Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-11-02
HE FEEDER

1t is bad practice to feed large
quantities Of cracked corn to horses
for great length of time. 1t wears
out the inner coating of the stomach
a few years ago I examined a horse
that had died of an unknown disease
and found quart or more of crackei
corn among the intestines, says writ
er in the Farm Journal The corn had
worn through the stomach.
Feeding Cattle Without Hogs.
My experience Of twenty-seven years
where corn and hay are about as chean
as anywhere in the country, justifie3.
the assertion that there is seldom an,
profit in feeding cattle without hog3
writes a correspondent to Breeder
Gazette. By grinding the corn and
mixing it with bran or linseed meal
or both the waste is greatly reduced
and fewer hogs are required, but the
higher cost of these feeds partially OF
sets the saving effected. With the Or
dinary margin Of from to 2 cents per
pound between cost of feeders and
we'll finished beeves, the owner can
make no net profit if any waste or
slipshod methods are tolerated.
Alfalfa Fed Hogs.
Considerable attention is now being
given to alfalfa. I believe it will
prove the most profitable crop the farm
ever produced. To the dairyman who
combines the growing Of pigs-as is
very profitably done this promises
much in the production Of cheap pork.
In southern California, where visited
last winter, they SOW alfalfa, inclose
the field with wire fence, turn il,
their pigs and feed nothing else. They
are marketed directly from the alfalfa
That, in connection with water, grows
the pork. The pigs never see anything
else in the line Of food. Some 160 acre
fields turn out carloads Of pigs everv
season. The brood sows are put int
the alfalfa, there the young are born
and there they remain. That seems to
be the perfection of profit in swine
husbandry. That would not be prac-
tical in winter in our climate, but it
would answer every purpose for the
spring litters.-Cor. Hoard's DairymaE.
Nutriment In Hay and Grain.
The universal habit Of feeding both
hay and grain to domestic animals.
especially to work animals and those
producing milk, seems to have gen
Grated the belief in many minds that
the nutriment is all in the grain and
that the hay is only filing. 1t is true
that grain is concentrated nutriment,
but it does not follow that the hay or
grass from which it Is made is without
nutriment. Indeed, some hays and
grasses appear to be as nutritious as
some Of the grains. Herds Of cattle
and sheep on our farms and ranches
often live their lives without know,
have lived and worked for years witt
out grain, says a writer in Farm an. :!
Ranch. In the early days Of Texa".
when grain was scarce and grass,
abundant, Texas horses lived on grass
alone. OF course there is nutriment il:
gr~ss and hay-it is not mere filing.
and we have always known 1t. 1t is
the young grass that is most nutritiou.'
and hay made from grass before II
gets too old. But grass can be to-
young to be nutritious In just wa
manner the composition of grass varie
however, according to age, could not
knows till chemical analysis reveaiee.
the fact. The younger the grass CT
forage crop the greater the percentage
Of water and of protein. As it grows
older. the percentage Of dry matter IN
creases, the percentage of protein de
ereases and starchy matter Increases
rapidly.