The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-27
Che Nenusha Gele9rsph.
FARMERS COLUMN
sTABLE DRAINAGE:

HE architecture there are very lew
stables IN the country where really
ffiGient provision IS made for removing
and utilizing the liquid manure that ls
furnished by horses aud cattle, who pass
i great portion of their time confined in
tails. Not only is there, in consequences,
q great loss of valuable fertilizer, but
the liquid exceement accumulates and
rapidly putrefes, giving rise to various
1oxious gases, which contaminate the
air and caDnot fail to prove injurious
10 the animals which are compelled to
breathe the poisoned atmosphere,
In some stables we fad no pretence
whatever a. drainage of any sort, in 9TH
ers, perhaps in the majority of such
buildings, drainage is attempted, but,
on various accounts, is very Intellectual.
For example, the floor is made of CONS
mon pine plank, soft material, which
the trump!ing and kicking of horses
soon wears into hollows, in which the
urine stands, constant source of dis
fort for the horse, and trouble to the
groom. These floors, in most cases, sloee
back to a gutter in the rear. This ar
rangement compels the animal confined
ia the stall, to stand always up hill, and
puts very uneasy strain on the sinews
E the legs. To relieve themselves of
this strain we constantly find horses
hanging back and getting as far from
the manager as the halter will allow.
Then again, either from shrinkage or
original carelessness IN fitting the planks;
he Joints in the floor on each side Of the
gutter behind, are so open as frequently
o allow more liquid to pass through
below than is carried away in the desired
direction. This very large proportion
If the urine, soaking through the floor,
completely saturates the ground under
cath and thus being entirely lost to
he farm, accumuates and putreies IN a
,iiden mass of filth, enough to gender
he most malignant forms of disease.
}ssides all this, it too often happens
hat the liquid manure, which does not
nd IFS way outside the stable, is, for
,ant of proper arrangements to receive
nd store it, allowed to flow over the
arm ward, or is washed away by the
rst heavy shower Of rain that falls.
low, this state of things, so common
n our farms, is both serious waste OF
aluable material and great detriment
. health. 1t is a great mistake to sup
ose that any such impurity can be 9th
L than highly injurious to the animals
nfinement.-Americ0n St0c5 Journal
.Ow TO FEED CoRN-sTALKs PRoFITABLY.
The rearing a2d feeding Of animals ia
3ceiving, as it should from farmers and
erdsmen in all parts of the country,
reater attention every year; and espec-
lily is this true of dairymen, whose only
sining paying yields from their cows
orn stalks enter largely into fall feed
dairy COWS, and how to feed them i
he important question. The commoi
actice is to feed in the bundle, as blu
farmers feel able or willing to u.s.
cutting machine This feeding in the
indie, without any preparation, an
lily satisfied is very wasseful, as 10
lily are the butts left, but frequentl,
arly the whole stalk.
have learned by experience, that ;
tie brine sprinkIed upon stalks once
cry day, just before feedin, is of ma
,ial advantage in many respects. The
,ak brine will cause the cows to con.
me nearly all, even when fed whole
g flow Of milk increases, the condition
the cows improves, a1d they. sho"
eater contentnent especially is this
It remark true on cold, windy, anG
nv days. l find II much better as Z
neral rule, wher it can be done, to feed
on the food, instead of feeding i
me. In no case should more than onc
= be permitted TO pass without bring
the mornings feed. The brine
)uld not be strong, only enough to fur
h sufficient salt to the COWS.
Of course the COWS should have access
plenty of water this brine food wi
Sc them to drink more, and thus in