The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-29
an axe, that there is no question of the
sayinp."
THE s1LO A SUCCESS.

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Enquirer some time ago. But you can
say it is success. The ensilage is all
gone now, but it kept perfectly until all
OF it was used. The cattle and stock
were as fond of it as Of green food, and
the effects on the milk and butter we're
practically equal to June pastursge. To
my mind this experiment has fully de.
monstrated the fact that anybody can
have a silo at a very small cost, and it
will pay anybody to build one"
A MODEL COW STABLE.
DR.. Blacks COW stable ia q model Of
convenience and cleanliness. The build
ing is about twenty five feet wide, fifty
feet in length and two stories nigh.
Overheard is we'll stored barn, aud un-
derneath the cow stalls, twelve in num-
ber, six on either side. Each stall is
provided with q manger and water
trough, and system of piping running
through the building from the water
tower up in the yard, furnishes an abun.
dant supply of water. The droppings
fall on a plank floor, and carefully
cleaned up once or twice a day, are de.
posted on heap in the barn lot and
from there hauled away to the adjoining
fields and thrown off in piles.
THE SHETLAND PONIES.
In another stable, a short distance
away, is quartered number of Shetland
ponies. The animals are hale and hearty,
thriving we'll under the DOCTORS treat
ment, and the indications are that the
venture of raising them for sale is going
to prove success. So far there has been
two colts-one horse and the other
mare. 1t is the doctors purpose to keep
all the mares for the present and sell the
horses. He found ready sale for the first
colt at S75, and does not anticipate any
trouble of disposiDg of others at this and
even better prices. The doctor tells me
that it costs very little to feed the ponies,
and they do net require any extraordi-
nary attention. The Shetland pony is,
of course, a luxury only to be enjoyed by
people of independent means, but it is
this fact that insures better prices and
more ready sales. So we'll pleased is he
with the venture, that the doctor recently
added another pair to his herd by pur.
chase, and will probably add still others.
The outlook is that the business is going
to prove very profitable.
REGISTERED HOGS.
From the pony stables, DR.. Black con-
Quoted me to his pig pens. These lie
across the road, fifty or seventy five
yards from the COW and pony stables.
The pens are four in number. Each
takes up quarter of an acre, and lying
on hill eide, one end is high and dry,
while tho Other runs down to a low
meadow. Shelters are provided for the
pigs at the upper end of the peus, and
the pigs are able to seek whatever condi.
ton their inclination demands. In the
first pen are some registered Cheshirea,
weighing about 125 pounds each. In the
second are full blooded Essex pigs. The
third is given up to fine Berkshire SOW
with'young pigs, and the fourth is occu.
pied by common scrub stock. The doc.
tor is thoroughly familiar with the merits
of each of these breeds, but having
fondneas for fine stock of all kinds, pre-.
fers to raise number of varieties rather.
than con6ne himself to any one of them.
Speaking of raisings hogs, he said:
"This winter 1 killed seven hogs that
netted me 2O90 pounds, and ! never fed
them any corn until they were ready to
fatten. I don't know what you want to
feed hogs on corn for anyway. 1t won't
give them muscle and bone and make
them grow. 1t won't do anything but
fatten. You don't want to feed grow.
ing hog on corn. You want to give him
wheat shorts, buttermilk, ensilage and
wheat straw until you get him ready to
fatten, and then feed him on corn meal.
But better than anything else for feeding
hogs or cattle either, is the mangold beet.
On good land you can raise from 10 to
Is tons to the acre, and by proper care
and preparation, keep them through the
winter at very little expense.
"The mspgold beet is especially fine
food for cattle. They eat it with more
relish than anything you can give them.
1t is good butter producer and does not
taste the milk. 1t will pay anybody to
raise them for their hogs aud cattle, be-
cause they cost great deal less and will
20 much further than corn or almost
anything else you can plant"
CRIMSON CLOVER AND RYE.
"Now," said DR.. Black, "my friends
and neighbors around here call me q
crank. They may be right, but of course
1 don't think 80; anyhow, we will 60
over here and l will show you my hob
BY" A short walk through COW pas
ture brought US to ten acre field that is
just beginning to turn green. "This
field" the doctor explained, "is sowed
with crimson clover and rye. The Grim.
son clover consider generally more de-
sirable than the ordinary variety, and the
rye is sowed with it to keep it from lying
too close. By the Goth of April, the field
will be knee high and ready to NOW. I
will cut the clover and rye off and then
plant in corn for ensilage to fill my silo.
I am satisfied that am going to make a
nice thing out of this field, but in defer
ence to those who thiuk otherwise, all l
have to say is just watch and see the re-
suit"
IRISH POTATOES.
had heard that DR.. Black had been