The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-08-31

livery durynan knows that green
grass is the cheapest as well as the best
food that can be used for producing
mix Most persons prefer butter and
cheese that are made while cows feed
entirely on sweet and tender grasses.
They think that they have a more agree
able flavor. Crass is so much cheaper
than any other food given to cows that
dairying cannot be profitably carried on
outside Of good grazing district. Eng
land. Holland aud Denmark are the best
dairy countries in the world, chiefly for
the reason that the climate and soil are
well adapted to the growth OF grass. In
parts of the world where the rain fall Is
limited to a few months in the year, the
grass ceases 10 grow during the dry sea
son, when the supply of milk immedi-
ateiy begins to falls off. The Northern
states have great advantages over the
Southern ones in the production of milk.
for the simple reason that they produce
more and heI ter grasses. Cows will give
milk if they are fed on dried forage
plants and grain. but it is not likely that
it VIII sell for enough 10 pay for the food
consumed.
grass is the cheapest food for producing
wool The best grazing districts are the
most favored ones for the production of
wool. There IS much profit on that pars
OF the fleece that grows while sheepase
in the pastu e, but very little II any II
the part that grows while sheep are kept
in pens and are fed on food that has been
harvested. Hay and grain will make
wool, but the chances are that it will
not sell for enough to pay for the food
that the sheep have consumed.
Grass is the cheapest as well as the
best food for producing flesh on cattle,
sheep, and horses. Most farmers are
awaCe Of this fact, but in practice they
appear to forget it. They keep these
animals in poor or closely-fed pastures
during the summer, where they gain but
very little. On the approach Of cold
weather they remove them to stables or
yards and give them all they will eat.
] he fall and early part of the winter are
the times when most farmers expect TO
put their stock in good condition for the
market. They spend the entire season
OF warm weather IN raising crops TO feed
the animals after the cold weather COM
mences- They ne lect them in summer.
but seek to make amends for it by Civ
ing them most excellent attention dur
ingihe winter. Cows, steers, and young
cattle that Jared poorly in the pasture
now fare sumptuously in the stable.
They receive lay from the NOW and
corn fro the crib. Young horses have
their hangers full of cured timothy cut
and their boxes are supplied with
thrashed oats.
The best time to make flesh is while
the grass is growing 1t is then sweet
and tender, and animals will derive more
benefit from it than they will after it
has attained a larger growth and has
been cut, cured and put in stock Green
grass Is as valuable for making flesh and
lat as for making milk and wool The
farmers who know the best pastures
make beef, mutton and horse iiesh at the
smallest cost. They a N to add to the
weight of their animals while the grass
grows and the weather is comfortable.
They 10 not keep their pastures over
stocked If protracted drought &C
ours, they cut grass in meadows. oats or
corn, and feed them to their stock. They
aim to have their animals in prime con
dition at the end Of the grazing season.
If the season Is favorable, they expect 10
have some steers that are grass fattened.
These will be the animals on which they
viii make the most money. Nest TO
them in profit will be those that will re-
quire but small amount Of corn and
hay. Both lets can be disposed of be-
fore the snow falls. When this is done
there is a great saving in siable-room,
labor and food C5tago Ti0,es.