The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
water make them SILVER and dry them
up like blaZes?''

water make them SILVER and dry them
up like blazesP'
mo, fur when it was cold we allus
pumped fresh water fur them. and if it
wus any ways stormy we carried their
water to them in the stable"
I'm alus Altered to feed meal to
cows" said Dave Hobson, !" fur I've
tried it three times and they bt pretty
soon SO they wooden't touch it. and
he'd cow wonst that wus poor as
Jobs turkey, and a little while before
she had calf begun to feed her pretty
strong with corn-meal, and before her
calf wus week old she quit eatin', and
her bag swelled and got full of fever,
and she dried up and didn' give drop
OF milk, and finally her bag spilled so
that she wasn't of any account, and we
had to mock the calf in the head.''
Jehu answered, you've got to be
keerful how you feed your cows fur a
week or two before and after they come
fresh; whether the critter is poor or fat,
she orient to hev NOR half feed. /
want to ask Dave what kind of meal he
fed his COWS, and how much at a feed?''
81 fed corn-meal, half peck at a
time," Dave answered.
Il don't wonder you spilled their ap-
petite" said Jehu, "fur corn-meal is
too rich and heavy to feed COWS alone.
l alus mix it with mor'n'its bulk of
bran, and beside you fed too heavy. A
half peck of corn-meal will weigh
over six pounds. Now, my cows have
kept fat all winter, and you kin see
from the tiggers that they hcv good
deal morn paid their kcepin', and I've
fed them jest nine pounds of bran and
meal mixed, apiece, each day. and
heven't he'd one of them Oft her feed all
winter. If we see that one of 'em doz-
ent lick her troft clean, we stop feedin'
meal fur day or two and give nubbins
instid. ust to hev Il good deal of
trouble when l let the boys feed ont of
basket, for one COW wood git too
much and another too little, and pretty
soon cow wood be stalled and wOodn t
eat bite fur three or fore days, and
pretty nigh go dry. Tine goin' to grow
sum beets to feed next winter, fur | be-
leeve that peck of beets to Il cow
every day will keep her in such a con-
dishun that she kin eat more NEAL
II thought" said Jack Parker,
"that if you gave Il COW peek of beets
day she wooden't need SO much
meal"
''Well, she woodent need it if we list
wanted to keep her thru the winter
without maxim her any fattcr or in
cleasin' her milk any. But COW is II
kind of 4 mashcen and it costs some
thin to run it, and if we don't feed her
more than will run the mashcen we Git
no profit, and if we feed too much the
mashcen gifts cloggcd, and | think the
best way is to find out jist about how
much it kin use and give it that. Now,
a poor honey COW is like rickety old
mashecn and she should't he fed as
strong as one that is fatter. at least I'M
til she gifts little ust to ii, If had :.
very poor cow to feed, idle only give
her quart of meal at feed ut first
and increase gradual
saw that it was time to 90 home,
and said, I've bin interested in what 5
bin said, and would like to know how
many of you think it'll pay to stable
your cows and feed them well. Let s
have vote on it. All that think the
pint proved say l! contrary, no! There
was twenty-four voted l. and nobody
but Zeke Dobbs voted no, and he said
he ruther eat bacon SOP ON his bread
than to be to so much doggoned bother.
Yours, with great resp ct. SQUIRE BuNG.
Practical Farmer