The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-11

THis il especially tue with pigs
owed late in the fall, and with Whlcn
IN III cin,t care ha- not been iaEfn To y
auired to X. y such until spring "IiI I
q worth more than the pigs. Much |
the best practice, and one that IS De-
ing more generally adopted every |
wear, is to breed the sOws in the fall
40 as to start the pigs offon green 1000
in the epring. This is much more
economical, and the pigs are pretty
4ure to do better; but If you are IN Tor
the winter feeding of To- now, try
and do il we'll You will fiad 1t best
O give some slOp and roots or en-
siIage instead of an entire grain
ration A slop made of bran with
skim milk will be good for the young
4Iers. AS they get little larger give
them some soaked oats. Small po-
ratOes, boiled and mixed with bran,
will also be found good; in fact, give
chem a variety of food, and such as
will promote growth rather than
fattening. There is money in pigs,
but il requires good care to get 1t all
out.
The dairy farmer who means to ex-
tract the maximum profit from his
business should place certain ideals
before him and work steadily toward
them. One of these should be the
three hundred pound COW. If the
COWS were all up to this average the
dairy would have to be managed very
pad indeed in order to fail to pay, aud
dairymen who have Of this class are
not often bad managers. Another
aim should be to keep a COW to each
acre. Then the land as well as the
COWS will pay. This is not impossl-
BILE to attain, for 10 good acres well
farmed should produce quite enough
| hav, roots, ensilage, ETC., to feed III
| good cows. OF course, some grain
| would need to be bought, but this
would pay because it would go to
making the land continually richer,
and so able to produce more. Ten
good cows upon 10 acres OF land Wou;G
make a combination that should
afford a comfortable sustenance to
any man, and upon this basis he
would be enabled to conduct the
i dairy business with degree OF salts
faction that is never reached by the
man who kept a COW to i've acres
Intensive methods may be followed
in the dairy a we'll as anywhere else
A move in the right direction, sc
far as our agricultural colleges ar
concerned, is that recently taken III
Minnesota, where a practical dairy
school is now in operation. F1fteeL
thousand dollars were appropriated
for the purpose Of preparing a suit
able building in connection Win Lh'
Universitv and the school Will o.
conducted in such q manner as viii
J give farmers boys proper instruction
! IN the care of the heard and te'
+ management of the home dairy, ant
: 20 factory men instruction in the pes
methods of manufacture. Dalr!
} ,chooIs in other countries have beef
: proven of the very greatest pract1ca
benefit, and in Sweden especial.
3 have been the means OF lncreasih
, the quantity and value OF the produc
i enormously. We mention this mat
1 ter particularly because 1T IS goo
ign that our agricultural schoolS ar
= getting away from the purely theore
/ ticaI courses and down to practice
I methods of instruction. The theoreti
+ ;aI. technical and scientific work ]
Q not of less value, only it must be
o cooperation, with practical appl "a
= ton in Such ways as viii serve I
;. hiring the farmers in direct cOntaC
: with the Instructors. A dairy schOo
= or any other school in which tn
work of the farm is actually pei
,, formed, is of incalculable benefit l
e aHOlul1g coihlnoh SAO" 49, 70 - I;
they can meet. Money expended l
this way is we'll spent, and apprOprit
~ tions for such purposes will AWAY
nave the hearty support OF farmer
. after they have once seen the WORE
} inps of such institutions. A case
: point is the sugar expe iment static
y or sugar manufacturers school,
Louisiana. This is so much apprec
= ated by the planters of the State thi
~ they make it point to see that
- never lacks for funds. If the appr'
=, priations for any given period al
not sufficient to carry on the work
i, the fullest extent, any lack is at one
> made up by private subscription.
is practical institution, where pra
tice and science go hand in hand.