Maryland free press., 1862-10-31

careful watching to prevent the stronger and
most vorscious from driving the weaker and more
timid from their feed, was fully attended to-
Perhaps not but attributed my want ofsuccess
TO having adopted sysfsa which was liable to,
and tended to these very errors and neglects.--
Had these cattle been ii ed up in the stSis in the
stable, their confinement of itself would have i'm
pesed 'watchfulness and attention as . necessity
upon the herdsmau, whereas their freedom in the
yard, with perhaps access to some food, rendered
elofs and punctual attention less absolutely ne
eessary, and habits of irreaularity, postponement
and neglect are in many instances too apt to be
the consequence. This is tho theory of my fail
urs in yard feeding. II may not be, and hope
10 not tras and applicable to all farmers and feed
ers. 1t certainly 10 not to Mr. Johnston. Hs l.,
. man of industry, system and punctuah y.-
These important "a titles are unfortunately found
in but few who aspire to follow him in the impor
tsnt profession which be so conspicuouslJ elevates
by both precept and example. therefore advo-
cate system which from Its nature renders abso-
lutte and imperative the cultivation of habits cf
industry and punctuaity as the price of success,
or ithumanity and disgrace as the ponalty OF LIE.
glect.
For the last six years, having previously failed
in srd-feedipg, I built another stable for my
COWS, and appropriated my COW stable. under u
large "verjec,ipg b ,rp, to my feeding bulocks.-
Ny practice is, towards the clo,e Of the grazing
season, to iced little meal once day in the a=ld
10 tho fsttening cattle. From the lst to the Is h
or 20th Nov, according TO the season, my fat or
graZed cattle are brought to the stable and tied
up in the stall at night, and fed at first soft corn
or nubbns and hay, sltsrnateo occasionally with
fodder. When apples are abundant, l,preter to
start them upon de ayed.or rotten apples mixed
with their chop, composed of wheat chat and
meal (corn and cob cru.hed.) This opens the
bowels, and puts the cattle in what Ibs net dsmen
call good softenng condition-the skin becomts
loose and GLOSSY, hen the feeder ieels coursged
aud assured be has gained an impUrt tant point
A well grazsd bullock brought to this condition,
may b. fed with pr' fit; lean steer cannot in
my judgment be fattened in winter grain with
out loss. Ny cattle thus conditioned, are ktpt
in q stall cs csnstantly, except for an hour or two
after tn ir md day feed, when they are let out
for exercise and water.
IL will thus be sean that my cattle get water
the generally received opinion. OF the necessity
anu Oi tqutnt WatefibRJ put hu e1-
psrience of six yenrs has convinced me that in
winter season, cattle will thrive and iatten with
water but once a day, when their feed is all dry,
w: meal, hay and fodder. In this way i have
brought cattle that would not sell Tor more than
thirty i've forty dollars from grass, up to sixty
five aud seventy dollars by the February market.
Toe system of stable eeding over yard feeding
has this ad vantage. First 1t imposss the nscssSiy
OF attention. Your cattle must be watched
like the Dutch baker, who being asked the secret
Of his success in baking good bread, laconically
replied, Il watch him" Secondly, it conduces
to repose and quie,ude, the very condition most
favorable to the secretion OF fat. Thirdly, each
animal can consume without molestation aud fear
his own iood aud fourthly, it gives the heros-
man tier opportunity to watch the sPpe its
aud condition of each bullock, and thus to in
crease or diminish his foed accordiDgly--or a
change Of food when necessary. Should you
deem the above worthy place in your valuable
weekly, it is at your service. The writing OF it
serves to direct me from this horrible din of war,
raging within sound OF my feeding staAs tor the
last ten or twelve months. When shall this awful
roar of cannon cease, and We aga n learn to love
aud instruct each other in the arts OF peace,
plenty and prosperity
. MARYLAND FARNKn.