Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1868 — Bran for Milch Cows. [ARTICLE]

Bran for Milch Cows.

Plain bran or ship stnff, says the Stock Journal, is oue of the very best kinds of food to increase the milk. It is not fattening. A steer- could not be fattened on bran, alone, and a cow, if fed on the best of hay and bran alone, might fall off ih her yield, unless her strength and condition were kept up by Indian meal or stronger food. — If there were anything in which there would seem to be no strength, it irbran; thtrrccre hull of wheat. It is not st-im-ulating, like brewers’ grains, and can certainly do no harm, .if it does no good; and yet any farmer who will make the experiment, will find—or, at least, we have found—that a cow being otherwise kept in a proper condition, her yield of milk will be very considerably increased by giving her twice a day a feed of pure bran. The fact is patent, although we are not able to explain it. If there is any one article, which, while keeping up the health and strength of the cow, will also ! increase the supply of rich,! healthy milk, in our experience it is cotton seed ckke meal.--s We have found this to have a great effect on the mill secreting organs. The cows at first do not seem to TelTs Hifi, a wilt should be mixed .with some-: other seed, but they soon cotoe j to li.£e it, and we have never seen any bad effects in any way. —Boys, did you ever think that a potato’s skin was designed to protect the mealy part from the action of the atmosphere, much as your own skin protects the more sensitive parts from the - air, and that you ought to be about as careful not to break the skin of a potato as yon are not to bark your own knuckles, or to bruise your choice winter apples? But who cares for a potato skin?— And so they are knocked and bruised, and barked, and people wonder they don’t come out mealy and sound. — y. 22. Farmer.

October Hints. —Earth up celery as it requires; cut down weeds, destroy insects everywhere, rake up leaves once a and put them in the manure heap, or by themselves and scatter soil over them to prevent their being blown away—and their' decay will make for pot-plants next year.. Tie up dahlias, chrysanthemums, tube-roses, and such other flowering plants I that may need it. —Practical j Fanner. j rub Well with sweet oil, and let tbe oil remain upon it fo|* forty-eight- hours. Then' rub with leather sprinkled unshrcked lime, finely powdered until all the rust disappears. hand that caii jnafcsi