The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-09

HINTS ON FEE DING.
As one of our ex changes says, this j
an ill-important matter to look to
There are not many turnips or root
grown in the United States, or oil
cake available for feed therefore, some
thing must be sought as a substitute
and you must set up an engine to shell
and grind corn and cut hay. Mix tn
cut hay with the corn-mea1, and linseet
or fax meal, and other feed-stuff, ant
steam all together, and YOU have goot
feed that cattle will thrive on. SOM
PEOPLE say nature has prepared all feet
for animals. This is a mistake. Ma
is set upon the face of nature, ant
must prepare and make the feed in
proper form for the animal to digest it
so that its blood and body may be KEEP
in good order, or the animal would sool
become ill-shaped and diseased. Fo
instance, feeding on corn, in the ear O
shelled, will soon prove this idea true
The blood becomes too much heated
and disease presents itself. How man,
cattle are troubled with foul, diseas'
in their feet, difficult to get rid OF a
long as they are allowed to stand in we
litter and are fed with dry corn? VIII,
not grow more fax or iuseed, and u.s.
it freely in steamed food? Then YOU
might expect to see your cattle taking
on flesh in good and perfect order.
Cleanliness is the point next in i'm
portance. The animal should lay on .
clean, dry bed of straw, and by setting
the animal up from. the channel of ths
foot-path, you obtain this, the channe.
carrying off all liquid, which is drained
into tho 5anRs md is highly useful fol
enriching the pastures for summer feed.
and expelling some of those weeds
which now overrun them.
There is one point would here no
tice in the short-horn cows-that is,
garget or spoiled bags, owing mainly to
their sucking their calves. They
should be- carefully followed, and ali
milk remaining after sucking be taken
from them, and their bags rubbed dry
and should the Animal be out of order
it should be attended to Immediately.
for bad results sometimes follow where
a little attention in time would have sci
it right.
Good usage ID Of great importance IL
raising fine stock and the countenance
OF the animal 1oon indicates whethe,
good or bad treatment is practiced.
have known bad treatment used in the
attempt to subdue an animal, but i,
always failed.
IMPRovINatwoRN OUT FIELDS.
At recent meeting of the North Car
DINA agricultural society, held at Raj
leigh, N. G., Mr. T. A. Granger sub
mitted the following as his method o.
improving poor land:
am satisfied the farmers in this sec
ton of country are doing . large
amount of unnecessary labor in improv
ing their poor, worn out fields. After
several years OF hard labor in hauling
dirt and compdsting my old, worn out
fields, concluded to try some Other
way to improve my lands besides NOV
ing it in dump cart from one point t.
another. and I adopted the following
plan: In October, 1871, followed my
experiment plot of seven acres with {
twohorse pillow, and followed the eamt
with a sub-soil pillow fourteen inche.
deep, leaving my lands in twenty fee
beds. Then I seeded it in black oats
two bushels 10 the acre. The oats were
only an average crop for the land they
ripened MAY 18th following. On th.
25sh of June I neyersed the beds ani
seeded them ID cow-peas, at the rate o
one znd~a IL bAshels to the scre. Or
the 1ollowidgs October I gathered
enOugh pess tho Aand 10 sa.wo,
for seed and fallowed the vines ani
what ereen 5eas and other vegetable
M I'd grown upon the land. Or
To October, 1872, l seeded the
sar4e md in black oats again, and OF
the following May harvested very fine
crop, double as much as I did the yes1
before. In June I reversed the beds
again and seeded the same In cow-peas
at the rate OF one and half bush
els, and the following October l again
gathered large crop OF seed peas, about
fifteen bushels to the acre, only taking
the ripett for seed. I then fallowed
the vines and green peas in. and
seeded the land in black oats and Glove,
on the following May, 1874. 1 har.
vested a very large crop of oats, thirty
eight bushels to the acre, and on the
land now have fine crop of clover,
and I believe when get the next crop
of clover it will pay nae better than any
other crop I have made on it, and with
the clover fallow the second fall. will
leave the land rich enough to produce
one bale of cotton or thirty bushels of
wheat per acre. The land made this
on was a poor, worn out
field. first, in 1870, married. it, and put
it in corn and peas broadcast peas the