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‘Ike RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March IS, 1022 
WHY SUFFER LOSS 
FROM SICK COWS! 
Easy Home Treatment Keeps 
Cows Healthy and Profitable 
t 
Cows are pretty hardy animals. 
Practically the only diseases they suf¬ 
fer from are those which result from 
weakened vitality of genital or diges¬ 
tive organs. These, of course, are 
serious because they immediately re¬ 
duce the milk-fiow—and milk is 
money. We get scores of letters week¬ 
ly like this one from W. H, Lawson, 
Petrolia, Ont.. a dealer who sells Kow- 
Kare; 
“We handle a lot of ‘cow tonics’, ‘reg¬ 
ulators', etc., but when it is up to us to 
sell somethin IT we can guarantee, we sell 
Kow-Kare. Only last month, we saved 
a valuable Registered Durham cow valued 
at $250 with Kow-Kare. The cow retained 
the afterbirth and after ten dnys* doctor¬ 
ing the veterinary said to kill the cow. 
The owner happened in when we were 
recommending your Kow-Kare, and told us 
his trouble. We donated a box of your 
Kow-Kare and he came back in five duys 
for another box and paid for both.” 
As a sample of the endorsements 
w© get from cow owners themselves, 
read this letter from C. E. Dodfee, De- 
wittville, N. Y.: 
“Since I have been on the County Farm. 
I have been using Kow-Kare in the dairy 
for the last ten years. I have 62 cows. 
My experience is that a few dollars worth 
of Kow-Kare saves us a great many dollars 
worth of veterinary bills, and also every 
cow in the dniry that I feed It to produces 
more all the year thru because of the "Kow- 
Kare. I have no sick cows or trouble, 
when I begin feeding Kow-Kare, from 
the first of January until I turn them 
out in the Spring.” 
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as Barrenness, Abortion, Retained After¬ 
birth, Scouring, Bunches, Milk Fever, Loss of 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkle. 
Rye Feed for Pigs 
How does the feeding value of rye feed 
compare with wheat middlings for fatten¬ 
ing pigs, when mixed with ground corn 
nl the ratio of 1 lbs. rye feed or 4 lbs. 
wheat middlings to 5 lbs. corn? l’igs are 
also fed ear corn. Omitting (lie middlings 
and feeding only earn corn nnd skim-milk, 
w' nld pigs make ns economical gains? 
Now York. 1\ «. w. 
Rye feed, which jg a combination of rye 
shorts and luan, is a little higher in feed¬ 
ing value than standard wheat middlings; 
100 lbs. of the former would contribute 
74.5 lbs. of digestible nutrients, while the 
middlings would yield only 611.3 lbs. They 
are about equal in protein, although ihe 
middlings carry consid'-rably more fat 
than does rye feed. The rye feed would 
be scarcely ns palatable as I be middlings; 
yet, if mixed with ground corn and wheat 
middlings in the proportions that you 
have suggested, it would serve n useful 
purpose. The addition of 5 per cent of 
digester tankage, or 12 per cent of linseed 
meal would lie necessary to bring the pro¬ 
tein content up to the desired ratio. 
If you eliminate the middlings and rye 
feed, nnd feed only cornmeat mid skim- 
milk to mature pigs, your results will 
he satisfactory and perhaps (.he gains 
more economically put on. Use yellow 
cornmeal, however, if the pigs are con¬ 
fined in dry lots, and feed at least 5 lbs. 
of tankage with each 100 lbs, of corn- 
meal. The most economical gains would 
be established where not more than 5 lbs. 
of skim-milk are fed with each pound of 
dry grain. Milk should not be mixed with 
the corn, although the corn and tankage 
can be moistened with warm water and 
fed in the form of a thick mash. Since 
tiie war rye has been used extensively as 
a food rather than as a feed, and at che 
present time it is relatively more expen¬ 
sive than cornmeal. If the pigs weigh 
more than 100 lbs. it is not necessary to 
supply them with any wheat feeds; rather 
a combination of yellow cornmeal. tank¬ 
age ami skim-milk would best serve your 
purpose. 
Grain and Pasture for Cows 
T am feeding corn fodder, mixed hay 
and silage. At present prices of feed, 
could I improve the following ration for 
Holstein cows? 200 lbs. ground oats, 200 
lbs. bran. 200 lbs. cornmeal. 100 lbs. oil- 
meal, 100 lbs, gluten. 100 lbs. cottonseed, 
10 lbs, salt. 10 lbs. granulated charcoal. 
Am feeding 3*4 to 1. Also feeding soaked 
beet pulp. What is the value of charcoal 
in a ration? Could 1 substitute gluten 
for oilmen) and still get results at pres¬ 
ent prices? 1 have a pasture of about 
half an acre which has been a hog pasture 
the past Summer. 1 would like to make 
a cow pasture of it this Summer. Would 
I get a good pasture if I sowed Ilubam 
clover? Could lime he used to an advan¬ 
tage. and how much? How should the 
Ilubam he sown, with oats or alone, and 
how much per acre? Where do you ad¬ 
vise buying the clover? A. M. 
The ration that you arc feeding ought 
to give good results. T rather doubt the 
wisdom of substituting gluten feed for the 
oilmeal. Gluten fetal carries about 26 
per cent of protein, while oilmel yields 
slightly more than 35 per cent ; hence it 
would require about 10 lbs, of gluten feed 
to replace 100 lbs. of oilmeal. I should 
increase the cottonseed meal to 150 lbs., 
provided it is 43 per cent protein, or 
about 200 lbs. in ease it carries only 34 
per cent protein. If you could add 100 
lbs. of brewer's or distiller's grains you 
would add substantially to the variety 
and palatahility of this ration. 
Nothing is gained by adding charcoal 
to Ihe ration for cows of average pro¬ 
duction. Where they are under pressure 
and are yielding unusual amounts of 
milk it Is claimed by feeders that char¬ 
coal will absorb certain of the methane 
gas that develops during the process of 
digestion, and thus guard against possible 
digestive disorders. It does not contrib¬ 
ute any essential factor iu the way of 
food nutrients. 
Concerning the area that you desire to 
devote to pasture. I should use a com¬ 
bination of Sweet clover. Red clover and 
oats, rather than Hu bum clover. I am 
inclined to believe that the value of this 
relatively new legume is much over¬ 
estimated, and I should prefer to let the 
other follow do the experimenting. A 
mixture consisting of a bushel and a half 
of oats. 15 lbs. of white blooming Sweet 
clover and 8 lbs. of Red clover would af¬ 
ford a satisfactory combination, and 
would be sufficient to seed one acre. The 
ground should he plowed early in the 
Spring, a satisfactory seed bed prepared, 
nnd the seeding made as early in the 
Spring as possible. The grass seed can 
be broadcast: the oats can be either 
drilled or broadcast. Lime would, of 
course, improve the mechanical condition 
of the soil, correct any possible acidity 
nnd create conditions that would he more 
favorable for the life and activities of soil 
bacteria. If ground limestone is used, 
apply the product at the rate of four tons 
per acre, and if the burned hydrated is 
used, two tons to the acre are sufficient. 
It would ho necessary to defer turning 
the rows into this pasture until the plants 
are 7 or 8 in. high, and even then the ani¬ 
mals should not be allowed to crop oil 
the young plants too closely, lesi they de¬ 
stroy their vigor and growing propensi¬ 
ties, The lime can be distributed at any 
time, although there would be an advan¬ 
tage in putting it on the surface of the 
soil after the area has been plowed. It 
can be worked in by means of the spring- 
tooth or ordinary harrow. 
Pigs Not Doing Well 
I have three pigs, born October IS. 
They have always had good appetities. 
Of late two barrows are humped up and 
are sore and lame. The sow is straight 
and fine, with a voracious appetite. The 
other two pigs never missed a feed. I 
have fed them whole corn, shelled; also 
corn and rye chop mixed, equal, with 
bran middlings. No white middlings to 
be had. Since feeding the chop and mid¬ 
dlings they have qnil the shelled corn. 
What would you advise me to do with 
these pigs in line of feeding? 1 know 
the pigs are not sick.,as they eat well and 
squeal for more. I have rye, corn and 
oats, nnd can buy brown middlings; nisi 
have some milk. These pigs have a good 
clean dry bed of rye straw every week. 
Do von suppose they may have rheuma¬ 
tism? W, J. B. 
Male pigs intended for market purposes 
should be unsexed when they are three or 
four weeks old. If the operation is de¬ 
layed until the pigs are three or four 
months old. back-sets such as yon have 
described are frequently encountered. A 
combination of ground oats and rye would 
lack protein, and it would be to your ad¬ 
vantage to add 5 or 10 per cent of di¬ 
gester tankage to this combination. Yel¬ 
low cornmeal is much better than white 
corn for pigs confined iu dry yards. In¬ 
vestigations at the Wisconsin Station 
having •been carried on for three consecu¬ 
tive years would indicate that white corn 
cannot ‘be safely fed to pigs confined in 
dry yards, even though it is fed in con¬ 
junction* with skim-milk and tankage. 
Apparently the white corn is deficient in 
one or more of the essential vitamines. 
Prof. Morrison stated that in addition to 
the pig’s failure to gain steadily iu weight 
when fed white corn supplemented with 
skim-milk and tankage, seven out of nine 
pigs died, apparently from pneumonia, 
after they had reached maturity. Pro¬ 
vide the pigs in question with some Al¬ 
falfa leaves or clover leaves and feed, in 
addition to the skim-in ilk available, a 
grain mixture consisting of five parts <4 
yellow corn, three parts of ground oats, 
two parts of ground rye, and one part of 
60 per cent digester tankage. If it is 
impossible for you to get digester tankage, 
use double the amount of linseed meal. 
Make sure that the pigs are not infested 
with body lice. Allow them all of this 
grain mixture that they will clean up 
with relish. The pigs referred to iu the 
Wisconsin tost evidenced symptoms of 
rheumatism, which condition prevails fre¬ 
quently when pigs are fed a ration de¬ 
ficient in the fat soluble A vitamine. 
Make sure that the pigs hove dry sleeping 
quarters. It may be that the two pigs in 
question will uot do well until they arc 
turned out to pasture or are supplied with 
some succulent feed in the Spring. How¬ 
ever, the addition of yellow corn to the 
ration, provided it is properly supple¬ 
mented with tankage, may solve your 
problem. 
You pay for a 
De Laval 
whether you buy one 
or not 
If you are using a worn-out, 
inferior cream separator, or 
skimming cream by hand, you 
are surely wasting enough cream 
to pay for a De Laval in a short 
time. 
The selection of a cream sep¬ 
arator is more important than 
that of any other machine on 
the farm, for none other can 
either save or waste so muen, 
twice a day, 365 days a year. 
A De Laval Separator will: 
—Skim cleaner for many more 
years than any other; 
—Skim milk clean at lower 
temperature than any other sep¬ 
arator; 
—Deliver a higher testing 
cream, which is more acceptable 
to the creamery, and easier and 
less costly to ship; 
—And deliver a cream which 
will make better butter. 
Mechanically a De Laval Sep¬ 
arator is the best that fine ma¬ 
terials and skilled workmanship 
can make. 
—It lasts longer than any 
other separator, many giving 
good service for 15 to 20 years. 
—It is easier to turn. 
—It is easier to clean. 
—It is so simple that one tool 
will set it up or take it down. 
—It has the most perfect lu¬ 
bricating system. 
Do not be deceived by sepa¬ 
rators which are claimed to be 
"just as good and cost less.” 
When you consider its greater 
savings, greater reliability, long¬ 
er life, the extra time it saves, 
and the greater satisfaction it 
gives, the Dc Laval is, in the 
end, by far the most economical 
cream separator made. 
Even if you have only two 
cows it will pay you to have a 
De Laval. One can be bought 
on such easy terms that it will 
pay for itself in less than a year. 
Why not see your De Laval 
agent at once or write us for 
full information? 
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Sooner or later you will use a 
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