THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8i9 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS-Continued. 
in bran or grain. Why ? It cannot be 
ground up fine enoug-h for the acids of 
the stomach to dissolve the nutriment in 
it. You can find some nutriment in saw¬ 
dust, but we do not feed sawdust to ani¬ 
mals, chiefly because they cannot g'et it 
fine enoug'h to dig'est. That shows you 
why chemical analysis does not tell all 
the story about stock foods. We can 
only hope to g'et returns for the parts 
the cow can (Vuje-st. 2. We advise you to 
send to Dr. .lames Law, Ithaca, N. Y., 
for a bulletin on tuberculosis—which 
will tell you all about it. 
“ Ai.most Pkk 8 uai>kt) ” TO DisnoK.x.— 
I am almost persuaded to dishorn my 
(luernseys. Several of the young cows 
are qiiite “ bossy,” and gore the others 
cruelly. l\Iy barnyard is small. One 
vahiable cow just lost a foiir-months’ 
calf. I wish TirK R. N.-Y. could help 
me to a conclusion. .j. a. n. 
R. N.-Y.—better irib out the “almost” 
and cut off the horns. We believe in 
“no horns.” We regard a horn on a 
cow’s head as a war-like weapon, of no 
service to animals treated as gently as 
good dairying demands. 
W.\iiT8 ON Catti.e.— On page 745 was 
an inquiry about removing warts from 
cows’ teats. I have a much milder 
treatment than to use caustic. I have 
a good cow that had a large seed wart 
on one shoulder blade, as big as a good- 
sized apple. I put lard on it once a day, 
and within two weeks, it had dropped 
off, leaving no sore or scar. The same 
cow had a long wart on one teat, and 
lard removed that in a very short time. 
Michigan. w.m. cole. 
Wheat, Raui.ey and Rkan. —Will it 
pay to exchange wheat at 25 cents per 
bushel for mill feed (bran and shorts) 
at per ton, to feed to stock hogs and 
brood sows ? Will it be more economical 
to have the wheat chopped, and give 
one-tenth for having it done ? Is barley, 
at 40 cents per 100 pounds, worth as 
much for feed as the mill feed at the 
same price ? r. a. 8 . 
Ox’egon. 
R. N.-Y.—At the prices named the 
wheat is worth more. It is best fed 
when chopped or crushed, barley, at 
40 cents per 100 ponnds, is worth about 
the same as average bran and middlings. 
If you had to pay for grinding the bar¬ 
ley, we think it would prove the more 
expensive food. 
SWEET POTATOES FOR COWS. 
The R. N.-Y., page 755, asks about 
sweet potatoes, and wants to hear from 
those who have fed them to milch cows. 
I wrote last summer about feeding vines 
which I fed with good results until they 
were killed by frost. Since then, I have 
been feeding the potatoes at the rate of 
10 pounds of potatoes to one of cotton 
seed, and one of corn meal, with very 
satisfactory results. In Australia, thoxis- 
ands of acres of the Maltese sweet pota¬ 
toes are planted for their vines alone to 
feed dairy cows, but all sweet potatoes 
are not equally good for feeding pur¬ 
poses. I give the analyses of the only 
two kinds that I raise. The first is the 
Spanish Bunch Sweet, and the second 
the Bunch Yam; both were analyzed 
by Prof. Ross of our Agricultural and 
Mechanical College : 
NO. 1. 
Ash. 3,73 
Pure fat. 2.42 
Fiber. 3,67 
Muscle-makers. 5,90 
Fat-formers. 84.^ 
NO. 2. 
Ash. 4,99 
Pure fat. 2.72 
Fiber. 3,88 
Muscle-makers. 2.23 
Fat-formers. 86.16 
However excellent sweet potatoes may 
be for fattening hogs, I think that they 
possess even a greater value for feeding 
milch cows, counting in the vines. At 
least, I shall double my crop another 
year, and bed in January, in a cold- 
frame, and when the slips are large 
enough to set out and there is still 
danger of frost, ■! shall feed them to my 
cows. We find that our cows when fed 
on either vines or potatoes, give more 
milk, make more butter, and the butter 
is firmer, of better color and quality. 
If we are to raise sweet potatoes for 
stock, we must not think of growing less 
than 500 bushels per acre. Bxit to do 
this, requires good land, well fertilized 
and cultivated, but above all else good 
varieties, bulletin No. 30 of the Louisiana 
Experiment Station gives the yield of 30 
different varieties, of which 31 yielded 
over 200 bushels, 25 made over 300, 17 
over 500, 5 over 000, and 1 variety made 
1,072.3 bu.shels. 
We hear a great deal about hard times ; 
but farmers who ha ve high grade J erseys, 
plenty of hogs, aixd plant a large area to 
sweet potatoes, will not starve, and 
ought to live well as long as ’possums 
keeix as fat as tliey ai’e mxvv. 
Dillburgh, Ala. c. c. i.. dii.l. 
IjUN<i (k)Mei,AINTS, RltO.NCHlTIS, ASTU.MA, &C., 
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Colds.—Adi;. 
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