The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-01-06
FARH, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Corn Meal and Glover Hay,


Corn meal and good clover hay will he
a proper combination of food TO produce
milk, for corn is rich in starch and oil.
both good for butter; and clover hay is
rich in caseine or cheese, so that tbey
possess both tie carbonaceous and nj
irogenous elements in proper balance
But corn meal is heatin food and must
be fed with good judgment. 1t must
not be fed alone, but mixed with a por-
ton of the clover hay.
A portion of the clover hay should be
cut into short lengths, and the meal
should be mixed with twice its bulk OF
cut clover, the clover being moistened
so that the meal will adhere to the hay,
and both be eaten together. If the
meal is fed with three times its bulk of
cut clover, so much the better. The
meal being mixed with hay, both will
60 into the stomach together, and the
meal, instead of being massed in lump
or bolus, will be distributed throughout
tie contents of the stomach, will be
raised and re.masticated, and thus not
be likely to produce feverish state of
the system. Nicely cured, early cut
clover is q good single food for milk,
and corn meal will add other qualities
so as to give some variety; but these
two foods may be improved by adding
others go as TO give more vsriety. II
dairymen should grind half corn and
half oats together, or even one bushel
of oats with two bushels of corn, it
would decidedly improve the ration.
Oats are excellent for milk. It will
also be an Improvement to mix fifty
pounds OF bran or wheat middlinps with
loo pounds of corn meal. II should
always be borne in mind that the greater
the variety in the food of the COW the
better-better for the health OF the COW
aud better for the flavor OF the milk and
batter.
If corn meal only is fed with th
clover, then add SIX quarts of meal, fed
in two feeds, OF better in three feeds,
with six or nine quarts OF GU clover, at
each iced. IL bran be mixed, then ten
pounds of the mixture Ter day; if oats
ant corn are ground together, eight
pounds will co. The COWS should have
all the long hay they will eat. This
ration, with good water and warm,
well ventilated stable, will give re.
turn, from good COWS, in every way sat-
isiactory National LiU6 Stock Journal.
Standing Rules for Feeding.
Never place large amount of coarse
fodder before an animal at one time.
Divide each feeding into two, or three
1e5dingS, but make it continuous; that
Is, as last as they clean up what is be-
fore them, give them little more, un-
til you think they have eaten enough Tor
OGe time; then clean the manger, and,
il you 90 hot turn them out. allow them
to stand until lie hour jor the next feed
ing with nothing before them.
Haye regular hours for giving the
food, ard vary from them as little as
possible. Do not fall into the habit of
giving a little every time you go 10 tine
staOIe, and especially avoid the mistaken
kindness OF those who go out and give
= last todGerirg iu5- before they go to
bed at night. Go 10 the barn then, il
you will snd see that all is soug for
he night, but do not offer any food then.
Remember that the night WAS not made
tor eating, but for sleeping, and unless
absolutely necessary do not feed at un-
seasonahie hours of evening or morn
ing. Apply these rules to all stocE,
whether horses, oxen, sheep or swine,
as well as to the milch cows.
See that the stables are well lighted,
well ventilated, and for nil excepting
the sheep, warm enough so that water
will not freeze in them upon the coldCst
day. Sheep bear cold weather well, apd
require so much ventilation that il is
difficult to maintain the temperature
above freezing without having the mir
impure and unwholesome. See also
that they have n dry and soft bed upon
which TO sleep. Plenty Of bedding is
rs important to the animals under your
care rs TO yourself, and comfortable
nights rest i5 I'D necessary to their thrift
as it is to your health.
Study the quality of food that yon
have, and if it's not such as is adapted
to the product that you desire, improve
il by the addition pFsuch other material
as will supply the clement lacking in
what you have. That is to say, if you
are producing milk, without regard to
quality, and you have hay or poor
quality, such as you cut from low lands,
or that which WAS over-ripe wh'n cut,
you must add to il roots, grain, " heat
bran, or other miik-producing food. If
you desire butter use richer grain, good
corn meal or cotton seed meal. The
latter is apt to make butter little oily q.
itted with good hay, or with or. ss (but
may be used with poor hay or straw, or
may be mixed with an equal or greater
quantity of wheat bIan in winter), its
effects would not be noticeable, unless
TO the critical eye of some one who was
looking for strictly iirst-class article OF
gilt-edged butter.
The same grains and in larger qpan-
tity may be used in fattening stock, il
such may be your business. Roots are
not of much value tor fattening pur
poses, when fed alone, unless large
amounts are fed /; but few Of them given
daily when feeding grain will often
largely increase the fattening quality o.
the grain, probably by increasing the
digestive powers OF the animal. Per.
haps this is even more noticeable will
sheep than with cattle. Certainly q
daily feed of roots seems TO be almost +
necessity to the successful keeping O
sheep. whether the principal object MAY
be wool lambs or mutton, or whether
either and all are thankfully received.
Household Hints.
An exchange says: Black cottol
gloves will not crack The hands if scaldeC
IN salt water before wearing. The sal
prevents fading. When almost DRY on,
should put them on, in order to stretcl
them and keep them in good shape.
w heh puIling up curtains Wnlcn ar
TO be draped, in low room, pat tn
cornice to which the curtains are 10 b
| fastened close to the ceiling, even If tn
window is put in lower down, as
gives the effect of greater height to tn
room. The curtains meeting at the to
will conceal the wall.
A labor-saving invention is TO hav
one long cake tin divided in the middle
When making cake put half the quantit
in one end OF the tin. Add to the n