The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-08-23
The science Of Farming. some
Points Worth Considering,
and Sailing away in your
knowtedRo-8ox
( Concluded from, last ioest.J

i, ripe. the daily rate Of increase on an
average should be not less than one enu
one half pounds-tbus, q three year VI.
should weigh 1000 pounds; ~ .n'
one hslf-year old, 1850; ana "o-y'~i
old, !. 100 pounds alive.
But. in fact, the daily rate ef increase
ia more up to two years than at any i'm
.ftsr~ards. A two-year-old, well oone
Ito. will weigh 400, and II carried on
To three wears will not scale less than l.
500 pounds. This msy Do called P'e-mo-
tuning. nh.
Very much, then, OF the suscess .! 90
tanning biz weights in . short time lies
in !. Knowledge of individual character
and the proper proportions md kinus u
food.
The T. est kind or permanent Pesturs-
. mixture OF certain grasses and clovers
under favourable conditions. viii give
!. .re.tsr daily increase than any othsr
form Of food.
two.year.old cattle beast put TO auch
n.ature on 18th May, when it Weighs H.
loo mounds. will stand 1,4OO on Let DC
toI.r following. The addition Of Srain
.nder such circumstances does not add
correspondingly to weight tnough IL
does % on comparatively poor pasture.
Proper shelter and water On pasture
means forty per cent. OF the increase.
Green oat-straw and psa-straw TO-
gethsr are about equal in value to hay.
Thirty-hve pounds swsde turnips,
six pounds clover hay, and y and one
half pounds oilcaks will produce ons
pound Of beef. /,
One ton of fermented cut straw and
two hundred pounds oilcake 10 equal to
ono tor of hay.
Six sounds hay. one pound bran. twss-
ty pounds turnips. and I've pounds corr
meal will ada one n pound to Ne
weight Of q good two-year-old steer.
Six pounds hay, one pound br.n.twsn
ty pounds tnrnips. asd ak pounds pea
meal will do the same thing.
The like quantities of hay, bran, tur-
nips. ans seven and a half pounds crush
cd oats will do the same thing.
Corn, peas, oats. and barley will pay
to fattcn cattle when not over one cent
per pound in the market.
Barlsymsal gives a dne finish, and
sleek, mellow handling.
In soiling, green fodder 10 safer when
cut and mixed with cut straw or hay, al
lowed to slightly fermsnt and sprinkled
with meal.
1t 10 still an unsettled question whether
cooked food or raw feod is best for cat
tie f%attening.
All animals fatten cheaper and faster
on prepaid raw food, as against whole
or uncut hay and roots.
Every animal that chews the cud must
have bulk it is not enough to give SUI
fcient nutritive value in small quantities
the stomach must be filed to yve nate
rial for Illuminating.
Most foods arc better in combination
than alone.
Combine so as to have little or no
waste.
Reproducing and flesh produA ng
food together will give sixty per cent.
more increase than when given singly.
For young cattle give l Of flesh to 8 of
heat producing substance, and to older
ones give | 10 9.
Most food OF young cattle goes to make
up bone and muscle, leaving Nthird-class
manure.
Most food Of half-grown amin AIS goes
to make flesh, leaving s~scone-clsss ma
nure.
Most food OF mature animals goes to
NOW - sAN o@PRolS hbO ~
coming hrst class manure.
Exclusive of water chemically, amin ais
coming to maturity will eat abeut one
nftieth of their own weight per day.
TIE HANAGKAENT OF gATTEEIHa CAFEA1.
Most animals eat in proportion to their
weight. under average conditions of age,
temperature, and fatness.
All animals increase in weight ia pro-
portion to the quantity and character of
the food consumed. il feed exactly sccor.
ding to breed, size, and condition of
surroundings.
Give fattening cattle a. much - they
will eat, and often - i've times a day.
Never give rapid changes of food, but
change often.
A COED guide for . safe quantity Of
grain apsraday 4tonnaturs 4eattle 10 one
pound to every hundred OF their weight:
thus al animal weighing 1000 may re,
ceive ten pounds grain.
Give - much water and salt 1t oil
times a. they will take.
The growing animal, intended for
bee. requires . little exercise daily, to
promote muscle and strength OF consti-
tuition; when ripe, Only SO much ~ to DO
able to walk to market.
Currying daily is squad to seven per
lcent. Of the increase.
Don't forget one animals meat may DO
another animals poison.
1t takes three days good feed to make
up for one bad one.
The faster the fattsning the moro the
profit less food, ysartsr rsturns. aud bet.
ter flesh.
Get rid Of every fattening cattle bea.,
before it 10 three years old.
Every day an animal 10 kept. after BE-
ing prime, there 10 loss, exclusive Of ma-
hure.
The external evidence Of primeness are
full run1ps, tanks. twist, purse, shoulder
vein, andreye.
A gooS cattieman0means 4 difference
of one fourth. He, should know the likes
and aislikes Of every animal.
1t. pays TO keep one mar in constant
attendance on thirty head Of fattsninx
cattle.
Immediately,a 40 animal begins to fret
for food, 1mnlediatelyi it begins to lose
hesh never check, the listening process.
During winter, feed thus for finishing +.
First month-COnmon turnips, 40 lbs. :
straw. cut! n 1bs,r. hay, cut, s lbs. oats.
crushed Nbs.
Second and thiId mopth-Swsdh ~
nips, 4Ol6s. hay, cut, ] lbs. straw, cut.
8 lbs. corn s u.s. bran, . lbs.
Fourth snd ffth -nontEs-Swedes and
ImAnontda 6hIha ehnv ia In.