The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-08
HINTS ON FEEDING.

cake available for feed therefore, some
thing must be sought as substitute,
and you must set up an engine to shell
and grind corn and cut hay. Mix the
cut hay with the corn-meal, and linseed
or fax meal, and other feed-stuff, and
steam all together, and You have good
feed that cattle will thrive on. Some
people say nature has prepared all feed
for animals. This is a mistake. Man
is set upon the face of nature, and
must prepare and make the feed in a
proper form for the animal to digest it,,
so that it's blood and body may be kept
in good order, or the animal would soon
become ill-shaped and diseased. For
instance, feeding on corn, in the ear or
shelled, will soon prove this idea true.
The blood becomes too much heated,
and disease presents itself. How many
cattle are troubled with foul, disease
in their feet, difficult to get rid of as
long as they are allowed to stand in wet
litter and are fed with dry corn? Why
not grow more flax or linseed, and use
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 a
clean, dry bed of straw, and by setting
the animal up from the channel of the
foot-path, you obtain this, the channel
carrying off all liquid, which is drained
into the tank, and is highly useful for
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 all
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
little attention in time would have set
it right.
Good usage is of great Importance in
raising fine stock, and the countenance
of the animal soon indicates whether
good or bad treatment is praoticed. I
have known bad treatment used in the
attempt to subdue an animal, but it
always failed.
IMPROVING WORN OUT FIELDS.
At a recent meeting of the North Car
DINA agricultural society, held at Raj
leigh, N. c., Mr.. T. A. Granger sub
mitted the following as his method of
improving poor land:
am satisfied the farmers in this sec
ton of country are doing a large
amount of unnecessary labor in improv-
ing their poor, worn out fields. After
several years of hard labor in hauling
dirt and composing my old, worn out
fields, I concluded to try some other
way to improve my lands besides NOV
ing it in dump cart from one point to
another, and I adopted the following
plan In October, 1871, IfolIowed my
experiment plot of seven acres with a
two-hor1e pillow, and followed the same
with a sub-soil pillow fourteen inches
deep, leaving my lands in twenty feet
beds. Then I seeded it in black oats,
two bushels to the acre. The oats were
only an average crop for the land they
ripened May 18th following. On the
25th of June | reversed the beds and
seeded them in peas, at the rate OF
one and a half bushels to the acre. On
the following October I gathered
enough peas from the land to answer
for seed and fallowed the vines and
what green peas and other vegetable
matter had grown upon the land. On
the 18th October, 1872, I seeded the
same land in black oats again, and on
the following May harvested very fine
crop, double as much as I did the year
before. In June I reversed the beds
again and seeded the same in cow-peas
at the rate of one and a half bush
els, and the following October 1 again
gathered large crop of seed peas, about
fifteen bushels to the acre, only taking
the ripest for seed. l then fallowed
the vines and green peas in, and
seeded the land in black oats and clover
on the following May, 1874. I har-
vested a very large crop of oats, thirty
eight bushels to the acre, and on the
land now I have fine crop of clover,
and believe when [ get the next crop
of clover it will pay me better than any
other crop I have made on it, and with
the clover fallow the second fall, will
leave the land rich enough 10 produce
one bale of cotton or thirty bushels of
wheat per acre. The land I made this
experiment on vas a poor, worn out
field. I first, in 1870, narled it, and put
it in corn and peas; broadcast peas the
last blowing, only making about two
bushels of corn to the acre, following
what peas were on the land in and the
land has been cleaned fifty years, and
was cultivated as long as it would pre-
duce anything. twas originally in long
straw pine, with red clay sUb-soil five
inches from the surface.-MaryIagd
Farmer.
MOISTURE AND PLANT GROWTH.
According to Hellriegel, the Boston
Journal of Chemistry says every pound
of barley requires a supply of seven
hundred pounds of water during the
period it is in the ground. Trees re-
quire q different quantity from corn, AID
in addition they have very great effect
in draining the land, for it is found that
land from which the timber has been
entirely felled often become swampy,
and only dries again when the new plan
tations spring up. This fact shows us
that trees exert a constant demand on
the moisture of the soil, so that over
drainage of the ground must seriously
affect their growth.
THE DAIRY PRODUCTS.
X. A. Willard, president of the New
York dairymen's association, in his
opening address at the session of 1871,
stated that American dairylng repre-
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