The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-05
ADVANCED STEPS.
Farm Animals and Cultivated Grasses tho
Maln Dependence of Educated Farm


There are two important directions in
which the farmers are making advanced
steps; and that. too, in matters that are
not likely to undergo any retrograde
movement. These are (D. steady ac-
cessions to the number of farm animals
that are of improved lineage, and (2),
the steadily increasing surface devoted
to the cultivated grasses. Grass is the
natural food of four-footed beasts. The
digestive organs of the rlmnantS are
especially roomy, made 80 to provide
for the more bulky kinds of food. This
is especially trNe of cattle, and cattle
beast bred for meat production is not
what it should be, and is far from being
up to possible development for this par
ticular end, unless quite capable of
being made fit for the butcher upon
good pasture.
The natural coarseness in grass, made
so by its woody fibre and its succulency,
from the abundance of Juices and water
contained, render it particularly we'll
calculated to keep digestion and assimi-
lation up to their highest state Diges-
ton is not often disturbed by grass feed,
given alone in abundance, as is evil
denced by the fact that offensive gases
are seldom given off with, or from the
excavations of cattle fed upon grass
alone, while it is not uncommon for
digestion to be disturbed while upon
free rations of grain, especially if the
ration is wholly or mainly of corn, as
to render the offensive odor almost I'M
bearabIe. The value of grass in its
green state is quite well illustrated by
the greater value of early-cut hay as
compared to hay cut late Early cut
hay more nearly compares with grass
in the green state than any other feed,
and the greater value of the carly-cut is
speedily shown when cows giving milk
previously fed upon it, are abruptly
changed over to late-cut hay The OBJ
servations of some farmers have been
80 fixed upon these results as being uni
form under uniform circumstances that
they nave settled upon the grass ration
as second to no other factor upon the
farm in insuring success in feeding.
1t is hardly yet known to what ex-
tent meats are affected, favorably or
unfayorably, by the feed given being in
the highest degree favorable to rapid
dioestion and 9eeimiIs+ion. ar on tba
otRer hand bv thnsa nrooossos ao;no,
on tardilv fccnIent matte,. rnmain;nSe
for too long a period in the system, of
fensive gases being generated, and,
through the faint naturally commune
Gated to all the tissues by these, on the
fou1 odors or oasps in tho ,,iII[,roon1'
and througb DECREE of Mood noison'
ino sotti,,[T i, fror7, ohso,.,t;o,, df fnaal
msttor TaLing ON tho ono hand a
hnncb Of ctnnrs 7t.oJ ~, y, - oIoso fi+Lv
stobIo and oran,n,od ,,,ith I'm sIo,, I'm.
inc, an enti,.o ,,,n+or ,onai,,;na. soa,,t
ration Of moor hav ~ the on7v variety
and on thn othn,, hand 6nnrb ~
lie ooo ond Ind on ahrndont ,~.os,
from earIy snring TN Iata frosf With
sconss IN n,,Io mi, o. ,r,,+o,. who viii
nros,,roo 70 sav tba+ 10 ansh of Tho ona.
lot wonId NOT be tai,tod whiIo tho ASK
of tho other LOT would from, +be not,,ro
of the infnancos oc+inr MO, if bn nloar.
If any nossibIe faint Tota two coI-
Tnctions of dairy cows nlacad urdav
Ike rr,,,1,stsncas htly Wall wa
7,no,u +bat tho Mill from, tho ono
lot would tbrouoh thot saoe nr;no;,,Io
that cauSeo Tho dn;6g witb;n +bo badr
10 interminole pretty mich without ~
straint he nercrntibiv taintod Min, 50.
nrodnced viii hardly keon from soIrin q
from NIGHT I'M mornino and . voun9.
fnfant fed mon If hncnn,es tboronahI22
in,bnpd WIKI ifs faint, tollos an a nI,ty
color and more clearly dclining the
condition is nndor a sf,to If HOOD.
noisonin@ loses flesh and ca,sns 10
grow II hardly ranuiras on ovnort
dairvman or rompntont Loneov;fo Tnan
q farm to datnct he affrcfs If snIb a
course Of feedng when cortra.tod
with the cross-feed;na Man rnon tbe
mix and iat,r mon no butinr rrn 3D.
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