| Show SOILING COWS dr L S wright of whitesboro White N Y has made some experience in soiling cows the following report of them 1 is 1 5 from the report orthe of the N Y cheese manufacturers association for 1864 the doctor made an interesting experiment I 1 peri le erimena ment last year by adopt adopting ing lug in part the system of green soiling for 30 cows twenty acres were employed for the purpose of producing food for these cows and were divided up in the following manner pasturage 15 acres clover 3 acres rye tye I 1 acre oats cats I 1 acre sowed bowed corn 1 acre the ahe rye is put in in the previous season by the laist last of f august or first of september and is is therefore ready to be nut cut early in the season following by the time this is used up the clover will be large to be used after that the oats which h are sowed bowed early in april the corn fodder comeslast comes last and different parts of this acre of land are sowed bowed with the corn so as to have a succession in food the earliest corn being put in by the at ath of may in this way the 20 acres were amply sufficient to keep the cows in feed until some time in october when they were turned into the doctor is of the opinion that the cows do as well if not better both as to health and yield of milk than th they ey would at pasture and that when land is valuable and arable or adapted to this system it can be employed with profit the cows were generally fed by 6 in the mornin morning and remained at their feed Teed about three hours when they were turned into the pasture and at 3 in the afternoon they were brought up and received their fore noo as meal to cut the feed and take charge of the cows it takes one man about half his time it may be observed here liere that it usually takes two to three acres of land to pasture a cow while by the system adopted as described above two thirds only of an acre sunn suffice ibe the system of green soiling is not generally understood nor are its advantages appreciated by the dairy farmer all experiments of this kind are valuable and are well worthy of thought and investigation vesti gation whether the smaller farms under this system may not be enabled enable to keep quite as much stock realizing more profit annually than fa farms ms of double daubl e and treble their size uns unE under erthe the ordinary method of culture dr wright grows man golds to some extent for stock feeding and prefers them to other roots taking the thu cost bf cultivation and the relative nutritive value in ae count account CLOUDS OF PIGEONS the atmosphere of cincinnati was lately disturbed by the flight of prodigious flocks of pigeons the whirr of whose innumerable win wings 0 s at times was heard like the rush of the winds through a leafy wilderness it is conjectured that this extraordinary movement of birds indicates the breaking ulof a pigeon roost in indiana the pigeons were flying roni from r oni the southeast to the northwest out of range |
