Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-10-04
T H E E E D R

1t Is a bad practice to feed large
quantities Of cracked corn to horses
for a great length of time. 1t wears
out the inner coating of the stomach.
A few years ago | examined a horse
that had died of an unknown disease
and found a quart or more Of cracked
corn among the intestines, says a writ
er in the Farm Journal. The corn had
worn through the stomach.
Feeding Cattle without Hogs.
My experience of twenty-seven years
as a cattle feeder in eastern Nebraska,
where corn and hay are about as cheap
as anywhere In the country, justifies
the assertion that there is seldom any
profit in feeding cattle without hogs,
writes q correspondent to Breeders
Gazette. BY grinding the corn and
mixing 1t 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 Off
sets the saving effected. With the or
binary margin Of from 1 to 2 cents per
pound between cost Of feeders and
well finished beeves, the owner can
make no net profit II any waste or
slipshod methods are tolerated.
Alfalfa Fed Hogs.
Considerable attention Is now being
given to alfalfa. / believe It will
prove the most profitable crop the farm
ever produced. To the dairyman who
combines the growing of pigs-as is
very proitably done this promises
much in the production Of cheap pork.
In southern California, where I visited
last winter. they SOW alfalfa, inclose
the field with a wire fence, turn In
their pigs and feed nothing else. They
That, In connection with water, grows
the pork. The pigs see anything
else In the line of food. Some 100 acre
fields turn out carloads Of pigs every
season. The brood sows are put into
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-
IDEAL In winter In our climate, but II
would answer every purpose for the
spring litters.-Cor. Hoard's Dairyman.
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
khA nrrfrfpnnnt To oil Tn tho nratn aud
that the hay Is only filling. 1t Is true
that grain is concentrated nutriment,
but 1t does not follow that the hay or
grass from which 1t 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
the taste of grain, and even horses
have lived and worked for years with
out grain, says a writer In Farm and
Ranch. In the early days of Texas,
when grain was scarce and grass
abundant, Texas horses lived on grass
alone. OF there is nutriment In
grass and hay-it Is not mere filling,
and we have always known II. 1t Is
the young grass that Is most nutritious
and hay made from grass before 1t
gets too old. But grass can be too
young to be nutritious. In just what
manner the composition of grass varies.
however, according to age, could not be
known till chemical analysis revealed
the fact. The younger the grass or
forage crop the greater the percentage
Of water and Of protein. As 1t grows
older. the percentage OF dry matter in
creases. the percentage of protein de-
ereases and starchy matter increases
rapidly.