Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1870 — Cabbages as Feed for Milch Cows. [ARTICLE]

Cabbages as Feed for Milch Cows.

I have had a little experience in this line,and am highly pleased with there suit; they come into feeding for milch cows after corn fodder has been killed by frost, and at a season of scarcity of other' green food; their value as a milk producing feed I think stands folly equal to any other green food I have ever fed; and the product that can be grown upon an acre is very large. Probably the most difficult part is the storage for winter use. To get the moat benefit with the least labor In storing and feeding, is the object (or should be) of those who raise any crop for green food for stock; hence it will be necessary to have some conveniences for storing and feeding the crop after it is grown. For myself, I think the feeding should begin ss soon as green corn fonder is injured by the frost; that is usually the last of September or first of October; the milch cows are then carried oa with a good flow of milk, which is much better than to let them fall and then try to bring them back by high feeding. I find that in changing feed we should begin moderately, ana increase as the animals get used to the feed, to the full amount desired to bo fed; then keep on steadily with that till another change is desirable, or of necessity most be made. Variety is of great benefit for all farm stock, and changes are often of great benefit to neat stock, more so than at first appears. The feeding of cabbages in connection with hay and meal, as proposed by “ A Subscriber,” will be found very beneficial.- at least each has been my experience for the past two years with them.— Correspondence Country Gentleman,