POTATOES FOR STOCK FEEDING. 189 



For Calf Feeding 1 . A few potatoes nicely cooked 

 and served in sweet hay chaff make excellent first solid 

 food for calves, i.e., for the youngsters after they are, say, 

 six weeks or two months old. The line to draw as regards 

 quantity is to stop at any signs of over-looseness in the 

 bowels. Potatoes are hardly good enough for fattening 

 cattle, which need something more concentrated and rich. 

 In fact, swedes answer better for oxen in stalls, as they 

 form a better accompaniment to rich cakes and meals. 

 But, as regards calves, why, by using potatoes judiciously 

 a good deal of milk may be saved, and all cakes. Crushed 

 oats really go best with the tubers; and by serving the 

 two, not only may the young herds be brought nicely on, 

 but that at a reasonable cost. 



For Pig Feeding. Here probably potatoes are more 

 profitably fed than to any other stock. Yet, thrown about 

 carelessly in the yard, raw and uncleaned, the animals 

 appe-ir little the better for them. Still, we have nearly 

 fattened porkers 011 the tubers, nicely cooked, and a milky 

 wash, and soon finished them off with the addition of a 

 little barley meal. Milk and potatoes go well together. 

 The former is astringent if served fresh, and the latter 

 sightly laxative; so they work together for good. Pro- 

 bably pork fattened on rnilk, potatoes, and barley meal is 

 of the highest quality made. There is no other root that 

 can be used for porking purposes, save potatoes, although 

 carrots, swedes, and mangold wurzel have been tried over 

 and over again, both uncooked and cooked. For sows 

 with farrows, for farrows as soon as they take solid food 

 or thereabouts, or for strong stores the tubers are most 

 wholesome, and are cheap enough in plentiful seasons. 



Potato Liquor. Singularly enough, the liquor pota- 

 toes are cooked in is not wholesome for any animals. It 

 not only upsets the bowels, but sometimes appears to act 

 in a pronouncedly poisonous manner. Again, if they are 

 not well washed before being boiled, the liquor contains 



