The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06
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the same as horses from being overfed
with some food which cannot readily be
digested As it sours in their stomach
cows will show the characteristic lame
ness which results in horses when they
are overfed with anything. OF course as
digestion is interrupted. the animal be-
comes feverish and her milk flow ceases.
1t viii take several days of careful feed
ing to pat a foundered COW in good con-
ditiOn again. She should be kept in a
dry place and given all the water she will
drink, and light, easily-digested food in
small quantities until digestion is reStor-
ed to its normal condition.
Boiling Grain For Feed-The portable
mills for grinding grain run by horse or
steam power can generally be afforded
by farmers who are too far from mill 10
make it convenient for them to patron re
the miller. But there are some who can
not do this, or think they cannot, which
prevents it being done just the same
Boiling grain before feeding is the best
substitute for grinding it. The boiling
SWells the grain, so that less OF II Will
be eaten, and 1t cannot swell in the stom-
ach as II does when fed dry; The boiled
grain is for this reason less likely to fer
ment in the stomach. Even when meal
is fed IL is made much more digestible by
cooking it, or at least scalding it with hot
water before feeding it.
Litter in the Poultry House-The cheap
est material for making the hens lay is
litter. What the hens require in winter
more than feed is somewhere to scratch
and something in which to scratch. 4
large poultry house, with ample room on
the floor, and with a plentiful supply of
leaves or cut straw, will be more ac-
ceptable to the hens than anything else
Litter is valuable because it makes the
hens lay, and it makes them lay because
1t gives them an opportunity to work, and
thus accelerate the circulation of the
blood, promoting warmth and increasing
the appetite. All the food that may be
given will not promote egg production If
the hens are kept in idleness and given
no opportunity to scratch and enjoy
hemselves.-Exchang
Horse and Pig Manure.-Pig manure is
usually made from grain and is quite
rich, but it does not have so much nitro
genous matter as manure from the horse.
Hence il is slow to heat, while horse ma
nure ferme1ts too rapidly, and is apt to
tirefang. 1t is a good plan to mix pig and
horse manure together. This can be done
without trouble IL the horses are fed
whole oats and pigs are allowed to root
over the manure and pile as IT is thrown
from the stable. Where bedding is scarce
the bedding which has been wet by horses
after drying may be used as bedding for
pigs. But while it is so used the pigs will
be very careful not to mix their own eX-
crement with it,
Early Corn Pays Best.-In selecting corn
for next springs planting it should be
remembered that earliness to ripen is the
most important consideration. The Flint
varieties riDen usually earlier than the
Dent corn, which is mostly grown in the
west and south. We think, too. that Flint
corn in average years and on average
ground gives a larger yield of ripe grain.
On poor soil we have found the Dent corn
to give a great many soft and imperfect
ears, that can only be made of value by
feeding in the fall, instead of leaving
them to dry out and shrive up by the cold
of winter. There is much greater shrink
age of western corn from fall to spring
than there is in the Flint varieties which
are usually ripe and dry when husked.
Large and Small Breeds.-Where the
cheapest production of meat is desired a
small breed of hogs. maturing early, will
give better results than any of the large
breeds The kinds of hogs that will at
tain $50 to $50 pounds weight in nine
months are better than those which will
run up to five or six hundred weight, but
will require two full years to do it in.
Oqd Turkeys for Breeders-This is the
turkey killing season, and while the lar
gest turkeys are usually most salable, it
Is well for those who intend to continue
breeding to save two or more of the old
turkeys y second and even a third year.
Such turkeys will produce stronger and
thriftier chicks less likely to be tender
and injured by wet weather The wild
turkeys always mate with the old and
strong gobblers and in this way they at
tain greater hardness than has our do
nestle fowl.
Covering Manure Piles.-It is often
thought that little fermentation is in
progress during cold weather, and that
there is consequently little loss of am
Inonia This is not the fact where stable
manure especially that of horses, is piled
i'm heaps, Even when covered by snow
the manure pile will ferment so rapidly
that its central portions will be tirefanged.
Much of the nitrogen in such manure
evaporates and is lost. A supply of dry
earth should be accumulated in the fall
and thrown ever such heaps as they arc
made. 1t will have the further effect OF
preventing the manure from heating as