The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-30

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-1ahymts for You and Me.
Winteriitg Stallion. EsssE2
Keeping a stallion in Condition diifiite
the winter depends largely on his feeding
AS much VARIETY as possible Should be
introduced. He should be encouraged L
eat plenty Of rotghage Aid, His grim
'rations should be diversified. Washes
be fed in alienation or mixed with
crushed oats, and every feed Should ton;
tain chopped hay, which, as is we'll known
prevents boiling the food and insures per-
feet mastication.-Horse World. i
Fattening Poultry. ~
Many persons who keep fowls have nc
idea whatever how to proceed if they
want to fatten their birds. A dim idea
pervades their minds that they will flour.
ish and lay on flesh if they are confined
which they can htiddle tip in the danny
and filth and eht to their fiji Of the, food
which is periodically scattered amongst
them. But this is entirely opposed to the
experience Of practical iilid experienced
tened for market if it can be avoided: his
they rarely pay for THE time; tfvible and
outlay of money; secondls. the young
birds Of either sex sheuld lie separated
It is great niist!lke: too; to s,ibject fowls
to Il very extended period of fattening
as after they lire kept in close quarters
for long period many birds 90 off their
feed and lose flesh rapidiF. About
three weeks is Il fuir peri6d to estima te
for putting the final touches On their con-
dition, but the experience Of il practical
feeder will inform him when each bird is
'ripe:" Sweet Skim milk is preferable tt
water for their consumption. and soft food
is far more satisfactory in it's RESULTS than
grain. Some people cram theft birds arti
fio:ally with thick Cruel, which is forced
into the crops By d tube; though the prac
tice is too complicated for On ordinary
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Lime Express.
improved FSed. .~
Formerly we fed hay and corn iii the
most wasteful manner, and at prices OF
stock then ruling we made stock breeding
pay. but the decline in prices has induced
nlent, and this year thousands of acres
of corn fodder have been saved that here.
tofore have been allowed to 20 to waste
and thousands of tons of ensilage have
been provided rs rich green food, and
large manufacturers are making rich MI.
tritious foods of great chemical value to
feed with our more bulky farm food and
roughness to save the grain. Oil meal
and cotton seed cake, too, are being more
utilized than formerly, when our oil cake
was all shipped to Europe and our cattle
shipped there to eat it. Cotton seed was
for years allowed to rot as useless product
all over the Southern cotton fields; but
now the oil is used instead of lard and
the cake is found to be superior feed
rich in the essential qualities Of meat and
milk prOdCst England has, however
taken most of the product.
The Cheshire county council has lately
carried out experiments in the feeding d
cows, with view to testing artificial
foods for producing milk. Oats, anai5
Ihta}, bran stnd cOttuH cake will hay AVID
oat straw We're used The best results
were both in quantity and quality wheI
the cotton cake was used "a food rich. in
albuminoids), and the. least satisfactory
results when maize meal "a food rich in
carbohydrates, but containing a less guam
tity of albuminoids), was given. The cost
to produce butter was least when cottor
cake was used, and it was proved most de
cidedly to he the most economical food
and maize meal the most costly. An aver
age sample of the best cotton cake con
which is considerably more than any Other
feeding stuff in general use by farmers
The Royal Agricultural society's Journa
of September, 1891, published the result.
Of two interesting experiments made OF
their farm at Woburn, to ascertain thu
comparative feeding values of decorticate(
and undecorticated cotton cake. One was
made in 1880 OH Hereford bullocks, which
proved thd feeding properties Of decorti
Gated cake to be worth f3 lbs per to-,
more than undecorticated. and the other il
1891 OH Shorthorn bullocks showed q
saving of f3 IS i'd per tom
On this result DR.. Voe.cker adds The
superiority of the decorticated cake, both
for feeding and manurial purposes, was
thus clearly brought out by the expert
ments. The English farmer has always
uCCA pAOJUOeANCN N6NlAoN tso1AS AOVA IL
the form of meal. whereas i'll Germany j,
is more generally used than cake. amd
in Scotland it is also greatly in favor fol
feeding purposes.-Western Agriculturist
Keeping Potatoes in Winter.
Potatoes intended for winter storage
should be kept in temporary quarters as
late as possible. No better aud cheaper
way of handling them can be found than
putting them in piles of twenty-five or thir:
t. bushels each. when dug, and covering
with straw. II put i'll the cellar when dug
while thealays are still warm, there is some
danger that the cut and bruised tubers may
rot. As the earthais still full Of heat, the
potatoes may begin to sprout before cold
weather reduces the temperature Of the
cellar. If it is intended to put the pota.
toes in piles or bury them on top of the
ground, this should not be done until freez
ing weather is close at hand.
If potatoes are to be kept in n cellar
they must be put three or four feet deep on
the floor, care being used not to bruise
them unnecessarily Shutes for running
bulk potatoes into a cellar are not alvisa.
bic. They should be carried down in the
bushel boxes used in handling them, and
emptied with some care. There should be
good ventilation until extreme cold weather
drives the temperature of the cellar down
to 40 degrees, when care must be used. A