THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 9 
754 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Strong Food for Hens.—The It. N.-Y. 
has long - been convinced that most poul- 
trymen are feeding their hens too little 
protein, or the muscle-making foods. 
The average flock of hens has too much 
fat food. This means not only a waste 
of food, but the hens become too fat and 
lose their inclination to lay. One rea¬ 
son for this is that most of our grains 
and bulky poultry foods are fat. There 
is but a small proportion of protein in 
them. To balance a hen’s ration, it is 
absolutely necessary to add something 
from which almost all the fat has been 
taken. In order to do this most effect¬ 
ively, such a material should be fine and 
dry, so that it may be mixed all through 
the food. That is why Bowker’s Animal 
Meal is liked by poultrymen. This 
product is cooked, dried and ground 
fine, and as it consists almost entirely of 
lean meat, it enables the feeder to add 
just the needed elements to bulkier 
foods. The following feeding report is 
credited to George 8. Nissley, of Saline, 
Mich., a poultry man of considerable 
reputation : 
I have bred fancy poultry extensively for 12 
years, and during that time tried various ways 
of furnishing my fowls and chicks the requisite 
supply of animal food, but have found nothing 
so convenient, so economical and so satisfactory 
to use as Bowker’s Animal Meal ; the increased 
demand for it among my customers is evidence 
that they concur in my own views. I feed it in 
soft food. During winter my laying hens get it 
daily in their morning meal ; in summer, I feed 
more whole grain (mainly wheat and oats), but 
still aim to have them get soft food and Animal 
Meal two or three times a week. 
I mix it with the dry ground feed in the propor¬ 
tion of about one part Animal Meal to 8 or 10 
parts ground feed, and then thoroughly scald the 
feed, letting it stand and cook in its own heat an 
hour or two before feeding. For ground feed I 
have found that two parts corn, one part oats, 
one part wheat ground together, and then one 
part wheat bran added makes a very desirable 
combination. For chicks I have the oat hulls 
sifted out, and sometimes omit the bran, as it may 
prove a little too loosening when the Animal Meal 
is also used, as we always do, for I would not 
think of trying to grow chicks without it. They 
get it every morning. I find it advisable to use a 
smaller proportion of Animal Meal when first be¬ 
ginning to feed it, and increase the amount as 
they become accustomed to it. 
Feeding Leghorn Chicks. —First be 
sure to avoid inbreeding. Be more cau¬ 
tious with Leghorns than with other 
varieties, as it seems almost impossible 
to raise the chicks from inbred parent 
stock. Do not try to crowd. I like Leg¬ 
horn chicks with hens better than in a 
brooder, as more range can usually be 
given them. After feeding Brahma and 
Leghorn chicks at the same time, the 
Brahmas will enjoy a much longer siesta, 
and will seem quiet and happy, while 
the Leghorns can spare but few seconds 
at a time for this nap, and their natural 
restlessness and activity would lead one 
to think that they almost reached the 
unattainable—perpetual motion. 
I believe that the meat supply should 
be added to the diet after the first week; 
also feed baked or roasted potatoes thx - ee 
or four times a week. Of course we are 
always careful to have grit and oyster 
shells at hand. 8ealded sweet milk given 
instead of water for the first four weeks, 
cannot be excelled. Give only cooked 
food, bread, and johnny cake for at least 
two weeks, and be sure to add the meat 
or ground bone. Be sure to give them a 
coop or house that is dry, warm and 
clean. A well-bred, well-fed, happy, 
healthy Leghorn chick will make more 
rapid growth than any variety with 
which 1 am familiar, jennie galusha. 
Sweet Corn Fodder.—I raised Stowell's 
Evergreen for 8 or 10 years, and cured it 
for winter use. 1 have raised and fed 10 
acres a year on a 100-acre farm. 1 always 
thought it paid, as I was milking all 
winter, and could get more milk than in 
any other way, until I put in a silo, 
which 1 did four years ago. 
When I commenced raising corn for 
fodder, I bought a fodder cutter to run 
by power, as 1 had an old two-horse 
tread-power. I cut my corn before 
frost, and put it in large shocks, the 
larger the better, as it would not dry out 
so much as in small ones. The best way 
to make the shocks with the least work, 
was to put up a fence rail 20 inches 
from the ground on a stick of wood or a 
board with cross stakes at each end, and 
then set up all the corn I could each side 
of the rail between the stakes and get in 
a small rail at the top of the stakes on 
each side to hold it up. In doing this, I 
saved binding it into bundles. I left it 
in the field until I wanted it for feeding, 
and drew it in and cut it very fine, some¬ 
times cutting in straw and coarse clover 
hay, enough to feed a week. I have cut 
it in mid-winter drawn from the field, 
when the ears in the center of the shock 
would look good enough to boil for table 
use ; the stalks were not as dry and 
hard as when put in small shocks, and 
only the outside stalks were weather¬ 
beaten. 
I now have a silo, but I do not see that 
my corn goes much further than before. 
I feed the cut fodder morning and night, 
feeding hay at noon. I always feed some 
grain with it, but when the corn is gone 
and I feed all hay with the same grain 
ration, my cows shrink their milk. For 
the silo, I raise the yellow corn as it 
keeps better, but for feeding dry in the 
winter, I think the sweet corn the best, 
and the cows like it better. i,. h. w. 
Canton, N. Y. 
“A Balanced Ration.” —The Texas 
Stockman is guilty of the following : 
An exchange tells of a man over in Seward who 
went into his cow stable the other night and, by 
mistake, mixed the cow up a nice mash in a box 
of sawdust instead of bran. The cow merely 
supposed that the hard times were the cause of 
the economy, meekly ate her supper, and the 
man never discovered his mistake until the next 
morning when he milked the cow, and she gave 
down half a gallon of turpentine, a quart of shoe 
pegs and a bundle of lath. 
FEEDING STEERS IN INDIANA. 
THREE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS. 
Three different methods of handling 
steers are generally practiced in Indiana. 
Some farmers keep 8 to 20 square-framed, 
high-grade Short-horn cows, with a 
thoroughbred bull, and raise the calves, 
giving them the run of a Blue grass lot, 
generally including an orchard, and al¬ 
lowing them to suck the cow to their fill 
twice a day. They use the remainder of 
the milk and that given by cows whose 
calves are weaned, for home use, selling 
the surplus butter to hucksters, and feed¬ 
ing the skim-milk to pigs. These calves 
are weaned at 3% to 4 months old, and 
wintered on fodder, straw and clover 
hay, with rye pasture for open winter 
and early spring. They are sold about 
July at a little past two years old, and 
bring from $23 to $28 per head. They 
have had three or four bushels apiece of 
oats or shelled corn or bran, with a full 
supply of cheap food. The cows have 
more than paid the cost of their own 
keep and care in milk and butter. 
Another common method is to pick up 
yearling calves and keep them as above, 
with some stable or straw shed for severe 
weather. In the fall after 2% years old, 
they get grain (broken corn) enough to 
pass the winter, gaining flesh all the 
time. Towards spring, the grain is in¬ 
creased, and they come out on grass fat 
enough for market. After pasture fur¬ 
nishes a good bite, the grain is gradu¬ 
ally withdrawn and if grass is ordinarily 
good, a fat steer will continue fat and 
make a large growth on grass alone, and 
is sold in the summer just as late as the 
condition of the pasture will warrant 
He will weigh 1,350 to 1,500 pounds, and 
this year brought $5 05 a hundred. 
The third method is to buy cattle at 
the age of 2% years—called two-year- 
olds—for about $25 a head. These cattle 
are pushed all the fall, winter and 
spring with grass, fodder, clover hay 
and a constant grain ration, and are sold 
in July or August. They usually bring 
$75 to $90 a head, and weigh about 1,500 
pounds. 
The problem of steer feeding is not to 
produce the finest steer, but the most 
profitable one, and in competing with 
range cattle, everything depends on the 
cost of production. The most expensive 
thing on the farm is labor ; we pay about 
the same wages we did 15 years ago 
when we got five to six cents for hogs, 
$1 for wheat, and 45 to 50 cents for corn. 
During the war, two bushels of wheat 
paid a har zest hand his double wages ; 
now it takes two bushels a day the year 
’round. It is a very common practice to 
feed steers grain like broken corn, and 
allow hogs to follow. 
Prof. W. A. Henry says, as the result 
of experiments where corn meal and 
bran were fed to one lot. and shelled 
corn and bran to another, with no hogs 
to follow, that 51 cents per 100 pounds 
of gain in weight was saved by gi ind- 
ing the corn. In the next experiment, 
hogs followed steers fed shelled corn, 
also steers getting corn meal; hogs were 
also fed in a pen away from cattle—all 
the hogs were fed all the additional corn 
they would eat. This experiment showed 
a saving of 52 per cent on hogs running 
with steers fed shelled corn, and a sav- 
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