Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-02

taxes the stomach, and causes dys-
pepsia This is not because too much is
eaten, but rather because it is not the
right kind Of food, and is taken with
out sufficient exercise to arouse the
muscles of the stomach to action.
Stock also sometimes suffers from dys-
pepsia. Young pigs kept mainly on
stunted in growth, and after the sys-
tenn has become partly accustomed to
this fattening food, they turn them
selves into pork with an undue proper
ton Of lard.
Calves and young COWS rarely suffer
from dyspepsia if not greatly overfed
with corn. They have two digestive
organs, and after chewing their cud
contentedly, they give their stomachs
the comparatively easy task of resolv-
| ing it into fat and flesh. If the calf
| during it's first year has abundance and
variety of mountaineering food, it will de-
velop an enormous capacity for eating.
| This is an indispensable requisite to a
good COW, and it needs some care to de-
| velop it without creating tendency to
| tatten. The difficulty is all the greater
| in our Northern climate from the cold
| ness of our winters. when green food is
| hard to get, and corn feeding at times
| seems almost a necessity One of the
| strongest arguments in favor of the en-
silage system is that without it North
ern farmers find it almost impossible
to properly feed animals intended for
| the dairy.
The fact is noteworthy that all the
| countries where COWS excelIing for
milk and butter have been developed
have rather moist climates and consid
cradle green food in winter Holland
| and adjacent states are either below the
sea level or little above it. Ireland is
washed by the warm gulf stream and its
| fields are green nearly all the year.
| The English climate is moist, and so of
course that of the Channel Islands.
while farmers in both countries feed
COWS in winter very largely on roots.
| All of these conditions are favorable to
| large milk production rather than to
| fattening. Corn, our great staple grain
| feed, they know not at all, except as
| they import it. They feed some lin
seed meal, but not much, except to fat
| tening stock.
When the conditions for breeding
dairy stock are better understood it
will be easy to produce them even in
| our coldest winters. We cannot change
outside weather, but we can keep stock
comfortably warm without heavy feed
| ing on corn. Roots or ensilage; or BOTH
will be recognized as aids in this di-
| rection. So will plenty Of bran and
| oats, the two combined being probably
| the best of all feeds for any young ami
mails. Quite as important as anything
else will be supplying calves intended
| for the dairy with abundance Of luke
warm water during severe cold weather.
1t is very possibly the inducement to
| drink good deal of water that gives
| the chief advantage to other dairy
countries IN their warm winters.
1t is not important that young calf
| should have whole milk, except during
| the first two or three days, while the
cows milk is unfit for other use. That
skinned and warmed to blood heat is
better than whole milk after it has be-
come cold. All the elements to make
growth are in the skim milk, and it has
| little tendency to fatten. But the calf
as soon as it gets to be two or three
months old should be accustomed to a
great variety of food Soured milk may
| be substituted for sweet, and every
kind of vegetable obtainable may be
mixed with it. The great thing at this
period of the calf's life is to teach it to
eat greedily everything 1t finds in a
pail. The calf that has learned this les
son will never prove to be a dainty
feeding COW.
With these changes in management
young heifers may be bred much earlier
than is now common. Well fed every
way this need not materially check
their growth and if it does. in a dairy
animal deficient size will be more than
compensated for by a greater tendency
to milk production. On the Channel
Islands, especially Jersey, heifers often
drop their first calves when much less
that 2 years old. Our winters are too
cold for this early breeding, unless we
modify them by extra warm quarters.
warmed water for drink, and plenty of
nutritious but not fattening food
American CaltiuntOr.