Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-11

pie gargety cow-the worst in the list
| There are but few cases of that c!as,
which cannot be controlled by proner
feeding and a judicious use of saltpeter
In bad case would say do not feed
corn meal or oil meal. Feed wheat bran
mill-feed, ground oats, or any other
easily digested, milk producing food:
and give night and morning a great
spoonfool of saltpeter (if so much proves
to be necessary dissolved and mixed
with her grain rations. For feeding a
healthy animal would add to the above
list gluten meal and small ration Of
cotton-seed meal, emitting the latter
during the last two or three weeks pre-
vious to killing. Well-cured, early
clover hay is preferable to any other
dry feed. Turni ps and cabbage cat be
fed quite freely during the earlier stages
of meat production, without injury to
the milk or butter, if fed ten or more
hours before milking, as during that
time her breath, skin. and kidneys will
have eliminated all the odor from her
system. Give milk producing, muscle
sustaining food. Feed only that which
is sweet and free from mold.
AS a rule l think it better to keep the
beef COWS farrow and in milk; and with
good keeping, we get fair quantity Of
extra good milk, the cows often paying
for their keeping up to the last day. In
winter, for few weeks previous to kill
ing, give the animal enough beets-sugar
or long blood red preferred--to keep her
-,
take half q bushel or not more than half
peck n day. Never overfeed never spoil
the appetite. Undigested food makes
no blood; imperfectly digested food
makes impure blood, and impure blood
cannot make good meat. A little salt
petre tends to allay fever-which is
often an attendant of high feeding-and
stimulates the kidneys to throw off any
inquiries from the blood. The animal
when killed should oe in thriving, gain
ing condition, not on the shrink. Re
member that the juiciness of the meat
depends largely upon how the COW was
fed for two or three weeks before kill
ing, and that the flavor depends upon
what it was fed for the two or three days
previous to killing. Our seacoast butch.
crs do not allow salt marsh hay to be fed
to their animals for a few days before
killing; and turnlps are not allowed any
where. A man who was an army butcher
during the war said that they turned
some cattle into wheat field in Virginia
one night, and some of the cattle were
killed the next day, but that the meat
couldn't be eaten by any one but a
Frenchman; and, on examination, it
was found that field gariics were grow
ing among the wheat, and the cattle had
eaten freely Of them. There can be no
hard and fast rules for feeding; animals
differ, and the same animal requires diff
ferent feeding at different times. Before
turning out, in changing from dry feed
to pasture, give in the morning all the
hay they will eat, and for their grain
ration give mostly corn meal-scalded if
Notwithstanding the daily rations
of meal for three or four weeks, and the
hay as long as they will eat 1t. A full
ration of immature grass is as bad for
cow as green apples tor a boy. Fer
butter producing COW in dog days, l pre-
fer ground oats to any other one kind Of
feed. 1t makes sweeter and firmer but
ter than most other kinds of feed.
Through the summer feed primarily for
milk and butter, but always keep the
COWS gaining in flesh and yet not too
much IN fat.--Americon Agricuhuria.