The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-17

meal, one quart of oilmeal, and eight quarts
of wheat or rye bran (rye is BEST, makes
q good feed. This should be fed until
the middle OF May, when, if grass is
plenty, the meal may be dropped off, and
about twelve quarts af bran fed per day
up to the 1st of January, or until the COW
is dry. Corn, consider one Of the very
best articles of food for the cow. It
should be sowed or drilled in, and as soon
as the pastures begin to dry OF fail, COM
mence feeding it, and continue to feed
until frost comes. It is then time for the
field corn to be cut and shocked. This
should be fed from the shock until the
COWS are dry. 1t pays better to feed in
this way than in any other, and when
the cows are dry they will be fat,
and can be wintere0 on almost any kind
OF fodder, and will hold their flesh.
The cost of feeding cows in this way
will be sbout $25 per head, and they
will yield, certainly, two hundred pounds
more cheese per head than without feed.
Then, too, the value Of the cows (by feed
lng) either to winter or put into the mar
ket will be increased by at least $40 per
head
And more than this, one-fourth more
COWS can, by feeding, be kept on the
same pasture than conld be kepG if moth
ing but grass is ted, while, by feeding,
many tons of valuable feed goes on to
the farm IS manure.
But does it pay? We shall see whether
does or not.
Take, fyou please, thirty cows with no
iced but grass. Each COW will yield about
4OO pounds of cheese This at 1917 cents
per pound will bring $1,60c
Forty cows, with feed can be kept ON
the same pasture as thirty two without
feed, and will yield 900 pounds of cheese,
each, which at 1917 cents per pound will
amount to $4,000
The cost of feed at $25 per head will
amount to $1,000. The interest on eight
extra cows will be about &c per head, or
e49, which, with the cost Of feed Is to be,
deducted from the amount received for
the cheese, which is $4,000 This leaves
profit of 1852. Then, by feeding, the
COWS are worth $40 per head more, making
$500 to be added to the profits. This
gives $2,352. Now, taking the difference
between the amount made from forty
cows by feeding, and thirty cows on
the same pasture without extra feed we
find it leaves balance of 1855 in favor
of feeding.
Mr. Stewart fed COW with sour whey,
which caused chronic diarrhea and death.
Sweet whey was nutritious, but sour whey
was G ,nerally fatal.
Mr.. John Moore, Of Mazomanie, Wis,
fed twelve quarts of bran cor coalse
shorts, as it was called, twice day. and
always served it up hot. Cooked food
was the best for animals, especially for
mich cows
Mr.. Stewart believed that warm food
was 5 per cent more nourishjng for
all animals than cold food
The debate was suspended and the |
following committees were appointed
On diary utens5Ls--Messrs. Mclean and
Sydney Wanzer, of Elgin; Meade and |
Favill, of Lake Mills, and Coburn, of
Whitewater, Wis.
On modes Of making Cheese-Messrs Tor
rey and Johnson, of Milwaukee; Stewart,
OF Hebron; Wilder, of Evansville, and
Church of Elgin.
The debate was resumed.
Mr.. Gideon Truesdell, of Kenosha, explain
ed his manner of feeding. He fed
bushel and half basket Of cut straw
twice day to each cow. The straw was
always steamed. In summer he cut his
grass green, and fed it to the cattle du-
ring the heat of the day. Every dairy ,
man should steam his straw and corn
stalks. He fed mashed potatoes mixed
with bran last year, and found that it
soured the milk and spoiled the cheese.
Some of the cheese had the smell of a
rotten potato and was refused even by
the hogs. He fed whey to his calves, but
not to the cows, as it invariably ruined
The milk. He commenced feeding the
whey when the calves were four days old
and had not lost many calves by the
change from milk to whey.
Mr.. Moore advocated green corn, an
acre and half of which would keen
twenty-four cows from July to Novem-
ber
Mr.. Dyke found that he could raise
;alves on whey and meal, and the less whey
and the more meal, the better. Laugh,
ter. He was of opinion that good calves
could not, as rule, be raised on whey.
Mr.. o. B. Jenne fed his calves on milk
tor two or three weeks, and then com
menced on factory whey without any
meal. They eat what grass they liked
Eho CHey grew oIucT, lie gave them sour
whey entirely.
Mr.. Dyke thought if the calves got a
good START of three or tour weeks on
milk, there was no difficulty in carrying
them through ON whey.
The debate was then closed.
The next subject debated was;
Diseases of the COW of the dairies-
their prevention and cure.
DR.. J Tefft, of Elgin, said the COW
was subject to many diseases To under
stand the diseases they should first study
the anatomy of the animal. Cows kent