Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
,ue All PASTURE.

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~. Derived From Feeding
Fols pai,y Rations of Grain.
.,osc that it may oe laid down
sD nnm that the more rich, nutri-
Esa1 the dairyman can induce Ms
aat. the better, provided, also,
'h,,)th of the COWS is not I'M
~. Affected by the high feeding.
w. generally think that when they
's their cows into fresh, flush
there can be nothing further
award improving their feed. Yet,
.,on we hear the good housewife
ring Il wet time in May or June,
,hc pasture grows rapidly and is
;ant. 1--WE don't get much butter
nmount of milk the COWS give,
u, the grass is so tlashy." We sup
,hev mean by that, that the grass
' sncculent, so full of water, that
..s will not eat enough to enable
~ Give a large amount of butter.
really fill up with too much water.
,,,ch a state of things q little grain
,asl, given night and morning,
' ! probably add largely to the nu-
!. Without greatly increasing the
Vi the food. We think we hear the
.inol reader exclaim: 81 can't
4 70 feed my COWS grain when there
Oh IN abundance Of grass going to
c- Well, that depends on certain
;derations, Suppose his COWS are
Dr, upon an average, one pound of
~ 4 day, and that he can sell
he butter he can make at twenty
ccnts q pound. Suppose, further
he buy wheat middlings or some
+ equally good meal, in large guam
at one cent a pound; and that a
bn of six pounds a day to each COW
add half a pound a day to each
5 Weld of butter; here you would
Twelve and a half cents from
utlay of six cents. Certainly you
afford that. If kept in a convenient
thc cost of feeding the meal would
(otring, and you would get back at
4 one.third of the cost Of the meal
Le value of the manure it would
e. If you could still further increase
butter by increasing the rations of
it would pay to do it.
hen, a little later in the season,
N drought has shortened the past
and the COW is hardly able to crop
ugh grass to satisfy her wants, daily
ons Of meal would supplement the
riment of the grass and keep up the
d of butter. In fact, there is hardly
Init to the amount of rich, nutritious
that can. with economy, be given
COW, except her capacity to digest
assimiIate without dctriment to her
lth be ovcr-taxed. Farmers and
tkmen can not learn this fact
apply it in their business
soon. Instead of trying to
rover upon how little food
y can possibly keep their stock from
Fishing, they should try to ascertain
h much food they can induce them to
lsume without injury to their di-
tive organs, provided they make out
that food products more valuable
IN the food itself.
While on this subject of pasture, we
uld like to remark that the popular
zion of what are the most nutritious
bsses or what the best butter grasses,
considerably at fault. Farmers who
ow the ordinary rotation of crops
)ally seed down with clover and tim
". Where the land is to lay in grass
two years, perhaps they can not
Ike a better selection, but if seeding
En for pasture for a number of years
(rc are other species much more nu-
kous, considering the percentage of
Pminoids or the nutritive value. We
ect from a table of analyses made by
Pf, Collier, of the Department of Ag-
|%alture at Washington, giving the per-
ptages of fat, carbohydrates, albumi-
lids and the nutritive ratio. Each
is given at its best, that is, just
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