The horse and other live stock . fully grown, and in this state wasfound to possess nearly double the amount of albuminousmatter, so valuable to milch cows, of good meadow or uplandhay. Bran or shorts is also vastly improved by steaming orsoaking with hot water, when its nutriment is more readilyassimilated. It contains about fourteen per cent, of albumen,and is rich in phosphoric acid. Rape-cake was found to beexceedingly valuable. Linseed and cotton-seed cake mayprobably be substituted for it in this country. Mr. Horsfall turned his cows in May into a rich pasture,housing them at night, and
The horse and other live stock . fully grown, and in this state wasfound to possess nearly double the amount of albuminousmatter, so valuable to milch cows, of good meadow or uplandhay. Bran or shorts is also vastly improved by steaming orsoaking with hot water, when its nutriment is more readilyassimilated. It contains about fourteen per cent, of albumen,and is rich in phosphoric acid. Rape-cake was found to beexceedingly valuable. Linseed and cotton-seed cake mayprobably be substituted for it in this country. Mr. Horsfall turned his cows in May into a rich pasture,housing them at night, and giving them a mess of the steamedmixture and some hay morning and night; and from June toOctober they had cut grass in the stall, besides what theygot in the pasture, and two feeds of the steamed mixture aday. After the beginning of October the cows were kepthoused. With such management his cows generally yieldedfrom twelve to sixteen quarts of milk (wine measure) a day,for about eight months after calving, when they fell off in. FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT. 117 milk, but gained in flesh, up to calving-time. In this courseof treatment the manure was far better than the average, andhis pastures constantly improved. The average amount ofbutter fromevery six-teen quartsof milk wastwenty-fiveounce s—aproportionfar largerthan the average. How widely does this course on the rampage. of treatment differ from that of most farmers ! The objectwith many seems to be, to see with how little food they can keep the cow alive. From a correct point of view, the milch »cow should be regarded as an instrument of transformation. The question should be—with so much hay, so much grain, so many roots, how can the most milk, or butter, or cheese, be made ? The conduct of a manufacturer who owned good machinery, and an abundance of raw material, and had the labor at hand, would be considered very senseless, if he hesitated to supply the material, and keep the machinery at work, at least so long as he
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