The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-03
GENEROUS FEEDING.
Let the Cows Fat All They
Will.


II + 80 seldom that farnse-S are vii
ing 10 step Oh: Ia.a pat.sse gaze thas
wh-a experience Il oszain4las. &c had
"a ~fth pleasure IL has bsea SOS
fsezvly yezr since the feeding OF Ia
dairy on the Creamery farm hessz
in eArne~t nsssn the advanced theory
that. - have rieh sasfs, one m4ss h4v,
gene.e7s feed and fat e8xS. that. q
suske the asiry proaitafsae. ne must
keed slseraliy and wifh = single par.
pos f,aF the highest results essszinahas
frora the herd, whatever tha. may be.
This & esstasesy independent at the
quessiun ef zuisai3eae~- o. the breed
ser 4 gwen purpose. WHIST Is clzsmed
+ ;hai any COW goasi % bad. win pro.
dass more profit. or ii the balance Is
on the Other side. lass issSs. fed etner.
ossiy and snseliieently. than ii cared
for IA : siipshod manner. or IN the or,
ainary Faanarr Of feeding
The constant reader q the q Farm
sss. Home department. Of the Posr-
tsTEtLsefxs sg wiis remember the "a
tons reported as led daring the winter
Of snSiiage, cut hay with hiram and
shorfs. and oiimeai. that resulted in
fattening the COWS while giving failk
and also the discussion that followed
aisont . xsur eoxs are sce Eat % give
milk. a. wa 80 often expires -est by
visitor.
In letter Just received frans the
creamery. Fred says have been
over here all the week. and found
plenty 81 DO. fNho ever vas about a
siairy farm without plenty 10 do7D We
get from los 10 lie gallons day iron
forty cows. and they are Increasing IN
the mess now, are hooking xeli and
are in good condition. We feed al
pounds bran and shorts per head i
day. with all the cut grass they can eas
by feeding three times day. thought
| would try feeding three times day
and sec If It would give better result.
We have only fairly begun il. and so
can't say about the re sglt, only that
they eat bet, and il must make some
thing Il il don't make mix
We milk at : o'clock and gel
through at 1. and that gives one hour
IN cool the milk ia the morning, before
shipping on the early train.
fhe cows are led when they are
first brought into the stable on grain.
lbFan aud sboftst and They are given
coed big feed oil grass cat the day be-
fore. and. after milking, they are fed
grass again and given All they viii eat
up again 10y O'Clock am.
Al hey ate then let out in the pas
ture lot and brought in again at half
past q and fed grass only, aii they viii
eat, which j. big lot. They are lett
in the stable till they have all they
want 20 ca. and again turned out. this
time In the barn lot, and lett there till
I O'Clock. The stables. meantime. are
cleaned out and swept up in front Of
the sillls, and the grain put down for
the COWS. At o'elos.k the COWS are
again brought in and fed grain and
MIXED. ana then fed all the grass
(timoiis aud eioyert they viii cut up
to or o'cioek ia the evening
There might be AN Improvement
in this system by letting them out
again after milking in the afternoon
and brought in, iii the course OF two
hours, aud given the grass: but don I
know whether il would pay for the ex-
ira trouble.
We cut strip across the south end
OF the peas and oats for road back 10
the wheat and fed to the COWS, and
they waded into il. They ate over "A
tom In tive meals. NJ idea Tor feeling
so often is 70 get the COWS TO eat large
quantity 81 grass.
That is the very thing b. do-get
them To eat all they viii; for, as he
SAYS. g il must make something il il
don't make milk And now we come
10 the very pith of this letter. Con
tinuing. he says: The milk IS giving
spienaid result ia cream. We got
this morning, FROM II cans set last
night, ~ gallons and about a pint over
OF cream, or at the rate OF one gallon
OF cream - five and one-titth gallon
OF milk. knoS this Is right, Tor !
have measured accurately more than
once
Now coIaes the application Of the
generous feeding for a long period and
putting Cat ON the COW. Last year at
this time, measured by spaces on the
Cooler cans, being the saInc IN Use
now, the milk being from the same
cans, the average Of space 70 the can
Wa near Is. single cans SCARCELY ever
roaming as high as eight; but now,
A. he further writes, y this amount oil
cream gives an average Of II sfsaees.
1.-THE italics are oursl anu ihi morning
We had some that showed u OF 'edrty
81 p<F cent. more cream than when the
c9ws were tain in flesh and on pas
tnte only, and being over 10 per cent.
cream.
Tfis rcsait Of the quantity OF milk
i not claimed to be an extraordinary
Weld, though. OF co1re, il ia letter
Than heetoiore. In fact. VIC are not
vet satisfied with the yield, alihoesa
Il ! fair fer "scrgab COWS. which, rs
the eommon saying goes. these arsi
but we confidently expect further
gain in both quantity and quality be-
Iorr the end OF second years teei-
ing.
Stewart. in Feeling Animals, . dis
tinetlv mentions his own experience
that BE never expected, nor did he get
the fun benefit Of feeding uni'i the
CO.'S had heen eenerou IL fed the SEC
e,id yea. Then TIE fat enght to show
. notified beef. I" Il slaughtered. ana a
good thiekns g on the RIB IS web as
on the kiancy. What Is rlore, the
cream obtained froas tat cows s uE-
s.ouIte,iiy richer than thai cbi lined
from thin co'.-. IL is. OF course,
well set;led fact, known 20 sh dairy
men, that aiicieam. although perfectly
Pare, I not G lusilly rich, aui, although
without the preot OF experience AZ
hand. We gerl justified H. adysrJng
this ~ a rea onshle theory. that the
ia; Of the Cow has it influence upon
the quality Of the cream as well a
quantity Il i this, Whore the system
i wanting. these very element that
90 20 make mp the elements 81 rtf'si-
ness In max and cream, for support,
II j fair to assume, Il there i a chance
for rosshing. tapprepriafinx would sre
the better word then the richness At
hest would be IN part divide between
the two. a part going 70 help support
or Il, bsiiltt IN the system. only the re
fnainder going into the milk.
In twelve months more We viii look
for even BITTER re aslis iiem the e same
s,.x,s. ny sss.fztt isfrstr the fesesisn- being