The Rural Voice, 1987-09, Page 11FEEDBACK
ON SHORTER MEN
AND ASSORTED
FARM PRACTICES
Gisele Ireland, in the July issue of
The Rural Voice, really did a good job
of making us shorter men feel good
— my father always said they put
good stuff in small compasses. 1 am
pleased that Gisele also made Super
Wrench feel good. I have felt sorry
for him at times. My wife and I like
all of Gisele's books, as do our staff
at Elfence Consultancy Ltd.
There are a couple of points I
would like to pass on to farmers while
I am writing. One: where would the
livestock head if pasture fences were
removed? The garden lawn. So why
do I keep seeing cattle, and above all,
sheep, on pasture that is so high you
can hardly see them? Cattle should be
followed by sheep; this keeps the pas-
ture in good shape. And cattle should
be on pasture no higher than eight
inches (even that is too high); sheep
on pasture no higher than four inches.
I will be told that you cannot keep
pasture that low, but you can, simply
by splitting the pasture into three
parts. We rotate 12 cattle and 28 ewes
around 14 acres, and are often asked
how we keep our pastures so nice and
green while using no chemicals.
The other point I would like to
mention is that on tests we did when
we brought the first hog nipple drink-
ers into Canada the hogs just did not
put on weight as well as they did with
a self -fill bowl.
Self -fill bowls can be dirty, I
know, but not if they are placed over
a cement slab about four inches high
and wider than the bowl. You also
need a water bowl that fills quickly
and directs the water over the float
area to flush it clean. The bowl should
slope forward away from the float.
With clean, fresh water, the hogs drink
more and show better gains like nature
intended. The closer we stay to nature
the better we will all be.
John A. Green
R. R. 1, Belwood
Address letters to The Rural Voice,
Box 37, Goderich, Ont., N7A 3Y5.
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