The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-26

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Iii filing and the whole surface We'll
&rodden and left level it Will keep
nicely. There is no need of roof at
ball in this climate save for the pro-
Ntection OF the laborers who get OUT
*the ensilag7. I did not use any roo1
On mine because I want=d to test
this very point, and bought water
proof coats for the use OF the LABOR
$ers in bad weather.
! Don't buy cattle to fee dunless you
Don't buy cattle to feed unless you
know what kind of cattle will sell best
b-the beef type.
Don't buy cattle to feed weighing
less than $50 pounds. This is the
sinlit downward; 1000 pounds is the
proper minimum. There is more
ready sale and more profit in steers
weighing 1900 to 1900 pounds when
fattened.
Don't try to feed ordinary scrub
cattle, for they will not take on flesh
or sell as well as the blooded grades.
They will make as much manure and
as good manure, but the selling at a
profit is a true test which viii in the
end govern this business.
Don't feed damaged cotton seed
meal, for while it is perhaps as good
for Fertilizer it will not show the
same results in feeding as good
bright meal.
Don't fail to clean out the troughs
with a wooden paddle just before
feeding each time. This is import
ant to save feeds and to keep the cat
tie with an appetite.
Don't make the mistake OF having
your troughs too shallow, and be sure
to arrange so that you can elevate
them as the manure rises. MY
troughs are between the posts
which support the roof and use iron
-pins ive-eighths of an inch in dla-
meter to support the troughs. MY
troughs are IA inches deep and Chey
are too shallow. Deep troughs are
not e~~ertial in feeding ensilage. It;
:: >ie1!v necessary to have plenty OF
-. .>,>, ,o:r. for when the food is
.n,,r u :~a greedy animals shove the
Others 2s:t5a and it is only after each
ore :,os = lace within reach Of the
food that @3ay bagin to eat
Don't foro:t ne bedding. Unless
,o.,+,a are con- -ceh'e they will not
t::.,e on fat as they should. This
cans they ought 10 be we'll bedded
~ out in the open, except during
storm or cc,d rain. The question or
whether to feed in a barn or out in
the open must be decided by local
conditions. I know it will not do to
feed in the open on clay soils, but on
sandy land that will not ruin by being
nuddled there are only few days IN
each winter when the cattle Will not
do better outside than under cover
Don't expect to get the prices for
beeves that you see quoted in the pa
pers. These prices are for corn-1ed
Western beeves that always command
one fourth to one-half a cent per
Dound more than cotton seed meal
cattle.
Don't fail to recollect that you can
get information of the right kind from
the experts who are subject to your
call employed by Clemson. by the!
limited States government and by the
Cotton Seed Crushers' association.
Buying an ensilage cutter and en-
cine is along the lipe of cooperation
among farmers just as in buying a
sguano mixer. or threshing outfit. My
- horsepower gasoline engine cost a
little over $500 and the ensilage cut
ter with blower and elevator cost
s153.
Don't fail to prod your member OF
the legislature about tick eradication
and the moving Of the quarantine line
southwark. Only four counties ID
South Carolina are now permitted to
ship without quarantine restrictions:
Greenville, Pickens, Oconee and IN
ederson.
The lumber for the silos should be
dressed on both sides and it is better
to have the slaves in one piece rather
than spliced. There is bulletin is
sued by the department of agriculture
telling how to build them Mine cost
more than was absolutely necessary
:necause I bought the door frames and
doors when equally as good doors
oo,,75 he made bv saving the doors