Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-01

! their hay much cleaner when given N
small fodderings and foddered often, than
they do when toddered differently"
! The second question your correspond
ent asks is, as corn and cob meal an
economical feed for mich cowsE" Our
| answer to this is, il it is economical to
! keep mich cows in good flesh, it IS eco
nomical to give them a small amount OF
corn and cob meal, together with con
siderable amount Of shorts, cotton.seed
cake, or some other such feed suppose
farmers generally are aware that the ten
dency of this meal is to tatten, while 1t
will also make some milk. On this ac-
count it is an excellent plan to give 1t IN
small quantities to mllch COWS that are
having couonseed cake, especially to
those which are so much inclined to milk
that it is hard to keep them IN good order
while they give it. To the general rule
we make this exception. If you have a
mich COW more inclined to fatten than to
give milk, it would, probably, be best not
to give her cob meal, unless you deem it
desirable to prepare her for the butcher
as soon as possible. doubt not all who
have tried it will agree with the statement
that a certain number Of pounds of corn
and cob meal will not make as much milk
as the same number OF cOtton-seed cake
or shorts.
Concerning the exact quantity of cob
meal, and also Of shorts found by expert
ence TO be the most profitable, | will say,
when fed together, two quarts OF meal
and two or three of the shorts per day
seem so to be. When the shorts are fed
alone about four quarts seem TO be the
proper amount to feed. However, when
| they are good three quarts are amply SUI.
| tclent. Cottonseed has slight tendency
to tatten, but chiefly produces milk, 1t
is very solid and weighty; consequently a
little over one quart per day Of this fed to
! each COW we consider to be enough. In
reference to linseed oil cake | can say
| nothing from experience, having never
used any; but one who has tested it
says, while linseed oil cake will make
| greater quantity of milk than the cotton
seed cake, the latter will make milk of
| much better quality. One Of our neigh
| bors, who once used the luseed oil cake
says it made the milk bitter. 1t is his
opinion, however, that the amount he OBJ
| tanned had been injured in some way,
and that such is not usually the effects of
this feed. My own experience in refer
cnCe to cutting hay and straw goes IL
| prove that 1t don't exactly pay; Conse-
! quently, as Yankees, we are bound not to
do it. Nevertheless, under certain Cir
cumslances--tor instance, when one has
only one or two cows and wishes 70 keep
| them very hight may be we'll to use a
cutter. SO far as improving the quality
of the hay is concerned or causing it to
| do the animals more good, it may, per
| haps be done in the case of old cows
whose teeth have failed them.
How many pounds Of English hay are
requisite per day for mich cow" TO
this inquiry | may not return direct
answer, for is it not impossible to ascer-
tain how many pounds are required?
Only by being acquainted with the appe-
tile of the particular cow to be foddeted
can this be done. OF course, large cows
require more than mediumszed or small
ones, and some small cows require much
more than others of the same size. The
hay foddcred to our COWS has never been
weighed, so we are unable to state the
average amount requisite. The best way
seems to be, in toddering, to give each
COW as much as she will eat clean, be this
more or lcss-N. Y Herald