The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-06-27

rosPonuent OF the Country GenkieDla
writes: ~ have fed cottonseed mes
70 calves 8 to 10 months old with 600
erect, but have seen such apparent 4
effects from feeding Il to young calve
a. TO lead me to avoid It. II Is not 4
easily digested as linseed meal. Still
mixed with fine middlings from wheat
ana both well boiled together. do no
think there would be any danger Il
feeding Il with SKINNED milk TO calye
one month old, in moderate quantity
III. could get little 1axseed and boi
u with middlings, or oat or barley meal
u would produce most satisfactory re
suit with his jersey calves. when mixef
with The SKINNED milk. The flaxseed
restores, TO some extent, the oil skinned
from the milk, and assists in KEEPING
the bowels in excellent condition. Il
one gill Of flaxseed can be given to each
calf per day, 1t will be found OF grea,
service. Calves that are TO be fed on
sour milk will do better 10 be kept IN
stable oryard and fed on hay instead 81
grass. IF. can not get linseed meal or
faxseed. then he may raise fine calves
on good wheat middlngs and milk.
For young calf, give one pint of mid
dlines with each gallon Of milk. and In.
crease It TO one quart at the end Of the
first month. Decorticated cottonseed
meal Is rich in all the elements required
to grow the calf, and If cooked, one Gill
NAV be fed to calf two months old
u the milk Is not 500 sour. the calf will
keep fat on milk and middlings."
And another correspondent saws: al
look upon cottonseed meal as the most
valuable food for mich cows at this sea.
son, or any other have now fed Il
for year 1t costs me here go miles
from New York; only one dollar per
ton more than ground feed of corn. oats
ana wheat bran, at which price il is 80
per cent. cheaper than the latter.
have fed II to cows, calves, pigs, horses
and chickens. Cows fed on green rye
(soiled in stable and yard) are keptin
excellent condition; the laxative effect
d the green fodder is corrected by the
meal, and the dr.ppings are so solid as
20 be easily handled, and do not soil the
COWS unusually. Calves eat 1t with
avidity, and a small handful to q g..
months calf stops the scours which may
'ccur from over.eating grass, or a mess
y sour milk. The growth Of a S-months
ID calf which has received about 3
ounces per day for month past is very
emarkable, and the regularity of its an.
.etlte, and the action of It's bowels is all
hat could be desired Pigs fatten upon
very rapidly, and small addition Of
TO their slop has so fattened up nv
Serkshire sows that it's use has to be
iscontinued, and green rye is given to
hin them down before narrowing tire
ONES. Fowls tike it readily, and the
gg-basket shows the benefit OF It. On
ne whole, 1t is pity that this native
roduct should be sent abroad when il
an be SO profitably used at home"
WEED kiLLING.--Very few excel in
ais art. II Is more than any other cri.
'rion of good cultivator OF fields or
ardens- We were on the point Of saw
q that the month Of May is the time
y beginning to practice this essential
success. True, SO It il. as far as
ere killing goes, but the wideawake
'op-grower had an eye open all last
JASON TO see that no enemy was SOW
2 tares upon the land-no wind float
g in thistle-down; no sly plants in OBJ. ,
ure corners maturing seeds and DROP
ng them into the waiting sol; no m /;
'tted manure, full OF seeds OF docks ;
ID grasses and all manner of weed IN
eanness, put on rs mulch or protec- !
IN, to treat the crop by and by as the
lxons did the DEMONSTRATING them !
ON the Picts TO inflict cruelty and
eachery themselves. Any vegetable Is
weed, that robs, BY its growth in the !
me ground, the particular plant we !
sh to carry to perfection. In the !
eadow, grass Is the crop, and every i
her plant or bush is weed. But In :
Q grain field or potato patch tho same ?
ass becomes n weed, TO be extirpated \
the last blade. Dry weather, SO gen. \
ally unwelcome in the growing season, b
; the great merit Of aiding the farmer
ectively In this heavy, weary work,
Itch ne needs must do. and do prompt !
II ne hopes to have return for his l
tlay. Every inch OF growth in .
weeds is so much taken n
m his crop, irrecoyerably for Z
It season. This makes 1t so import :,
to stop the beginnings-to slice of Il
tiny seedlings with a sharp blade,
scratch them out and expose their
is TO sun and wind Just as soon as G
y show themselves. In gardens X
ere the soil has been raked very fine 4
made very smooth, thin blade - -
'hed or drawn through the fine soil :
below the surface Is the easiest and
g rapid and most completely effectu- :
destroyer Of the weeds and opener z
The crust. But when the surface has =
a left lumpy, the work Is still easier 81
more rapid, provided that a prong =.
or tooth culiivator or harrow is
q. These break the clods and scat =.
the mold and weeds in ali d;rec. %