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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 10 
IS 
Live Stock and Dairy 
WHAT TO FEED THE'COW. 
I have two very nign-grade Jerseys that 
1 raised as I did their mother and grand¬ 
mothers. Both calved about November 1; 
I have just tested them. One three years 
and six months old gave, in seven days, 228 
pounds of milk, which made 14 pounds 
12 ounces of butter. The other is four 
years and one month old with her third 
calf and gave 269 pounds of milk, which 
made 17 pounds eight ounces of butter. 
They each weigh nearly 700 pounds. My 
hay is mixed. Red-top and Timothy, not 
much clover. I want them to do all they 
are capable of during the next 11 months, 
without impairing them for the future 
either as butter producers or calf raisers. 
What grains and how much shall I feed? 
Petersham, Mass. c. f. 
These are not only good cows, but are 
in the 400, and they should command 
the choicest foods and the kindest of 
care, not necessarily to overfeed but to 
feed judiciously that these young cows 
may, like a well-fed and well-groomed 
man. grow strong with labor. We want 
more strengthening labor, not that 
which is enervating. We cannot coniine 
the most profitable ration to any few 
selected foods. We have a large num¬ 
ber of foods that are safe and econom¬ 
ical. It is only a question of combina¬ 
tion. The nutritive ratio must ordi¬ 
narily be found between 1:5 and 1:7 for 
best results in butter. We should there¬ 
fore expect for these Jerseys, during the 
Winter, a rather wide ration would 
prove profitable on account of extra heat 
demanded. Mixed hay, five pounds; 
corn silage. 30 pounds; oats, ground, 
three pounds; wheat bran or middlings, 
two pounds; gluten feed, two pounds; 
cornmeal, two pounds; oil meal, one 
pound. This would no doubt give good 
results. It contains silage which is lax¬ 
ative, enough dry hay to make it palat¬ 
able, oats which possess a certain prin¬ 
ciple, giving vigor; wheat bran, con¬ 
taining large ash content, gluten feed, 
carrying very easily digested protein, 
cornmeal, always the cheapest carbona¬ 
ceous food, and last, a little oil meal, a 
splendid regulator to the animal system. 
I would not say that this ration would 
give the highest returns for a year, Jjut 
I do think it will produce all the milk 
these animals ought to give and not be 
crowded beyond a capacity which means 
health and vitality for reproduction. We 
should expect while fresh grass was 
abundant that only a very small ration 
of concentrates would be profitable. To 
force these cows for short tests I would 
increase the total grain ration and pos¬ 
sibly make this increase out of the 
gluten feed; that is, adding only gluten 
to these other foods mentioned. Re¬ 
member always that cow individuality 
is fully as important as human idiosyn¬ 
crasies. and this ration might please one 
of these cows and not the other. Right 
here comes the skill of the feeder study¬ 
ing individuality; otherwise one could 
get a chemist to compound a ration that 
would apply to every cow in the land, 
making the feeding purely a mechanical 
process. 
Cow with Caked Udder. 
About five weeks ago our cow dropped 
calf, and the infiammation in udder has 
not disappeared. It seems to be caked 
quite hard now. I have applied iodine 
without result. Her feed consists of corn 
fodder and hay (all she wants), beets, bran 
and a little corn, twice a day. h. r. 
Des Plaines, Ill. 
No wonder your cow has caked udder; 
cornmeal is a very bad ration for a 
dairy cow at the time of freshening. 
Stop feeding oats and corn, and feed 
bran and hay until your trouble has 
stopped. For treatment give pound 
Epsom salts with a tablespoonful of 
ginger; dissolve this in one pint of warm 
water, and give at one dose. Also give 
one-half ounce saltpeter at a dose three 
times a day with a teaepoonful of gin¬ 
ger at each dose dissolved in one-half 
pint of warm water. Anoint the udder 
three times a day with three ounces of 
hot lard; rub it well in, and you might 
add one teaspoonful of tincture of iodine 
to each application. Rub in all the hot 
lard you can make the udder absorb. 
Repeat your physic in a week if neces¬ 
sary. It will be necessary under this 
treatment to keep the cow from all 
drafts; the chill should be taken from 
the water she drinks. Keep her as quiet 
as possible. c. e. iiatcii, y. s. 
Butter Slow to Come. 
Will you state the cause of trouble in 
churning? We keep but one cow. and ol 
course do not gather much cream, but 
have much trouble to get butter. The 
cream breaks in little globules and so it 
remains for a long time before it will 
gather into butter. What is w'rong? The 
temperature seems right. a. h. b. 
Ogontz, Pa. 
Your trouble is due to improper ripen¬ 
ing. If the cream is taken from a shal¬ 
low pan and is sour when skimmed it 
will be more difficult to obtain quick and 
exhaustive churning unless not more 
than two skimmings are churned at 
once. No matter how the cream is se¬ 
cured, as soon as taken from the milk 
reduce or raise as the case may be to 50 
degrees, then mix the next skimming 
with it after that has been given the 
same temperature, not before. When 
you get enough to churn, do not wait 
longer than three days. Warm the 
whole mass to 65 degrees and hold at 
that temperature until nicely soured or 
ripened; do not w’arm by the stove, but 
in a warm-water bath, stirring mean¬ 
while. When ready to churn, do so at 
once, without waiting; the churning 
temperature will vary from 54 lo 62 de¬ 
grees. The lowest temperature at which 
comparativelj’’ quick work will follow is 
always the correct. With these rules 
carefully followed there will never be 
any trouble with the butter “coming.” 
ai. E. COOK. 
Dc wn With the Game Laws.—No doubt 
rcbms catch and eat many Injurious In¬ 
sects as well as beneficial ones. I would 
not make a complete scapegoat of the 
robin. Birds in a measure accommodate 
themselves to their environment. They 
ma.v be a benefit here and a nuisance there. 
Here the robin, there the sparrow, then 
the Grape oriole, or the catbird or the 
thrush or the Blue jay, or flicker, have 
made themselves pests. Even wild geese 
and cranes have ruined fields of shock corn. 
Crows and hawks persecute the planter or 
poultryman. Legions of squirrels take 
possession of a nut grove that the planter 
had supposed w'as his own. Persons whose 
business occupations are such that pecu¬ 
niary loss has not fallen to them because 
of wild animals and birds (for which no¬ 
body is responsible), raise their hands In 
horror at the thought of killing a bird 
under any circumstances. Well, if their 
means of livelihood were ebbing away to 
sustain the life of the little birds they 
would see things differently. They can af¬ 
ford to be generous—with other people’s 
money. The “ologists” have been wise 
and have told the legislatures just what 
to do. Of course they know more than 
anybody else, but I can’t help thinking of 
w'hat Josh Billings said: “I would rather 
not know quite so much than to know bo 
many blamed things that are not so.” 
Down with all bird and game laws! b. 
Illinois. _ 
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