. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 13 of the stall. When the milking is finished release the nose without a word or a blow. Those who have tried the experiment of feeding beet pulp to dairy cows most satisfactorily consider from twenty to twenty-five pounds a head daily a suf- ficient amount of beet. With this pulp it is well to feed from twenty-five to thirty pounds of uncut hay and from three to five pounds of bran. There is no notice- able odor in the milk when feeding pulp, but too much pulp has the tendency to lessen the yield of milk as well as to im- poverish it. Some feeders have been in
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 13 of the stall. When the milking is finished release the nose without a word or a blow. Those who have tried the experiment of feeding beet pulp to dairy cows most satisfactorily consider from twenty to twenty-five pounds a head daily a suf- ficient amount of beet. With this pulp it is well to feed from twenty-five to thirty pounds of uncut hay and from three to five pounds of bran. There is no notice- able odor in the milk when feeding pulp, but too much pulp has the tendency to lessen the yield of milk as well as to im- poverish it. Some feeders have been in the habit of running up the pulp ration to seventy five or eighty pounds a day and this might be all right if they are pre- paring their stock for the shambles It is sometimes asserted that cattle and sheep require the eame amount of feed to a thousand pounds of live weight. This statement seems not to be well founded. In Eome experiments at the Iowa station the cattle consumed pounds of dry matter to a thousand pounds of live it, against an average of by the sheep. Both sheep and cattle were on full feed. The sheep made a daily gain of pounds to a thousand pounds of live weight and the cattle While the sheep ate forty-eight per cent more than the cattle, they also gained nearly seventy-five per cent more flesh. New Zealand authorities are determined at all costs to put a stop to the importation uf disc-use germs into that country. Re- cently a law was passed providing that bonee either in the piece or ground up for manure must be disinfected or thoroughly sed at the port of embarcation. Dr. h chief veterinary official [or Kew Zealand, statea that anthrax has been im- ported in ground bones, an outbreak of lady in New Zealand having been jack to a Bhipment of this sort. Care of Pigs. Pigs should be stirred about in their bed when two days old and be closely observed each day thereafter and made to take considerable exercise. The bed for the sow and litter
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