The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-18
Fertilizers end Cow Fed.

Fertilizers end Cow Fed.
In q talk on dairy farming recently
given by DR.. Voelcker to the students
ii the Royal Agricultural College. he
,aid of the management of pasture land.
that while in some places steamed bone
meal produces excellent results, in 9th
DTS it produces no effect at all, even
when applied in very large quantities.
This little item of experience, within the
comparatively narrow boundaries OF
England, besides suggesting caution in
the use of this fertilizer, also shows the
folly of some writer's for u ~agricuitur-
al papers, who, because they see no
good effects of heterogeneous mauures in
their own immediate neighborhood. pro-
coed to advise everybody else all over
this great expanse of country not only
to lay out no money for the costly nitro
gen of commercial fertilizers, but also
to pay no heed to waste of nitrogen in
their own stable manure, by overhead
ing in the pile, or by teaching out in the
yard-most pernicious advice.
But DIR. Voelcker also expresses his
very decided opinion that the use of ar
tificial manures generally, and especially
of guano or nitrate of soda, does not
pay on permanent pasture. He af6rms
that his WI numerous experiments
have taught him this lesson, and also
that those which Lawes and Gilbert
have been trying for 10 many years
teach the same lesson. But something
must be done to replace what is carried
off from the pasture in the milk and
meat sold. or it will surely run out,
sooner or later; hence his sound advice
to feed oil-cake TO the pastured stock.
and for this he particularly recommends
the cake So easily had in this country
decorticated cotton-seed cake, given at
the rate of two and a-half pounds per
day an animal, if both pasture and cows
are to be kept in good condition. Al
certain seasons of the year, rs in the
spring, when the first grass is eaten. he
would give undecorticated cake. three
pounds a day; its husks are preventive
against scOurs; he would also use this
cake if Indian meal is fed.
For feeding dairy stock in the barn
he quotes the use of bean meal and Oat
meal. one or both as the case may be.
by q very successful Scotch dairymen,
who supplies a round of customers that
want very rich milk. VOelcker himself
finds five pounds q day, a head, of .
mixture in equal parts Of decorticated
cake, bran, bean meal and
oat meal to be q good OF better than
bean meal or oat meal alone. Another
every one of whose Short.
horn COWS makes not less than One hun.
dred dollars q year for him, gives one
bushel of brewers grains, two and one
half pounds of bean meal, two and one
half pounds of Indian meal and forty
pounds of hay to each animal; and in
the summer, when the animals are il
he gives two and One-hah
pounds of decOrticated cotton-seed cake.
Thus it is seen that cOttOn-seed cake
enters largely into the milk ration in
dairy h~usbandry.
Occasionally complaint is made in the
papers that the cotton-seed gives a taste
TO the milk; but every such assertion
calls out so many experiences tc
the contrary, from those who have used
Il freely, and whose milk and butter ars
IN many cases disposed of to fastidiOus
that there can be no doubt
that if the cake meal is clean and good.
md is properly used. from two to fOul
a day may be given to eact
animal, with good results. Doubtless the
the natural yield of the COW the
more literally she may be fed with con,
,entrated fodder, as a general rule: but
he careful farmer will always keep q
vatchful eye on both COW and milk-pail.
specially when giving this high feed;
wen if the health of the animal is kept
n prime condition, and allowing that
he richer the fodder the richer the
manure, it will depend upon the profit
With which the rich manure be used,
IN crops that bring good prices, whethei
,ery rich feeding pays. unless it pays il
he milk.
Of the use of oat meal for cows men.
ion is not often made in this country:
,ut when spoken of it is ALWAYS with
praise. That it is better than ORE
neal there can be no doubt: it is rich.
r in both albuminOids and fat; anc
he usefulness of these two nutrients,
md especially the former, for making
milk is shown not only by the results Of
numerous careful experiments. but by
he acknowledged usefulness of oil-cake
neal. Where this meal is used freely
here would be less Use for Oat meal:
'lt under some circumstances it might
'e advantageously substituted for the.
ran in the favorite mixture for cows
f Indian meal and BRAIN. Y. TTib
An Agricultural Greed.
The following is the creed ad0nted