The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-10

and calf;-or, from ITO to 1872 pounds
of live weight in young Stockton from
70 to ITO pounds live weight on fatting
stock. We can also see that 80 quarts
of milk should give us % pounds growth
in calf.
This was the method commonly fol-
lowed, until recently, in Germany and
France, in settling the rations of cattle,
and calculating the produce which was
to be expected from the consumption of
certain quantity of feed. 1t had the
advantage of extreme simplicity, and
was helpful to the great number of
farmers who were unacquainted with
chemistry, and were little accustomed
to the more complicated calculations
requisite in the establishment of ra-
tions by scientific methods.
But these rules, sufficiently correct
for animals of an average weight of
800 to LOO pounds, with ordinary
mixed feed, and for medium produc-
ton, deviated greatly when applied to
animals under other conditions. They
gave too small rations for light but pro-
ductive breeds, and too large rations
for larger or less productive breeds; 80
that in practice it was necessary to
know how judiciously to modify them,
according to the circumstances of size
and production.
The rations, in fact, are not at all
proportional to the live weight, as many
observers have remarked. What prob
ably caused this error was that they
had commonly compared adult animals
in full Notwithstanding oxen, and
COWS in k,-with small animals of
light production; such as young heif-
ers, or wool sheep. In such crcum-
stances the small animals did not need,
in proportion to their live weight, 80
high feeding as the large animals of
rapid growth and very different proper
tions-such as the little Corsican horse
and the big Bourbonnais; the small COW
of Brittany and the large COW of Elan
ders; the nanny goat, or the eve with
lamb, and the COW in milk and we can
readily see that these small animals de-
mand proportionally more food than
large ones, because they give greater
product in proportion to their size and
weight. But we will revert to this sub
ject under the head of General Princi-
pies.
This practical method of feeding is
also often much in fault, because the
ration is made up of ill-associated ma
terials, and because these are used on a
false basis as to the nutritive equiva-
Tents, of which we shall soon recognize
the impossibility. The reader has
only to consult the following tables,
presenting the substance of the average
observations of different scientific and
practical agriculturists, in order to see
how these theoretic rules are nullifed
in the light of facts.
Here follow tables which we cannot
reproduce, conveniently, in a news.
paper. These tables exhibit, % the
live weight gained from 1000 kilos of
hay, or its equivalent; (2) the milk
production from different cows, of
various breeds and countries, for each
100 kilos of hay consumed; (3) the
quantity and kind of food required to
produce 100 kilos of pork,-live weight.
Next week, we shall summarize, par
TALLY, the facts shown by these tables;
and Mr.. Crevat's remarks thereon will
be given in full. All this, it should be re-
membered, is preparatory to the account
of Mr.. Crevat's own experiments, and
his own conclusions therefrom. 1t will
pay our readers to preserve the whole
in a suitable scrap-book for future refer
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