The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-08

NN l. OAhNN an "Oulu II we started FEEDING IT tn
them while young and in small quantities. No
person knows how much cottonseed meal can he
safely fed to a horse, but we are safe in stating
that from two to three pounds per day NAV he fed
with safety and economy. 1t may also be argued
by some that the farmer USUALLY has the corn
but would have to buy the cottonseed meal. T
merely reply that he can better afford to sell
tour pounds of corn and buy two pounds of cot
tonseed meal than he can to feed a ration of all
corn and corn-fodder to a hard-working horse or
a growing colt.
A pound of cottonseed meal usually costs little
more than a pound of corn and is worth IL to
two times as much for feeding. Moreover, the
man who buys mixed fertilizers usually buys from
500 pounds to 500 pounds of cottonseed meal in
every ton of the fertilizer, and in so doing paws
about five dollars per ton more for the cotton
seed meal than if he bought it as such. We might
buy our cottonseed meal cheaper by itself, feed it,
save the manure and still get IS per cent of it's
fertilizer value.
PREVENTING COLO I'm HORSES.
Now, let us look at the manner in which we
feed. L suppose probably you have heard of a
man, who, when he went to the stable in the
morning to feed his horse, reasoned something
like this: L am going to drive Charley fifteen
miles to town this forenoon, and as he is a farm
horse, he is not accustomed to road work, and it
will be harder for him; therefore, I will give him
a little extra food this morning. You have prob
ably also known a horse fed in this way to be-
gin to "scOur" when half way to town, and on
reaching town developed a case of collie. How
should this man have reasoned? / think this
would have been more rationale am going to
compel Charley to do more work than usual with
his muscles this morning; hence, he cannot do as
uo,ob with his StOmocb and T will therefore
feed him less than usual. But some one says:
"That won't do, if you are going to work a horse
you must feed him." | agree with that, but we
must remember that the food Charley eats this
morning is not going to be digested and get into
his blood in time to kelp him do this forenoon's
work. You say, then, why feed him anything
this morning, and / reply that it would be in
finitely better to feed him nothing rather than
o~ver-feed him-better to leave the corn in the
crib than in Charley's stomach if he cannot digest
it. But Charley is accustomed to getting a feed
in the morning and we must give him a little to
prevent that weak, gone" feeling which comes
from going without breakfast. But a little feed
will do this, and it is, therefore, in no sense adj
visable to give him a full feed.
In fact. never give a horse a full feed on a
change of work, nor a change of food on hard
work. This rule should never be forgotten.
IMPORTANCE OF FEEDING REGULARLY.
Again, I have known men who had a headache
if they did not get their meals on regular time.
I have also known men who, if they went home
to dinner, and it wasn't ready, would raise a
racket with the madam about it, and yet, these
very same men are likely to feed their horses at
4.3O this morning, 500 tomorrow morning and
$50 or 600 o'clock the next morning. They ap-
parently forget that such irregularity may give