Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-11-12
STANDARD or REQUIREMENTS IN
PROPER FEEDING OF WORK STOCK
Mature Animals Require Certain Definite Amounts Of
Protein Carbohydrates and Fat In Their Food Supply
These Amounts Vary With the Weight OF the Animal
and the Severity of the Work Performed
tBy R. M. Murphy, University of Tennessee)

I it without any real difficulty by mixing
at first small amounts with their grain.
Since corn is likely to continue the
main grain ration in the South, all
colts should be taught to eat cotton
seed meal while young, so that it may
! become a regular supplement to corn
throughout their lives Cottonseed
meal can not be fed satisfactorily by
itself or with ear corn. Corn must be
ground into meal or ear corn may be
ground and corn and cob meal fed
satisfactorily with cottonseed meal
The latter is preferable.
If the roughage consists of hays rich
in protein, such as alfalfa, soy beans
or eowpeas, no cottonseed meal will be
needed to supplement the corn or
other carbohydrate roughages, or even
red or the other common clovers, must
be fed with corn, limited quantities of
cottonseed meal should be fed.
Cheap roughages, such as corn
slower and oat straw, can often be
used to advantage when animals are
idle or doing very light work Corn
slower is not a safe feed for horses
unless bright and clean and free from
mold.
The following rations are given as
guides in feeding working animals:
~ At Light Work.
1-6 lbs. of corn or 8 lbs oats, IL lbs
cottonseed meal, IL lbs. timothy hay.
2-6 lbs. corn or lbs, cats, IL lbs. cot
tonseed meal, 10 lbs. red top or oat or
wheat and vetch hay.
SO lbs corn or lbs. oats, " lbs cot
tonseed meal, Is lbs corn stover.
4-6 lbs corn, 10 lbs. alfalfa, soy bean
or cowpea hay
SIS lbs corn, Is lbs. of red clover or
Japan clover hay.
(2) At Medium Work.
1-9 lbs. corn, IL lbs. cottonseed meal,
IL lbs. timothy nay.
% lbs. corn, " lbs. cottonseed meal,
is lbs red top or oat hay, wheat or vetch
hay.
6 lbs. cowpea or soy bean hay
4-8 lbs corn, " lbs. cottonseed meal,
10 lbs. red clover or Japan hay.
5--10 lbs. oats, III lbs. cottonseed meal,
10 lbs. red clover or Japan clover, 5 lbs.
corn slower
(3) Heavy Work
LIP lbs. corn, 3 lbs cottonseed meal,
10 lbs red clover or oat hay.
2-S lbs corn, lbs. oats, IL lbs, cow
pea or soy bean hay, lbs. timothy or red
top hay,
These rations are computed for
animals of 1000 pounds of live weight.
If the animal to be fed weighs less
than 1000 pounds it will require slight
ly less, and If more than 1000 pounds,
slightly more than the above amounts.
The common rule for feeding horses
and mules is as follows: Feed one to
one and one-half pounds Of grain, and
also of hay per 100 pounds of live
weight The small size of the horses
stomach as compared with the cows
makes the horse much less well
adapted to the consumption of large
quantities of roughage. The average
of the horses stomach is only |
three and one-half gallons, while that |
of the COW is about fifty-five gallons. |
Most of the digestive troubles of work |
ing animals are caused by allowing |
them to gorge themselves on hay or
other roughage, especially at noon, |
when there is not time enough for the |
process of digestion to be completed. |
The amount of hay fed should always
be limited, and the greater part of the
daily ration should be fed after the
days work Is done.
Some successful feeders make the
practice of feeding grain only twice a
day, at morning and at night, but or
1inarily it is best to feed three times,
dividing the grain into three equal
portions.
Animals should always have access
10 good water before going to work
and upon returning to the stable, both
before and after noon, but the guam
.ity should be limited when they are
n heated condition. A supply of
salt should always be kept before
hem.
Rules for feeding are of much i'm
)ortance, but the really successful
eeder must know his animals suffi-
,iertly well to cater . to their indi-
Jidual appetites.