The Country Gentleman Volume 5 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...know of nothing, except grass, that will produce so much milk, or at least that enablos the ewes to support their lambs so well. Will our correspondents give us their experience in regard to the inquiry of Mr. Wheel Good Yearlings. Editors Of Country Gentleman--In an article relating to cows, which I furnished for your paper some weeks since, allusion was made to four grade Durham yearlings raised on my farm without extraordinary keeping. The smallest three have this day been sold for slaughtering in Syracuse, for the sum of $159. On the 22d inst, the live weight of each of the fourt was: 1 steer, calved March 11, 1S53, 1.208 lb. 1" "April 2, 4-1.009" 1" "June," 1,000 lt 1 heifer," "7,"" Aggregate 4,240" They are not large, coarse, overgrown animals, but they are fine, compact, and, considering ngo, remarkably ripe for the butcher. They were ruined by two taking the milk of one cow until August, and then gradually weaned till first of Sept., when they subsisted on grass only till foddering time, when a small quantity of shorts was added to their hay, which was clover Last spring, my hay failed early, and they did not go to grass in so good condition as they should have done. During the summer past, they ran in n clover pasture--in the early part of the season good, in the latter part, very poor. About 15th Nov., they were put in the stable, where they have been fed corn stalks and straw, with an avernge of less than 3 quarts each of corn meal daily. Perhaps many will say there is nothing extraordinary in thi#. As great weight may have been made by others, but 1 have never known so much meat of so fine quality., made on so young animals at so small expense. I have formerly kept our native cattle, and wit...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...know of nothing, except grass, that will produce so much milk, or at least that enablos the ewes to support their lambs so well. Will our correspondents give us their experience in regard to the inquiry of Mr. Wheel Good Yearlings. Editors Of Country Gentleman--In an article relating to cows, which I furnished for your paper some weeks since, allusion was made to four grade Durham yearlings raised on my farm without extraordinary keeping. The smallest three have this day been sold for slaughtering in Syracuse, for the sum of $159. On the 22d inst, the live weight of each of the fourt was: 1 steer, calved March 11, 1S53, 1.208 lb. 1" "April 2, 4-1.009" 1" "June," 1,000 lt 1 heifer," "7,"" Aggregate 4,240" They are not large, coarse, overgrown animals, but they are fine, compact, and, considering ngo, remarkably ripe for the butcher. They were ruined by two taking the milk of one cow until August, and then gradually weaned till first of Sept., when they subsisted on grass only till foddering time, when a small quantity of shorts was added to their hay, which was clover Last spring, my hay failed early, and they did not go to grass in so good condition as they should have done. During the summer past, they ran in n clover pasture--in the early part of the season good, in the latter part, very poor. About 15th Nov., they were put in the stable, where they have been fed corn stalks and straw, with an avernge of less than 3 quarts each of corn meal daily. Perhaps many will say there is nothing extraordinary in thi#. As great weight may have been made by others, but 1 have never known so much meat of so fine quality., made on so young animals at so small expense. I have formerly kept our native cattle, and wit...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

Release date

May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 40mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

798

ISBN-13

978-1-232-05352-1

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9781232053521

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1-232-05352-X



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