St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-06-12
FARMER AND PLANTER.
CHAPTER ON LIVE STOCK.

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CHAPTER ON LIVE STOCK.
Something About the Anlnnals Raised M
Kept on the Farm.
THE HORSE.
Unless able to do his own training
and driving the man of moderate mean,
should not attempt making = race-win
ner out Of every promising colt upor
tie place. The development and cam
paigning of PAGERS or trotters by anna
teur ow n ers, is luxury that none but
the wealthy can afford.
We have but about one horse to five
persons in the United States, and very
few Of them suitable for the market OF
city trade. Modern inventions decrease
their use upon the farm, and in the
city their calls are continually increast
ing. With the large export trade es.
tablishcd now, and with this rapidly.
growing industrial demand, the quesr
tion is: Where will the good horses
come from?
Geld the colt if you have any doubt
about his being well enough bred t.
keep for stallion; by no means give
him the benefit of the doubt Nc
question but that there will be plenty
of stations without him. In every way
possible avoid being : carterer to the
general habit Of raising scrubs twill
require = united pull to raise the
standard Of breeding where it should
be, and every man keeping or patroniz
ing an inferior horse adds to the pei
cent. of poor stock. The best is none
too good in the market to-day, there
fore breed only the best.
1t Is not accidental that oats, the
grain which, next to the whole wheat,
is best for furnishing growth to the
muscles. should have always been
the favoritc food for horses.
They are better than wheat for ami
mails. except man. if properly pre-.
pared. 1t is the large proportion OF
hull which makes oats superior for
horse feed, as the hull distends the
nutriment and prevents it from com
pacting and heating the stomach.
Dat grain not only contains q large
amount of heterogeneous nutriment, but
it has besides q certain stimulative sub
stance. which is peculiar to the oat
THE cow.
Six herds of mich cows on private
farms in Connecticut were selected To
make . study Of the rations fed to
them. The number in the different
herds varied from IA to 10, there being
95 cows in all. Two-thirds of this
number were either grade of pure
Jerseys and Guernseys. The tests OF
four herds lasted II days and of two
herds five days A station assistant
was at each farm during the test,
weighing the food eaten and the milk
produced by each cow, taking samples
of the feeding stuffs for analysis, test
ing the milk Of each COW for every milk
ing, and making = record of the breed,
weight and stage Of the milking
period. Any uneaten food was weighed
back.
Analysis Of the feeding stuff were
made 1T once, and the weights Of nutri-
ments of the rations as fed
were calculated. For three herds
other rations were suggested
by the authors, and the owners
gradually changed the food to the ra-
tions proposed. In each case four
weeks after the close of the first test
another twelve-day test was made for
each of these three herds, and a COM
parison was made Of the yields of mi k
and butter ut with the two different
The average daily ration per 1000
pounds live weight WAS of digestible
protein, 2.53 pounds, Of digestible fat,
so.s pounds, digestible carbohydrates,
Ftp aa.7t pounds Ths afl|t II milk and
1876 pounds Of milk, and SOC pounds Of
day for the food way 5f.6 cents; per 100
pounds for the milk. Sl.29, per pound
for the butter, y # The largest
yield Of milk and hi targest butter
production followed the use of narrow
rationSrich nkrtol kANide rations
low in protein did not favor large milk
or butter produce1cA. The following
ration is tentatively, suggested rs :
mrsaepa a9an}s; lEeestible protein,
2 IS pounds, and enough digestible fat
a1Efl9lF5304ate1So bring the fuel
value mp to shout 81, 600 calorics.
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