The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-24

In . bad case | would say do not feed
corn meal q oil meal. Feed wheat bran,
mill-feed, ground oats, or any other
asily.digested, milk-producing food
and give night and morning a great
spoonfool of saltpeter Git so much proves
to be necessary dissolved and mixed
with her grain ~rations. For feeding a
healthy animal I would add to the above
list gluten meal and q small ration of
c~otton-seed meal, emitting the latter
during the last two or three weeks pre-
vious to killing. Well-cured, early-cut
clover hay is preferable to any other
dry feed. Turnips and cabbage car be
fed quite free1Bduring the earlier stsges
of meat production, without injury to
the milk or butter, is 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 I think it better to keep the
beef cows farrow and in milk, and with
good keeping. we get a fair quantity of
extra good milk, the COW often paying
for their keeping up to the last day. In
winter, for a few weeks previous to kill
ing, give the animal enough beets-sugar
or long blood red preferred-to keep her
bowels in a healthy condition, it may
take half a bushel or not more than half
a peck a 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 be in a thriving, gain
inc 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
ers do not allow salt marsh hay to be fed
to their animals for a few days before
killing; and turn,ps are not allowed any.
where. a mar who was an army butcher
during the war said that they turned
some cattle into a wheat field in Virgins
one night, and some Of the cattle were
killed the next day, but that the meat
couldn't be eaten by any one but {
Frenchman, and, on examination, i
was found that field carries were grow
ing among the wheat, and the cattle had
eaten freely Of them. There al be NJ
hard AID fast rules for feeding; animal
differ, and the same animal requires diff
ferent feeding at different times. Before
turning out, in changing from dry fees
to pasture, give in the morning all the
hay they will eat, and for their grain
ration give mostly corn meai--scalded j
Notwithstanding the daily ration
Of meal for three or four weeks, and tn
hay as long as they will eat It. A full
ration OF immature grass is as bad for
COW as green apples for q boy. Fer
butter producing % in dog days, pre-
fer ground oats to any other one kind q
feed. It makes sweeter and 6rner but
ter than most other kinds Of feed,
Through the summer feed primarily TO
milk and butter, but always keep tn
cows gaining in flesh and yet not to-
much IN fat.--American Agricahursst.