Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-12-25

WY vi rOots or green food In the season
OF dry feed acts rs bene6ciallv on the
stock as fruit and fresh vegetables do
on the human system in the course of
the long, cold season when no perspirs-
ton purges the skin. In the season of
verdure and plant growing, fresh vegeta
Die food is 80 common q portion of our
daily diet that We scarcely notice the
fact. And 80 il is with the animals
whose care we are charged with.
AN old turkey raiser gives the follow
ing experiment: -Four turkeys were fed
on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. -Four
Others of the same brood were also 81 the
same time confined in another pen and
fed daily on the same article, but with
one pint of very finely pulverized char
coal mixed with their food-mixed meal
and boiled potatoes. They had also
plentiful supply of charcoal IN their pen.
The eight were killed on the same dsy,
and there was gain of Il pounds each
in favor of the fowls which had been
supplied with the charcoal, they being
much the latest, and the meat being
greatly superior in point of tenderness
and flavor.
A CORRESPONDENT of one of the for
eign horticultural journals recommends
the principle of tree-lifting, instead of
root-pruning, as likely to have better
effect in bringing trees into bearing,
This lifting process consists in finding
out the roots which are furnishing the
amount of sappy, watery matter which
promotes the growth and furnishes the
material for shoots and foliage in place
of fruit buds. In the fall, just when the
leaves are beginning to change and droop,
the primer digs under the tree, cut of
the roots which plunge into the cold
moist and wet ground, and raises or lifts
what remains of them until they come
in contact with the rich soil, and the sir
and warmth required, and the result is
fruit instead of foliage and shoots.
FEW men are aware of the fact that
hay is very beneficial to hogs, but it is
true, nevertheless. Hogs need rough
! feed as well as horses, cattle or the human
race. To prepare it you should have q
cutting box or hay cutter, and the
greener the hay the better. Cut the
hay as short as oats, or shorter, and mix
with bran shorts or mlddlings and feed
as other food. Hogs soon learn to like
it, and, if soaked in swill as other slop
food, is highly relished by them. IN
winter Use for the hogs the same hay
you feed to your horses and you will find
that, while it saves bran, shorts or other
food, it puts on flesh as rapidly as any
thing that can be given them. The use
of hay can be commenced as early as the
grass will do to cut, and when run
through the cutting box can be Used to
advantage by simply soaking in fresh
water till it sours.
THIS is the most trying season of the
year for cattle, as sudden changes from
green to dry food are very injurious
house them nights and feed hsy morn
ing and night with roots at nOon-time.
Do not keep them in the pastures when
the frost has stolen all of the sweetness
from the grass. And do not turn them
out into the yard when the sun does not
shine or before noOntime when it does.
| Two or three hours in the middle of the
day when it is bright and sunny, is all
they require, and the roots should be fed
to them at that time. Warmish water
is always better for them than that
which is icy cold. A pailful of hot
water is easily obtained, After a GER
tain age COWS and oxen should be stall
fatted end killed, 1t is the poorest
economy to keep either old or inferior
animals. They eat more than they can
supply and you are the loser.
IT is a common practice among some
dairymen to give their cows, while dry,
but scanty living. When COW ceases
to give milk, or is dried up, any food is
considered good enough for her.
think this is great mistake, and the re-
suit is diminished product of milk,
both in quantity and quality when she
does come in. There is a great draft on
the system to sustain the calf while the
COW is carrying it, and to keep the COW
in good condition good feed is as impor
tsnt as when she is giving milk. 1t is
my opinion that 81 worth of food when
a cow is dry is worth 81 so when she
comes in. An animal in poor condition
can not digest rs much food as an
animal in good condition. If the COW
is poor when she comes in she will not
digest enough food to digest the system
and, at the same time to make large
quantity of milk.