The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-01-06

I'D to tho best advantage is one of
1sfmportant points in practical feeding.
where land is high priced and feed
scarce, it will pay to cut up every particle
of corn fodder, and mix each bushel of
fodder with two quarts of bran, one
gluten meal, adding little salt and one
pint of linseed meal, along with two
gallons OF boiling water, or, if this can
not be ha use fresh water pumped from
the well. After it is mixed, pack it tight
and cover with some sacking, and let it
remain for several hours before feeding.
This will soften the hard stalks, and
every bit will be eaten. In feeding, give
but small fork full at first. After this
is eaten, give as much more, and after
this second lot is consumed, give hand
full of mill feed to each animal. This
feeding takes little longer time, but
every particle is eaten, and nothing is
lost.
The large mill diaries near the city
feed still slop in the place of water,
throwing the fodder into large vat and
mixing five gallons of slop with every
half bushel of fodder. Gluten meal takes
the place of corn chop, and if malt
sprouts can be gotten at ten or twelve
cents per bushel, they will be found
worth as much as the corn chop.
Good oat or even wheat straw, if clean
and bright, will be eaten By cattle with
gfsgT deal or relish. The waJ to feed
straw is to feed = little at time, just
after the mixed feed has been eaten up.
| II large fork full is thrown down to
each animal, it will pick out the best,
and the rest will be trampled under foot
and wasted. GIVE but L small furkfull,
and let it fed in the through in the
stable. There is no economy in feeding in
the yard. The weaker cattle will have
to give way to the stronger, and great
deal of provender that would otherwise
be eaten is trodden into the manure or
mud, and rendered unfit for food.
Where large quantities of fodder are
on hand and but lew cattle to consume
it, it will pay to sell the fodder at three
cents per bundle and buy mill feed to
feed along with what fodder is fed. BY
so doing the cattle will fatten and the
manure, if carefully saved, will be worth
the cost Of the mill feed. Where store
cattle or dry cattle are kept over winter
and the fodder is fed without mill feed
or meal, it is best to take all the knives
off the cutting boz but one. The fodder
will then be cut into eight inch lengths,
and can then be fed dvy-a bushel at d
feed. Feed il the stall, and all the
fodder will be eaten up, with the exceI
ton of the hard butts.
1t is poor practice to feed nothing bnt
straw or fodder. If it is not convenient
to mix the fodder. give one quart of brar
n mixed with enc quart OF corn aud cot
meal DRY after the fodder has been eater
III two feeds; ore half in the morning
and the other half at night.
Clover or mixed hay, if fed at all
should only be fed at night. FeeC
small forkful to each animal after thu
mixed feed is eaten. Save the hay unti
later in the winter, and When the cattl,
are becoming fat. they will relish thu
hay more, and less quantity will fattei
them.
In feeding cattle, do not forget Il
curry and brush them down once day
It viii! take but FIVE minutes TO curr.
and brush one animal, aud this time i
more than made up in the better healtl
and thrift of the stock.
The water should be drawn fresh from
the well, and not left to freeze over ant
become like ice water.
Ice cold y7ater must be warmed up b.
the extra supply OF feed. This means
loss of feed and & loss OF money to tn
feeder.