but only to keep them In thriving
condition, and that could be done with cotton cake, which
wee tom expensive food. Maim must be very valuable, but
malting It wee a new idea to him, though he did not we why,
if it was good for one kind of corn, it should wit be beneficial
to another." In the neighbourhood of the New Forced he
knew sterna of hones kept the whole • inter on green furze
cut every day, and thoroughly bruin/LI on the stump of a tree
by a boy with • beetle. Tbe horses wars kept In better condi-
tion than if they had had hay and corn, and would leave good
clover hay to Oat the furze. Mixed with straw chatted or
anyll/ arm he thought it would be • good deal better than
With regard to cotton cake he thought 411,. with
our straw would keep an animal in condition.
Mr. Foote mid mos yarn ago he fed his beasts on 411,. of
cotton cake and straw, and four dled. lie thought cotton cake
*bould be used with linseed sake or roots.
Mr. DAUM 1111 d that year, ago the cotton cake was vary
indigestible, but It had been Know). Improved, and the husks
•i•re en enely ground that Prolemor Voekker, on aaalyas, said
they wen baneticiel.
Mr. Pons mid he spoke of six or seven years ago.
Mr. 0. W. Hosea mid It was he who was spoken of in the
lectors as having used hay and straw chaff with linseed over
It. lie prsferra, however, half • bushel of roots a day with
It. Three *Were eV, on that, system, he rued besets to the
value of over £l,OOO with three acne of mangold. Four years
ago tTlbs. of mans was equal in value to 60110, of oats, and
that seemed to be borne crm by experience. At that time he
retvounended • mixture of 10 cwt, of barley, 61 cwt. of leas
or buns, and 34 cwt. of Imaged, which then cost £0 Ilk 4d.per
ton ; at preoent Uon would coat more, becaum barley was con-
'"2'h+deerer. and grinding quallUes seemed likely to be
In price. Put maim in the place of barley, and they
*could ye 10 cwt of maim, 6 cwt, of beans, and 4 cwt. of
lineed, which would coot about go per ton. That he should
refer to &reed cake at its present prick Mangold leaven.
ne bed. getied. Produced scouring, but he would try them
etre It. amid not think cotton cake would do In the
Wt. raid; be consiewed raps in • mixture would be
better.
wilt'oranifthimarwhi. I....attatb....whell far.
bining In the north he had used.
dto Ask., dara
trtearnel chill; • few roots
in any mixture. Mangold
;dm co he had found hunki to breeding
olauiltold.and with use load, stock • Th. Pu/Ped
cod chaff, turnin• it into good
food. lie taught • waters of
one septrately. eh...in, dhkhniirl: would than my
north 'l'ere leile•eced_ by the elect it had' use,
tr-A Use
ght In am 'rem eimag their tara ;If corton cake they
had a sLIIII IS linseed, more, but if corn of en)°, kind.
nothint
Mr. .W. Mown nee teim,„,,,,,y .10 th.
s-al
oe
p.iped
i.e.,. yr. Dam' directed he Miation to it by telling him of
In good date on dairy cow.
Mr 7.WNW aid that for hi year. his father kept five or Rix
aI ry CO gm He blid to buy a good dial of hay and straw,
which, win" 60A to Oa a toe, had to be oniony used, and he
grew • far roots. The roots wen pulped and put Ina u.ohgh
strew wee mixed with the masisorbkh &barbed all the Nice WWI beceme very pdst.his., and the mixture no ellosed to rermun
say or two before beleff_lfiren la. eoow.,Frool November
to Jae tay lived upon, leek *tont • few gram when
they could get them The cows had gu.aDale, and
straw limey condition. Only once ill they h." di'CC=
0.11, add oat did through% loot and mouth dame Ni:ry-
gale • large quentity of milk, and were •laya hwthr.
maid my, however, that they were Mart well thelymi in
the Willt/t. Th• moos an animal was exposed the more It
mur. eat to keep up the animal beak Groat lomanwe thniugh
not Meijerb In the winter—be believed, equal
to • quarter of their
Mr. Rows thought maim too fashionable. Many used hall
main sod Mil lissley, le as adman of oath end beans.
Maims as ma Mal at was not equal to oats for
" style" powers. erns and two-thirds owls he
found borate did well on, or equal parts of maize, bran, and
cam Bat feeding on mass too exclusively would produce
bad results. The loot and mouth disarm was very gchersi,
and all isepesiaa tram The Isolation of gmck
affected by remaining in the fleld whore they were, hail ucc
Mooed , .s, of the little pay which fanners ha for
the wakes, was as reel low they mama& Ma only
Wel at ese bin WA had pond kW. and that could

be accountesl for. Akw giallo!, ol milk us.,
teing attack-al, and it went out ol aolantidn,liat ilk.:
It. than tht a ail •aperaisndi d'or
away calla Wi .../‘1 1,1 14 an alsad
the Aock ii. the c ~,,, ity Lei It, the iii""I• Ihl o. ,it g..i
rid of,and they woula be all the batter off. Affected stock I
came in ever, ;,.ttithlar. As to tuanguld law.es, they were
woeful if given judiciously.
Mr. T. Hosea thst avert one must net actmr linr to his
pedal circumstances, and he adaucated the use of :hag with
mangold nod cotton take.
Mr. Foot sald he had had the (ma and month diseue on his
farm fur the last two or three months. and be ~,,, marigold
leaves suitable food : it suited their mouths, sad counteracted
the fever. Boiled lieseed, 'antral -noir elle, was. he consi-
dered, excellent feeding stuff.
The Pllfirllntfir expressed Ibir satisfaction at tile practical Pa
eatisfactora discussion that liad anwit. Tbes bad mit had such
• iriasl meeting fic: Scars. .1s t.• ars.rnr,in the ,
ad the New Forest tu or 51) saute hail died from eating a large
quantity.
Mr. WAR sz said it ras the cop and stalk that was dangerous.
When the trees ripe theydid not injure.
On his farm the stock bad an immenw quantity.
Mr . iCnorsrui; It's always the cup that kills --(laughter).
The l'aitaiiiesir thought the) should grow a larger breadth of
',Angola, as it was a 131,,10 certain cirri. than turnips. ra,
year he liza h ttttt d feeding nungold ton the land advantageous,
Ala that with manpoNl and turnips side by aide sheep pr...
(erred the forma At tii swede turnips, he believed tlicy(alinukt
be puflod ~,„fat al) s before they e ere eaten. In a fresh alite
he believed the turnip contained hi part, of niger 1.20
of
nutritious muter, and he was satisfied that it WWI Only the
caromingwaler the root to the air. They Must
make t'ah...3. by
~,IVof'their straw for feeding, but he did not think
it would be into to use only cotton cake with it; he should
prefer adding
.ball-a-bustiel of mangold per day. If
Lowed were halal and poured over chaff, and one-third
of • bushel given the llirrt thing in tile morning, no evil
effects would result, however much straw might be eaten
afterwards. Three Winds of linseed a day, at a coat or
about 34. LA, e week, would keep animals in perfect health.
Ile was sure &mixture was better than all cotton cake. Maize
he had tried this year, but could not peak very favourably ad
it. Ile wan lately with Mr. Smith, of Exeter, who was a very
great authority an to feeding stuff., and he told him that he
fa.l over 90 besets for male -tat deers —in fatting which he had
need toe great extent, during the whole seamen, midasaes, at
Xl5 • tom The liquid we. poured over chaff till It saturated
the bulk, and that, with some other feeding stuffs, he had
, found to answer better, at a entailer expense, than anything be
lied trial since ha had been a grazier. He (Mr. Smith) was
Folnit.to give time further particulars. Thu stuff was 'idled

male scum.- "
Mr. Ilawalsis, in reply, said as to the ill effecta supposed to
arise from cotton cake, Mr. Cooper, of Whitcomb° who took •
lance number of boasts to feed, rid he had mod as much as
611 n, of cotton cake per day, and moor had anything the
matter with the duck, and he preferred It to elln. of linseed.
Ile believed the Juice of steamed manguld VMS gimes as swoon
as molar's, and about PA good if mired over chaff. Ho sag.
rent"' that the cows that had died from °Wog acorns had been
haiyas,.,ml before, and malaWlned that their use in modera-
tion was benellaal.
Thy PftexIDINT proposed • tote of thanks to the lecturer.
Dr. ALUIUDOI seconded, and pointed out that the dn...41.t
this summer should lead them to devise means for avoiding
such • wareity of water ill future, and he also spoke of the
value .4 imitation.
Rt. 11AIVAIIIII replied, and the meeting ...mita'.