The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-09-25
ENTERPRISE FURNITURE co.

/ centre to give slope outward TO all
the bundles. Increase shis pitch as
the stack rises, and finish off with
long hay or straw bound tightly to-
! gether around the pole an old wagon
tire placed over the top Of the stake
will help to keep the top from blowing
off in high winds.
The simple and lazy way to feed
stalks is to throw them down in the
/ yard and let the cattle eat what they
will of them and tread the balance in
/ to the ground, but there is lite money
in this way The most nutritious
! part of the plant is the stalk, which,
| as it is hard, the cattle will not eat,
and it pays every time to cut the fod-
der with broad axe or hatchet, if no
better machine can be had. But the
fodder cutters are so cheap now that
if one has only few animals to feed
he will save the cost of a cutter in one
season. He gets the full value Of his
fodder in feeding and has no long
stalks to bother when ploughing un-
der o.: in cultivating.
II will not pay to keep any stock
for profit on fodder or hay alone. I
cannot imagine a case when it will
pay to keep an animal that is not
gaining in weight or strength or pro-
ductive capacity. For any of these
purposes the concentrated foods are
! most essential. One of the best of
these, and, fortunately, also one of
the least costly, is cotton seed meal,
which has the wonderful popularity
that after having served as most i'm
portant food it's value as manure after
having been digested by the animal is
greater than its original cost as food,
being something like S25 ton.
Steers fed six to ten pounds of
cotton seed meal day, with all the
cut corn fodder they will eat, will lay
on flesh rapidly and return a handsome
profit to the feeder. Dairy COWS given
8 pounds cotton seed meal, 8 pounds
of wheat bran and all the cut corn
fodder they want, with water when
they want it, will give afull flow Of
rich milk that will make the finest
butter. Work mules and horses will
stand up to hard work if given plenty
of the fodder cut, sprinkled with a
! pint of cotton seed meal and four
quart measure of bran at each meal.
And remember, you get twenty-five
dollars worth of fertilizer in your ma
nure for every ton of the meal you feed
out.
When one has a large number OF
acres of corn to handle it will pay to
get machine to do the work. There
are many on the market. Some are
built like sleds, with cutting blades
on each side, are drawn back and forth
through the field and cut a row Of corn
as fast as the team will walk. These
are not expensive machines, and any
man can afford to own one. The Nc
Cormick Harvester Company has put
on the market a corn harvester which
cuts and binds the corn in sheaves,
thus reducing the cost of harvesting
very greatly. If with this machine {,
farmer has one of the new "Keystone
corn huskers and shredders he has an
outfit enabling him to handle hundreds
of acres of corn with comparatively
little help.
This last machine pulls the ear OF
corn off the stalk and husks it, crush
cs the stalk and cuts and tears it into
shreds, leaving it in the best condi'
tion for animals to eat. The ma
chine also by means of carrier auto
matically delivers the shredded fodder
in the barn loft or on stack. This
shredded fodder has been found by
carefully conducted feed trials to be in
every respect equal to the best timo
thy or clover hay.
| N. Fl. EGLEsToN, JR.