Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-05

Three trials III feeding mich al nd
butter COWS at the Wisconsin exl be-
riment station resulted in saving
of Sc per cent of the fodder fed in
the first trial, 81 per cent in the
second, and 8 per cent in the third,
by cutting the corn fodder. This
shows an average gain in favor of
cutting corn fodder of over Is per
cent-that is to say, 100 lbs of corn
fodder cut into inch lengths pro-
duced as much milk or butter as
125 lbs of uncut fodder. Prof.
Henry thinks that the gain from
cutting the mammoth varieties of
Southern fodder corn may run up
to fully 40 per cent. In another
case, 721 lbs of cut corn fodder pro-
duced as much as 1883 lbs of uncut
fodder, or O gain of more than 60
per cent.
To ESTIMATE STANDING wooD.-J.
w. Estimate the quantity of cord
wood standing on a lot as follows:
Measure out four square rods of
ground, that is 33 feet each way,
and count the trees, averaging the
cubic contents of the trunk, as near.
ly as possible, and adding one
fourth of this for the limbs. Then,
as 12S cubic feet make a cord, and
the plot is one-fourth of an acre, the
result is easily reached Fairly
good timber land should yield a
cord to every four square rods. A
tree two feet in diameter and 80
feet high to the limbs will make a
cord OF wood, If it is growing in
close timber and the limbs are not
heavy: if the limbs are large and
spreading, such tree viii make Il
to il cords. A tree one foot III di-
ameter will make one-fourth as
much rs one twice the diameter. In
estimating it is necessary to remem-
be-, this fact.
10 avoid White Specks in Butter.
4 never set milk that shows the
least signs of grgat, as I sappose
such milk is diseased, and diseased
milk must produce diseased butter.
I know that carelessness in skim
ming the cream will produce white
specks in butter. Great care should
be taken to skim the cream off the
milk entirely free from the least bit
of milk, for milk will sour with the
cream and if kept two or three days
will become thick. When churned,
the curd separates from the whey in
fine granules, and adheres or mixes
with the butter, and it is impossible
to get rid of them. They are there
to stay. I now have a dairy of eight
COWS. They get only thefeed of the
pasture until August, when 1 begin
to feed them extra and have had no
case of garget for 10 years. 1 make
nice butter, which sells in Boston
for the highest price, and am never
troubled with white specks unless
some green hand does the Swimming.
-Vermonter, Caledonia county.
Whole Grain For Eating Cattle
Does it pay togrind corn for feeding
steers for beef in winter? is the
question that has been answered by
trials at the Wisconsin experiment
station. It was found that the steers
ate practically the same weight of
bran and shelled corn as of bran and
corn meal, but the steers getting
corn meal consumed 10 per cent.
more of hay. As result of consum-
ing this excess of hay, and having
corn meal instead of shelled corn,
one or both, the steers getting corn
meal made a gain of II per cent over
the steers getting shelled corn. But
if hogs were kept with the steers to
work up what waste grain was voided
in the droppings, it was found that
there was no profit in grinding the
corn, because enough more profit is
made on the hogs feeding on the re-
fuse of whole corn in the manure to
make up the gain by the meal-fed-
steers. This scientific demonstra-
ton of such an important practical
matter will be needed by many feed
ers this winter.
FARM LIFE.-It is a common COM
plant that the farm life is not APP
preciated by our people. We long
for the more elegant pursuits, or
the ways and fashions of the town.
But the farmer has the most safe
and natural occupation, and ought
TO find life sweeter, if less highly
seasoned, than any other. He alone
strictly speaking has home. How
cana man take root and thrive
without land He writes his histo-
ny upon his fields. How many ties,
how many resources he has; his
friendships with his cattle, his team,
his dog, his trees; the satisfaction
in his growing crops, in his improv-
ed fields; his intimacy with nature
with bird and beast and with the
-quickening elemental forces; his CO.
operation with the clouds, the sun,
the seasons, heat, wind, rain, frost.
Nothing will take the various social
distempers which the city and arti-
fcial life breed out of man like
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