The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-24
STOCK ITEMS

II cattle are turned into the clover
care must be taken TO allow them 70
only remain I'm two or three hours at
first.
With all stock 1t is quite an item to
feed in q way so as to make and q
all the manure, and especially so with
cattle.
So long as there il a good class Of GUS
toners willing to pay u good price for
good beef, good cattle car be made
profitable.
One thing is pretty definitely settled,
and that is that rseys Ill not make
as good a quality Of beef as the most OF
the beef breeds
The animals that are selected for
breeding purposes should be fed and
cared for In n way - to induce the most
thrifty habits.
One Of the best feeds to give hogs .
good start to fatten late in the summer
or early fall is sweet corn. Prepare .
supply In advance.
Sheep more than almost any other
class of stock need open air and exer-
else; confinement in anything like close
Iuoi eSio - Nciy AhJufiooos
Cattle need a pasture 50 good in sum-
mer that during the heat Of the day
they can lay down in the shade Of good
trees and rest and chew their cud in
comfort.
Early lambs for the spring market
sometimes prove exceedingly profit
able, but only when given extra care
and feed and intelligently handled. Not
only must the da ms be we'll fed, given
comfortable quarters and rich but not
heating food, but the lambs must early
be taught to eata little chop feed mixed
with ground oil cake, and thus put on
much more flesh as they grow in size.
Only the plump, thick-1eshed lambs
command the top prices. A thin lamb
Is not wanted, no matter how large his
frame Is.
A prominent sheep grove or Of western
Texas in reply to . question from q sub
scriber as to whether the loco weed Is
injurious to sheep says: "Some years
ago penned up a few old and crippled
sheep that l would as soon lose as not,
and fed them on nothing but loco weed
for several days in order to see IL the
weed would have an injurious effect on
them. They relished the weed greatly
and appeared to grow fat on it. After
this experiment l paid no more atten-
ton to the loco weed and do not know
OF a single sheep / ever lost because Of
their eating this weed, although there
was plenty of it on my range"
A good many dairymen grow a patch
OF rye to cut green for feeding to the
cows. The rye can be cut twice If the
first cutting be made early enough, and
comes in before the earliest grass il
ready for pasture. While there is noN
much value in immature rye, yet asa
succulent feed it promotes the flow "a
milk, and for milk dairvmen is of con.
siderable value. correspondent Of the
Stockman thinks, however. that the
best results from feeding green rye arc
obtained by pasturing it instead Of
using 1t rs a soiling crop. II pasturing
be resorted to rye can be used much
sooner than II cut for soiling, and, IL
cut close enough, will not make heads,
but tillcr out and grow the same as
any other grass. A small field Of rye
would be OF service by giving the past
ure time to make q good start before
the cows ere turned on it, and also by
giving TIL: pasture a rest by putting the
cows on rye again after they have
grazed o,sr the pasture for the first
time. Later the rye can be plowed an.
der and corn planted to feed green in
II summer Farm and Preside.