780 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



to have it eaten close by the time clover begins to blossom ; then 

 all the stock should be transferred to the clover, which will bear 

 heavy stocking for two or three months, by which time the per- 

 manent pasture will have made a good growth for fall feed. 



To provide against drought or supplement the feed when 

 frosty nights come, he should grow some extra crops to feed 

 the stock if needed, and there is nothing so cheap for this pur- 

 pose as corn. I would not advise sowing it broadcast, or even 

 drilling very thickly, as I think more is lost in quality than is 

 gained in quantity, but it may be planted three or four stalks in 

 a hill, and with hills eighteen inches apart, and the rows wide 

 enough to admit the cultivator, and it will produce a large 

 amount of food to the acre. It is better to begin giving extra 

 feed before the pastures are too short and the stock checked 

 in their growth. Pumpkins will be found cheap and valuable to 

 be fed as the quality or quantity of the pasture deteriorates, and 

 if the Connecticut field pumpkin is grown all that will be neces- 

 sary will be to draw a sufficient quantity to the field each day, 

 and scatter them on the grass, as the cattle can eat them with- 

 out chopping. 



It is folly to keep cattle out on pasture after the cold storms 

 of winter have come, and the pastures are already eaten short, for 

 under such management not only do the cattle lose flesh and 

 begin winter at a disadvantage, but the pasture is injured, the 

 roots being left bare and unprotected, and it will not only be 

 later to start in the spring but poorer all the next summer for 

 such management. 



It is not safe to feed green corn to cattle in a field with 

 hogs, as the latter will chew the husk and stalks, and reject the 

 fiber which becomes indigestible, and if many of these cuds are 

 eaten by the cows, they often produce impaction of the stomach, 

 and cause inflammation and death. The owner should visit his 

 cattle weekly while on pasture, and inspect them and note their 

 condition. If salt is not kept in the pasture where they can 

 have free access to it, which is probably the best plan, they 

 should be salted regularly. If you find some that are unthrifty, 

 it is better to cull them out and sell them for what they will 



