The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-07-13

essits TO be Corrected by Many Otherwfss
Careful Farls--.=

Faults to be Corrected by Many Otherwfss
Careful Farr.--.
l have been visiting farmer who 10
very intelligent man, and is still max
ing very great mistakes in farming.
As thousands of other farmers ara
making the same mistakes few hints
on the subject may do them some good.
The first thing / noticed was his man.
nsr of wintering his cattle. He had a
shed enclosed on three sides and open
to the south. On this side there was
no protection against the south winds.
The building was properly covered,
and all it needed to make the animals
comfortable was the boarding of one
side, and the expense of this would have
been very little. If he would buy the
boards and enclose this side, the differ
ence in the cost of feed for a single
winter would pay the expense of lum-
Der and labor. There is a principle
connected with this subject that is not
generally understood. The same chem
ical changes take place in the fuel in
the stove and the food in the stomach
of an animal. In both cases carbon is
united to oxygen, heat is generated, and
carbonic acid is formed. An animal
requires a certain amount of food for
the development of animal heat besides
what is required for nutrition. the
amount required for animal heat de-
ponds on the surroundings. In a warm
stable it is small, exposed to cold at
mosphere it requires much more. The
difference in cost of food would soon
pay for making warm stables. NV next
observation was his poultry. He kept
one hundred and twenty hens all in one
yard, but he told me his hers laid no
eggs In the winter. Some Of my neigh
bors keep from twelve to twenty hens,
and have warm place for them. and
have fresh eggs all winter. How very
singular that people will not learn bet
ter than to keep large numbers of hens
together. Many hens do not lay in
winter because they are not regularly
watered. The failure to have eggs in
winter is more often due to want of
water than feed. May farmers
are fattening hogs. Here is a
lack of economy. 1t requires
much more food to make hun
dred-weight of pork in cold than i'm
warm weather, and the trouble is much
less in warm weather. Farmers COM
plain their apples are rotting, and the
reason is very plain. The cellars are
carefully banked up with earth, and
there is no ventilation. and in many
cases they are very warm. Now, it
should be known that to keep apples
the temperature should be kept as near
freezing as possible without ever reach
ing the freezing point. Some think
this rotting is caused by dampness.
Dampness will do no harm when tihe !
cellar is warm. l notice some cellars !
are full of different kinds of vegeta- !
bles, and families live directly over /
them. This is always dangerous, and
often causes a great deal of sickness.
On many farms the stock is kept on |
one kind of feed. This is always poor |
policy. Amy animal will do better
with a variety of food. One dollars ,
worth of wheat bran and one dollars
worth of hay is worth more than two
dollars worth of hay.
Avery cheap way to have hay plenty
% to sow Hungarian grass and cut it
quite green, and it makes good hay and
a great deal of it. Several crops can
be grown On the same land in one sea-
SON. Many are feeding cornstalks
whole; this is not good plan, for sew
sral reasons. 1t makes it more difficult
20 handle the manure, it takes longer
or it to decompose, and the animals
Win est less of it. A very good stalk
utter can be bought for FIVE dollars. /
Ietiee some IF my neighbors allow
ems to roost in the stable; this is a
cry bad practice, as y, .rmin from them
ften get on the horses ana make
rouble. There is much more N TINS
han people are aware of, and it shouI
ct be allowed under any circumstan- I,
es. 1t costs but little to build place ! 4
or the hens and TO keep them out of !
ne barn. 1t is quite common to let {
ne cattle get poor in the winter, and '
calculate they can be got in good '
ags;a ohesply on grass s
or. Christian at Work.
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