The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-06-12

where he had friends working. One OF
Braidy's peculiarities Vas his love for the
bagpipe, 80 the detective, being Q piper,
adopted the disGuise Of . Scotch piper and
played about in the coal towns in the hope
Of someday attracting the attention of the
man he was seeking. be being slre from
information he had received that Brady
really vas somewhere in the regions. The
ruse succeeded after two years Of patient
trial. Male Is low on his way to Scotland
with the alleged murderer.
Feeding Animals.
RrSm ;ae Nstiaal Live ssock Journal
eoIIINe.
As have completed the general de
scrption Of barns. IT Is fitting at this
point, to take up the discussion Of that
mode Of feeding now exciting great inter
est in all localities Of dear land-soiliny.
The writer does this with the more pleas.
ure, as he was one Of the early and earnest
advocates OF this mode of summer feeding
on araSle land worth $Oper acre. When
he 6rst wrote upon the subject Of cutting
green food in summer. and feeding il 10
animals in stall or rack IN the open yard.
few were ready to listen; il was deemed q
utopian scheme for performing useless la
Dor. But q rapid change has been COM
ing over cattle feeders during the last If
teen years upon the economy Of soiiing.
caused mainly by the necessity for dairy
men to provide green food for their cows
during droughts or short pasture from
other causes. In feeding an acre Of good
fodder corn. millet, clover, etc, they find
/ tho ovar rs 81, 10 Ia an O.,
arrest their attention, and set them 20
thinking upon the propriety OF using four
acres Of pasture when one acre soiled
would furnish more cattle food. And be-
sides many occupants OF small farms have
not the space for pasturing any considera-
Die number Of stock, and turn TO this
to keep more than double the number OF
animals on given number Of acres.
Josiah Quincy, who practised the soiling
system IN Massachusetts as early rs 1914,
in speaking Of the prevalent opinion 81
his time, as late as 1859, says: a mis-
taken notion that considerable extent OF
land Is requisite TO enable a farmer 70
keep many head Of cattle led TO mos,
wastetui portion Of it being retained for
the sole purpose OF pasturage; and thus,
compared with its inherent productiv,
power. wa made useless.
Mr.. Quincy Was very DESTROYS OF showing
the small farmer how hemIght comPetewith
the farmer Of two or more times his num-
Der OF acres, 10y adopting this more eco
nomical - stem of feeding; and that same
necessity exists now. twenty years later,
but under much more encouraging circum.
stances. ! can now apply myself 10 the
task Of showing the benefits of this system
in detail with the assuring knowledge that
a hundred are now ready 10 listen where
one gave a ready ear twenty years ago. I,
il no. anticipated that soiling will obtain
except IN a very partial way. for many
years yet. OF the great farms Of the west
but on the smaller ones there. and on Ia.
medium sized farms of the older States
soiling is likely to make much progress,
during the next ten TO twenty year, II
has q most important bearing on tn.
meat production Of the future. enabling
the farmer upon high priced Eastern land,
to compete successfully with the cheay
land and grain Of the West in the produc
ton Of beef and mutton. The improve
ments Of the last few years by which greer
food can chcaply be preserved for winter
use, will also give the thorough soilins
system an immense advantage over th.
out door system of feeding in the West
GIVING the stock in the cold Eastern State.
the food Of perpetual summer.
As these articles are read over wide II
tent Of oountry-many desiring 10 under
stand this system in all It's phases-I shall
discuss its several economic aspects from
the standpoint Of twenty-five years expe
Renee. We will take these up in their or
der. setting forth the advantage of.he sy.
tenn, and then try TO give full weight 70 al
objections that may be urged against it.
for no subject Is more than half discussed
when we stop with the examination Of on.
side. The advantages Of the soiling sys
tenn are:
| SAVING LAND.
| The capacity Of farm 20 carly stocl
must soon be regarded ~ it, measure o.
value, and that even in a grain region
for grain il an assistance and not an oh
stacle TO stock keeping. France and Ger
many each keeps more stock and raise'
more wheat than fifty year ago. Thess
countries pasture very little. keeping
their fields in crops, and these are fed o.
the stock. II is well known 10 all farm.
ers that an acre OF good meadow gras.,
properly cured into hsy, will furnish food
for a COW or steer during the fv. or sil
months Of winter, and on well conducted
stock farms, under the old system j; vii
be found that three 20 four acres are de-
voted 10 pasture one coz or steer through
the warm season. Every stock feeder al.
30 knows that II takes more food 20 ieey
An animal in cold than warm weather
This statement. open to proof before ever
farmers eyes. shows the great waste ina.
dent 20 passuring. This waste Of food Is
eaused-First. BY walking over It. Sec
ond. BY lying upon II. Third. BY dung
ing and sfailing upon il. Fourth. BY
breathing upon t. All Of these 20 alec,
the quality tina; animals viii not eat the
grass thus injured. Fifth. BY frequsn,
chopping. preventing its rapid gYo~th.
and thus reducing the amount grown up
| on an acre In . season. An Examination
Of pasture shows the effects mentioned
| by the tufts Of old, upessen grass covering
large part Of the ground. The only
way 70 prevent some Of these effects IL 70
turn large number Of cattle for fev
hour each day into . comparatively small
pasture. and NOT allow them 10 remain
over night. IL there are cattle enoosh b
eat OF all the grass equally. Aad tins plan
IL continued ~ often ~ the srzss grow,
sufficiently 10 sdord good bate, much os
the loss may be prevented. Bet under The
best syst<m Of p2ssurAee IL VIII require
three acres Of pasture 70 furnish ~ much
food - one acre Of good n>adov. TINS,
then. IL equal 20 lo.s IL svetkrds o.
the land rAssared. II ve reckon only the
absolute production And II fas 10 ssaail
oae-third Of the farm 10 In gYzsn and mead
on. and tvothirds IN pasture, thea the
los On Ss Ar-s d psstnr. 90 hand