Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-12-08
Potatoes for Stock Feed.

value OF potatoes for stock. They are
not only good for horses and cattle, but
for hogs, calves, and poultry. When
storing the present harvest, all those too
small for stable use should be sorted
out, kept, and judiciously fed. AS to
their value for mich cows, experiments
have proven them to exceed that of al
most every other root. Our readers will
remember the statement made by Mr..
R. A. Hunt, of Euclid, Ohio, IN the Ohio
Farmer; some months ago, in regard to
an experiment made. While thirty-six
! quarts of carrots were fed, thirty-two
pounds of milk were received daily; with
the same amount, one half potatoes,
thirty-six pounds of milk were given;
and when potatoes were fed alone, forty
! pounds of milk were received The
roots were cut and fed raw three times a
day, in messes of twelve quarts each.
The above is heavier feeding than is
necessary, but very plainly shows the
value of this vegetable as milk pro-
ducer. We believe from experience,
that they are also profitable feed for
the making of flesh, and the laying on
of fat.
/ As a feed for calves, they make one of
the very best substitutes for milk, con
tanning as they do, sixteen per cent. of
starch in a natural state and sixty per
cent. in dry state. They should be
boiled as for table use, the skins re-
moved, mashed thoroughly, and put in
to milk. Calves eat them in this way
greedily, and thrive remarkably well.
They will not cause scoars as grain feed
does, and tend to keep the appetite reg
ular.
As food for horses in winter time,
the potato posses rare qualities as reg
ulator; they may be given once or twice
a week, say, in messes of a few quarts.
For hogs, they should be boiled, mash
ed and mixed in the swill barrel with
kitchen Stops and milk, with a liberal
quantity of wheat bran or corn meal
added. This makes one of the cheap
est as well as one of the best early feeds
for swine, and puts them in healthy
and thriving condition for fattening,
and wonderfully saves in pork making,
when compared with other feed alone.
Potatoes are profitable as spring
feed for sheep, and especially for ever,
raising lambs; they give strength,
health and appetite, and produce milk
abundantly. For sheep they should be
cut and fed raw once a day, One of the
best methods is to cut fine and mix with
wheat bran or ground oats. Asa choice
for breeding ewes in sunmer, we would
prefer to have fifty per cent. of the old
potatoes, by weight, than to have the
whole amount either oats or corn.
Potatoes boiled, MASKED, and mixed
with corn-meal, and fed hot, are excel
lent for chickens in winter. We know
poultry dealer, who always uses this
mixture, and for health of fowls and
production of eggs, no henery, to our
knowledge excels his, according to the
number of chickens pt.-OhiO Farmer.
THE fruit is known by its tree. The
bad taste and indelicacy of killing the
disturber of domestic peace is not SO
forcibly shown in any other way as by
survey of the character of the McFar-
lands and the sickleses who resort to it.
And the analogous female fashion of
perforating a faithless lover is best
shown by showing the sort of women
who set it. The female person who shot
San Francisco lawyer for effecting her
''ruin" is now shown to have been an
inveterate subject of seduction and be-
trayal. In fact, she had been SO often
and 50 permanently betrayed" as to
have become quite n picturesque and
moss-grown ruin before her victim ever
encountered her. 1t is to be hoped that
the jurors who acquitted Mary Harris,
and the other jurors who acquitted an
other victim of heartlessness in Pitts
burg the other day, will have the
grace to blush when they discover from
this third story exactly what manner of
women these are World.
The North German Gazette comments
on the numerous letters written by cap
tured French officers to Belgian newspa-
pers, vindicating themselves from the
accusations of the Prussians or those of
their own colleagues, as a remarkable
proof how profoundly the discipline of
the French army must be shattered
Subalterns and privates, moreover do
not hesitate to denounce their com
manders as traitors. When the oliver
Ministry disclosed the fact that 49, 600
soldiers voted "noun in the Plebiscite
it could scarcely have realized all the
consequences, for if the army were
permitted in this way openly to censure
their supreme commander, the Emper-
or. why should the French soldier
scruple to criticise his officers and Gen
erals
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