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The Prickly Pear and Other Cacti as Food for Stock
The Prickly Pear and Other Cacti as Food for Stock Author:David Griffiths Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Answers.— (a) I have it in my pastures, (ft) I have pear in my pastures, (c) Yes. (d) I buy it at 25 cents per load and haul it myself, (e) I buy my pear. It cos... more »ts me 25 cents per load of 3,000 pounds. I haul it myself. (/) I have pear in my pastures. (9) What is your estimate of the value of pear for milk production? Answers.—(a) I consider pear very valuable as a feed, and it is a good milk producer. It is very healthful to be fed with cotton-seed meal, etc. (ft) [No answer.] (c) It is far ahead of any kind of hay or forage, and mixed with meal or bran nothing can beat it. (d) Is a good milk and butter producer, (e) A very good feed when you have no roughage. (/) It does not pay to buy pear unless hay is scarce and dear. When sorghum hay is only $7.50 per ton, as it is now, hay is cheaper than pear at 25 cents per load when you have to haul and burn it. (10) After a crop of pear has been cut, how many years will it take for another crop to grow on the same land? Answers.—(a) About two; but this will depend a good deal on the season. Pear burners are discarded by some, for the reason that they destroy the plant. (6) The pear begins to grow the following year, (c) Three years, (d) It takes from three to five years to make good-sized pear, (e) I do not know, but think about two years. (/) About two years. It is very difficult to formulate a definite opinion regarding the effect of pear upon the quality of milk. There appears, however, to be a very well-established opinion that it produces blue milk if not fed with concentrated feeds. There seems to be a great diversity of opinion regarding the flavor of milk from pear-fed cows. Many maintain stoutly that it produces a slightly bitter taste, which is less noticeable when a good ration of corn or cotton-seed meal is ad...« less