The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-21
FARM AND GARDEN.
The Correet Way to Feed straw, and
Roots.

EGOOLas
The North British Agriculturist, in
reply to a correspondent, thus describes
the proper method of feeding straw and
roots together: The straw should be
cut one and one-half inches long, and
heaped teaspoonful of salt mixed to
each beast PER day. The mixing pro-
cess should be accomplished the day
before the stuff is to be used, and wa
ter must be within the animals reach.
Hay for horses should be cut about
three quarters of an inch long. and put
into deep boxes before the animals.
We prefer giving the bruised oats and
good, fresh Swiss turnip or two daily,
separate from the cut hay. Rather less
than an ounce of salt daily is plenty for
horse. They should get aR ounce of
inter every Saturday night. As to the
question of pulping and straw-cutting
paying, q good deal viii depend on the
power available. If water-power can
be obtained, so much the better but if
animal or steam power is employed, the
expense of the system viii be increased.
We should be surprised to find that
our correspondent can keep nearly one
fourth more of cattle on his farm by
means of pulping and straw cutHng.
If the animals get what they can eat
with safety, than in any other way.
The great advantages of pulping are
that there is no choking or blowing
that feeders are enabled to have tlir-
nips, though in a mixed state, continu-
ally before cattle, and that cattle will
consume more roots and, we think, take
on fat and flesh rather quicker than
with any other system of feeding.
Deeper trOughs will be required with
pulped roots and cut straw than for the
ordinary system practiced in the dis
trict IN which our correspondent farms.
We would not advise the addition of
cake to the mixture, as it is, we think,
| too costly to be mixed in such a heap
and IS more satisfactory given by itself.
It is q decided improvement, as pre-.
venting waste, TO cut the hay given to
| horses and yet m re desirable is it to
bru SO the oats, but we would give the
hay and oats separately.
Chufas for stOcIz.''
A correspondent in the Southern
| Farmer asks through your October
number for information in regard to the
! chufas as stock food, and seems to
question the correctness of certain
statements made by a correspondent of
| the Southern Cditivator in the August
number of 1873, IN regard to this won
! derful plant.
Fifteen years knowledge of it enables
us to say that those stat ments are by
no means evtravagant, and that even far
/ greater results have been known as
average yield. L. T. s. seems to think
the assertion that "one acre of chufas
fattens more hogs than ten acres of
corn," clincher. Yes, one acre OF
land that would not make on an average
three bushels of corn, planted in chufas
Will fatten more hogs than forty acres
of the same land in corn. One hum
dred and fifty bushels per acre is about
the average yield of sandy land that
will not grow peas. There is no food
in the world that fattens hogs SO rapidly
aud thoroughly, and that gives such
sweetness to the flesh being very sac
charine, they seek it with great avidity.
1t Is fine food for poultry, and attracts
all the birds IN a neighborhood when
thrown to the surface by hogs, yet is
not deprecated upon by COWS like the
ground pea. The crop is never failing,
where at all cultivated, and keeps well
throughout the year in the ground,
which renders it only necessary tc
fence of sections or patch or field, as
needed, for hogs, and you are thus en-
abled to have healthy and fat swine al
all seasons of the year without one
grain of corn or othe- food, even tc
harden the lard, as is necessary wheI
fattened on other tuberous crops.
1t is q boon indeed to the south, and
unfortunately, is comparatively little
known. We would advise every planter
to plant it, and to buy the seed at any
price they can be had and be certain
to leave some to their children as al
inheritance, unless they promise to b,
tape measurers or lawyers, who it is no
important should know whether swine
thrive best in salt water or fresh.