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the milk, about the first of September; then begin to cut corn and feed 

 stalk and all on the pasture, letting the hogs and cattle run together 

 and the hogs will keep the cattle from getting too much corn to throw 

 them off their feed. 



Plant pumpkins in your corn and as you cut the corn haul a load of 

 pumpkins every day; break them in halves and scatter over the pas- 

 ture. You will discover that both cattle and hogs will leave the corn 

 to eat the pumpkins, which will so expand their stomachs that they 

 will have a big place to put corn in later, and they will not go off their 

 feed as they would if they had been fed corn alone. Also, the hogs 

 will lose their worms by eating pumpkin seeds, and both cattle and 

 hogs will have their systems cool and ready to eat large quantities of 

 corn later. 



As soon as cattle begin to leave stalks, then begin to snap corn and 

 feed in bunks, so that you can tell just how much they are getting, 

 and never let them leave any corn in the troughs after eating one hour. 

 After getting cattle on snapped corn, sprinkle salt all over it. Fifty 

 head of cattle will take a gallon each day. They will eat more corn 

 if salted and you will not need any stock food of any kind, for most 

 of the stock foods are one-third salt. Cattle fed in this manner ought 

 to go on market with a ninety days' feed of corn and be sold before 

 bad weather arrives in December, as you have had the best three 

 months of the year to feed in — September, October and November. 



If you ihave a second crop of clover to put them on, so much the 

 better, provided you are careful to not let them have too much at first 

 and when wet. 



A word about pumpkins: I planted thirty -five acres to pumpkins and 

 as I mixed the seed in planter boxes I was afraid afterward I might 

 have a thin stand of corn. Now for the results: I fed a hayrack load 

 of pumpkins a day for a long time, or until they were frozen so hard 

 I could not stick a fork in them; then I quit. I think there are ten more 

 such loads left in the field, but the hogs will eat all that is left. I 

 have fed (without weighing it) of the corn, so that we had about 

 thirty acres husked and put in the crib. I hired it all husked and paid 

 for two thousand four hundred and twenty bushels, — about half at sev- 

 enty-five pounds, the balance at seventy pounds per bushel, so that you 

 see the pumpkins did not hurt the corn much, but the corn did hurt 

 the pumpkins; it shaded them too much. This is not cattle feeding, 

 but relates to it. 



I will close with a few "dont's:" 



Don't buy young cattle for short feed. 



Don't buy any but high grades of beef breeds. 



Don't buy any with horns. 



Don't overfeed. 



Don't forget the salt; and it is better to sprinkle it over the corn 

 than to put it all in a box by itself. How would you like to eat a 

 meal with no salt in it and then go and eat as much salt as should have 

 been in it? You would not eat as heartily, would you? You would be 

 looking for the salt dish. The victuals would not taste as good without 

 the salt and you would eat less. So would the cattle. 



