Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1886-01-08
farmers' Column.
Give fools their gold 4 knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sows a field or trains a flower,
Or plants n tree. is more than all.
Economical Feeding of Cattle.

Economy Of feeding consists not so
much in the amount of food fed as in
the way it is prepared and digested.
The food should be we'll prepared
in the first place by cutting and then
mixing in the different ingredients in
their proper portions, and then fed to
whatever animals the farmer may have
in good dry we'll bedded stables, and
so that each animal may get its just
share, and that without molestation
from any other animal. For instance,
large COW in full milk, producing
say three and half to four gallons
per day, will require much more food
than one that is much smaller and
producing only one fourth the amount
of milk. So | say that the farmer
himself should feed his cattle in the
morning, at noon, and at night; and
if he takes a pride in it, as he should,
he will find many ways by which he
can economic and yet make mis- stock
fat and profitable. If he will not thus
feed them himself, he had better hire
some one that will, even if he has to
pay good wages for him to do it.
One Of the great secrets of economical
feeding is in having dry, moderately
warm and we'll bedded quarters. If
man shivers all night with the cold
he is not fit for much the next day,
neither is COW ableto produce much
milk even if she is fed an abundance
Of hay of good quality, and allowed to
stand out all night in the frosty air.
SO with good feed, give warm shelter,
and good bed. Last winter l fed
some thirty odd head of cows and
young stock on mixture of good clo-
yer hay, corn fodder (sowed for that
purpose) and oats (cut in the milk
and cured as haY) about one third of
each mixed with warm water, and
then an addition of one peck of corn
and cob meal. and half peck Of good
midlings, and four pounds of linseed
meal to each grown animal, and a
smaller ration to the younger stock.
Sometimes this mixture was varied
with other feeds. They were fed this
mixture three times each day in we'll
bedded and dry, warm stables, let cut
in the morning to drink, and given
an abundance of corn fodder (cut off
from the ground in the field, and had
the run of large straw rick, also. 1t
astonished me to see what an amount
of straw they would eat from the rick.
suppose for change. The manure
was carried each day from the yard
and spread on wheat or meadow, if
the fields were in condition to drive
on And let ME say here, wherever
this manure went my crops were
abundant, and profitable as we'll.
From my wheat ground MANFRED thus,
| cut this September, two good wagon
loads of clover and fox tail per acre,
which will 60 long ways as feed this
winter. This season | will fsed in
much the same way with the addition
of a well-cured crop of Hungarian
grass grown after crop oats was Ia
ken of and several hundred bushels
of small potatoes and turnips. The
roots | shall pulp and mix with the
other foods. Some may laugh at my
feeding turnips, but | believe that
animals are much like the human
family in their appetites, and turnips
with good corned beef is very good
dish for cold winter day for any one,
and turnips and good clover hay and
mill feed will be relished by even a
Jersey.-F ,Sandersou in Maryland
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