The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-05-01
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Beet pulp contains 90 per cent of
water. The 10 per cent of solid matter
is chiefly crude fiber, which is largely
1ndigestible by sheep, although excel
lent for cattle. The indigestibility of
the pulp by sheep is due to the wa
ter in it and as well to it's acid con-
dition at the time it is fed, says Amer
lean Sheep Breeder. The indigesti-
BILE part of it amounts to 10 per cent.
but as his is combined with a large
quantity Of water and is generally sour
when fed it causes excessive action of
the bowels by which much of the nutri-
ment is carried off undigested. The
safe way is to avoid feeding it to ex-
cess and provide some other food with
it which is rich in protein. Alfalfa
thus makes the best addition to it for
feeding sheep, especially when it is in
the form of hay, the dry fodder acting
as a reduction of the excess of water
in it. Cattle can be fed more easily
on sloppy food than sheep cam, and the
acidity of it does not affect cattle as it
does sheep. However, if the ration is
nCpI III uuC plopOI llOH anu OlIeE leeu
is added which contains sufficient fat
(Which is wholly wanting in this pulp
sheep may be fed profitably on it. Bran
or screenings which contain a consider
able quantity of fat will make a useful
addition to the pulp. But, on the whole,
this pulp is better suited to cattle thar
to sheep.
The Dat the King of Grains.
The oat is the king of all grains for
horses and equally good for cattle, hogs
and fowls, but as a feed for cattle it is
usually considered too expensive ex-
cept in small quantities to balance ra-
tons. For horses no grain can COM
pare with it. Oats practically yield
two crops = a crop of winter pasture
and a crop of g%rain-and are off the
ground early enough for a summer crop
Of something else. All over the south
western grain growing region the cur.
rent oat crop is very promising, and we
are very ~glad.-Farm and Ranch.
Shredded Fodder.
l have for several years fed shredded
fodder to cattle, mules and horses with
AA1SICuSluS COlnluellCc. ASlut lEO1u llS
greater convenience l consider it worth
double as much for feed and manure as
fed the old way. The corn l feed to cat
tie is ground, grain, cob and husk, in q
cast iron mill run by same farm engine
for s%hredding. l have used this
mill for twelve years, and it seems
about as good as ever.-J. d. Clardy In
American Agriculturist.
Mirth, Not Misery, Loves Company.
l have always doubted the PROPOSE
ton that misery loves company" and
have believed that such a statement
critic whose misery was but a pretense
and who was reckoning some other
sufferer into a quiet Aorner
where they could both be jovial on the !
sly.
However slight my knowledge of uni
versal misery may be, + can attest
from personal experience that my w
claims solitude and slips away
all by itself and turns the. key upon the
curious world, asking nothing SO much
as to be "let alone" l do not care to
weep in company, o would it cheer
me 10 have a chorus of other weepers
to sob in unison with me. Rather would
l remain in unmolested Indebtedness
until my tears had vanished and my
lyes and nose assumed normal appear
IT'S mirth then. and not misery,
pines for company. Fun cannot
alone and tiourishes only among
congenial spirits. Our laughter must
be shared, our smiles responded to. and
every glance of merriment needs recog-
milton to make it worth the WHILE