Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-17

hay In the morning, shredded fodder
at noon, and feed-rack at night.
FEED CROPS FOR THE COWS.
The well-known dairy farmer, Mr..
w. F. McSparran, in a recent address
to dairymen on growing feed crops
for cows said:
Theoretically, when / feed my cows
a full amount of good corn silage and
alfalfa hay my milk yield should be
satisfactory, but actually, / find that
my kind of cows will increase their
milk, giving II add some corn meal
to the bill Of fare, and increase still
more II in addition l furnish about
two pounds per day of oil meal per
cow. Hence while I am personally
very much in favor of the farmer
dairyman growing feed crops to the
fullest extent Of proven profit, en-
deavoring to do SO myself, yet to all
l grow / never hesitate to bring in
as supplementary by purchase any
feed needed and which my cows can
use at profit to me.
As there are wide differences in the
feeds OF commerce so there are also
In our grains, hays and folders, and
1t Is quite possible that the average
farmers first duty in the home pro-
duction Of feed crops Is to improve
bis standard crops to their maximum
feed value before he makes extensive
attempts to experimentation with new
for his favor. We may cut
our clover or timothy too soon or too
ate to secure its full or It's best nu
tritive elements. The simple curing
Of hay marks very wide difference
In quality between very good and
very bad.
l have no manner OF doubt that a
ION OF clover hay, being all one acre
could produce, Is OF materially less
'eeding worth than a ton from an
lcre having grown a three ton crop.
III conditions Of cutting and curing
n both cases being equal. l know
hat when I secure a crop Of one
hundred bushels Of corn per acre I |
lave more than twice as much feed
Is have II am so unfortunate as to
ret but fifty bushels per acre.
For the production of crops that
AIRY their feeding elements In the
most perfect proportions and condi.
'"ns. a properly balanced soil ration
md soil condition are unquestionably
Necessary.
Prominently the greatest feeding
ron OF America and the one thai
nell forever give us a commanding
'rs't'on IN the world in animal bus.
'andry. is our Incompatible corn. II
almost as wholly indigenous TO ALI
ARTS OF the United States as weeds.
PEA Fowl.
Can you tell me ANYTHING NJ tba
hating habits Of peafowl? have a
'a'r' BOUGHT last spring; the hen
as aid no eggs-at all events she
's hatched no brood. Is 1t possible
hat nv pair are not properly matede
'hev are three years old at least.-A.
''fhr"p. (Pea fowl are quite like
nreevs In their habits: II vcu have a
vale and female, they will mate in
Ne time: they do not always uro-
uce brood each season, some never
reduce a brood. You must watch
hem next spring and see where the
en- makes her nest. She will most
Fely hide 1t away where II win he
'f1cult to find 1t. Keep an eve on
or; IL the nest Is located, let the
Fss stay where she lays them; II
ne laws over Is In the nest (which
quite unlikely, take some of them
wav and put under a chicken hen:
Il the pea hen hatch the rest. When
be becomes broody, place food and
alter every day close to her nest
she can have plenty to eat when
he comes from the nest. Other than
lis do not bother her. II no eggs
70 laid. another season get another
en-; the one you have may not be a
'oducer.)-Country Gentleman.
FEED FOR WINTER EGGS.
m the matter Of feeding for eggs
winter three things must be con I
antly borne In mind. First, the !
sns must be kept busy a good part {
the day; second. they must be {
ven balanced egg ration with due
Gard to variety of feed; third. they {
ust have plenty Of charcoal, oyster
ellis and grit with some green stuff /,
clever hay occasionally. The DroAt