The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-06-13
AppOrtioning the Food. Bran.

Perhaps there is no part ofthe care OF
cattle which exerts n more important
influence in maintaining healthy and
thrifty condition. than proper selec-
ton and apDortionment of food Iact
comes into requisition here as fully IS
in any portion of the management OF
cattle that are housed for feeding.
Cattle that are housed. getting no eX-
ercise. REQUIRE to be fed with no little
discretion. The art of feeding properly
i'm such a case is not mastered IN day.
Neither does it follow that every man
who can dig good ditch, or build a
stack of hay that will shed ran, Will
necessarily be competent to apportion,
combine. and deal out food TO valuable
cattle. The methods b. which this IS
done successfully are acquired by
studiously watching the habits OF BODY
of each beast, giving to one a diherent
mixture of food from that given to an
other. Cattle, like men, represent
quite diverse conditions, as to tendency
to obesity or the opposite, as they DO also
in the tendency which food has IN rem
derinp the bowels loose or otherwise.
Certain cows habitually become loose IN
the bowels when fed freely upon sueh
as agrees completely with others IN thls
particular. Ill
generally be found to be the cause OF
certain COWS becoming loose in the bow
eIs unon n given mixture of feed. The
/ capabilities OF such require to be care
I fnilv studied. and herein lies one OF the
/ strongest objections against frequent
/ CHANGES of men where the health and
( thrift OF valuable animals are involved
As stated, stock that is housed, having
! little exercise, and kept in a fairly even
| temperature, if not in an actively grow
\ inc state should be fed with great deal
! of iudcment. Discretion, in this case,
has reference not altogether to quantity
of food. The demands of the system OF
the cow. under the conditions named.
are moderate, If she has attained hel
or,wth. and is not in milk. 1t is here
| That bran comes to our aid; and with 1t,
| and the combinations that should be al
hand in every cattle barn, the skllliu
herdsman can practice his art upon eacI
individual animal in such way as to pre-
serve a uniformity in appearance anc
condition, no matter how wide apart the
several animals in a herd may be, as tC
DIGESTIVE capacity, tendency to feshl
ness, activity of the excretory functions
etc.
AS a rule, a combination of whea
hiram and oil-cake meal will accomplish
more in maintaining a lot of closely
stabbed breeding and growing cattl
stock in a salts faotOry condition thar
anv other two articles whatever. Bran
which was formerly supposed to be tn
mere refuse part, bearing relation u
the inner portion of the grain like tina
born by the shell Of the nut to the mea
within, OF about as much value as IN
straw upon which the grain grew
found to contain no small portion
the constituents required by both grow
inc and mature animals. Inc laAatlI
tendency, objected to by some, depend
upon mechanical action, and Is readii
, modified nv combining the finer descrlI
tions of mill refuse with it, in proper
tions required by the habits OF BODY
different animals in the herd.
Oil-cake meal, while having laXf
| tive tendency if fed somewhat Literally
nevertheless is one of the best como
nations with bran, when skillfully har
died. as its mucilage and oil allay lrr
tation of the mucous surface, ana I'll
, constituents of these two articles, con
bined with good hay, take, perhaps
wider range than any other two arr
cles. Oats, of course, are always SUI
able, for either young or aged stock
, but in considering the claims Whlc
bran has upon our attention. econom
cuts quite figure. This, togeth'
with the fact that it is infinitely SAT-
for breeding animals than corn me "a
renders it one of the best aids in Il
/ FEEDING stable, provided, always, thai
9 is seconded by other fools, accordn
e to the varying requirements mentionto
a as these occur from day to day. a
o farmers who occupy advanced ground
Il all breeders of improved stock are su
7. posed to occupy this position-wiu be
in mind the manure pile. Bran Is II.
Q in phosphates, and these are OF specI
g value to lands long in use, for Gro
!, growing and grazing. There is no no m p,
/ taking the effect upon pastures OF m
e nuring from a pile into which bran a
o entered through liberal feeding. ~
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