The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-09-16
Agricultural.
Canadian Experiences With Cattle.

results of some experiments made
there in cattle breeding:
l. A steady frosty winter is better
than an open one in feeding cattle.
2 An average two or three year
old steer will eat its own weight of
different materials in two weeks.
8. Two or three year old cattle will
add one third of pound more per
day to their weight upon prepared hay
and roots than upon the same mate
rials unprepared.
4. 1t is 80 per cent. more profitable
to premature and dispose of fattening
cattle at two years old than to keep
them up to three years.
5. There is no loss in feeding a cat
tie beast well upon a variety of mate
rails for the sake of manure alone.
3. Fanny ard manure from well fed
cattle three years old is worth an aver
age of So. 80 per ton. fu
Z. "A three year old cattle beast,
well fed. will give at least one ton of
manure every month of winter.
8. No cattle beast whatever will
pay for the direct increase to it's weight
from the consumption of any kind or
quantity of food. v..a
.. On an average it costs twelve
cents for every additional pound of
flesh added to the weight of two or
three year old fattening steer.
10. In Canada the market value of
store cattle can be increased So per
cent. during six months of finishing
by good feeding.
IL. In order to secure safe profit,
no store cattle beast, well done to-, can
be sold at less than four and one-half
cents per pound Give weight).
10. In the fattening of wethers, to
finish as shearings, the Cotswold and
Leicester grades can be made up to
300 pounds, the Oxford Down $50
pounds, and the South Down grad
100 pounds each, live weight.
10. A COW wintered upon two tons
and half of hay will produce not far
from five tons of manure, provided
that she be well Uttered and none of
the excrements be wasted. 's
THE TOMATo.-The tomato, like
every other vegetable, has its ups and
downs, now extolled as having all the
medicinal virtues to be found in ma
ture, and now deemed as positively in
furious to health. The truth, as in
most cases, lies between the extremes.
1t is wholesome vegetable, remedial
in many cases, but should not be used
immediately. Pure cold water is in
furious If drank to excess, and so is
bread injurious if eaten without mod
Grafton.
Turnips for Fall Feed.
Very little is said in this country
about turnips on the farm, but very
much might be said. Scarcely a
farmer ever thinks of turning them
to any account. The professors are
largely to blame for this, as they have
taught us in their everlasting tables,
which agricultural writers quote from
just as If they were authority, that
turnips have no value as food, or at
least, value so small as to be compar-
atively worthless. No wonder this
sort of teaching, which is founded on
theory, discourages farmers from at
tempting to raise turnips. The practi-
cal truth is that they are one of the
most valuable crops. Why Because
they can be turned to profitable ac-
count at less cost than any other cul.
tivated crop. How? By feeding them
on the ground, which requires no la
Dor at all. Do not these two PROPOSE
tons present oasis for practical &C.
ton, which farmers should take adj
vantage OF? The turnip crop comes
to maturity and is ready for use at a
time when the cold has killed other
green heritage, and stock is vainly
trying to get scanty subsistence from
frost-bitten grasses. A patch of tur-
nips is most opportune at this time for
all kinds of animals to feed upon. No
animal will ipjure itself if allowed a
free range in the turnip field, but
every animal thus favored will show
a gain and go into winter quarters
with the fiushness and plumpnsss of
summer, instead of the dried-up, lank
condition which usually characterIzes
animals in the late autumn. AS fodder
corn bridges over the droughts Of mid
summer, SO turnipsare needed just as
much to fill up the shortage of au-
tumn.
If there should be any surplus they
can be turned to most excellent ac-
count, if they are call water" in feed
ing the stock in winter. Pigs can be
well wintered on turnips, if kept in
warm pen, and cattle and sheep can
be fattened on them without any
meal; and when meal is fed the addi-
tion of few turnips renders the meal
almost doubly effective in promoting
growth. 1t may be set down as an es-
tabIished fact that in stall-feeding.