THK LIVE STOCK OF THE FA1LM. 



1. Corn fodder newly cut and drawn from the field when green, cut 

 into inch lengths, packed into a common rough stone root cellar half un- 

 der ground, and weighted with 600 pounds per superficial square yard, can 

 be preserved, except adjoining such a wall, for an indefinite time in a con- 

 dition fit for animal food, at a cost not exceeding $1 per ton, exclusive of 

 cultivation. 



In competition with Swede turnips, ensilaged corn fodder gave fif- 

 : per cent, less milk, thirty per cent, less butter, and a poorer market- 

 butter in colour. 



Damayed Wheat can be very economically used in the fattening of 

 cattle. Nine pounds per head per day, gave a daily increase of two 

 pounds per head per day, at a cost of 4Jc. per pound to the live weight. 



4. Rice Mml, in the fattening of cattle, gave a daily increase of 1-81 

 pounds per head per day, by the use of six pounds per head per day, at a 



of about seven cents per pound. 



5. Barley Meal, in fattening cattle, requires a large amount of other 



i association, and 11 J pounds per head per day gave a daily in- 

 crease of 2'14 pounds per head per day, at a cost of seven cents per pound 

 live weight. 



0. Corn Meal took the highest place in a daily rate of increase in the 

 fattening of cattle ; nine and one-fourth pounds per head daily, gave 2'31 

 pounds per head per day, at a cost of 5c. per pound of the added animal 

 _^ht. 



7. Pea Meal gave the second best daily rate of increase at the least co*t 

 of all the rein ilar cattle feeding grains. Eight and one-half pounds per 



1 daily gave a rate of 2'28 pounds, at a cost of five cents per pound of 

 weight added to the animal. 



8. A pun- l>n-d Short-horn steer can be brought to a weight of 1,7<H 

 when one month under two years old, or a daily rate of increase equal 



pound> per day. 



I'T.-fonl grade steer calves can be made to average 01 1 pound* in 

 lays, or a rate of 2} pounds per day. 



10. Aberdeen Poll ^rad- steer calves can be made to average 7_o ll>s. 

 in -J7'> days, or a rate of t\\o and two-thirds pounds per day. 



11. huriii^ winter a 1 ,<)<)() pound steer will consume daily ten pound* 

 hay, thirty-nine pounds turnips, four pounds l.ran, and nine pounds < 



mi ^i-ain, upon which it will add -11 pound* to it> live weight. 



1- One pound of a<M ! \\. i-ht to a 1,000 pound steer can be obtained 



materials that contain eleven pounds of dry 

 chemically. 



