Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. [ARTICLE]

LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.

Cofl-Nlrwct Ing Rat lona. The question is sometimes asked how well-balanced rations.are formed. All that is necessary is take from tables of analyses of fodder subtances in which are given the percentages of protein or albuminoid substajaces, the carbohydrates and fat and eonstruct by combination so as to secure the desired ratio between the albuminoids and the carbohydrates and fat, reduced to a basis of carbohydrates by multiplying by 25, combined. While this may be a little perplexing at first, it can in a little time be accomplished with comparative ease. In the case of average farmers, we hardlv recognize the necessity of resorting to any practice or giving special nations. Ca«ti Profitg on Hoj**. I do not feed any hay irom the last of September until the first of April, writes G. B. Ames, in Farm and Home. My corn fodder is kept clean and dry and fed to horses, cattle, and sheep. I have a Ross feed-cutter with four knives thirteen inches long which cuts up the fodder in half-inch lengths, ‘run by horse power. This cutter can cut 200 bushels per hour. An ordinary horse will require about six bushels per day, of which he will probably need one-half bushel for bedding, for which it is unexcelled and, for an absorbent of liquids, there is nothing equal to it, as the pith of the stalk is like a sponge. If 1 had room sufficient for my stock to run loose in box stalls I would let the manure stay there with the fodder, for there is no danger of its heating while being packed. It can then be taken up and carried immediately to the sod field or put upon winter wheat and not thrown out in a pile to burn up and wash away. The ears should be ground cob and all and fed to all kinds of stock, not merely crushed, but ground tolerably flue. Then

horses, cattle, and sheep will eat It up clean and not require more than three-fifths the weight they would if fed unground, as the cob takes up about one-half the space. But for the clean cash profits give me pigs. I have and can hgain take pigs as soon as they begin to eat slop, and grind their feed the same as above stated and make them weigh one hundred and eighty to two hundred pounds at seven months, on less than seven bushels of corn per head. At present prices, $4 per cwt, this gives me over one dollar per bushel for the corn. I have done even better. I canhot say this can be done on every breed. Mine are thoroughbred Poland China.