Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-17

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4 y. \. Tribune writer says that two
ounces of saltpcter. dissolved in Il quart
of warm water and thrown into the els
tern. will remove the offensive odor of
the water.
Corn. says the Rural and Stocliman,
as an exclusive diet, is wholly unfit for a
horse. 1t is the most heating food that
is fed. Corn meal ought always to be
fed with cut hay.
Mr.. 4. w. Cheever of the y. +. Far
mer has fed many bushels of apples to
dairy cows, giving them all they would
eat, without experiencing any evil there
from. Small quantities were given at
first.
This is the way an English farmer pre-
pares food for his work horses Hay 400
pounds, corn 300, oats POO, beans 100.
The hay is cut and the grain is bruised
and all mixed together. From 20 to "A
pounds of this mixture form Il daily feed
for large horses.
\ writer in the Chatham Courier asks
farmers to consider whether they lose or
gain by allowing their buildings to go
implanted; whether they lose money by
by giving their stock and swine good
bedding and comfortable wnter-quarters
how many of the needy poor might be fed
with the grain that is eaten by rats and
mice?
The Western Agriculturist says that
many experiments have been tried in
Germany for the purpose of discovering
whether pnre water, taken in large guam
titles by animals which are being fat
tened, is favorable or otherwise to the
process. The conclusion come to on this
question is that water introduced in large
quantities into the digestive organs in
creaSes the elimination of carbonic acid
by the animal, and consequently hinderS
the formation of fat When cattle are
to be fatteued, therefore, no more water
should be given to them than is necessary
for diluting the food and quenching
thirst.
As an instance of the advantage of
using "A pure-bred bull, rather than even
Il good grade, the National Live Stock
journal tells of IA farmer who by using a
good grade sire has been enabled to turn
off three-year-old steers that average
close to | 100 pounds. while one in the
lot. of the same age as the others. and
treated in the same manner, but sired by
Il pure-brcd bull, weighed close to 300
pounds, or Il gain of nearly 200 pounds
/ through the added quality of the sire
alone. This steer dressed 80 pounds
more than the best four-year-old he had
marketed during the same season, and
dressed BOG pounds more than two car
loads of the progeny of grade sireS
averaged.
At meeting of the Wisconsin Dairy
mans association last winter. SAYS the
| Farmers Review, the question how much
it costs to keep IA dairT COW through the
year came up and IA number of prominent
dairymen gave their estimates of the cost.
Striking an average the amount was
about $1,000 "a the cost in Wisconsin.
At this rate the value of the products of
the COW should not fall below $4,000 per
annum, ora profit, above cost of keeping,
of $1,000, to make a living business for
the dairyman. At this rate twenty COW :
would only net $500 per year. The
Dairyman makes the statement that
Sibley Il Miller of Pennsylvania have
learned the secret of keeping IA COW a
year-and well too-on $1,000. Taking
the above Figures S60.00-as the value
of the products of the COW, she would
give profit of $500, and dairy of
twenty cows would net $500 year in
stead of $500, as in Wisconsin. The
secret is in growing enormous crops of
fodder corn on ground made rich by
heavy manuring. These crops were for
merly cured, but for the last two years
have been converted into silage.