Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-06

lty of meat WIS the only desideratum
would not make a change; but as coarse
wool now brings the highest price, anC
as perhaps | gain little in the weight
l have made one cross on my flock O
one hundred ewes with the Cotswold
The finest carcass has resulted where
the Southdown buck was used Of the
CotsWOld eve. do not want any finer
sheep than this makes, and try to keer
them Tor my purpose One-half COtsWold
What lambs have to spare are all sold
to your butchers in advance at about
eight dollars per head. ] raise roots
which | consider indispensable in tn,
sheep business, and with good manage
ment | have the lambs in market ir
March and April. ] consider that root
make good substitute for grass; they
keep the sheep in good heart, and with
fine health for early pasture, and pro
mote the flow of milk and the appetite
Two thirds Of my ewes usually have
twins. WITH; lambs at eight or nine dol.
lars each, and wool at fifty cents q
pound, your readers can figure up my
profits on one hundred ewes CORES
pondea'ce Practical Farmer.
ATTENTION TO HEIFER CALvEs.-We
are glad that tie better class of dairy.
men are beginning to see the economy
of raising their own COWS AS has often
been urged in this journal the dairy
man can never be sure of his stock I'M
less he raises it upon his own farm. We
know large numbers are now doing this
and some are trying to accomplish it
without making proper provision for
the necessary food to grow their heifers
IN the best manner. 1t is not enough
that the heifer is raised upon the farm
where she is to be useful as milk pro-
Queer, but ample provision Of food must
be made to develop all her good quail
ties. 1t too frequently happens that
the dairyman turns his heifer calves
into q poor pasture after they are two
or three months old, and expects them
to grow into good animals on what they
can pick up, without further attention.
But such calves will turn out like the
corn fields planted upon poorly plough
ed and prepared land. with no subse-
quent cultivation. The corn is scarcely
worth harvesting, and the calves not
neglected stock often excuse themselves
by saying, 81 little extra attention will
fetch them up by and by" But every
body else notices that those calves
are never fetched up-always remain
small, scrawny, undeveloped animals.
Now the cow is machine for secreting
milk, and this machine should be de-
veloped to the greatest perfection. A
poorly developed animal cannot have
its secretory system in a vigorous and
active state. Having been fed meager-
ly, its digestive system is contracted and
wanting in capacity to furnish sufficient
aliment for large milk production.
Everything depends upon the rearing
of the heifer calf in determining her
usefulness as q mixer. A steady and
rapid growth from calfhood, shows all
her secretory organs in the greatest &C
tivity, and her digestive organs must
have been we'll developed and active to
have prepared SO much food for assimi-
lation into such rapid growth And
as it is impossible that the COW should
yield large quantity Of milk without
digesting a large quantity of food, the
animal must be trained to do this from
calfhood. The statement Of these
principles unjust show the dairyman
how vastly important it is that his heif-
er calves should meyer cease growing for
a single day. Scantv feeding is, there
fore, the worst economy, and judicious
fall feeding the greatest economy. The
calf, like every other animal, requires a
certain amount of food to keep it alive,
and all the growth comes from what is
eaten more than this. The greater the
amount Of food, therefore, digested and
assimilated, the more the growth, and
the more the profit. The cost of good
CALF, six months old, is but little more
than a poor one, although It is worth
from three to four times as much. Let
US. then, urge dairymen not to begrudge
the food eaten by their dairy calves,
but to study how they can best please
their tastes and satisfy their appetites
If the pasture is at all short, give them
extra food. Bran a little oil-meal, oats,
apples, pu'npkins-all are good. Grain
is better ground than whole; but oats,
in small quantity, do very we'll ground.
Feed with a liberal but judicious hand,
and your reward will be melted out in
even greater measure.-National Li,t
Stock Journal.