Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-02-01


quite a different proposition, as the
aalry animal has no layer of fat like
the beef animal to keep her warm.
For this reason, good barns should
be supplied whatever dairy COWS are
TO be kept A dairy animal does more
work than practically any other ami
mai on the farm and one cannot af-
ford TO have her food going to pro-
duce heat to keep her warm under
adverse conditions. A good, warm
comfortable stable should be sup
piled. The dairy COW is a factory
which uses a large amount of rough
feed, works it over, and gives milk.
the concentrated product. If then,
the animal is supplied with good raw
products, a large amount of milk can
be manufactured. Straw and poor hay
cannot make enough energy to much
more than keep up the body heat of
the animal, and of course there would
be no excess from which to make milk
Dairy cows should have a liberal al
lowance of good alfalfa and should
be fed in connection some grain and
roots. Ground barley, bran. or rolled
oats can be used to supply the grain.
The bran is protein feed and does
not balance the alfalfa nearly as well
as the barley, yet it is liked by
the COWS and is generally a part of
every dairy ration II has been
found however, that not more than
three pounds can be fed per day with
alfalfa with any degree OF profit.
The dairymen at Richmond found
that they could bring in corn and
feed II with bran and alfalfa to a
profit Carloads are purchased every
year and good results seem TO be OBJ
tanned where the cost is not over
sl2O per hundred. If some roots
such as mangels, could be added to
he dairy ration. it would help mater
i tally. as succulents of this kind are
needed by he dairy COWS. Keep the
dairy COW comfortable. give her al
that She can eat of good feed and il
she is the right kind of animal, she
E will return you very good profit fol-
" your trouble.
In he raising of horses in the west
we lose sight quite often OF the fac
. that colts if allowed TO run down anC
get in poor shape never make hi.
horses Size sells on the market ant
every hundred pounds over fourteen
hundred is generally worth about s2l
Al So hundred, horse flesh can b.
. produced 10y the farmer al a grea
profit Feed the colts well, gvin
the draft Youngsters some grain sue
int. ~
supplying them good pasture or rang
OF during the summer. If this is done
81 YOU might Just as well be selling 1.60
ii and LOO pound horses at four year
- old instead of marketing the lao
pound kind In feeding your wor
horses. too much alfalfa is general
10 fed, for il is very platable. and tn
horses learn to gorge themselves o
it, About one and a fourth pound
o., of hay and three.fourths to one pOun
-. of grain for every hundred pound
live weight of your horse will b
ny practically all that IS needed. !
~ some sections alfalfa is not liked a
horse feed. yet in practically all e.
periments il has been proven sup
rior. pound for pound. TO timoth.
when fed to work horses Oats
the ideal grain for horses. but bra
nv can be fed to advantage, and wheT
bran is cheaper than oats. one-ha
of the grain ration can be su
plied by this. Feed most of your ha
at night. so that the bulky food wi
l." be digested before the horse goes
nj work Give some hay in the morning
and hut very little at noon.
Feeding lambs is going to he
profitable business in the west. ar
or alfalfa hay makes a very good roug
or age for them. Along with this whea
oats or barley make very proftab
feeds In experiments conducted
,tc the Utah Experiment Station. LAM
is made the most profitable gains wh'
nv half.rations of grain were give
that is. only about half
be much grain is fed as u
ur feeds of the east would us
with lambs weighing sixty pound
about a third of a pound of grain
dav seems to give very good result
nd One advantage in sheep feeding
that the grains do not have to
sv ground. and the animals need
very little housing.
. The hog business is one which u
west is taking up to great extent a
one which is going to yield big prof
IN most of the farmers. Feeding
the biggc st proposition with hogs
Is the housing does not cost very muC
ht Keep the pigs growing by ieed'
such grains as ground barley
wheat or shorts. These fed WI
10 ekim.milk. alfalfa and some roc
& will produce pork at very low PR
" and will allow the farmer very nj
proat on his investment. Pork c
no produced at from to . cents
Mound and if the selling price Is
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