The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-03-22
Fersa Gsrasa sra Household.

'hiNo UOOt Ni' " n' AON NiCN1 OH IVY
or all" grain will produce less beef
than hay and grain The animal
stfuc'nFe of the OK also demands
blk IN food as well as richness; the
feeding. Of concentrated food being
profitable only co. farav az, the animal
assilnilates il, beyond that simply
increasing the manure. heap at a cost
far beyond it's value. The. OK has
approximately eleven onnds' of
stomach with only two and ono halt
pounds Of intestinos to catch one
hundred pounds of live weight; the
sheep las less stomach and more in
iestincs, giving smaller percentage
ot4qdigestive apparatus; while the
pig, tor every hundred pounds of his
live weight, has only one and third
pouuds Of stomach to six bounds. oi
inlostines.
A stccr would thrive well on q
bulk Of straw, with 1lttlo oil moal,
that would shrink a sheep and starve
"pig. Pork can be produced from
clear corn meal, while mutton requires
greater variety Of food, and beot cat
tle would BECOME cloyed and diseased
with its exclusive use. A thoughtful
attontioh to, These broad facts will
change much injudicous tcodng into
cheaper meat production.
One cloment in tho economy Of cat.
Tic feeding, the uso Of straw as fodder,
has not reeeeeived Ghe attcntionits
Importance demands. On no one
point is the average farmer so ncre-
dulous as regarding the value of straw
TO feed, and on many farms the waste
felpractices still exists of turning all
the straw into the manure heap. IL
properly made and reasonably carod
tor, "a arge portion of tho straw, os.
pccially Of the oat .clop, should be
used as cattle food. Early cut straw
is worth for feed two~thirds as much
as hay, and is three simos as valuable
in feeding cattle as in tho manure
heap. Pea haulm and bean straw,
especially if in the latter tho pods are
attached, arc of still greater valuo.-
Tho best heat producing foods are
wheat, corn, oats, hay and bran.
Oat straw will develop as largo Il
percentage Of heat as oil cake; bean
straw even moro; and, in this respect,
ono hundred parts Of oat straw are
equal TO eighty parts ofhay. Straw is
deficient in flesh forming material, it
requiring one hundred pal is oat straw
to equal sixteen parts good hay in
this particular; yet, fed with cotton
seed or linseed oake,7it supplies what
they lack in heat giving and rospira>
tory elements.
For the purposes. of feeding out oat
straw, our oat crop is allowed to over
ripcn, largo amount of it's nutriment
bcing lost without any corresponding
benefit to the grain, which mover i'm
proves after the upper portion Of the
stem has commenced turning yellow.
Oats cut hen just turning from the
green state, yield more grain as, well
AIS greater. fcoding value in straw
The narrow margins of profit in oat-
tic feeding in this section Of the coun-
try demand the closest economics in
the food supply, and tho most thor>
ough Investigations and experiments
with an article of so little present
market value, and ono of such abund
ance with most farmers, as oat straw.
Should cattle be at any timo in
danger Of choking by reason of any
foreign substance in throat, take of
fine cut chewing tobacco enough to
make ball as large as a hens egg,
dampen it with molasses, so that it
can be compressed into ball and will
adhere closely; elevate the animals
head, pail out the tongue, and Gro wd
tho ball as far down tho throat rs pos
sble. In fifteen minutes it will have
sickness and vomiting, relaxing the
muscles so that the potatoe, or what
ever may be choking it, will bo thrown
up.
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