The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-04-01
Agritnltnral.
Fattening Cattle on Grass.

A correspondent oil the Germantown
Telegraph gives the following hints on
this subject: t .-.
Too many of our farmers seem to be
of the opinion that if they buy their cattle
and turn them out to grass, that nothing
need be done until they are fat; and that
the great point is 10 have as many as they
can possibly keep.
This branch OF farming, like all others,
needs experience, and will pay for more
attention than j! generally receives. In
most cases, as soon as the cattle are turned
out in the spring, they are allowed to have
The whole range of all the pasture field at
their will. This is mistake; they should
not be allowed to roam about in this man
ner, but should be controlled. They
should be changed from fieldto field every
two or three days.
Cattle, like all other animals, like a
change of food nor is this the only adj
vantage; by combining them to one field
or portion Of ground, they will cut down
the grass before it becomes too rank, and
tina, in other fields may be growing, and
when they are ready to go into another
field the grass Of the one they leave may
20 on growing, and thus the grass will
always be young and tender.
They should have a change of pasture
every three or four days, and he changed
not Aonly from field to field, but from
upland to meadow and from meadow to
upland.
1t is a great mistake to have too many
cattle. Remember that ten well Ialtened
are as good and will bring as much as til-
teen or twenty only half fat.
Shade and salt are of great importance;
the latter should be supplied at least once
week. The best way which / can find
is TO mix it with bran, say one quart OF salt
to a half peck of bran, and place it on the
ground in small piles.
If the cattle are not fat when the first
heavy frost comes, they should have some
thing more than grass, for that as soon as
frosted loses great portion of its power
of fattening ; pumpkins raised among the
corn, nubbins or small potatoes, lin small
quantities. will answer the purpose.
generally feed from ten to fifteen head
every summer, and always make it a rule
10 keep ten bushels of corn and five of oats,
10 feed (ground and placed on the ground
in the falD after the first heavy frost.
A HINT TO Coal CoNsuMERs.-Pri-
ces Of coal are nearly as high in Cincinna-
ii as here, and besides. the commodity is
not to be had--a 'scoal famine" RACES.
A Cincinnati newspaper comes TO the res
cue i'll the following suggestions, which
we reproduce, warning our readers, how
ever, that there is point where coal cin-
ters cease to have any virtue:
The ashes or cinders are not to lie
thrown away, but dampened to kind of
mortar, and again placed on the fire
They burn readily, and by so doing there
is the economy of having u hot fire with
one-tenth of the fuel, besides not being
troubled to convey the ashes to a recepta-
Gle. We do not know OF stove that does
make ashes enough to supply itself, only
n few nuggets Of coal being used. First,
make the fire in the usual way, and when
it begins to burn freely place lump of
coal near the stove door or from. of
the grate-then heap on the wet ashes or
cinders, and pack them down, the vent be-
low being unobstructed. The process is
simple. and few trials will satisfy the
unbelievers. Dust coal may be used in
the. same way, and we are assured that
many cellars have mines of wealth in the
refuse Of former years. While coal is so
costly, should not economy promp, trial
of the plan pointed out, which is attended
With SO little trouble and sparing oil la
Dor.