The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-02-11
NUMBER 6

ents must be freely given or the strength
suffers and the COW may fall into con-
sumption. We must consider that the
pregnant cow parts with 20 pounds of
tissue-forming elements during the
nine months of CESSATION, for the growth
of the calf and over and above what is
yielded as milk. In many scotch dali
ries the winter daily food is about 90
pounds tarnips, q bushel of grains, six
TO ten pounds of bean meal, and straw
at discretion. The cows not only yield
ed an abundant supply of milk, but
gained in condition. In the case of all
stock alike, we must consider the inn
portance OF having variety of feeding
agents. Stock fed constantly upon the
same diet thrivcs badly, and frequently
dies, though the food in question con-
tains all the elements necessary to nu-
triton All stock should have some va
ration in food. If hay alone, let it be
composed of several grasses; if not, let
other agents be given in sufficient album
dance. Let me remark the value of
oily and fatty materials as constituents
of food. They exert beneficial infiu-
ence on the whole process of nutrition,
Under their use the aibumenoid and
other tissue forming elements are more
thoroughly digested, the blood becomes
richer and the nourishment more per-
feet. Hence the excellent results of
feeding inseed oil cake, rape-cake, and
other oleaginous foods.
Among the injurious effects of an ex-
cess of rich food may be specially men,
toned, fatty degeneration, barrenness,
blackleg, milk fever, and urinary cal
Gull.
In high bred English pigs, in which
everything else has been sacrificed to
aov. - ,okV caNk
the muscular substance is frequently re-
placed by fat, and the pigs become una
bic to walk or even to stand. In cattle
this is not common condition, yet in
our finest Durhams, how often do we
find the heart overloaded with fat, and
how frequently have we to regret bar
renness as a concomitant of increased
obesity. The substance of the ovary,
destined to produce the germ of the tu-
ture animal, has undergone fatty met
amorphosis, and its normal generative
function is abolished. At other times
though the overies appear to be healthy,
the tube which connect them with the
womb are too much loaded with fat to
allow of the descent and impregnation
of the ovum. Fortunately, this condi-
ton is not necessarily irremediable, IN
less as the result of long existing and
excessively fatty charge. Some such
barren cows have recovered their lost
power of procreation when reduced by
spare diet and exercise.
The destructive disease of young cat
tie, known as blackleg or blackquarter,
though not alone due to a plethoric con-
dition, is yet, in many cases, determin-
ed by this state of the blood. Its vic
TINS are, above all, those that are max
ing blood most rapidly, and in which
this fluid has been suddenly raised to a
state of abundance and richness to
which the system has been altogether
unaccustomed. Here the path of safety
is to be sought, not SO much in keeping
the young animals in low condition as
in maintaining them in state of steady
and satisfactory improvement, and thus
warning off those sudden accessions Of
plethora which furnish a suitable field
for the growth of the morbid poison.
Hence it is that fair allowance of oil
cake has, by reason of its laxative and
nutrient properties, sometimes protect
ed young stock against the ravages of
this affection, though placed in circum-
stances in which, in previous years, the
disease had Invariably proved disas-
trous.
Milk fever, parturition fever, or par
turent apopleXy as it is variousIy called
is another result of errors in diet, and
should be banished from every we'll
conducted dairy. This is the disease of
fieshy, plethoric cows, or of rapid triv-
ers, and of heavy mixers. Hence, its
victims are-always the most valuable in
the herd. And yet hesitate not to say
that its very existence is a reflection on
the management.-N. 7. Tribune.