The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-03-18
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.

Brewers grains make cheap food
for the dairy, but they should not be
relied on exclusively. They promote
the flow Of milk, but do this some
what to the detriment of the quality
of the product. For butter-making
they are rot to be recommended.
If YOU set some strawberries last
fall and they show an indication Of
fruit this season, do not encourage
them. If you are wise you will plnch
off every blossom as soon as 1T ap-
pears and let the strength OF the plant
90 toward making it more vigorous
for next years frultlng. Inc run
ners also should be cut OIL, except
where they are needed to make new
plants.
We presume some of our readers
find their supply of fodder is getting
short, and 80 are in a hurry to get on
to spring pasture. Do not let your
anxiety in this respect get the better
of YOUR Judgement. 1t will pay bet
ter to buy something to carry the
stock for a few weeks in good shape
rather than to turn on to the pasture
too soon. BY letting it get good
start il will last much longer ana
carry more stock.
1t is not only the pasture that Is
harmed by turning the stock out toe
early in the spring, but often the
stock cutters As well. 1t does not &c
stock of any sort good to lie exposed
! to chilling winds and rains after haV'
! ing been closely housed all winter
ana dairy cattle in particular viii
| shrink in their milk to degree tina
few will believe until they have eX'
perimented to their sorrow. Sudden
changes of any sort in food, care
atmospheric conditions, &c, are &c
be avoided as much as possible.
The milking machine, which was
loudly heralded by the English anC
| Scotch newspapers a few months ago
does not appear now to be very
brilliant success. The London DAIRY
mans Journal prOnOunces IL ia
failure. Itsays: 1--WE recently saw
pcor COW pumped with it, and atteI
the machine had finished her oil ne,
drover MIXED another pail:ul out o.
her without any trouble whatever:
We shall probably have to stick T.
the good old way" in this Tor
while longer.
There is not much question ou
that an animal receives more nutrl
ton from a given amount of grail
that is fiuely ground than il 1T Is fe'
whole. but there is one objection t
pTouHd feed, and that is that the mas
out into the stomach is apt to solldlf.
and become difficult for the dlgestlV
Juices TO act upon. This trouble ma.
he easily met by feeding in cOnnec
tion With il some cOarser ration. Is.
fsr the bert method is to mix tn
ground feed thoroughly with cut nay
By this means the assimilation or tn
grain will be as nearly complete as
, is possible to accomplish.
. Now that the stock will soon be &c
ing out TO pasture, aud so not unde
our eve as constantly as it has bee
turing the winter, take care ina
heir wants are not neglected III som
mall matters. In the matter OF sal
FOR instance, do not let them go for
week at a time without it. Keep
m some convenient place where the
can help themselves, aud they WI
lake no more than they need. Pu
.nme rock salt out in the pasture
- and the cattle will come and lick
, every day, aud there Will be yer
? little waste. Ii you do not max
some provision OF this sort you WI
be pretty sure to neglect It during IN
busv time of blowing and seeding
' Success in any vocation that me
follow almost always throws OF
some visible sign. Farming Is no e1
ceptiou to this rule. When eve Sc
!. clean, well titled fields ;!''if'y stocl
. good fences, houses ana hnrs.a i.:.in;e
: and in good repair, We can saE pr"tt
j, safely that it IS the home Of Il prosI'rI
r. ous man. The reverse-n"giecte
: fields and fences, poor stock an
! Shabby buildiDgs-is the equally su,
I sign OF the imprOvident farmer.
. your surroundings are not all tbs
: they should be to the eye, do you
/, hesI to i'm prove them. III you are nc
: mite as foTehauded as you would lik
to be, try to make your neighbol
Think you are by keeping every thin
AtSim aud ship-shape, and, believe 10