Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-03
Keeping Cow Upon Small Plot of
q Land.
America AgricUlturist.

Many persons would keep cow
if they could be assured of suffi-
cient supply of feed. The average
milk that can be purchased, and
'sstore" butteryare very inferior to
those made at home It is a fact
that a small cow can be veil kept
for 10 cents q day, including winter
feeding. With half an acre of
ground devoted to producing fodder,
a COW may be fed through the
whole summer and paftSof the win
ter. For instance, half an acre is
80 square~reds.V One square rod
day of good grass, corn fodder, or
oats and peas, will feed a cow of
$50 or 500 lbs. (the average weight
of Jersey or Ayrshire helfer) for
one day, and there will be some to
spare. The ground may be made
to produce two or three crops in
the season. Suppose beginning
is made now; 90 square rods may
be seeded down at any time in Au-
gust with Red Clover and Orchard
Grass, and then afterwards top
dressed literally with manure. This
win give heavy cutting in May or
June, which will feed q cow for 90
days, and may be cut again July or
August Sow twenty reds to rye
in August, which may be cut be-
fore the grass and clover is ready,
and may then be sown to eats or
Hungarian Grass, which will be
ready to cut in July; and The ground
sown to barley, fodder-corn, ruta"
bagasr or turnips, Twenty rods
may be soWnS to oats in March or
Apri, Ito cut in June or July, when
the ground may be planted with
sweet corn for fodder, with turnips
sown between the rows. Twenty
rods may be sown with peas early
in April, (which will be ready to cut
in may or June, and the ground may
be planted with cabbage at 2 feet
apart, giving 1900 Or 1,4O0 |
heads in the fall for late feeding.E
There VIII IN all be the equivalent
Of an acre and a quarter Of crops, |
which, well manfred With the drop |
pings Of the cow, can be made to
produce very large yield. The fod-
dering viii be about as follows ):
April, rye; May, grass and clover
May and June, peas June and
Joly, oats July and August, grass
and clover and fodder, Sep
TENDER, barley or fodder-corn, and
Trimmings Of the tlrnips;; October
and November, cabbages, and some
of the surplus fodder which has not
been consumed but has been dried
for the purpose. After this will
comethe turnips, helped out by the
remainder of the dry fodder, and
hay will need to be purchased to get
through the winter. There must
be no time lost in replanting, but as
the crop is cut in strip 3through the
plot +. it should be, sown at
onees If, only a strip six feet
broad or as, wide as sHathe, of
Will leave For the cultiva-
ton Of such q plot the Rue hand
pillow and .culivator would be suffi-
eient, and it would be, no more than
agreeable recreation for the owner
Of the COW and his family TO do-the
little farming that will be needed, |
with the occasional help of boy |
to wheel the manure out of the
yard to spread upon the ground as
soon as it is sown or planted. The
cow should be bedded with dry
earth or hard wood sawdust, and |
the yard should be Uttered in the
same manner 5a and frequently |
soraped clean. The comfort de-
rived FROM ihaRing plenty of milk i
cream, butter, butter milk, pot
and whey, and the puddings
and other things only possible with
a plenty Of milk, That will come
upon the ia milyI table oduring the
year in consequence of an abund-
ance Of it, Will well Hmore than re-
pay the light labor involved.