The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-30
HE FEE DER

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 1 examined a horse
that had died of an unknown disease
and found a quart or more of cracked
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
as 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 a correspondent to Breeders
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 Off
sets the saving effected. With the or
binary margin Of from 1 to cents per
pound between cost of feeders and
well finished beeves, the owner can
make no net profit if any waste or
SllpSLIOtl Incubus are IOlcEdltu.
Alfalfa Fed Hogs.
Considerable attention is now being
given to alfalfa. 1 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 1 visited
last winter, they SOW alfalfa, inclose
the field with q wire fence. turn in
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 every
season. The brood sows are put into
the alfalfa, there the young are born.
and there they remain. That seems to
he the perfection of profit in swine
husbandry. That would not be prac-
teal in winter in our climate, but 1t
would answer every purpose for the
spring litters.-Cor. Hoard's Dairyman.
NutriAnent In Hay and Grain.
The universal habit of feeding both
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 filling. 1t is true
that grain is concentrated nutriment.
but 1t 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
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 course there is nutriment in
grass and hay-it is not mere filling,
and we have always known 1t. 1t is
the young grass that is most nutritious
and hay made from grass before ii
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 tIIl cEcullcdl dOdiFSlS ERNPal0U
the fact. The younger the grass or
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-
creases and starchy matter increases
rapidly.
In Planting.
Don't plant anything on cold. wet
heavy soil. Drain it and tighten 1t first.
Avoid thin barked trees. like birch.
or wrap them with straw.
Mulch every tree for winter protec-
don
Insist on getting well ripened stock.
Cigarette Smoking.
Cigarette smoking in England dates
back to 1874 The great impetus to
their increased use was caused by the
Crimean war Of 1886. when numbers
of military and naval officers adopted
this method of smoking from the in
habitants of Russia. Turkey. Malta, the
Levant and other parts of Europe.