The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-06
Stock.


. The system of ensilage max es sum-
mer feeding practicable all the year,
and the case with which such food
lis digested makes it valuable. It is
laxative and it is appetizing. More
pounds can be grown to the acre of
such food than of almost any other
crop, and with the silo more stock
can be kept with greater profit than
by the older methods. Barns filled
with grain and hay for feeding are
no longer essentials.
A good farm mill will often pay for
itself in winters feeding. Grains
which pass through the animals
whole have not lost their nutriment.
and often the loss is sufficient to
twice pay for grinding the feed.
Sheep should have constant access
to salt, and this is the thing next in
Importance to plenty of good grass.
They need little every day; they
are inveterate lickers of it, and it is
conducive to their general health.
Have good stable for the stock,
but IL it is close and dark it is cheer
less and unhealthy; on the other
hand, if they have sunshine, a wind
which is cold and biting will rob it
of all it's benefits. Shelter and sun.
shine are two friends which work to-
gether most tremendously during
the winter. .,.f
Individual excellence will not per-
petuate itself in breeding unless the
sire has excellence behind him.
Even in cross breeding of two pure
bloods, while it produces the great
est excellence for the shambles, Of
ten better either of the parent
breeds, the cross can not be depended
upon to produce itself, and the next
generation of offspring will nearly
always prove a failure. Sires capa-
BILE of producing their kind are the
cheapest to buy.
Dairy.
Whether it be January or August,
much of the question of getting
profit out of the dairy often lies in
the ice supply. Now we may have
too much; then we may have none.
1t is just as easy to keep supply of
ice through the summer as it is to
have canned berries in the winter
season.
If you have COW which turns her
feed into fat let the butcher have
her; also, let him have the COW
which persists in going dry three or
four months in the year. A few
good cows are worth, more than lot
full of poor ones.
Neighbor A has a 800 pound butter
COW which nets him 500 year in
profits; he also has another COW
which eats up all the profits of the
first and comes far short of paying
for her keep. The two cows profit
him nothing. Do you know exactly
what each one of your herd is doing?
Suppose we have 200 pound but
ter cow whose product we sell at an
average price of 10 cents, and have
SKINNED milk to the value of $40;
our gross receipts are $40. Is it too
much to say that it will cost $50 ~
feed her, $40 for labor, and 50 for in
terest? Surely must we have better
cows than that If we are to receive
any reward for ourselves.
1t requires the incest breeding and
care to develop good dairy herd
and in the best there are blanks. Do
that any sort of person can build up
dairy herd.
Both wealth and success are with.
In reach of the dairyman who mas
tiers the details; these coveted
things are not to be got without toll
in any line. Think well before
abandoning your half developed
dairy business, for the possibilities
ahead are uuquestioned.
Poultry.
The modern poultryman feeds
about two pounds of ground green
bone to a flock of 30 hens twice a
week. No feed pays better.
Poultry raising is the one farm
industry managed by the women.
Is 1t due to this fact that this is the
most nrOf1t "a hla industry in the no.