Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-12-06
Agricultural Experiments.

Niles and the AtaO0ra, all akll
ND the grand Nile system.
Agricultural Experiments.
The following is q summary OF
the results of the experiments con-
Quoted during 1898 at the Onta-
rio Agricultural College and Ex-
detrimental Farm:
1. Corn fodder newly cut and
drawn from the field when green,
cut into inch lengths, packed into
a common rough stone root cellar
half under ground, and weighted
with 600 pounds per superficial
square yard, can be preserved, ex-
cept adjoining such a wall, for an
Indefinite time in a condition fit
for animal food, at a cost not ex-
ceeding 81 per ton, exclusive of
cultivation.
2. In competition with Swede
turnips, ensilaged corn fodder
gave Is per cent, less milk, 80 per
cent. less butter. and q poorer
marketable butter in color.
3. Rice meal, in the fattening of
cattle, gave a daily increase of
Isl pounds per head per day, by
the use of six pounds per head per
day, at a cost of about Z cents per
pound.
4. Corn meal took the highest
place in a daily rate of increase in
the fattening of cattle; Of pounds
per head daily gave 2.31 pounds
per head per day, at a cost of 81
cents per pound of the added ami
NAL weight.
8. Pea meal gave the second
best daily rate of increase at the
least cost Of all the regular cattle-
feeding grains. Eight and one
half pounds per head daily gave a
rate of 2.2S pounds, at n cost of 3
cents per pound of the weight adj
ded TO the animal.
6. a pure-bred S%horthorn steer
can be brought to a weight of
LOO pounds when II month un-
der two years old, or a daily rate
of increase equal to two and a half
pounds per day.
Z. Hereford grade steer calves
can be made to average Gil pound
in 23S days, or a rate of28 pounds
per day.
s. Aberdeen Poll grade steer
| calves can be made to average 100
pounds in 273 days, or a rate of %
pounds per day,
8. During winter a 1,O0O-pound
steer will consume daily ten
pounds hay, thirty>nine pounds
turnips, four pounds bran, and
nine pounds of a mixture of grain
upon which it will add 2.11 pounds
to it's live weight.
10. By alarge variety of exper>
iments with several classes of cat
tie and many kinds of food, we
find the actual cost of adding 1
pound to the live weight of a
1,OOO-pound animal is 6 cents to
the feeder who grows his own ma
terial, and nearly II cents when
the food is bought in the regular
markets-manure and manages
rfent not considered.
II. Sugar beet, weight for
weight with mangels and turnips,
and in association with equal
kinds and quantities of other
foods, gave the highest returns in
feeding cattle, or2.70 pounds per
head per day.
u. Mangeis gave 2.3S pounds
per head per day under similar
conditions to the sugar beet.
10. Turnips (Swede) added go
pounds per head per day TO the
average steer that weighed 1,061
pounds under conditions similar
to mangels and sugar beet.
II. There is either a simple
/ natural reason or hidden chem
ical one in the fact that by the use
of less grain and more roots cat
tie gave a greater daily return in
live weight.
10. There is a remarkable uni
formit.v in the annual value of
wool and mutton from the grades
of Coltswold, Leicester, Merino,
Oxford Down and Southdown, re-
sulting from differences in weight
and value Of both products.
16. From nearly 5000 obser-
vations, the following notes have
been obtained as evidence of pes
culiaritIes, characteristics or oth>
er Indications of breeds OF cattle:
That there is no such class as a
general purpose breed-one to,
do the best for the dairyman and
the butcher.
An average COW for dairy pnr>
poses should give twenty pounds
of milk per day during 200 days
every year; eight pounds of cream
for every 100 pounds Of milk and
fully ten pounds Of cheese from
every 100 pounds of milk.
Bulk, volume or per cent. OF
cream is no safe criterion of the
quantity of butter in that cream;
weight alone is the proper mode
OF judging.
Breed, as much if not more than
food, affects the quality Of milk,
cream, butter and cheese.
The Aberdeen Poll is loW iii
quantity Of milk and the second
highest of any in specific gravity.
The grade of this breed is much
improved in milking properties,
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