St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-26
WINTERING CATTLE.
How to Keep Them in Good Con
ditiOn With the Most Profit.

The problem which the Intelligent
farmer must solve in these days OF low
priced cattle is how to winter them at
the least cost, and at the same time
keep the young cattle growing and
thrifty, and the cows giving profitable
flow of milk, says " aldo +. Brown in
The Country Gentleman. l have ex-
perimented to quite an extent In winter
feeding of cattle, and | find that in
thoroughly warm stable l can keep
my COWS up to full how or
milk, or bring an animal to the
much lighter grain ration than is gen
orally recommended. If | mistake not,
Mr. Stuart usually recommends grain
ration of fifteen pounds day, and in
some eases considerably more. Last
winter fed five cows, most of them
giving milk. and their regular grain "a
ton was ten pounds of bran and corn
and cob meal, mixed i'll the proportion
of about four pounds of bran to SIX OF
the meal. ] never had cows do better,
or come to the spring with smoother
coats, and any one of them would have
made good beef in April.
In connection with this grain ration |
feed what fodder my cattle will eat
clean at two feeds, and in pleasant
weather they run at straw stack
from two to four hours in the after
noon. | weighed the ration of corn
fodder TO the cattle several times, and
weighed back the butts they rejected in
order to find out what the waste was,
and found that ten pounds net of
fodder was all that L could get
them TO eat without waste, and
that my cattle did remarkably well
on their twenty pounds a day,
half grain and half fodder. / also
found that the waste was very nearly
one-third when the fodder was bright
and well cured. | found that with
this ten-pound ration not COW was off
her feed all winter. but if increased it
much was in danger of overlooking
and having my COWS surfeited. The
winter before | had beetS and small po-
tatOeS, so as to give each COW feed of
them each day, but my COWS did no bet
ter and indeed scarcely as well as when
on this
BRAN AND CORN RATION.
At the prices now prevailing, SIS per
ton for bran and so cents per bushel for
corn, this ten-pound ration will cost. in
GLIDING grinding of the corn, less than
6 cents head day. l am fortunate in
getting my grinding done at neigh
boris, less than fourth OF mile away,
for only cents per bushel of seventy
pounds. He owns thraSher, and, as
| his engine is not in use in winter, and
| his mill cost only about 500, he can
afford to grind cheap. These iron
mills. geared TO run at high rate
of speed. are a marvel of simplicity,
and will grind from twenty-five 10
fifty bushels per hour, the lesser
| amount so fine as to make it diff
ficult to tell that there is any cob in it,
| and it will be great benefit to the
| farmers of any community If the men
| owning threSher engines will introduce
| them. had been Thoroughly disguised
with cob meal, from feeding 1t ground
on horse nils, which only cracked the
corn and left many pieces of cob as
| large as grains of corn, and | had
thought that would never feed cob
| meal again, but after using the finely
ground meal made by these modern
mills, | am thorough convert to cob
meal, and shall always feed it in winter
! when it can be had.
In our mills, which grind with buhr-
stones, a still cheaper iron mill is now
introduced, costing, | think. S35. which
| shells the corn and breaks the cob
HEARTY as llllG DIS NOIil NilNii
it is reground together on the buhrs.
| To feed COW or steer ten pounds day
of this mixed bran and corn and cob
meal for six months $50 days will re-
Quire 1873 bushels of corn and 40
pounds of bran, and will guarantee
| that if this is fed to 1.000-pound ami
NAL in thoroughly warm stable. and it
has in addition what it will eat without
waste of corn fodder or clover hay, that
you will find
VOC HAVE GOOD BEEF
at the opening of spring. The animal
| fed on this ration, however, must not be
| turned out of doors to shiver all day in
zero temperature; neither must 1t be
made to drink ice-cold water. nor must
! the stable in which it is kept be so well
ventilated that it feels every breeze
| that blows.
have not yet adopted the plan of
warming the water for my stock in
winter, but | feel sure it would pay
where a dozen head or more are kept.
| do, however, pump fresh water for
| them which has temperature several
| degrees above the freezing point. and l
have a thoroughly warm stable. have
| no doubt that a stable double-boarded