DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 'J'OO 



Remarks.— ThSil the whole flavoi of turnips is in the rootlets, I shoiild 

 hardly expect to be the fact, but that feeding them only after milking is the 

 more probable reason why the flavor is not retained. The plan is worthy 

 of a trial, and if the reasoning is not correct, the turnips can be fed to other 

 stock, while the milch cows can be supplied with something that has no partio« 

 ular flavor as parsnips and turnips have, making either an unsuitable feed for 

 cows while giving milk, imless the removal of the rootlets, as above, is foimd to 

 be of general application. 



Growing Stock, Pea and Bean Meal Better than Corn for.— 

 Much has been said of late years, as to feeding pea and bean meal to stock, as 

 though they were equally valuable for all stock which the autlior does not 

 think is correct, and seeing an item, in the Philadelphia Record, gi\'ing them 

 the preference over corn for growing stock, which so nearly agrees with what I 

 know to be the fact, I will give the item in fidl. It is as follows: " Growing 

 stock should not be kept in a fat condition, for the demand of the system is 

 chiefly for muscle producing matter. There is no concentrated material on the 

 farm that supplies the desideratum in full, and though nature has furnished 

 fanners with splendid agents for this purpose in the shape of peas and beans, 

 the opportunity is not improved. For early pasture or soiling after rye, a 

 piece of land broadcasted to tall-groTving green peas mixed with oats, is invalu- 

 able. The writer of this once kept a cow up to a flow of |milk till late in the 

 season by a succession of such crops, and that, too, on a piece of white sand 

 land. It is not known by some that if these vines are cut and nicely cured, 

 when just about to bloom, they will furnish a good crop of nutritious hay, but 

 if not cut at flowering time the leaves will crumble away. Ground peas or 

 beans are economical for feeding, owing to the great saving they effect. 

 Farmers are tempted to part with them at $2.10 a bu., and they often bring 

 more than that sum; but if we will stop and reflect that this meal, mixed half 

 and half with corn meal, will enable us to dispense with one-tliird the quantity 

 of hay, a great saving is made through the winter. For young calves nothing 

 can equal it. If the farmer has no convenience for grinding them, the peas 

 and beans can be cooked into a "mash " in the ordinary way, and if thus given 

 liberally to stock, especially the younger portion, will push them rapidly for- 

 ward. Pigs will grow fatter on it than on anything else. Young heifers 

 become matured several months sooner. By the use of pea or bean meal, 

 wheat straw (cut) can be used in the place of hay, and, taken as a whole, it is 

 almost a necessity on well-regulated farms. Bear in mind, as stated above, 

 peas and beans will not fatten stock as readily as corn, nor will the corn make 

 the stock grow as quickly as these. Hence in winter we should feed these arti- 

 cles together in order to get the best results." 



Remarks. — The author having been raised on the hard-pan hUlsinthe town- 

 ship of Holland, Erie county, N. Y., where corn even was not a paying crop, 

 something that could be more easily raised and in better paying quantities had 

 to be sought out; and it was found in peas and oats sown broad-cast, as the 

 above writer suggests, for the especial purpose of feeding to hogs, cutting up — 

 mowing — and throwing to them as soon as the peas were well filled, at which 



