Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-12-14
Feeding Farm Stock.


good Judgment. practical experience
and constant watchIE mess more needed.
than in feeding the snir.als on the fsrm.
Not only does each class of animals
re Iu,re different treatment. bnt no two
individuals in class being exactly
alike. every animai must receive espe-
ciai individual attention. il the best re-
suits are to be secured.
One who has never given the subject
attention would he surp Used 10 learn
the difference between good and bad
feeding.
One man will feed out ton of hay to
a herd Of cattle in two weeks. while
another man would fced the same herd
three weeks, with the same quantity OF
hay. and at the same time keep the CAT
tie in rs good. if not better condition.
The fact that there is any difference
between the stomach OF horse and
that of q COW, or OK, is almost univer-
sally overlooked in feeding; so when
the cattle are led the horses are also
fed; if the horses are fed four times
day it is supposed to be necessary 10
feed the cattle an equal number of
times; and wfen il is decided that it is
best not TO feed the cattle but twice
day. it is. rs rule, decided 10 feed the
horses the same number of times. thus
overlooking the fact that the stomachs
of the two are entirely different: that
while the COW has al extra receptacle,
wherein to store away hay to be masti-
Gated st her pleasure. the horse has not;
therefore. while the cow, if given what
she can eat in the morning, can store up
food enough 10 last considerable por-
ton of the day for mastication; the
horse having but small stomach, If he
is given more food than it can hold,
the food is pressed hey ond where it can
be digested, and is therefore lost: while
what is in the stomach digests long be-
fore the COW has masticated what she
has stored away in her extra stomach;
he thus becomes hungry before the COW
does. and really needs to be fed sooner
The hog. like the horse, has no extra
stomach TO store away food, therefore
if fed but twice a day and given what
he will cat, he overloads his stomach.
and if the food is not pushed beyond
the point where it will digest, the
stomach is filed 81 full that a consider
able portion of the food fails to come in
contact with the lining of the stomach,
and thus Il very large proportion of the
nutriment in the food is lost Expert
ments prove that hog thus fed wastes
more than one-half of the meal given
him. We have no doubt the same is
true of the horse. when fed large
quantities of hay and grain. and fed
but twice 4 day.
While animals that chew the cud
should not be fed as often a those that
do not, when tiey are fed they should
be gwen what they will eat up clean.
Cows do well on two feeds day. but
horses do better TO feed three or four
times. Cows fed but twice should be
kept eating until they are well filled,
while horses that are fed four times
should not be given but a small quantity
each time. BY thus feeding. the horse
is kept on much less amount of hay,
and at the same time will be in a much
healthier and better condition. because
the stomach not being overloaded is
kept in better condition TO digest all
Of the food given.
The farmer has not only TO learn by
practical experience the best time to
feed each animal. but he has also to
learn the right proportion of each kind
of food to he gwen. To feed economic
ally. as well as iudiciously. it is i'm
portant TO have n variety of food, for no
animal will do as well led on all one
kind of food. though it be of the very
best quality; a change improves the APP
petite As well rs the health. This all
farmers understand; therefore, most of
them store up fodder of different kinds
to be fed out during the winter. But
how it is best TO iced out each kind
there is great difference .ot opinion.
Whila some farmers insist that il is best