The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-08
STOCK AND THE s11o IN WALDO CO

From the Board of Agriculture Bulletin I
SOUTH BROOKS. When nv COWS and
cattle that l am fitting for mari I, ct
come to the barn first, begin to feed
straw and other coarse feed at nioht
but when they come to the barn for
good | feed all good feed, green corn
turnips, small potatoes, pumpkins. an
pies, etc. l feed straw, coarse hay and
| all kinds OF rough fodder the last thing
at night, and it is all gone in the morn,
ing. On my farm the corn crop is the
best fodder crop with the exception OF
grass, and it will stand the drought the
best OF any crop. Hungarian grass is
being sown in this vicinity very much
this year. The farmers like it yerv
much for mich cows, and | think Il
will be great help to the hay crop this
winter. l think we should raise all of
the grain we can on our farms, such as
corn, oats and peas, barley, Hungarian.
pumpkins, turnips, beets, silage. and
above all good lot of green corn to
| feed in the fall to all kinds of stock.
| This will grow your stock and increase
your manure pile, and the next year
you can raise larger crop because you
will have more manure. Joseph Ellis.
(AIember)
SEARsMoNT. never had success in
keeping stock in satisfactory condi-
ton when fed on straw, swale or
meadow hay, when fed long and dry.
Some forty, years ago, | had quite a
little stock to winter, and among them
yoke of oxen with which | wished to
do heavy winters work in numbering:
and was threatened with shortage of
hay. At that time, l cut some meadow
hay water grass OH my own land, and
after | had cut that, | had chance
! where L could cut some two tons of
coarse sWale grass, including some "bull
grass in neighbours pasture, about
as hard a lot OF looking stuff for stock
feed as could well be found. | made me
box OF convenient size and Shape, and
cut that coarse stuff into it with a hay
cutter, poured boiling water enough
over it to thoroughly wet it, then
sprlnkled corn meal over it and COM
pletely mixed it with a fork, then cover
ed the box with a thick blanket and let
1t stand some fifteen minutes before
feeding. This | fed to my oxen morn
ing and night, giving them feed at
noon Of long upland hay. The result
! was that every particle of it was eat
| en,-my oxen looked we'll felt well. and
came out in the spring in as good con-
dltlon as ever had working cattle do.
| | have reason to believe that the cook
ing such as it was) impaired but little.
| II any. benefit as far as nutrition was
concerned: but it softened and favored
| 1t, so that 1t was eaten with avidity. and
left no waste. For the last thirty years
have had so small an amount of waste
fodder that | have had but little occa-
| sion to continue the practice; but to
who have, and are short of hay, | be
lleve that the method will well repay
| the trouble. Otis ID. Wilson.
| NIFTY. | have no silo. but think of
| building one the coming season. |
| plant some sweet corn for the factory
and supplement- pasture feed with the
sweet corn fodder, together with some
meal, usually gluten and bran. This
season we have cut several tons of oats
green for feed. | think that during the
shortest days i'll WINTER COWS are better
| Oft not to be fed at noon. Give them a
| liberal feeding in the morning, of hay
and grain, and leave them alone until
tour or lalf-past in the afternoon, then
| repeat the feed. | should do the same
with sheep Geo. W. Namey
BROOKS. The most economical way
to feed stock is to keep them in good
condition at all times. 1t costs more
to feed half starved animal than it
does one i'll thrifty condition. A. b.
Stantial
MONROE. / think oats can be profit
ably fed unthreshed. to a limited eX-
tent, but where the crop is large and
the use varied, it will pay to thresh
All animals upon the farm can be most
economically fed by giving full meal
at once and allowing them to eat it up
clean, rather than to extend the meal
time over two or three fodderings. as is
| the practice of some. Horses that are
doing light work and receiving a grain
ration can be fed some straw with a
proht, thus leaving the hay for the cows
/ Roots are good feed, but hardly profit
aDl to raise expressly for stock feeding
Sc the small potatoes and some apples
when you have them but do not put
too much time and money into growing
! roots for feeding purposes. AS rule, we
are buying too much grain for our own
good. The margin Of profit from feed
ing purchased grain is not large enough
| to warrant any slack business methods
| IN buying or feeding E. c. Dow
GRANGE. Keep your Stock in a good
warm place, and feed them any kind of
rough fodder which you may have, and
supplement it with some kind of roots
and | think you will have no trouble in
getting satisfactory growth, especial
ly if you see to it that they have good
supply of pure water at regular inter
walls. All kinds of stock eat bog hay
with better relish this fall than | ever
remember to have seen them before, on
account of the drought, l suppose
Oscar W. Gould.
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