The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-12-09
The Care of Stock.

We copy the following from the
Christian Union:
The most trying period for domcs
tic animals is that which intCTVon5s
between grass and hay. 1t is hard !
Tor them TO change without detcrio-
ration from soft and succulcnt food
10 hard and dry fodder, and animals
will often fall off seriously i'll weight
before their systems become accus-
toned to drawing nOurishment from
the comparatively unpalatable food,
which must OF necessity be fed TO
them during the winter. We have
quoted some excellent suggestions re-
garding stabling, and now offer some
hints as to food at this season. When
an animal loses 4 pound of flesh or
fat, it is gone forever, being cOnsum-
cd III maintaining the vital functions.
The value Ofthis pound is subtract
cd from the cash value of the animal,
for it has taken with it none of the
bones none of the less valuable parts.
Now, allowing the ,'best cut" to be
worth y cents per pound on the
hOOf, ii i evident that loss has Oc-
Cured nearly equal 10 that amount,
and if it costs y cents more to re.
place this lost flesh, ii is equally evil
dent that u cents, or call it an even
quarter Of dollar, has been needless
~ wasted. The question is how to
save every pound of fat and flesh that
j produced, and this practically re-
solves itself into another question,
namely, how to keep stock from rum
ming down in autumn? When grass
begins to ill, every farmer should
have green corn TO fall back upon,
and at all times some grain Is neCes-
sary 10 keep stock in a thrifty COndi-
ton. For this object soft corn viii
serve an excellent purpose, as the
animal can crush the kernels without
difficulty, and the grain will readily
digest This is also true Of meal, and
thus hundreds of dollars worth of
fat and flesh may be saved, which
would otherwise be Il total loss.
Grain will make from ten 10 twenty
per cent, more flesh, if fed out before
cold weather requires 4 large part of
it to &c used in keeping up the ami
mai heat. Salt at least once week,
and allow free access to water. In.
crease the quantity Of extra feed as
the animals require it giving corn OF
millct from the sOiling patch, the
tops and roots of beets and tUrnips
and extra leaves from ClbbagGs. In
lattening we want bulk and nutri-
mCnt. If there are stalks, straw and
hay, there should also be meal. Per.
haps there is nothing better than
roots to keep up the appetite. They
assist digestion, and keep the bowels
open. The beef and mutton of Eng
land arc very largely made of turnips
bCCts and mangel-wurzels. a change
in some one Of the items of food
should be made as often as once =
week. If steamed stalks and meal
with sliced turnips are used once 8
week, change TO carrots or bects the
next. The meal and roots being the
same, the stalks may be changed fol
hay, or the hay and roots being the
same. Indian meal may be changed
for linsccd-oil meal, or for any kind
OF grain meal convenient to feed
Many ofO best farmers have adopt
cd some such plan as is here sketched
with great advantage in every way,
and in some cases the yield of the
dairy has been richer and more album
dant during the fall than during the
summer months.