The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-05
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is costly, does not spend well, and can on
ly be considered an expensive luxury. i
feed very regularly, and not often. Ihave
always noticed that COW turned out in
the morning into good pasture will fill
herself as soon as possible, and then lie
down and rest, and chew her cud, in the
shade, until into the afternoon. suppose
this plan is best suited to animals which
chew the cud. Now try to give my cows
the same chance in the barn that they get
in the pasture. And so in winter l begin
to feed them with hay about 6 o'clock in
the morning, and feed steadily for an hour
and half or two hours. About o'clock,
they are watered, and have feed of roots,
Swedish turnips, or mongolds, whichever
| happen to have. AT about 4 o'clock, |
begin to feed again, and feed for an hour
and half or two hours, as the cattle may
seem to require--for some will eat longer
than others and this ends the day. Cattle
need watering but once a day, especially
during the short days of winter; and new
er turn mine out, except to drink. When
cattle are fed in this way, they will lie
down during the middle of the day, and
keep perfectly quiet. My barn is as still
at noon as it is at midnight. Somebody
has said, "The animal stomach is very
nice chronometer, and it is of the utmost
Importance to observe regular hours in
feeding, cleaning and milking" This is a
point at which many farmers are at fault
feeding whenever it happens to be con-
venient. The cattle are thus kept In
restless condition, constantly expecting
food when the keeper enters the barn
while, if regular hours are strictly adhered
to, they know exactly when they are to be
fed, and they rest quietly until the time ar
rives. If one goes into any well-regulated
dairy establishment an hour before feeding,
scarcely an animal will rise to its feet
while, if it happens to be the hour of feed
ing, the whole herd will be likely to rise
and seize their food with an avidity and
relish not to be mistaken.
| like to feed my cattle myself, and
they like to have. heard one of my boys,
the other evening, reading poetry to his
mother, and one line was
''Be not like dumb driven cattle :"
but tell you dumb driven cattle are not so
stupid after all. They know "the hand
that feeds them" as well as man does.-
And l can always save large amount of
fodder, and receive large amount of thrift,
by tending my cattle myself. They know
me when l am about, from what they do
when the boys take care of them, as my
children do when am with them and when
they are with stranger. All men can hoe
and dig, but all men cannot keep cattle in
good order. Kindness, system, order, a
proper distribution of the food, knowledge
of when to begin feeding and when to stop,
capacity TO judge when an animal has
had enough all go to make a good feeder.
have spoken OF nothing but hay, dry
hay, as an article of food thus far 1t is
the foundation of all feeding in this coun-
try and | think we ought to be grateful
that we have so nutritious and wholesome
kind of food for our cattle, and are not
obliged to use straw and supply the nour-
ishment with grain. When have an album
dance of good, sweet hay, | always save
grain. But no matter how much straw |
have, the cost in grain is always the same
for straw alone is poor stuff, but good hay
is about equal to grain. Still like to vary
So use roots, Swedish turnips, mangods,
few carrots, some potatoes, corn-mcal
and shorts. To my mich cows | feed at
the close of the morning, foddering halt
bushel of chopped feed, made of corn stalks
with a quart of meal and three quarts of
shorts in it. mix this few hours before
use it and if the feed is corn stalks, |
mix it with hot water. AT the beginning
of the afternoon feeding give three pecks
of roots, such as l have. When ! give
chopped feed and roots in this way, | feed
of course less hay For the young cattle
and dry cows, used few roots and no
grain. Now and then l put little salt
into the chopped feed, or, if | can get it,
! use little salt hay or black grass, every
day. And like to keep my COWS pretty
full, not too much puffed out, in good
flesh, and of even shape. 1t takes me
about a fortnight when they first come
to the barn to get their appetites regulated,
and their bodies shaped to proper feeding,
after the heavy supply they get in summer
and fall in the pastures and fields This is
about all know about feeding; and my
cattle always look well,-go out in the
spring IN good order, and come up in the
fal. about the same, unless drought has
cut of all the feed
"What is a Swedish turnip ?" said Sam
Baker.
ga Swedish turnip,' replied John
Thomas sis ruta baga, great, solid
root, called, sometimes, Skirvings King of
the Swedes, or the Purple Top Swede. 1t
is the great root of England. And pro-
fitable root it is. You can raise is easier
than any other root. 1t will grow best on
warm, rich, light loan, little sandy,
without clay. Grows well on newly
ploughed sod. Plough in June, harrow
lightly, roll little, mark off the rows with
marker, two feet apart, and SOW the seed
in these rows Sow about June 20. so as
to escape the fly and louise, which attack
the young plant earlier. For manure, use
about five cords of well rotted manure to
the acre, narrowed in; and before you SOW
the seed sprinkle some super-phosphate Of
lime in the rows, say about five hundred
pounds to the acre. This root grows
rapidly, especially in the month of Septem-
Der and part of October, and will yield
eight or nine hundred bushels to the acre.
| have raised more. 1t can be cultivated
easily with a horseshoe, and will bear
rough usage with the common hoe without
being killed. Harvest it early in Novem-
Der. 1t can bear more frost than the man
gold. When 1t is gathered, one man can
take two rows, one in each hand. as he
walks between them, and throw the roots
together as he pulls them up. They are
easily topped with heavy knife or sickle,
and should be piled in heaps in the field,
covered with tops to keep off the frost,
and suffered to lie two or three days before
putting into the cellar, unless the weather
is very cold. When carried to the cellar
they will keep better if they are dry, and
have little earth clinging TO them.
The Swedish turnip is a frst-rate root.
1t is the cheapest root in the world to raise
1t is as good as the mangold wurze for
mich cows, and If fed on a full stomach it
does not effect the milk more than the
mangold does, though you cannot make
butter If you use either of them. For
young cattle and stores the Swedish turnp
is excellent ted with coarse hay even it
will carry them through the winter in good
smooth condition. feed my horses and
colts on them. If William Jones will only
try them on his colts he will never use any
other root. He buys carrots, | see, but
they make his horses so soft that he cannot
drive them without their being all of a
lather and they make his colts look sort of
bloated, and their skins kind of NANCY. |
teach my horses to eat turnips early in
life, for they will not take hold of them at
first. And when have once taught them,
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