Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-09
THE STOCK RANCH.
Feeding Colts,

Prof. Sanborn, of the Missouri Agri-
cultural College, gives in the following
paragraphs some good suggestions on
| feeding of colts.
1t may be assumed in the absence of
analysis of the entire horse, that it con-
tains less fat than any other farm ami
NAL. and its g.owth is therefore rela-
lively larger than that of any other do
nestle animal. Experience teaches us
that fattening foods are misplaced when
fed to a growing colt. All young ami
mails that I have fed have shown expert
mentally the marked necessity of easily
digestible foods. Let the colt, when
first fed hay, have choice clover and the
best fine hay, ground oats or ground
peas, or barley meal, to which add a
milk may we'll be added, it will give a
very heterogeneous diet.
The analysis of mares milk shows a
greater ratio of albumin ODDS (fesh form
ers) to carbohydrates (fat formers) than
cows milk, which is conclusive as to
colts diet when young. Don't "pinch"
your colts. Feed literally. The colt
may be pushed forward as rapidly as the
steer. This growth, if not that of fat,
| as it need not be, need not give a spirit
less or effeminate colt, yet I would not
press the point of early maturity as
| would that of the steer, for the body
may outstrip the acquisition of matured
powers. If for sale, and moral issues
left out, the most money will come from
quick growth and early sale. 1t may
properly be noted that tests by Bous-
singault and Stewart show that a pound
of colt is made with as little fodder as a
pound of steer.
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with clover and hay. The skim milk
be added. / object to corn as a diet for
growing colts. A French investigator,
by an elaborate test, found that oats
were especially good horse food. By
an electrical apparatus he found an ex-
citable principle in oats that he called
a nervine, and that crushed oats were
more active and not SO enduring as
whole oats. Oats are, by practical men,
understood to favor more speed and en-
durance in the horse than any other
food.
About per cent. of the colts live
weight should be given in grain daily,
and limit his feed or hay to three meals
day, otherwise a horse will eat more
than he can digest.
SWISS cattle, imported into this coun-
try and scattered in small herds here
and there, are said to be giving satisfac-
ton as hardy, serviceable animals.
TIE Texas Liue Stock journal is au-
thority for the statement that the cattle
trade is improving and is surely return
ing to dividend paying basis in Texas. !"
BEAR in mind that leaky canopy-top
stable with self-ventilating side walls is
good incubator of colds, coughs,
pneumonia and all sorts of diseases, and
that filth furnishes a suitable medium
for the culture of disease.
4 WIRE fence is the costliest wind
break one can provide for stock, and the
profit expected from the feed from the
hay loft and the bin may be blown away
through loose unbattened walls and
cherries, wind swept yards.
AN exchange says Mr.. Havermeyer, of
New Jersey. one of the first farmers in
this country to use ensilage, has swenty-
four silos, and has just opened one that
was filed seven years ago and found the
ensilage in good state of preservation.
IT is rarely the case that beef cattle
are sold in Texas by weight. Cattle.
none but the largest and select, are sold
in the New Orleans market by weight.
In that market, we believe, allied
animals are always sold by weight, but
it is not often that grass fattened cattle
are 40 sold