Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-25
wisser seek Feeding.

The following article, which may DO
r cad with profit by every stock-ralser,
we take from the American Rural
Home, en- eight-page Agricultural
paper, published at Rochester, N. \.
fer 81 year:
There is vast amount Of fodder
wasted in winter feeding. Hay Is
thrown into the ricks. and much OF II
finds It's way under the feet OF stock.
and becomes tainted with the filth OF
the stable and rendered unfit for feed
ing even II picked up and returned 70
the manger. With careless farm
help even this Is not always done.
Straw, cornstalks and other fodder
material are thrown out in the yard at
noon, and the cattle tramp 1t into the
snow or filth, as the case may be, the
result being waste.
Grain is fed carelessly also. Corn
| IL put into the sheep trough which
Is so constructed as to make economi-
cal feeding impossible and loss UMPIRE
ventable. The oats are thrown into
the horses feeding box, and the wide
cracks and openings in the bottom will
allow much to fall through and waste,
because the farmer is not careful TO
see that the " leaks" are fixed. These
things have come under our own OBJ
servatlon as we have Travelled about
among farmers.
How can winter feeding be done
with greatest economy, and yet not to
the detriment of the stock They
must have sufficient. We believe tina,
all coarse folders, as straw and corn
stalks, and even the eoarser grades o.
HAY, should be cut into short lengths
land fed with meal, bran. middlings
etc. The one great benefit arises from
the fact that the fodder Is eaten VI
Iclean. No long stalks and stubs are
lief in the manger after the stock are
Idone feeding. And even poor fodder
like straw, with sufficient grain, can bt
lmade a complete ration, and often q
less cost than to feed the best hay. Fol
lhorscs, hay and oat straw can be Gu
together and fed with grain more eco
Inomically and with better results thar
TO feed hay alone. Another item Ii
that the grain thus fed goes into thu
stomach in light, porous condition
land is easier digested and assimila.
tied.
j Put, further than this, there mus
lbe variety in food. How is II wit
} Iyourselfy Would you like q stead
8 ration of pork, or corn.oread, or {
, lpotatoess If iood lacking in carbon
!, fed continually.the fat in the body wi
be consumed, and ii each and all th
elements required by the bones, I'll
8 Tissues, the nerves. etc, are not prov
= ded, weakness and n0n-fulfillment
: their functions will necessarily follow
THE wise farmer provides in advant
, for this. While there may be littl
!; nutrition in a turnip or u commo
. beet, yet there is some, and If !
: other benefit were derived from u
feeding of the root crops than the
= benefit as regulators of the digestl'
. system, it would warrant their beir
1 made prominent part Of every viii
+ ter stock ration. They give variety, aI
stock appreciate variety in food
i. much as human beings do, and this
d shown, to be true from their bodily co
= dition and, with cows, by the incIea
3 ed amount of milk they give, and I
butter they make when fed on VAR
. " Of foods. Roots should be r
d through root cutter, when they W
81 lie eaten clean and with the high,
relish.