Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-11-02
FARM AND GARDEN.
Economy in Feeding One Source
of a Farmers Profit.
CUTTING SOFTENS PROvENDER.
No Food Fit for Use Until Ground
OF Cut, MOistened and Mixed
Salt for Cattle.

Economy in feeding is one source of a
farmers profit. To feed hay, corn and
oats to colts, calves and work horses is
extravagant and wasteful. The way to
economize and save several dollars Der
head each year until they are marketable
is to cut all provender into inch lengths
STRAW and fodder, put in separate bins
under shelter where most convenient for
use. Cutting softens any provender and
rids it of sand and dust. Now take sew
enty-fve bushels of corn, oats, rye and
to mill and get it ground fine
as for bread, writes correspondent of
the National Stockman. Grinding costs
8 cents per hushel. Add to this one
fourth of its weight in wheat bran. If you
have not all of these grains, use such as
you have. The way to mix for use is:
Make box IL feet long, 21a feet deep,
2ls feet wide, water-tight. Put in the
box three layers of straw; add to each
layer four pounds of meal and two and
one-half gallons of water; take a four
tined fork and mix thoroughly from one
end to the other and back. Now serve
out to ten or twelve head three times a
day and they will be well fed, and we
have used only one-half bushel OF corn
and straw and fodder of still less market
value. Wetting softens and causes the
meal to adhere. We can keep twice as
much stock on this economical plan as
can be done the extravagant way at one
half less expense. There is no food fit
for use until it is ground or cut, mois-
tened and mixed. An animal fed the
waste way is not as healthy, IL is con-
stipated, hide-bound, with indigestion.
On the economical plan the stomach is
healthy, the bowels laxative with per-
feet health.
MITES IN A PoULTRY-HoUsE.
Turn out the fowls some cool or damp
day, and then close all the cracks in the
house except the door. Then take a ket-
tie Of live Goals and place on the ground
in the center; but, if there is a wood
floor, lay flat stone in, on which set the
kettle. Throw half pound or pound
OF sulphur upon the Goals and shut the
door and leave the house closed for a
few hours, and we will venture to say
that no more lice or mites will be found
in it for few weeks thereafter If the
house is not tight enough to admit of
thorough fumigation in the manner de-
scribed, then clean as well as you can,
and whitewash with fresh lime, mixing
in a liberal quantity of sulphur, after
which throw sulphur into all the cracks
and apply kerosene oil to the roosts.
The house should be we'll aired before
the fowls are admitted and well yenti-
lated at night. We have never known
the " sulphur cure" to fail If properly
applied.
CHARCOAL FOR FOWLS.
We have found charcoal very excel
lent thing to furnish our poultry with.
1t may be given in a powdered state,
mixed with the soft meal feed, and a
little pulverized sulphur at the same
time may be added to advantage. But
the very best way to supply this is to
burn an ear or two of corn (upon the
cob), charring it to blackness and throw
ing it before them. They will devour
every kernel and so supply themselves
with grateful and healthy substance
that sweetens the crop and serves as an
admirable tonic to the stomach. At this
season of the year the above recommen-
dation will be found valuable hint to
poultrymen. Hens about ready to Law
Will devour this prepared charcoal eager
ly, and the increased freshness and red
ness OF their combs afterward evince the
efficacy of this allowance. For month
or six weeks in the early breeding season
nothing is better than this for laying
hens, given them daily.
SALT FOR CATTLE.
If you give it in the right wav, YOU
need not be afraid of your cattle taking
too much salt. They will never do this
II they have free access to it at all times.
II Is when they have been kept from it,
and SO have become salt-hungry, that
they will overeat. Salt is an essential
element of the blood, and is as neces-
sary to stock as to human beings. Many
OF thelr common foods are lacking in it,
and consequently it must be artifcially
supplied. We cannot tell exactly how
much they need, and so the plan OF feet
ing them stated amounts at stated times
Is wrong. Put it where they can get it
themselves, and they will take Just as
much as they need and no more.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES,
IL probably costs about as much to
iced cow which produces l5O pounds of
butter as one which makes 800 pounds.
A cement floor is not at all necessary
IN chicken-house il the location be a
dry one. Keep the floor Uttered, and
there Will never be foul floor.
Be careful to have good ventilation in
ihe DAIRY room during warm weather.
IT can best be kept open for this purpose
at night when the air is coolest.
BE sure to feed green corn to the cows.
In no other way can it be used TO nav so
well. Sweet corn is preferable until cold
weather; then field corn is better.
Have all the fowls roost in the house
II there is plenty of room, but let some
stay outside until cool weather IL the
house is crowded with all of them.
In the good time coming it is ouite
probable that shrewd dairymen will fur
nish darkened stables for cows in av
time and turn out to pasture at night.
1T pays to cut corn for fodder, it paws
to shock It well. A shock living in the
mud, with the rains beating upon il.
uoes not improve the nutritiye value of
the fodder in it.
Pasture in summer, clover and roots
IN winter, will improve the health and
Vlgor OF the stock. At 10 months of ace.
or outcherlng time, stock cared for as
about outlined will average 500 pounds.
Fresh milch cows in the fall of the