Daily Republican., 1883-11-20
AG GRICULTU R AL.
FALL CARE OF STOCK.
Farm ers' Advocate.

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Farmsrs' Advocate.
In the fall of the year there Is nor,
danger Of stock being neglected than
most farmers think. The transition
from the warm nights to the cool, and
from the succulent grasses of the warm
or months to the fall herbags, has quite
an effect on the condition Of stock. In
permanent pastures the grass Is dried
up and gone, and only on second
growth clover and grassy stubble fields
can any kind OF proper food be obtain
ed. Hence, between the autumn grass
and the commencement Of winter or
stall feeding, stock are able to suffer
from too scant diet.
When this Is the case, stock com.
lnence In the face of hard winter in
poor heart, and they consequently nev-
er gain up and there is q consequent
loss. We are fully of the opinion that
the neglect of proper management of
stock in the fall is Of more importance
than any other season of the year.
en.thepastures are getting bare every
farmer should have rotation of soil
ing, and when the cold nights come, es-
peCially in the case Of milch cows, they
should be put ma comfortable yard or
stable, and not allowed to rest on the
cold, damp grass.
This has q baneful effect, and causes
more harm than anything else. Be-
sides putting stock in comfortable quar-
ters, the system requiresIto be kept upby
liberal feeding, and here is where the
soiling system would come into effect.
If farmers have not got sufficient ac-
commodations In the stables for all
their stock, let them have sheltered
yard or shed, and bed it literally, 80
that the animals may be dry at nights.
Thus not only are they being made
comfortable, but they are early COM
mencing the work of manure making,
which Is so essential to all our FARMS
Put the cows In the stable or yard on
cold nights, and give them a good feed
Of late sown corn, rye or yetches at
night when you take them in another
feed in the morning. Every farmer can
have a few acres of this green fodder,
and we guarantee to say that one acre
of this will make a greater return in
feel for stock than five acres in pasture,
and five acres in soiling. feed on 100 |
acres would keep all the stock required
on that quantity of land for the Fall |
better than twenty-five acres
Of pasture OF course there would be = |
little more work for the men, but it
would be amply repaid by the extra
manure 80 much needed, and the conse-
luent increase of milk and beef.
SALT AND LINE.
The following Is recommended az an
excellent combination for fertiiizing
purposes
Mix one bushel of salt with two bush
,ls of dry lime, under cover, and allow
he mixture to decCmpose gradually,
;hus forming an intimate chemical
lnion Of the two materials. For this
purpose the mixture should lie at least
'ix weeks before use, or, still better,
,hree or four months, the heap beingI
,urned over occasionally. This salt and
ime mixture, when applied at the rate
If twenty to thirty bushels per acre,
orms an excellent top-dressing for
'rops.
1t acts powerfully on the vegetabl
natter of soils. Fifty bushels applied
0 a turnip field have produced as large
crop as twenty loads of barnyard ma
'ure. 1t is also very destructive to in
ects and grubs in the soil. Like salt,
attracts moisture from the air, and
las been found useful against drought. I
is decomposing power is remarkable,
nd if three or four bushels of 1t are
nixed with cord of swamp muck the ,
after will be reduced to powder. Coarse {
manure is in similar manner de- Z
omposed and made fine. Sour, wet
luck thus treated and composted Il
yith barnyard manure constitutes q
ertilizer almost as valuable as the e
nmixed manure of the barnyard.