Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-08-06

1t 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, ali
colts should be taught to eat cotton
seed meal while young, SO that it may
become 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 cowpeas, 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;
~ A. Light Work.
Is lbs. of corn or lbs. oats, III lba
cottonseed meal, IL lbs. timothy hay.
2-6 lbs corn or 5 lbs. oats, IN lbs. cot
tonseed meal, 10 lbs. red top or oat or
wheat and vetch hay.
S-6 lbs corn or lbs oats, ~ lbs cot
tonseed meal, Is lbs. corn slower.
- 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, III lbs. cottonseed meal,
IL lbs timothy hay.
20 lbs. corn, IL lbs. cottonseed meal,
SO lbs. corn, ~ lbs. cottonseed meal,
6 lbs. cowpea or soy bean hay.
As lbs corn, IN lbs. cottonseed meal,
10 lbs red clover or Japan hay
5--1O lbs. oats, IN lbs. cottonseed meal
10 lbs red clover or Japan clover, lbs.
corn slower
(s) Heavy Work.
LIP lbs. corn, 8 lbs. cottonseed meal,
10 lbs red clover or oat hay.
2-S lbs corn, 6 lbs. oats, IL lbs. cow
pea or soy bean hay, lbs. timothy or red
S--12 lbs. corn, Is lbs. alfalfa,
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,
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-haf gallons, while that
of the COW is about ffty-fve 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
day, at morning and at night but or
it is best to feed three times,
dividing the grain into three equal
portions
Animals should always have access
to good water before going to work
and upon returning to the stable, both
before and after noon, but the guam
tity should be limited when they are
in a heated condition. A supply of
salt should always be kept before
them.
Rules for feeding are of much i'm
portance, but the really successful
feeder must know his animals sufl-
ciently well to cater to their indi-
vjdual aDpetites.