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April 15, 192” 
<n* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Any one of these Reasons puts the 
De Laval in a class by itself'” 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
for your rye (luring the initial growing 
period I believe your pigs would have 
more stretch and that they would grow 
with more vigor. I dislike to use bran 
for feeding very young pigs? It is well 
known (hat bran is very constipating 
wliiMi fed to young pigs and, in many in¬ 
stances. brovvu middlings is only ground 
bran. If red dog flour could be substitut¬ 
ed for the brown middlings the ration 
would he more efficient. 
It: is indeed difficult to excel a ration 
for fattening pigs built around yellow 
corn, tankage and skim-milk. Yellow 
corn is more desirable than white corn 
when the pigs are eon fined in dry lots, 
hut there appears to he no difference in 
the value of white and yellow corn when 
the pigs have the run of a forage crop or 
pasture. The prepared milk feeds are 
not as economical a source of protein as 
is tankage or fish meal. But if one lim¬ 
its the amount used to 11 or 5 per cent it 
is believed that it is economical and that 
it will correct deficiencies in a ration. It 
is significant Hint, under conditions now 
prevailing in the corn belt, where corn 
is worth 50 cents a bushel, the farmer 
who feeds corn that is properly supple¬ 
mented with some protein concentrate to 
thrifty pigs, and sells them for 10c per 
lb., is getting probably $1 a bushel for 
his corn. The same conditions prevail 
in Eastern territory, and t am firm in my 
belief that pork production is tile only 
line of live-stock farming that offers tin- 
usnal possibilities for men who know 
something about pig feeding. Yorkshires 
are popular in sections where milk :s 
available for feeding purposes. Perhaps 
the most rapid gaining harrow that I 
ever fed was a cross between the Duroc 
Jersey and Yorkshire. A Yorkshire sow 
was mated to a purebred Duroc Jersey 
boar, ami this mating seemed to produce 
a type of feeder that evidenced unusual 
feeding and grazing qualities. One would 
scarcely believe the figures Indicating the 
gain in weight and the feed consumed, 
but it was unusual and astonishing. 
Sold on 
•uch easy 
terms that 
you can 
use it while 
it pays for 
itself 
There is a 
Da Laval 
Agent neat 
you. See 
him about 
getting a 
De Laval 
Cream Separator and Milker 
gam has been so much less man want mixing with this 100 lbs. hran and 25 
you have told I*. S. he could expect that lbs. uilnieal. Is this too heavv feed for 
it struck me that there must be some- calves, young cattle and drv cows? Do 
thing radically wrong with mv feedtug you think barle\ necessary with corn 
methods, or a mistake in the figures. and oats? I usually raise all three, but 
East Stroudsburg, Pa. I. L. A. am thinking of cutting out the barley, 
. 4 . . as it makes a pretty heavy feed with 
Your assumption is correct. It. is mi- corn. k. m. r. 
possible to obtain 1(H) lbs. of live weight ,... 
of pork from the use of 100 lbs. of grain. . ”‘"m there is very little experimental 
The corrected statement should have been data to prove tins statement. I believe 
that lie "could safely assume that he four trouble comes from putting the c. ru 
might to get 100 lbs. of live weight for m me silo when it was too dry. This 
each 400 lbs. of grain fed.” At the Iowa same condition of mold is found where 
Station, three years ago, when a series husked s-1:i Iks; are ensiled and where not 
of experiments was conducted on sliotes. enough water has been added to establish 
a ration consisting of 75 per Cent of Pfuper ternientatiou. An doubt the silage 
shelled corn, 8 per cent of digester tank- I. f,< up in tin.' center of the silo at filling 
age and 20 per cent of semi-solid butter- ! 1X11(1 * ,l(x caused unequal settling, hence 
milk enabled pigs whose initial weight irregular fermentation. Thin is merely 
was 80 lbs. to construct 100 lbs. of live ?,» [>Pmcm. and represents the conclusion 
weigh with 202 lbs. of this mixture. The * reached under similar conditions, 
pigs were allowed 1 lb. of the semi-solid Of course you will have to sort the 
buttermilk per day, and were supplied silage carefully, remove all auspicious 
with the corn and tankage by means of silage and trust to good fortune that you 
the self-feeder. Where corn ami tank- Y’ 1 * Iiml 5x11 pe poisonous silage. While 
age was used alone the pigs selected f>2 B 1S true that mature corn yields the 
per cent of corn and 8 per cent of tank- greatest amount of dry matter wheu en- 
age, and made 100 lbs. of gains for each siled. nevertheless some feeders prefer to 
?,S4 lbs. oT grain consumed. These pigs out the corn earlier and thus assure more 
had the run of a rape pasture, which succulence Cornell Eleven, when eu- 
perhaps was responsible for reducing the siled, produced silage with Mt> per cent 
amount of grain required below the 400- of dr.v matter, a most unusual condition, 
lb. figure. Where a portion of the tank- far as moisture is concerned. Natur- 
age was replaced by corn oil cake meal B would he well to feed reduced 
the consumption under the free choice amounts of silage, also use some moist- 
system was 86 per rent of corn, 0 per oned beet pulp with the succulent corn, 
cent of digester tankage and 8 per cent Dried sktin-imlk at 5 or (>H>o per lb. 
of corn germ meal. On this ration the is «n expensive source of protein, and 
pigs put on 100 lbs. of live weight with few farmers can afford to feed it to 
MS" llis. of this mixture. The daily con- calves. AN ith milk prices so low one 
sumption of feed ranged from 5.2 lbs. to might better feed either new milk or 
5P ]| )S> slum-milk. Where one has n special 
From the statement you have made I grade of AA milk or certified milk, then 
would say that you have been able to the dried milk can be used to advantage 
produce pork economically and efficiently, and "ith economy. One pound of the 
Personally. 1 dislike the use of rye for skim-milk powder with 7 or 8 lbs. of 
very young pigs, because it is not special- water makes the proper proportions. Al¬ 
ly palatable unless some molasses is low some grain to calves fed in this man- 
mixed with this product : but, under pres- nor. and do not use roughage that is too 
out day prices for corn and the conditions leafy. Scours may accompany the use 
of the molasses market, one cannot af- of too much leafy Alfalfa or clover, 
ford to buy molasses as a source of enrbo- T should add 15 per cent of oilmeal to 
hydrates. Bye is practically equal to the corn, oats and barley mixture for dry 
corn in feeding value, but at present cows and young stock. If bran were 
prices it costs considerably more. The used to replace the barley better results 
ratio of efficiency that exists between would follow Barley is quite similar to 
molasses and corn is 57 to 87. In other oats, and if it is not convenient to grow 
words, it would require .87 lbs. of mo- this crop if. can be easily replaced with 
lasses to provide (be same amount of di- bran ami oats. More brail would lighten 
gcstible nutrients as 57 lbs. of corn up your mixture, but if the animals look 
would contribute. While it is true that good and have access to good bay they 
molasses under certain conditions adds are being properly nourished. Oats 
lo the palatahility of a mixture, never- especially, are well suited for use ir 
theless it is true that molasses is very feeding dry cmvs and young stock. They 
frequently mixed with unpalatable weed are bulky, nutritious and palatable, am 
seed combinations that the animals would if sound and heavy can be liberally fed 
not eat unless they were sugar coated in Oat hulls, however, cannot be substituted 
this manner. If you could substitute oats for oats. 
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