Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-10-26
S6RaGN4GHRA4.
sURsTITUTE FOR HAY AND TUR-


SUBSTITUTE FOR HAY AND TUR-
ElPS.
It is a subject of much Importance to our
farmers, ESPECIALLY those engaged in the dairy
business. to obtain the best food for their cat
tie as substitute for hay and turnips A
correspondent, Eiward Carroll, furnishes
tho Lcish 4qricuLturalis. with his experience
in this department, which We condense as
follows:--
First, what shall we do for hay? Let US
econom;ze everything; and turn to account
mauv things. hitherto either neglected. or
thought to be comparatively worthless. Ev-
ery particle of chaff, whether Of wheat. oats,
or even of barley should be scrupulously e.
comemized and converted into food for horses
and cattle To some this advice may appear
a novelty, to many others it is no such thing.
During my several agricultural tours though
out various parts of EGG land, some years a
90, l saw it a common practice to have large
barns filled with the awns OF barley, reserV-
ed to be cooked for horse-feeding or TO be cut
with the chatf cutter, mixed with hay for the
feeding of store-cattle Some of the best
conditioned store cattle saw were fed on the
avns of barley. Such small farmers as had
no stock of their own to use these awns sold
them to the larger farmers. La the year
l.
tablishment at Clongowe's Wood College.
county of Kildare We had fine crop of
mangold wutzel to supply some 40 or 90
milch cows during winter and spring. By
an omission, or oversight, on the part of the
old steward, he let Contrary to my warnings)
a hard nights frost overtake the crop In the
ground, and more than th-ee-fourths of it
rendered utterly useless for cattle feeding in
the ordinary way. What was l to do having
such large establishment to supply with
milk, then selling at 10d. and Is gallon
l husbanded ali the chaff of every kind in the
place, bought all the mill-chaff [ could find
in the neighborbood, built temporary clsterns
in connection with an old steaming appara-
tus, l got repairee in the place, cooked every
thing could find available, and had not on
ly milk at from Add. per gallon, but good
supply of food for some 80 or 100 pigs in the
liquid spared from the feeding. and nev-
Or before did the milch cows turn out in bet
ter condition in the same establishment in the
month of May. 1 have on other occasions
used half ground or crushed barley a1d oats
for feeding milch COWS. The material was
prepared as brewers and distillers prepare
their malt, by what is called smashing and
fermenting; and increased milk was obtained
from cows so fed, and they were nearly fa
VIXEN turned out to the summers grass. lay
no claim to this discovery, the merit is due t.
3 gentleman [ once met in Cork Cattle Mar
ket, who Tad long practiced the same him
self, and, who, in giving me his opinion, OBJ
served: If you can malt the grain befor
being used, so much the better"
Small Pens for FaftenIng Swine.
Tia: exercise conduces very little toward
taking on flesh. while quite assists material
ly in fastening the operation of fatsening, i
well known. and should ever be taken int
account by those who would fit any anima
for slaughtering. The following from tn
American Agriculturalist. is worth the atten
tion of farmers:
From observation, extending over dos
en- years or more, made in villages and il
tho rual districts, we have noticed that tn
fattest and the best pork is made in the for
mer, where one or two pigs are usually ken
in small pen. The villager has but small
room, and crowds his pig into narrow quar-
sers the whole year. 1t is fed on slops fo
eight months, and for the last four is cram
med with scalded Indian meal He get
pork of decidedly better quality than he ca
purchase, and gets it cheaper. The Who'll
energy of the animal is forced by its trainin
into the production of flesh and fat.
The pigs of tho farmer on the other hand
run I'D pasture, or on common, for 81.
or eight months, and arc shut up dozen o.
more in large pen to fatten because he ha
plenty of room The energy of the anima
has gone very much to the developement O
snout aud feet, and the propensity to run ant
70 root is not circumscribed very much in hi
roomy pen- BY Christmas he is not NOR,
than two-thirds fattened, aud he ha. consum
cd quito as much as the village pig, which i
ready for the knife We have two ya,rIipo
pigs, good for four hundred and fifty pound
ofpork at Christmas, that have never beer
out of pen. eight feet By twelve, since the,
were eight weeks old. Small pens, kept dry
and regular feeding. is the secret OF thei
thrift"