St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-15
COWS At PASTURE.

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We have never settled to our salts
faction whether or not it paid to feed
cows grain at pasture. The expert
ments in this line do not settle the
question for they do not take into con-
sideration the fact that all the gain
there may be from feeding grain does
not show itself Immediately. A horse
in training for big race goes through
months of steady preparation; . weeks
training does but little good. It is the
constant repetition of his work that
hardens his muscles and prepares him
for the final effort.
May it not be SO with cows which re-
ceive little grain while ut pasture?
Does not this grain keep them in bet
ter condition and prepare them for q
greater effort at giving a large low of
milk during the winter months or .
summer drought? We are of the opin-
ion that it does and believe that this is
why the experiments, in which one lot
Of cows have had grain for ten days
and another lot none, and then the
two lots changed about, have not
shown any material gain from the
grain fed.
Like the week of training for the
racehorse, the short trial of grain does
not prepare the cow for . larger flow Of
milk. 1t takes preparation for all great
efforts and cows that are. wanted to
give large and steady hoH of r,ilk for
ten or eleven months Of e1 pssf must
be prepared for it. Suppose that our
experimenters had taken two lots of
cows which had received only IN ofti-
nary grain ration during the winter,
and which had been given about an
equal quantity of milk, and upon turn
ing to pasture the grain was stopped
entirely to one lot, but fed all summer
to the next. would not the cows which
received grain give enough more milk
during the summer, fall and winter to
pay profit on the grain fed?-Practicsl
Farmer.
Japan Rice.
Those few planters VINO experimental
with Japan rice last season are well
pleased with the results, and . material
increase in the acreage planted will be
the result this year. We sometime ago
made q statement of the yield of both
rough and clean obtained by Green L
Shoemaker, showing it to be far in ad-
vance of the Honduras. A small amount
Of this rice was also planted by p. s.
Lowell, and the yield of rough was
fully up to that of Green 4
Shoemaker. The bulk of the crop
was sold to the Lake Charles
rice mill, Mr.. Lowell retaining only
twelve sacks Of the poorest-that
which had grown along the edge
Of the field, and was very badly mixed
with red. This he recently brought to
the mill for the purpose of having it
ground for feed, but Mr.. Pickett, desir-
ing to experiment with the japan Eice,
thought he would try cleaning andeee
what it would make. The twelve d0Ehs
weighed c.lOo pounds in the rough.
When weighing mp the output he found
that. he had 700 pounds head rice,
which, at cents. is worth 4ss; 400
pounds ,of line rice, worth ~ cent?,
SO; 200 of No. 2, or brewer rice,
worth IL cents, 8; total value
Of the cleaned product Of the
2.100 pounds Of rough, al. This
makes IN average Of 8.l5. per
barrel. Aside from this there was ,
quantity Of bran and Ao1r,
which is certainly IN exceptionally
6ne yield frow the rice that PAS con-
sidesed tataeiIab, except fcf 4kA&' The
Japan'rice turns o1t1 1fash hfRer per
cent Of head rice than doee the Hon
duras, and it commsuds higher pEies
in the market Mr.. Pickett informs ~
that the time required 70 cleaa II 8 not
more than two-thirds that Of the Hon
duras or Carolina The acreage there
abouts win b larger than last season.
and IL the experiment proves proper
- successful. It i safe 70 pre-
dict that another year viii witness .
large incre66e IN the acreage Of japan
Ua-) Signal.