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January 22, 1921 
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Pasture and Bam Notes 
Bedding. —The longer I have to do 
with cattle the more of a convert I be¬ 
come to using plenty of bedding. I had 
occasion recently to visit the farm of a 
neighbor who ordinarily would he con¬ 
sidered rather a poor caretaker, yet this 
man raises lots of straw and uses it 
freely. His young stock and some of his 
cows were running in open sheds, with 
little or no protection from the weather, 
and with no grain ration. They were 
plentifully bedded, however, with clean, 
dry straw, and I do not recall having 
seen a bunch of cattle that looked more 
contented or in better condition. Just 
how much the bedding counted I do not 
know, but it always seems to me that the 
animal with a warm, dry bed has a big 
advantage over the one that lies on a 
bare, wet floor. 
Exercise for Dairy Cows. —We like 
to let all of our dairy cows out once each 
day. The nicest time to do this is around 
noon, or in the afternoon, as it is usually 
warmer at those times. We do not do it 
at these times, as we are convinced that 
a Winter dairy has to be kept quiet the 
greater part of the day if it is going to 
make milk. Accordingly we follow the 
practice of letting everything out right 
after breakfast, except on very bad days, 
while the barns are being cleaned. Then 
we put them back in and finish up our 
work as quickly as possible. We feel 
that we ought to be out of the barn by 
9 or!) :30, and not go back until three or 
four o’clock. When we are successful in 
doing this a peek in at the window will 
sight for a true dairyman. 
Feed Prices. —In our community re¬ 
tail feed prices have lagged far behind 
wholesale reductions. Apparently our 
dealers followed the market up, and now 
after having arrived at the top are re¬ 
luctant to leave. Up to a short time ago 
we were paying $70 a ton for oilmeal at 
retail, when the G. L. F. Fxehange de¬ 
livered price quotations to our station at 
$46. A few neighbors in one section of 
the town got in a couple of cars of this 
G. L. F. Exchange feed and immediately 
local retail prices took a tumble. The 
G. L. F. feed department is giving excel¬ 
lent service, and a man or two in every 
community should get their quotations as 
a check on the operations of the local 
dealers. 
The Price of Cows.— I have never 
been strong for theoretical inventory. I 
have always felt that the valuations that 
a man put on his stuff depended partly 
upon the condition of his digestion. This 
year a theoretical inventory would show 
the same cows that we were milking last 
year at this time to be worth at least 50 
per cent less than they were then, but 
we are not going to look at it this way. 
As long as we farm it we have to have a 
dairy. We know that our dairy today 
is a little improved over what it was a 
year ago, even though it wouldn’t sell for 
half as much. 
Husking Corn. —This year we are 
husking our surplus silo corn with a 
power busker and shredder. We will 
have in all about 500 bushels of ears and 
a great big pile of shredded cornstalks. 
These shredded stalks are something of 
a problem. They are not dry enough so 
that they are going to keep without mold¬ 
ing. I doubt if we can offord to feed 
them to our dairy or growing young stock. 
The only use that is left for them is for 
bedding. Thus all we get off the piece of 
corn is the ears. From a strictly dairy¬ 
ing point of view I am not sure but that 
we would have been better off to put up 
another cheap silo and fill it. 
DAIRYMAN. 
Carrots for Sheep 
All practical shepherds have learned 
from experience that sheep, and especially 
ewes in lamb, must be supplied with suc¬ 
culent or laxative feed if they are to 
thrive well in Winter. Constipation, 
from excessive feeding of coarse, dry, 
bulky roughage in the absence of feed 
that regulates the bowels, and when ex¬ 
ercise is restricted, kills thousands of 
sheep each Winter and early Spring. As 
a preventive of such a condition 2 lbs. of 
roots or sound corn silage should be fed 
daily to each adult sheep. Outdoor exer¬ 
cise also should be given by making the 
ewes walk to and from a distant field on 
which the day’s supply of clover or 
Alfalfa has been scattered over a wide 
surface. Roads will have to be opened 
with a snow plow to make such walks 
possible when snow is deep. Three or 
four miles of walking exercise daily will 
keep ewes in healthy, muscular condition, 
and roots, or silage aud clover or Alfalfa 
hay prevent constipation. Wheat bran is 
another excellent food, mixed with whole 
oats, to keep the bowels in proper work¬ 
ing order. 
It will be news to many shepherds to 
learn that carrots are excellent feed for 
sheep. We mentioned this to an old 
experienced sheepman the other day, and 
he said that he had never thought of car¬ 
rots in that connection, but liked vege¬ 
tables for his sheep, although he disliked 
the hand hoeing necessary in their pro¬ 
duction. That, of course, is a serious ob¬ 
jection, but wherever help is not too 
scarce and high priced, roots should form 
a part of the sheep’s ration, and we would 
especially recommend the feeding of white 
Belgian carrots. 
The value of these carrots for sheep 
feeding was first brought to our attention 
by mention of some sheep feeding experi¬ 
ments in a little Old Country book on 
sheep. It stated that a Mr. Blundell of 
Southampton, England, having noted the 
great value of Belgian carrots for the 
feeding of horses and pigs, decided to try 
them as a feed for early lambs, in eom- 
with Swedish turnips (ruta¬ 
bagas). He cut up the carrots with a 
slicing machine and placed them in 
troughs, side by side with troughs of cut 
turnips, and soon noticed that the lambs 
ate no turnips as long as the carrots were 
available. 
So well was he pleased with the effect 
of carrots in this preliminary trial that 
he next experimented with 100 lambs, to 
determine the quantity of oilcake and peas 
consumed by them when fed carrots, as 
compared with the quantities eaten in 
previous seasons when turnips were fed. 
It had been his experience that 100 lambs, 
when allowed as much as they could eat, 
in addition to turnips, consumed on an 
average four gallons of peas and 26 lbs. 
of oilcake per day, for a period of nine 
weeks, commencing at five weeks old, be¬ 
ing at that age fit for sale. To his sur¬ 
prise. the 100 lambs fed cut carrots in¬ 
stead of turnips and the usual allowance 
of hay. only consumed two gallons of peas 
and 14 lbs. of oilcake per day. 
His experiments showed that the ad¬ 
vantages derived from feeding lambs with 
carrots consisted in the saving of one- 
half the cost of oilcake and peas, and in 
the animals being fit for the butcher ear¬ 
lier. and attaining a greater weight and 
better quality at a given age, than when 
fed on any other root. The lambs of this 
experiment were the fattest and heaviest 
at their age of any turned off in an experi¬ 
ence of 20 years. 
Stock carrots contain about 12 per cent 
of dry matter, of which the greatest por¬ 
tion is easily digested sugar (sucrose and 
glucose). With proper cultivation, on 
suitable soil, 20 tons to the acre is not 
an unusual crop, and greater yields are 
possible. We hope, therefore, that these 
roots will be given a feeding trial, not 
only by the experiment stations, but by 
some of our readers who fit lambs for the 
butcher. a. s. Alexander, m. c. d. 
Lame Pig 
We have a pig about six months old 
that is lame in hind leg. just below gam¬ 
brel joint; it is swollen and looks pur¬ 
ple. Was lame in early Fall, then 
seemed all right, but now is lame by 
spells again. Is there any danger in 
using for pork? m. s. 
New York. 
If the pig is in fit condition for slaugh¬ 
ter. that should be done. We do not 
think anything serious enough will be 
found after death to prevent use of th 
meat, but it always is well to examine 
for tuberculosis. The trouble mentioned 
in all probability is merely slight chap¬ 
ping or inflammation of the skin (ery¬ 
thema). due to wet and possibly to filth 
in the pen or yard. a.s. a. 
sometimes show every cow in a string 
lying down and chewing her cud con¬ 
tentedly. There is no more inspiring parison 
