The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-11-18
About Wintering StOck---Cut

Experience and obrervation unfold to
view things of opposite natures, And IN
many cases this is wise and just. We
learn wisdom from the fooishness ofothers.
We prize virtue when witnessing manifos-
tatlonS OF vice. 1t may be thought that
this is not necessary: that goodness and
depravlty, wisdom and foolishness, need
not always exist in state of co PARTNER
ship and necessity. But this is theo!og-
'cal question, which at present J do not
mean to discuss. 1t is true wisdom that
profits by the folies of others, and by max
ing right use of just means, creates a
good instead of perpetuatng an evil.
| The above sage and exceedingly philo-
Sophleal remarks owe their existence TO u
few reflections concerning the shortness
| Gin this vicinity Of the grass crop, and the
! difficulty which some farmers will expe-
rience in wintering their cattle. Some of
them increased their stock last spring by
raising aud buying, and now find them
selves with more than they can keep-as,
With many, only half the usual crop OF hay
was secured. Barley straw has been en-
| phatlcalIy short, and what the oat crop
will be in this respect, cannot be stated
exactly. Wheat has done very well, gen
orally speaking with regard to straw. In
thinking the matter over, have arrived at
the conclusion that there is not any very
great cause of alarm, providing the right
thing Is done in the right way. And here
let me say that | am nos giving your read
ers the benefit of new discovery, but on
| ly urging upon their attention an Old ami
valued one that has been tried in the bal
ances and found to be all that 1t WAS rep
resentei This RIGHT thing is a practice Of
cutting hav and straw in fine portions, and
mixing herewith sufficient quantities Of
meal to insure its consumption. Observa-
ton has led me to feel conviction of the
practicabillty, economy. and wisdom OF
such practice. 1t should be adopted IN
to the details Of agricultural economy, AMI
every farmer should re lize the necessity of
cutting his hay as well as cutting his grass,
In speaking to some farmers concern'nT
this subject, have been met 10y the same
antiluated ejaculation which has sought
to kill so many valuable improvements -
at won't pay" O! how this exciana-
ton, like the embodied ghost of old togy-
ism, throws its chilling ,death-like influence
| afOunC. tlc form OF invest lpdtiOi, am! IiiS,
vents the introduction of tried benefits. |
had an opportunity last winter of witness
ing the operations of wont-payite, and
| am confident that feeding forty head Of
cattle by the cid process Of scattering hay
here and there over his barn-y ard and
around his fields enough Of it was vast,
or remained uneated TO have kept thre-
COWS in good condition. Now what Is
wanted is, an Improvement in the con
struction of barns. so that all cattle can be
fed from troughs-ted with cut feed.
If this is not convenient, sheds can be
erected to answer the purpose, and .hen we
want cutting machinery driven by horse
power, so that we can cut up whole crop
Of hay and straw, and have it ready for
use when wanted. Would not this be more
cheap and economical than any other
way? Then with largo mixing box
(where necessarily and such grain as We
feed, ground and carefully mixed with our
cut hav or straw, shall we not be enabled
to feed more with less food than by the or
dinary wasteful methods, and still keep
them better | know not whether such
machines as | have spoken of have been
invented. Neither do | know whether
this plan has not been suggested or car
ried into execution. If it has, make no
doubt that it pays. If it has not, | find no
greater proportion of doubt while asserting
that it aciW pay.
If the Old practices are followed through
out this winter, many poor cattle will come
out in the spring looking as though they
had been starved through It. Friends, cut