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The Most Favorable Time In
the Year for Preparing AMI
mails for the Market.
Some Of the Conditions Necessary for
Success in Keeping Cows for
Dairy Purposes.
The Best Time to Fatten.

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ford are likely to defer the proper feed
ing of them till quite late in the season.
They observe the rule of not attempt
ing to do but mi thing at a time quite
too closely. They stick to the work
in the fields till it is all done with a
view of deyoting their entire attention
to preparing stock fer market after the
frost has rendered most kinds of labor
on the farm impracticable. After har-
Vesting their grass and grain they give
nearly all of their time to cutting up
and shocking their corn, digging pota-
toes, blowing for next years crop, and
hauling out manure When all these
things are done they commence to feed
hay, corn, and small grain to their cat
tie and sheep and to stuff their pigs
with anything they will eat. They
adopt for a time the feeding of animals
for the production of flesh and fat as a
regular pursuit, and are not ''slothful
in business" Pigs that have not had
their appetite fully satisfied since they
were weaned are now supplied three
times each day with more food than
they can consume. Sheep that were
kept OF scant pastures all summer are
allowed clover hay, corn, oats, and
roots in abundance. Cattle are kept
in stalls which are supplied with the
best flesh and fat producing foods the
place affords.
As the farmer hurried to get his land
planted and sowed to small grains in
the early spring, hurried to get his
corn planted so it would mature before
the frost came, hurried to get his hay
in the barn and his grain in stack, hur-
ried to get his fall blowing done, so
now he is in a hurry to get his stock in
a condition to take to the market. He
feeds his animals in the morning before
he takes his breakfast, feeds them
again before he has his dinner, and
goes to the barn with a lantern to give
them more food before he lies down to
sleep; he is never weary in feeding his
fattening stock. He does not deal out
food grudgingly. He feeds with a
liberal hand. If an animal does not
eat as much food as he would like to
have it deyour. he seeks to find some
appetizer that will induce it to eat more.
If pigs decline to shell corn from the
cob he does this work for them. If
they do not eat as much raw corn as he
would like to have them he does not
hesitate to grind and cook it before he
places it in the feeding troughs. He
might have been neglectful about sup
plying his stock with pure water dur
ing the hot and dry weather of July
and August, but he is 10Y careful that
they have as good drink as that fur
nished the family.
The farmer, now that he is devoting
his time and energies to getting his an
finals ready for market, often stands
for hours in the barn and near the
feeding-yard and pig-sties watching
the creatures while they eat. He forms
calculations In regard to how many
pounds of meat he Is making every day.
If he has scales he weighs the animals
once a week to ascertain how much
each grows in weight. If the price of
beef, pork, and mutton is high he be-
comes impatient at what he regards
as somewhat slow gains. He becomes
fearful lest there be a fall in prices be-
fore his animals are ready for the mar
ket. AS the weather becomes cold and
snow falls he redoubles his energies.
He feeds more and better food, puts
the stock in better quarters, ard is
very careful about allowing them to
be exposed to storms. With all his
pains he notices that they do not take
on flesh at best very rapidly. Perhaps
he discovers too late to take advantage
of IL, that the severely cold weather
greatly interferes with the process of
fattening. He finds that much of the
food is used as fuel for keeping the
animals warm and not for making flesh
sad fat. He learns that he did not be.
gin to feed his stock as early as he
should.
In this latitude September and Oc-
tober are the most favorable months in
the year for fattening all kinds of
stock. The weather is generally very
favorable for promoting animal growth.
Cattle, sheep. and hogs are comfortable
in the open air. They can walk about
without becoming fatigue. There are
few insects to modest them, the air is
invigorating, and there is generally an
abundance of water. In the summer
they are likely to be tormented by flies
and to be rendered uncomfortable BY
the heat. In the winter months they
often suffer from the cold, even If they
have pretty good protection. During
very cold weather q large amount of
food is required to produce bodily heat.
There is then little or no green food
which is desired to keep up the appe-
lite and insure good digestion. In the
tall there is a good variety OF food.
There are. or at least should be, on
,very stock farm roots, pumpkins,
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