The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-27
Hints About Farm Work.

For store animals, half pound of
corn meal per day for each one humid
red pounds of live weight, mixed with
two pounds of chafed straw or stalks, is,
with us, an economical food.
For fattening animals, three-fourths
to one pound of meal per day to each one
hundred pounds of live weight is about
the proper quantity.
Three good plans for managing
manure are: LIST, to draw it out every
day and spread it on the land, or put it
in large pile in the field where it is to
be used I'd, to let it fall into a manure
cellar Sd, to wheel it out every day,
or as often as convenient, to some cen
trail spot in the barn-yard and make it
into a heap The latter is our plan.
Petroleum is very cheap. We wish
we could induce every reader to get a
barrel and use it freely for preserving
implements, machines, etc. In cold
weather, it is better to warm it before
using, as wood will absorb more of it.
Examine every implement and ma
chine you have clean it; oil its bolts
aud tighten the nuts, and put it in per-
feet order. Then wash it with petro-
leum. Go over it two or three times,
and get on as much as the wood will alb
sorb.
Horses that are working regularly
need extra feed in cold weather. There
is nothing better than chaffed hay and
corn meal. Horses that are driven fast
should have oats instead Of corn-meal.
Liberal feeding is usually the most
economical feeding. 1t is great waste
of digestive powers to so feed COW
that she neither gives milk nor increases
in weight it is still greater loss to so
feed her that she must consume more or
less of the fat and flesh previously stor- d
up il the system. This is what happens
when an animal weighs less in the spring
than in the fall.
Sailing animals requires judg-
1nent. To let them go without for sew
eral weeks, and then give them all they
will eat, is a bad practice, and some
| times dangerous one. The better plan
is to have rock-salt where the animals
can lick it every day.
| In fattening animals, it is the great
aim of the feeder to induce them to
eat all they can digest and assim-
iIate. How this can be best done,
| depends on circumstances. Change
| of food will sometimes be attended with
advantage and sometimes not. There
! is one great rule that should be borne In
mind When the animal is hungry, in
the morning, feed the less palatabl e
! food, such as straw and stalks, and when
! the animal has eaten as much as it will,
then tempt it to eat more by giving
| it more cut straw or stalks, moistened
and mixed with bran and meal. The
! food left in the managers may be sprin-
kled with salt and water and put in racks
| in the yard, and when the COWS ale
turned out to water, they will be likely
to eat it up clean.
When to feed, will depend a good
deal on circumstances. Horses and
COWS should be fed early in the morn
ing, say 6 o'clock. Sheep need not be
fed until after breakfast, say 7 or s
o'clock, and then again at o'clock in
the afternoon. They do not like to eat
in the dark, unles it is little in the
middle of the night.
Swine, owing to low prices, have
been much neglected, IT is good time
to engage in raising improved breeds of
pigs. The demand is now good, and is
likely to be still better. Pork.. has adj
vanced rapidly, and the prospects are
favorable for a still farther advance.
Get a good breed, and give good care
aud feed, and pigs will be as profitable
as any stock we can raise.