Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-10-04
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From the American Agricultarist.1
TIE DAIRY

was telling you sometime ago that wan.
ted to slop cows, but could not do 1t, because
We had 20 conveniences for feeding them
Where cows are milked In the yard you cannot
iced them with pail. as they will frequently
pull 1t over, and In any case the other cows
would distnrb them. My COW stable has no
space In front of the cows where you can car
ry the food to them, and we should have TO |
carry the pail of slops between the cows. Both |
cows would try to getat the pail and the harsh |
tones of the man, to say nothing of the occa-
sional kicks in the mouth, would go far to
counterfeit the benefit Of feeding But during
the cheated term my cows fell off from nearly
30 pounds OF butter week to less than 90
pounds, and when cows once fall of in their
mils It is not easy to bring them up again
But thought would see what could be done.
We got q large trough made oftwo-inch plank,
that will hold forty or fifty pals Of water. We
set this under the pump In the yard, SO that all
the cows can stand around it, Into this trough
which is about swo feet deep, we put bushel
OF corn meal, and then pump in some water
and stir up the meal. This should be done in
the morning as soon as the cows are turned out
| TO pasture, in order that the meal may have
| time TO soak. Of course II 10 not necessary to
| NIL up the trough till the cows are brought up
in the evening, when they will like 1t all the
better In hot weather If cold and fresh. When
the cows get to the barn yard there is race
| WI tho hehi trough anu tuOuRu tHty cOHe
| right fresh from water in the field, 1t lie most
astonishing how much meal water they will
drink.
The weak spot In the arrangement is this
After the cows have drank the water, and they
can get at the meal, the master cows will keep
away the others and eat the whole. The rom
edy for this is simply to have the trough large
enough to hold more water thau they can drink
during the night, and to fill 1t up full the last
| In aVaNtnu md n
necessary, the 6rst thing In the morning.
Keep good many pigs, and feed them more OF
less corn meal all through the sumner. The
meal that is in the bottom OF the COW trough
, We take out before 1t gets sour, and throw II
, into the pig cistern, SO nat we can withou
I loss, put good deal more meal in the COW
, trough than the cows actually eat, as 1t is al
fed TO the pigs, and is improved by the soaking
The only difference between this way OF feed
ing mesl,an the ordinary moae ofgiviug then
: sloPs 10 pan, 10, that in the latter case tht
cows cat the whole of the meal, while IN thu
, former they get only the soluble portion ant
that held 10 suspeusion-apd they are allowed
6 all they can drink.
o But, as said before, the water must neve
o te allowed to get so low that the cows cal
0 reach the meal. II you attend to it yourself
D night and morning, this is an easy matter, bu
U no ordinary farm man that have yet met witt
o can get the idea through his head, short of
month or six weeks. attended to it myself TO
IS the first week, and all went right, but one sal
4 urday night, not feeling well, did not 60 7
8 the yara, and the next morning did not 81
a there until they were just through milking
Sure enough the cows had got down to tn
meal md two or three of the master cows wer
a lacsing themselves with it, while three mel
. the assembled wisdom OF the farm, stood lool
A ing on. But see to it yourself for month {
Two, until it becomes "a matter of daily rou
tine, and then you can trust it to any Garrett
man.