THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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cattle. It is not so good a butter food as 
the corn meal. 
Value of Carrots.— What is the feed¬ 
ing value of 100 pounds of carrots ? 
READER. 
R. N.-Y.—As compared with clover hay 
at 815 per ton, 100 pounds of carrots are 
worth not over 20 cents for feeding. 
They sell in the New York markets at 
about half a cent a pound for horse feed. 
Carrots, like- turnips and mangels, have 
a value aside from what chemical anal¬ 
ysis would show— viz., that of “succu¬ 
lence,” which was mentioned i-ti last 
week’s R. N.-Y. Such foods help digest 
the drier parts of the ration, and tone up 
the animal’s system. They are also val¬ 
uable for giving a color to the cream and 
butter of dairy cows. 
Egg Food.— Horse meat is the best 
meat that I ever fed to hens to make 
them lay. The best egg ration that I 
know of, is bran middlings and potatoes, 
boiled, mashed and mixed for a morning 
feed, whole corn at night, and meat or 
cut bone at noon. That will make hens 
lay if anything will. C. d. m. 
Wilton, N. H. 
Laying Shape.— Mrs. Ida E. Tillson, 
the Wisconsin poultry expert, in a lecture 
to the students of the school of agricul¬ 
ture, had the following to say about the 
shape of the laying hen : “She should 
have rather short legs, but good length 
of body, and wide across the shoulders 
and back. She should not be fat and 
logy, but trim and active. The laying 
hen is the one that disappoints you in 
weight—that is, weighs more than you 
would suppose from her appeai'ance. 
Like people of the same build, she is full 
of life and vigor. She is an active 
scratcher and a good singer.” j. M. D. 
Red Hogs.— Will some one give an im¬ 
partial article on the Red Jersey and 
Duroc-Jersey hogs'? Many farmers are 
under the impression that they are the 
same. I wish to be enlightened as to 
their good and bad qualities. J. E. m. 
Alabama. 
R. N.-Y.—Let us hear from breeders. 
Pig Feeding.— At the Morristown, N. 
J., farmers' institute. Mr. James Chees- 
man gave these facts about pig feeding. 
He recommends this ration for shotes up 
to 100 pounds : 
Pounds. 
Bran. 30 
Middlings. 30 
Coarse linseed meal (new process) 20 
Corn meal. 20 
Total. 100 
Scald with boiling water. Add skitn- 
milk, one quart or more, for every two 
pounds of mixed g - rain. Feed three times 
a day as much as can be eaten clean. 
If you have no skim-milk, use four 
ounces more of linseed meal for every 
quart of skim-milk, and add one or two 
pounds of bone flour per hundred. Cost 
of pork will range from 3>£ to 4 cents 
per pound on dressed pigs of from 100 to 
125 pounds. In a pig experiment, 22 
shotes, bought on March 18, weighed 855 
pounds. They were fed three times per 
day : 
Skim-milk, 1,640 quarts, one-half cent. 88.20 
Bran, 310 pounds, 90 cents.. 2.79 
Corn meal, 500 pounds, 85 cents. 4.25 
Wheat middlings, 200 pounds, 85 cents. 1.70 
Total. 816.94 
Mixed grain was scalded with hot water 
and skim-milk added. Weighed April 18, 
pounds net. 1,570 
Original weight. 855 
Increase. 715 
Average gain, 32.46 pounds each. 
Food cost, 82.38 per 100 pounds. 
Average weight at start, 38.86 pounds. 
Butter ns. Beef.— It seems very 
funny to read of a farmers’ club devot¬ 
ing nearly an entire session to discussing 
the relative profits of butter and beef, 
without arriving at any conclusions, see 
page 775, of The R. N.-Y., 1894. I have 
just completed one week’s test of my 
Guernsey cow, Fantine 2nd, 3730, and she 
gives a very vivid answer to this ques¬ 
tion. She was fed 16 pounds of early cut 
hay, 30 pounds of cut corn stover, with 
about three pounds of barley straw; 
her grain ration consisted of 15 pounds, 
a mixture of corn, oats, bran and dried 
brewers’ grains, equal parts by weight. 
Below will be found the returns for the 
feed consumed : 
Pounds 
Per cent 
Butter 
Date. 
Milk. 
Fat. 
80 per cent i 
Nov. 15. 
. 44 
5.1 
2.6928 
16. 
. 43 
4.6 
2.3756 
17. 
. 41)4 
5.3 
2.6394 
18. 
. 42 
5.5 
2.7720 
19. 
. 43 
4.4 
2.2704 
20. 
. 44)4 
5.0 
2.6700 
21. 
. 42 
5.2 
2.6208 
Total amount. 
. 300 
Butter. .18.0410 
With butter at 25 cents per pound, we 
have 84.50, deducting the usual price— 
four cents—for manufacturing, pack¬ 
ages, and selling, we have still left the 
neat little sum of 83.78, or an average of 
54 cents per day. I would be pleased to 
have the “Farmers’ Club” produce beef 
figures that will compare with these. 
Of course this is not literally to the ques¬ 
tion, but I can see no sense in a farmer 
disposing of a cow just as she has arrived 
at her very best for profit. C. h. 
Nashotah, Wis. 
A Choking Cow.—My father and I have 
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diameter, secured at the ends so that it 
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the animal, one on each side of the head, 
while the third takes the rope in his right 
hand, steps in front, and, taking the 
tongue in his left hand, pulls it out 
towards him, so that the rope will pass 
over the roots of it. He then lets go of 
the tongue, and pushes the rope down 
the animal’s throat, at least four feet. 
The operation will seldom have to be 
repeated. To prove that the obstruction 
has passed into the stomach, give the ani¬ 
mal something to eat ; if the passage be 
clear, it will always eat. We have re¬ 
lieved over 50 head of cattle in this way, 
in the 30 years that we have practiced it. 
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