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feeding liberally on apples, the hay should happen to be largely clover, then it 

 would be well to add a little corn-meal to the provender ; say, make it one- 

 third each, corn-meal, cotton-seed meal and wheat-bran." 



How TO Feed Apples to Cows. 



The cow that has her own way in eating apples, or potatoes, namely, picking 

 them up at leisure from the ground or low manger, unmolested, will seldom 

 choke. I often feed apples, especially large ones, whole, and am not in great fear of 

 accidents resulting from the practice. Yet, ordinarily I have the apples ground 

 through the root cutter, which undoubtedly is the better way. Thus the ground 

 apples, the cut hay or straw and the grain ration can all be mixed, and eaten 

 together. If I had no root-cutter I think I would chop the apples coarsely in 

 a large plank box, using a sharp spade to chop them with, or arrange the manger 

 somewhat on Mr. Woodward's plan here illustrated. He says : " If a pair of 



posts or stakes be firmly set in the 

 ground, or made fast to the floor like 

 a pair of stanchions, just far enough 

 apart to admit a cow's neck, and a hole 

 be bored just high enough so that a 

 pin put through will prevent the animal 

 raising her head quite level, it will be im- 

 possible for the apples to roll down into 

 the throat and choke her. (Fig. 1024.) 

 The same apparatus will prevent ani- 

 mals choking when eating potatoes or 

 any other food. What makes the animal 

 choke is raising the head so high that the pieces slip, by their own weight, into 

 the gullet." I think that the instructions and information, as here given, should 

 induce those among our apple-producing friends who have yet been in doubt 

 as to the advisability of feeding apples, to relieve the country of the otherwise 

 undesirable surplus by turning it into milk, butter and meat. Now, in its great 

 wealth, it is really a source of annoyance and loss. It can be made a source 

 of income. — Farm and Forest. 



Fig. 1024. 



Apples fOP Cows. — We consider apples as a cow food, well worth the 

 cost of picking up. We feed about a peck per cow twice a day just before or 

 after their grain ration. An increase of milk immediately follows such feeding, 



ceases when the apples give out. For grain with apples, we like wheat- 

 bran, corn meal and cotton-seed meal, 200 pounds bran, 100 pounds each corn- 

 meal and cotton-seed meal. Apples are a nuisance in a pasture where cows are, 



