THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
755 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Automatic Pipette. — Where can I 
get the automatic pipette, illustrated in 
The R. N.-Y., page 695? At what price? 
Dutch Neck, N. J. G. d. r. 
R. N.-Y.—This is an English invention 
not yet offered for sale in this country. 
It ought to be made by some of our dairy 
manufacturers. 
Sorghum Ensilage. —I would like to 
know if sorghum would not make as 
good ensilage as corn; cattle of all 
kinds are very fond of dt. I would like 
to hear from some one that has tried it. 
Sweetwater, Tenn. r. n. r. 
R. N.-Y.—Let us have experience by 
all means. We know that sorghum has 
been used for this purpose. 
Heroic Moulting. —I am somewhat 
interested in chickens and winter eggs, 
but have had trouble in getting my hens 
feathered and laying before winter. I 
tried an experiment this season which, I 
believe, will assist winter egg produc¬ 
tion. I plucked the greater portion of 
their feathers about July 1. The result 
is that those so treated were feathered 
perfectly November 1, and laying eggs. 
My reason for this is to grow feathers 
while the weather is hot and eggs cheap. 
Nankin, O. p. m. 
Vai.ue of Acorns.—W hat is the feed¬ 
ing value of acorns as compared with 
corn and wheat ? 1 logs and cows are 
very fond of them. p. a. t. 
Rushford, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Acorns when about half- 
dried, contain in each 100 pounds (digesti¬ 
ble) 2 4-5 pounds of mu.scle-makers, 42 
of fat-formers and 2 1-5 of pure fat. 
Comparatively speaking, they are worth 
for feeding, 59 cents, when corn is worth 
31.11. Of course it is understood that 
this means only the chemist’s story. The 
bitter principle in acorns would be 
objectionable for cows, if given in large 
quantities. Hogs make the best use of 
them, and we do not think "the hogs 
swallow much of the shell. 
The Ralancei) Ration. —I am greatly 
interested in the articles. The Balanced 
Ration, and feel that many have been 
unable to hit the mark (although wish¬ 
ing to) through their inability to under¬ 
stand the various scientific terms. 1 have 
the analysis of different foods from quite 
a number of different sources, but the 
many different terms used have nearly 
burst my weak head while trying to fig¬ 
ure out a balanced ration for the poul¬ 
try. The articles in the past few num¬ 
bers of Farm Poultry, have helped us 
materially, but those in The R. N.-Y. of 
October 27 and November 3, have made 
the matter far more clear. I doubt not 
that when these articles are finished, a 
great many, at least, will know what a 
balanced ration is and how to balance it. 
Whitehall, N. Y. L. j. 
Cabbage Affecting Milk. —We keep 
only two cows ; one is a grade Jersey, 
and her milk was sterilized and fed to a 
young child of one of our city boarders. 
The child, which was about 10 months 
old, had no other food, and seemed to be 
in perfect health. One day, the mother 
came to me and said, “Mr. Whitford, 
how long have you been feeding that 
cow cabbage ? ” 
I said, “About 10 days.” 
“ Well, Carlton is not doing well. He 
has had some diarrhea, and has been 
quite irregular for some time.” 
“ Isn’t he teething ? ” 
“ No, I don’t think so. My doctor, 
who is a specialist for children, says 
that if children are otherwise well, and 
are properly fed and cared for, they need 
not be sick or out of order in any way 
on account of cutting teeth. He is not 
very bad now, but I don’t like to let it 
run so. The time of his bowel trouble 
just corresponds with the time you have 
been feeding cauliflower and cabbage to 
the cow. Can’t you feed something else 
till we can see what the effect will be 
upon the baby ? ” 
“The drought and grasshoppers have 
made it impossible to get any other suc¬ 
culent feed for the cow, and she won’t 
give much milk on dry feed alone. But 
in order to test it, I will get the milk of 
a grade Jersey cow ” (her doctor said it 
must be a grade Jersey) “of my neighbor 
across the way. His cows have the run 
of a pasture that had grown up before 
the dry weather.” 
To shorten this story, the change was 
made, which resulted in the immediate 
and perfect restoration of the child to 
regular and normal conditions, which 
continued for the remaining six weeks 
they were with us. i.e roy whitford. 
Chautauqua County, N. Y. 
Buckwheat and Bran. —Will it pay 
to sell buckwheat at one cent a pound, 
and buy wheat bran at the same price, 
or middlings at 31.20 per 100 pounds for 
feeding for milk and butter ? ii. s. 
Shushan, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—As a general proposition, 
we would say, yes. When you sell 100 
pounds of buckwheat, you part with 6 4-5 
pounds of muscle-makers, 47 of fat-form¬ 
ers, and 1 1-5 of pure fat. With the same 
money, you buy, in the bran, 11 % pounds 
of muscle-makers, 44)^ of fat-formers, 
and 2)4 oi pure fat. That is a good ex¬ 
change, because you get more mu.scle- 
makers, which are the expensive part of 
the food. If you could sell the buck¬ 
wheat to the mill and take the middlings 
and buckwheat bran back, you might do 
better yet. We would not pay 31.20 for 
middlings w'hen w e could get good bran 
at 31. Of course, this is only a general 
answer, as we do not know what you 
will feed with the bran. 
Sweet Potatoes for Feed. —In this 
year of short crops, a great many are 
looking for a substitute for corn. What 
is the value of sweet potatoes as feed ? 
I can grow 200 bushels of sweet potatoes 
on one acre of ground that will not grow 
25 bushels of corn. Sweet potatoes were 
as low as 20 cents per bu.shel. 
Eureka, W. Va. w. p. mct. 
R. N.-Y.—Corn and sweet potatoes 
compare about as follows in feeding 
value : 
POUNDS DIGESTIBLE IN 100. 
Muscle- Fat- Pure 
makers, formers. fat. 
Corn.7.27 6,3.40 3.29 
Sweet potatoes. 0.9 28.00 0.3 
From this analysis, it appears that 25 
bushels of corn will produce about 102 
pounds of mu.scle-makers, 888 pounds of 
fat-formers and 46 pounds of pure fat. 
The sweet potatoes will give 90 pounds 
of muscle-makers, 2,800 pounds of fat- 
formers and 30 of pure fat. Sweet pota¬ 
toes, as is readily seen, are very deficient 
in muscle-makers, and should be fed 
with clover hay and some strong grain 
like bran, linseed or cotton seed if satis¬ 
factory results are expected. They 
would probably answer better for fatten¬ 
ing hogs than for any other stock. We 
would like to hear from those who have 
fed them to milch cows—particularly 
what grain is fed with them to bring up 
the proportion of muscle-makers. 
Keep up that rasping Cough at the peril of 
breaking down your Lungs and Throat, rather let the 
afflicted immediately resort to Dr. D. Jayne’s Ex¬ 
pectorant, which cures all Coughs and Colds, and 
ameliorates all Lung Complaints and Throat-ails.— 
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