The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-13
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.


Save the straw and purchase oil
meal and bran to feed with it. This
will make good ration, and help
build up the manure pile.
Sugar may be successfully used
with horses that are off their feed, in
order to induce them to eat Mix a
pound of with the ration of cut hay
aud leave it a few hours, so that the
sugar will be absorbed, and few
horses will reject it.
Before this month is finished it
should be definitely determined how
much stock can be protitably win
tered over, and all except this should
be marketed as soon a. possible. 1t
seldom pays to feed out hard-earned
hay and grain to unprOductive stock.
Probably the cheapest method of
manufacturing good beef eattle that
is now pursued in this country is that
of feeding upon alfalfa. A good
alfalfa ranch IN the West is better
than a gold mine. This grass should
be more generally introduced and
cultivated.
II your hens are not laying well,
perhaps they are too fat. III you
think this may be the trouble, cut off
their corn entirely and feed them
} only oats. Not too much OF that,
( either, but make them "hustle" for a
part of their food. Exercise will
soon do away with the superabund-
ant flesh.
q II colts are fed entirely on dry food
there is danger that they may suffer
from stoppage of the bowels. Silage
or roots should be givel to counterfeit
this tendency. Carrots are one of the
be things that can be used, being
wholesome aud nutritious, and 1t will
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purpose for the colts.
1T is only in exceptional cases that
it will pay to fatten off animals in
either very hot or very cold W, ather.
In hot weather they are apt not to
keep healthy if fed heating aud fat
tenfng food, and in winter it requires
more food to make given amount OF
flesh, so that it detracts from the
profit. Keep in thrifty growing con
ditiOn at all times, and then feed off
during the temperate months OF fall
and spring.
Grain that is threshed after har-
Vesting is liable to heat in the bin.
1t is better to let it remain some time
in the NOV, where the chaff will help
it dry properly. If you tind at any
time a suspicion of dampness after it
has been placed in the bin, it will be
a wise percaution to place some we'll
dried brick or tile among the grain.
These will absorb the moisture, and
so dry the grain that future heating
will be impossible.
What can be accomplished by max
ing land excessively rich may be seen
In the fields near Milan, Italy, which
are irrigated by the city sewage.
About $1,000 acres are so treated, and
these Weld on an average crops or
from eight to ten tons OF hay per acre.
The sewage of Paris is disposed of in
a similar manner, and the land so
treated makes the richest market
gardening area in Europe. Our
American cities have something to
learn In this matter.
If YOU do not think it will pay to
go7in for pure-bred poultry for your
self. wby not invest few dollars for
the bows and girls, il they have a
fancN in that line, and let them have
profits. Maybe that would be just
The thing that would ep the BOY
contented at home this winter. AS it
is. with nothing of his own on the
farm, and nothing of especial inter
est to employ his spare time, he may
get to thinking that he would be bet
Ter off in town, clerking, maybe, in
the corner grocery store.
A dairyman who hopes to make
money selling milk and butter by
Leepiflg only common cows aud rely.
INC soleIy on pasture and grass land
Par his feed, will stand poor chance
IN rom petition with the man who has
well bred cattle and buys and feeds
grain, thereby being enabled TO make