Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-04-05
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CAUSES OF FAILURE IN FEED
ING STOCK WITH PROFIT.


ING STOCK WITH PROFIT.
As a general rule farmers will not ac-
knowledge that there is any profit at All
in making either beef or mutton fer
market. We often hear farmers say,
when they have sold ii lot Of beef cattle
or fat swine, If I had given those aDi-
mails away, or knocked them in The lead,
aud sold the grain that they have con-
sumed, | should have had more cast than
they have brought me, aud | should
have had no trouble Of feeding item"
Now let us Investigate their system Of
management, and see if We cannot dis
cover where the difficulty lies for there
is, evidently, screw loose somewhere.
We viii begin with the Gales, where
they commence-ta taking an even start.
Sometimes they raise pretty good calves,
and sometimes they are mislrably iuferi-
or animals. But whether good or poor
at the commencement Of winter, they let
them grow poor, and before grass comes
the next season they are like the lean
kline Of Pharaoh 10 Egypt--Gen. xii.
3. The next season they flush up, SC
that by winter they are 10 tolcrable good
condition; but instead of keeping all the
flesh that has been made during the sum.
mcr, and adding a little more to it, tllt
next spring finds tbem one or two hun
dred pounds lighter than they we're il
the fall. Thus they 60, from year t.
year; and when the time arrives whel
they think they must give them an cxtr;
finish with grain, and they have fed then
just enough to get them SO that theii
grain begins to tell Of profitable feeding
they become frightened and sell thea
many tmcsfor less than their value, ra-
Their chan lose any more by feeding.
This is particularly true of feeding
swine. Some farmers will feed their
swine until they think they will make
soleFabIe good pork-the very time when
they are fattcning with the most rapidity
and will become frightened because
they are consuming SO much grain, and
will sell them, even at low figure, ra-
Their than lose any more in feeding them.
Another prominent cause in failing to
make feeding stock profitable is, feeding
whole Or eoarsoly-ground grain. 1t viii
answer to feed whole grain to some ami
mails, and they will appear to thrive
about as well on it as if it were ground
INTO neal; but the teeth of some aui
mails will often become tender, and they
will not half masticate whole grain, while
others will swallow it SO greedily that
even when they have good teeth they do
rot derive half the benefit from the
grain that they would were it ground in
10 fine meal.
Another cause Of failure in rendering
the feeding Of stock profitable, is wasting
H.eir manure. The manure of Mammals.
whose principal food is grain or meal, is
always rich with producing mate
rial, and If it is saved with care, and ap
piled to the soil, it viii tell large story
IN producing ~ good crop of grain; and
if the soil is well drained, we shall per-
ceive far more advantage, pecnniarily,
from feeding stock by heavier crops of
grain, than in nothing but the meat pro-
duced. BY knowing and understanding
we'll the causes Of failure in any enter
prise we have before US very important
step towards success in Country Gen.
Heman.