The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-22

FEEDING WHILE At PASTURE. 1t will
so,g1 be time for the old question TO re-
en- TO the dairyman whether or not it
paws to feed meal TO the cows that are
Rvirg on good flush pasture. While 1t
Is a tact that, taken alone, there is no
better fcod f)r a COW than good pasture
vet the experience Of many Of the best
dalrymen throughout the country Is III
favor ef quite O liberal feeding with corn
meal and bran. even when tue COW is
on the best of pasture and apparently
doing as well "a could reasonably be
expected of her. II has been found that
while green grass furnishes the lines OF
fiavors and deepest Of colors TO IA milk
and butter, yet there Is an absence of
richness Of fatty matter in the milk that
a moderate supply OF eorn meal 20 he
COW will put iuto the mix. IL also helps
to enlarge the flow OF milk, even though
the COW has apparently been doing her
best. When the COW has been living on
grass alone, if she Is suddenly gwen a
heavy feed of meal while at pasture she
is very apt to slacken up in her supply
of milk, and the new experimenter In
mediately comes 10 the conclusion thst
meal may do for ether peoples Cows
while at pasture, but his COW does bet
Ter without 1t. The fact, generally, is
that the violent change has disarrang9d
the cows digestion, which naturally
stops the flow OF milk. There rs a right
way and a wrong way to do everything
and the right way to feed a COW meal,
not opS5 while She is at pasture but at
any time, is to begin moderately and Ia
crease the quantity gradually SO that
the COW can assim1iate eer digestive or
gans TO the demand that Is made
upon them. The fsct may De-observed
if the meal IS suddenly taken away
from a COW only TO a more marked de-
gree.
1T is easy to note the evil effect of a
change OF diet with young animals, M
teaching a cali to live on skinned milk
after hay ing nursed the eow. Such a
radical change often produces severe at
tacks oil diarrEmA While the matured
animals are not so violently affected by
changes OF food as The young are, Yet
they often feel the effects of II, andshow
it at the pail. Cows; too, ale very
strongly creatures OF habit, and they are
not partial to changes of any kind, aud
ever when the GOD is improved III rich-
ness in midwluter, the good effects OF
the changes Will not be marked, even
when made with the greatest care, until
the lapse of several days, L with some
COWS it may take weeks to arrive at their
best. Too much care in making chan
ges Of food cannot be taken, and q full
knowledge of the cows nature Is neces-
sary to prevent often making mistakes
that further Investigation nave
avoided altogether. 200 late -
A SUCCESSFUL fhrmeE~3the couu ~
ment that for setep6w the true i4pr -
ticed tying up KbIe. u, .'
barn during thq SIT
he was satisdedto editors refused ",
was one-third more cflphia girl -,
was of better quality. aDdsll Club. o"
one.third more stock on the s@AAe acre
age Tor the cattle destroyed, by stamp
ing, a great deal OF good pasturage, And
that his COWS might be protected, he
even went so far Us to darken the win
dows OF his stables with muslin curtains.
He was about to build new barns, and he
should put ON blinds, for he considered
them more necessary on his Darn VIM
dows than on his house. Amerciful man
was merciful to his beasts, and this was
a case where it paid.
Con. IL. A. HARDEE, OF Jacksonville,
Florida, having given the method a trlal
thinks oranges do better when grown in
the hedge form, and that other fruit
bearing trees can be made for profitable
by being grown in the same manner, as
such close distance enables the trees to
shade each other. Pears are believed by
him to be susceptible OF such cultivation
his reason being that the roots love the
shade, as high cultivation and deep
blowing promote blight and death. by
exposing the roots. Some OF the most
productive pear orchards are those that
are heavily mulched, and, therefore, the
most completely shaded.
An old celery grover writes that there
are two causes for rust on celery. One
is too great exposure to the sun, the
other is earthing up or hoeing when the
ground or the plant is moist with rain
or dew, A cool, moist situation is best
for celery, and a little shade is no DIS
advantage. Earthtng up should be done
when the weather and everything about
the plant is dry. A cause of both rust
and rot is the entrance OF earth between
the stalks duringthe process of earthiog
up. and this Is very apt to be the case
with celery of a tall, blanching variety.
IT is not alone the digestive function
that makes a great butter COW, Tor OF 3
animals equal in digestive powers one
may have a natural tendency to dispose
of the digestive product in laying on fat
and Will give very little milk and butter;
another may dispose of the food pro
duct in the formation of muscle and ex-
pend surplus vitality in activity, form
ing but very little flesh and giving little
milk; the third may turn the forces into
milk and make but little flesh or mus
Gle, as long as the food elements can
find an outlet through the udder.
HE pumpkin contains SIX or seven
times rs much water as either corn or
oats; in a word, it is a food III a state of
much greater dIlution. Analysis proves
that even if the pumpkin should be
freed from the large percentage OF water
corn and oats remain much more yalu-
able as feeding stuffs. While pumpkins
cannot DE recommended as fat-produc-
ing material, they possess excellent
milk-producing qualities, and being
cheapIy raised, may be counted as val
liable food for mich cows.
A SUCCESSFUL FARMER Tie be q sue
cessful farmer n should have q natur-
al or acquired liking for his vocation,
not merely as d business which he hopes
may yield him a comfortable living or
a competency, but as IA worth his
thoughtful study and research, whose
fields are to him IN open book, TO be
daily read and carefully studied, that
their capabilities may be learned and
their wants discovered and met.
Our toughest wood comes from trees
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