Show THE CATTLE tiling clint have licen ab it winter feeding tle the cattle must bo be well taken caro care of each day tho the first item of good caro care should always lio good warm building tor for shelter even in an old alil barn or of ilia tl old oil fashioned stylo style it is a not difficult ly by battening r cracks cr aka anil and by linin lining the walls walh and stuffing hay bay or straw between the inn inner erand and outer cinter boarding to bring them to a condition where water waler will not freeze in them unless there is that abari an all orion open barn cellar call ir under them if there is till tho first steps should be to board up lip tho the front froat of that that the cool air may not enter the barn throne the floor coor even a temporary ni bo boarding to bo be removed in tho the f n IT will vo well cf repay its cost before that timo time the next nest requirement is ia certainly good food and hero here a little more knowledge and a little more judgment is needed modell by many farmers they ought to know jj ii only what is ia good food but what is tile the best or what kinds of feed and ahat methods of feeding will gh gi e the best results suits not at tile tho smallest outlay but according to the cost whether the same saine br 1 largejr large 0 or small if ten cents extra estra ox ex penso pense for the daily feed will give twenty cents worth woith of increased income it should bo be given chemists aro are really read to prescribe well bal balanced arced rations compounded of such rough fodder as one may have hare with certain proportions of such grimins as they can buy conveniently but really they arlo ant to but little the individual character of the animal and its present condition should have much to do with it ti the le cow that is givin giving four or live five gil gal ions of rail mill a day not only naturally requires more food tho the one that is giving but four or five quarts but wants a different quality to supply the drain upon her system and each in in her tier turn differs from the one that i is 3 giving nu ilu milk out but is ia heavy with calf the TV ra tion sui suitable taLle for the heifer thit that has her first calf now would world scarcely be adapted to tho ilia old cow that has been heavily grain fell fed for a half dozen winters and tho the draft horse end and alo tko trot trotting tim ho horse beare are not to bo be fed alit alike ko the farmer should bo be able to balance his rations for himself lie he knows L that tho the poorer tho the quality of his rough fodder tho the more nutritious should be the grain ilien with it either cither in quantity or quality with early cut bright liy hay or rowen or ensilage ca lie ho should know that one feed a day should bd ba of coarser and drier fodder whilo while with hay cut when overripe or dried too much in the curing he should give roots or such grain rain as would world be ba sli slightly atly laxative and nd lie ho should know how to apportion it to the different animals if lie he docs not or if lie he does he should watch the food feed trough to se sea how much they vill v ill eat up clean and appear to relish and lie should watch tho the excrements to see sea how bow thoroughly that food is digested odi estea then lie ha should watch the growth and the performance at ilia pail to know when it ia kept e tnt uitto tha root ba pointy and lio lie will soon be able blo to b balance 1 n oe his 1119 9 rations and also to balance his bis books upon the right side although lie he may havo have to dispose of some socie of tho the unprofitable animals in order to tie do it it may bo be considered as proved that duriel during tho the short days of winter animals v will ill thrive quito quite as aa well with a hearty breakfast given after bayli daylight bt fed at two or three helpings hellings hel pings or as long as heartily eaten ani and another meat meal given before nightfall and fed in the tha same way ns as when given ahrea meals a day also that tho the habit of going to tho the stables and giving a last feed about 9 na as some farmers used to think was necessary ia 13 or of moro injury than benefit if the afternoon feed is of good quality and sufficient cien t in quantity it is proved that very coarse dry fodder or poor hay bay is ia more succulent and moro more easily ili digested when steamed at not too high it ii tempera temperature ture or when moistened tone with dovith hot water than when fed dry the question of profit depends upon tho the cost of doing this as compared with INA th value of fodder that might be eaten ind and cot digested it is proved improved that for cattle in warm barns it will pay to warm the tha water for them to drink if the cattle art ard worth v tile the tr tro wable abla there are some cattle cattie that do not pay for their keeping and could not be ba mada to do so by any amount of painstaking it is doubtful if warming warding water would pay for cattle in cold barns or allowed to stand long in cold yards governor hoard advocates warming witter water at W legs as better relished by tho the animals animas than lukewarm water it is proved that when cottonseed meal is ia fod fed the ilia manure madiare is increased iu in value by nearly is much and some say by more than tile tho cot of tile alio meal a and nil also that when wl hen not used in too lal large ga amounts it la is of benefit to tile the ani animals nials especially with poor fodder and mixed with two or three times its own bulk of w wheat heat arran l ran it is proved that it pays to keep keel tho the young stock growing in as well ns as in summer r it does not pay to havo have thorn thom gain two pounds in iu summer anti and lose ono one pound in winter it is u proved that the winter is tho the timo to handle hand 1 und train them so th thit it there will not boa bo a battle to conquer them when old older it is proved that plenty of bedding adds to tile the comfort or of the animals and thereby induces better belter 1 esulis from them and also adds greatly to the vain milne e of tho the manuro manure by absorbing the liquids Itis it is proved that regu regular flar hours for feeding I 1 are most important if tile best results are desired from the tha amount of feed given it is proved that all stock like occasional changes of feed even when ilia charge chango is ia not from poor to better american cultivator |