Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — live stock. [ARTICLE]

live stock.

Compelling Block to Eat Food, Animals can probably be wintered or -kept at other seasons on food that contains barely enough, nutrition to sustain life. But whenever this is the fact no profit need be expected from stock thus fed. 4 All the advantage to the farmer from feeding stock come from feeding more than is needed for barely retaining the same condition. There must be increase either of flesh, milk or wool before there can be any profit, and this requires generally good feeding. Stock Notes, Do you enjoy all your food without salt? How about your stock? Oats and corn ground together make a good ration for colts and calves. In a cold, open shed it will cost twice as much to feed store swine as it would in a place that is tight and warm. Sheep require the constant care of some one familiar with their needs

and habits if they are to be kept in large numbers. The Shropshire sheep is one of the mutton breeds, and gives a good fleece besides. If well fed, pigs that are six or seven months old will mak* nicer meat for the farmer’s table than that which is older. Some farmers boil pumpkins, corn, bran, potatoes and apples together in one mess, and the fattening pigs eat it till they almost burst. Tiie quality of the wool you sell dominates the price received, and good wool will not grow on starvation rations any more than good meat. Turnips are excellent for thrifty pigs. Milk is good for the sow as it is for the pigs, but give all the water they will drink also, and don’t put it in the milk, put it in the empty trough. Don’t feed the breeding sow corn or meal exclusively and don’t keep her too fat. Feed some clover hay, roots, fruit, bran, oil meal; otherwise she may eat her pigs or* refuse to own them. Give her a clean bed frequently. Excessively fat cattle are not as often seen in the markets, nor is that condition as much sought, as formerly, says the American Farmer. The uernand now is for early matured lean, or well marbled meat. Great bulk in fat is unprofitable, and feeders have come to understand this, and now cater to a demand that pays better and at the same time furnishes a class of beef that gives greater and more general satisfaction.