Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-02
DOES NOT FEED HAY.
Feed Cutter One of the Best Investments
He Ever Made.

Feed Cutter One of the Best Investments
He Ever Made.
Now, it may not be credited by ev-
erybody, but it is fact that we may
keep our entire stock upon the farm
through the winter in good condition
without a spear of hay. Grain with
cornstalks and straw for roughage will
bring them through in most excellent
condition.
One of the very best investments /
ever made was when l bought feed
cutter. got big one and found sec
ondhand sweep horsepower (which /
bought of a man who had replaced it
with an engine to run his thrashing
machine With for SIS This gave me a
good rig, one which has saved hundreds
of dollars in feed stuff, verify believe.
We husk out the corn. then through
the winter cut the stalks as we need
them, week or two ahead. This ma
chine has splitter as well as cutter,
and the stalks are so fine that there is
very little waste From experiment,
we know that our stalks, cut in this
way, mixed with grain and moistened,
will make as much butter, ton for ton,
as clover hay Don't believe it? Try it
and see. OF course | don't know what
your COWS may do, but | know what
mine did and do right along. There are
two reasons why we have given up feed
ing clover hay to our cows. The first
one and principal one is that we cannot
get it, the other is that considering
that clover hay has market value and
the stalks have not we cannot afford to
do SO even if we had the hay.
Now let me tell you exactly how we
feed these cut stalks We have place
fixed in one corner of our granary in
the COW barn, where the floor and sid
ing are made of matched stuff, where
we spread enough of the cut stalks to
make a feeding, in layers with the
ground feed, consisting of gluten meal
and bran This is moistened and SHOW
eled over until mixed thoroughly, then
packed solidly, covered closely and left
for ~ to "a hours. We generally keep
two feeds ahead. 1t is warm when fed,
and the COWS eat it greedily The cut
stalks, without the moistening and mix
ing, are fed to calves (after the first few
weeks), colts and sometimes to the
horses. The latter as a rule have bright
oat straw and grain ration composed
of bran, ground oats and corn with the
cob. A painful of this, three times a
day, keeps them in good order until
spring, when we feed hay as better
adapted to hard labor
My methods may not suit everybody,
probably not many. We do not expect
it, but believe if more attention were
paid to the feeding much might be
saved the farmer by way of marketable
products without in the least injuring
his stock. My young cattle are fed on
barley straw and two quarts day of
grain, consisting of bran, ground corn
and cob, with sometimes a small pro-
portion of oats or barley AS you see
bran figures largely in all my feed ra-
tions. | consider it Indispensable, both
from the standpoint of economy and
also the health of the stock All grain
is fed ground, which consider another
important item. The same amount of
ground does much more good than when
fed whole. Feed your horse on whole
oats, then on ground oats and see if you do
not agree with me. Many horses do not
properly masticate them when whole,
and they pass off entirely undigested, a
fact worth noticing even if they are
cheap. Sheep are very fond Of bean
straw, and it is an excellent way of util-
izing the refuse. Cor. Hoard's Dairy
man.