The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-10-24

half the entire expense for her main
tenance, and any saving on this cost
adds just SO much to her profits. While
no saving can be effected by putting
her on short ratiOns or by giving feed
of inferior quality or unsuitable COM
position, it is quite possible to make
an important reduction in cost by Civ
ing just the right kinds Of feed-thoSe
containing the different food elements
in the proportions in which the COW
needs them for her own support and
for tine production of milk. 1t requires
more skill and good judgment to feed
economically than to make good butter
and cheese Whether the feed comes
from pastures, soiling crops, silos or
grain, it must be abundant, palatable
and nutritious. 1t is always good econ
oEy to provide a cow with as much
food as she can be induced to eat with
out becoming too fat, and a COW which
is really a good dairy animal can rarely
be made fat while she is giving milk.
Pastures give a certain amount of
rOughage at the lowest cost, but need
to be supplemented by soiling crops
and silage, while no combination of
such feeds will enable a COW to do her
best without the addition of more or
aess concentrated food like grain
Farmers Bulletin No. ISL.
BENEFIT of CuItivatinE Pastures.
Very few farmers ever think OF Gull
,tiVadng pastures, and yet this may
proftably be done.
The director of the Iowa experiment
station says: The problem as our lands
become more valuable will be not how
to do with less grass, but how to get
more of it. Pasture lands may become
worn out or, what is more properly
termed, run out" quite as readily and
completely as tillable lands. No part of
the farm will yield better returns for
careful attention and good treatment
than the pasture. Some simple expert
mentS conducted in the Iowa college
Farm pastures have furnished striking
results in favor of pasture culture. The
application of ten quarts of clover seed
per acre, diSked and narrowed into blue
grass pasture in the early spring, in
creased the yield Go per cent over pas
lures Immediately adjoining that re-
eeived no treatment Pasture lands
THUS treated produce a heavier, denser
growth and better variety of grasses
and stand drought better, and the i'm
provement extends over several sea-
SONS. This treatment should be alter
mated with top dressing, applied pref
erably during the fall or winter. follow
ing with the harrow in the spring. The
best pastures are those that are never
disturbed by the pillow.
For Feeding the Dairy Calf.
The calf is what the dairyman has to
build his future herd from To neglect
the calf and let it simply survive is
poor economy. A very common type of
calf has a stomach bloated and distend-
ed and stnnted frame. The calf is
liable to gulp it's milk, and the result is
the milk lodges in the stomach in an
indigeStible cheeselike mass, and gases
form which bloat the stomach. Scours
are sometimes a result of this unnatu-
raj feeding. There is another type of
calf, with large stomach, but with q
we'll developed frame. The latter result
40 oSSOlApi1ohCo Wy oiiOWlHS Iue Call
to take it's milk in the natural way by
means of the calf feeder The calf, by
taking it's milk slowly. allows it to be-
come mixed with the Juices of the |
mouth and stomach and thus to digest |
readily. This sort of calf develops di- |
geStive capacity that is indispensable |
In the. cow with which you expect to
pay bills and send the children to |
school.-New York Tribune Farmer.
Alfalfa Meal.
Notwithstanding the high place |
which alfalfa already holds as a stock |
food, Kansan claims to have discov- |
cred a method Of greatly increasing its |
value. He has invented a mill to grind |
alfalfa hay into meal, effecting a saw
ing, it is claimed. of % per cent of its
value as food product.