TIIK RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 14 
194 
QREEN BONE AND GRAIN FOR HENS 
i have a bone cutter that can be run 
from a sweep power, and can cut all the 
ifieen bone needed in the form of cattle 
heads, shanks, etc. Should 1 change from 
gieen bone to beef scraps, how much 
should be fed to each hen to equal an 
ounce per day of green cut bone? Does 
the salt added to the scraps by the 
butcher when rendering hurt them for 
either lien or chick? Our present rations 
are mixed grain (wheat, corn and oats), 
night and morning and a warm mash at 
noon consisting of ground oats, cornmeal, 
wheat bran, green cut bone and cut clover 
hay wet with hot water. Would it be ad¬ 
visable to add gluten to this mash, and 
also buckwheat or barley or both to the 
mixed grain? inquirek. 
Green cut bone is the best meat food for 
laying fowls. Beef scraps are better than 
cut bone for fattening. Do not over-feed of 
the cut bone, and the best way to avoid 
doing this is to feed a small quantity often. 
Gluten feed is rich in protein. This is the 
element we need most in growing chicks 
and in our egg rations. 1 use more of it 
and less of the cornmeal in my mash for 
my fowls. A variety is of benefit to the 
fowls and occasionally 1 would substitute 
buckwheat for some of the other grains. 
Grundy Co., 111. o. p. bennett. 
1 should not change from green cut bone 
to beef scraps; but if you do change, one- 
half ounce of scraps would equal one ounce 
of bone. The salt would not hurt it unless 
too much salt was used; that is, so it would 
not taste too salt with whatever it was 
fed with. Would advise the adding of a 
little gluten once or twice a week. You 
might also give them barley and buck¬ 
wheat in place of other mixed grains at 
night or in the morning for a change once 
or twice during the week. Poultry like 
and thi’ive on a variety of food, better 
than on two or three kinds all the time. 
We ourselves like a change, and will get 
sick of the most nutritive food if we have 
it meal after meal without a change. 
Uennington Co.. Vt. geo. f. Lawrence. 
1 have no experience with beef scraps as 
an egg food, but use green cut bone, and 
if, as 1 suppose, he is feeding for egg.s, 
he would have something good enough for 
me in green cut bone. 1 would not expect 
salt in small quantities in scraps or other 
food to be injurious. What beef scraps 1 
have used in fattening capons and chicks 
have had no salt that I could detect. I 
never used gluten. Buckwheat for a 
change is all right. 1 would think that 
these hens would not need much more of 
a ration If they were mine. He might try 
the gluten, scraps, etc.; if that does not 
make eggs send out here for some of 
my B. P. Rocks and 1 think they will do 
well on his New York diet foi- a while any¬ 
way. E. P. CHURCHILL. 
Wayne Co., Iowa. 
FEEDING APPLES TO COWS. 
I would like to tell W. E. Rines, page 91, 
our experience in feeding apples to milch 
cows whose cream we use to make butter 
for city trade. We have aibout a dozen 
cows, and churn the cream twice a week. 
It often comes in two or three minutes 
and is rarely more than 10 minutes. We 
have several orchards and each year when 
the fruit is gathered the poorer a^jples are 
carried to the barn and we begin to feed 
each cow a few, and increase the amount 
given until they have about a half bushel 
at a feed, and we find there is nothing we 
can give them that Increases the flow of 
milk and the amount of butter like apples 
given them at the barn. We have never 
had any trouble with the churning. Our 
cows are grade Jerseys. Butter is taken 
to market without ice. Connecticut. 
1 have kept a small dairy for the past 
five years, and have fed the cows a.pples 
nearly or quite every Pall during that time. 
When fed In very large quantities at the 
start I have succeeded in almost entirely 
stopping the flow of milk for a few days, 
but still they w'ould all return to their 
regular flow of milk, and by a steady feed 
of apples commencing with two or three 
quarts a day and gradually increasing the 
quantity fed out to from six to eight quarts 
a day, I have succeeded in gradually in¬ 
creasing the regular flow of milk. Neither 
did we ever note the difference in churn¬ 
ing mentioned by W. E. Rines, and are con¬ 
fident that in our case no such difference 
was caused or existed, although the cream 
was churned at a much lower temperature 
than that mentioned by Mr. Rines. At 
that season of the year we churn the 
cream at from 60 to 64 degrees, usually 62 
degrees, and in the late Fall and early 
Winter make the cream a little warmer, 
about 65 degrees or from 63 to 67 degrees, 
although seldom If ever as high as the 
latter. We expect and usually succeed 
in churning in about 20 minutes, or at least 
between 15 and 30 minutes. We do not 
think we can secure as large a quanlit.v 
or as good a (|uality when churned in much 
less than 20 minutes as when the cream 
is at the temperature requiied to take 
about that time for the churning, and also 
think that too long churning, viz., much 
over 30 minutes, is a detriment to the 
quality of the product when finished. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. a. r. 
Wolf Teeth in Horses. 
I have a pair of colts three years old in 
June, and 1 am told they both have wolf 
teeth. Are they harmful if left in, or will 
they shed them when they shed their other 
teeth? If so, would others come in their 
places, and should 1 have them pulled, or 
what is the proper way to treat them? 
Fredonia, N. Y. J. w. b. 
Many people imagine that wolf teeth, 
as they are called, by some mysterious 
means, reach up to the eye and affect it 
in some manner, and many other ridicu¬ 
lous fancies. They are merely superflu¬ 
ous teeth. The idea that they are in¬ 
jurious has become so firmly engrafted 
in the public mind that it is almost im¬ 
possible to eradicate it. In the great 
majority of cases horses affected suffer 
from recurrent ophthalmia, the teeth 
having nothing to do with the causation 
of same. I never argue with people 
about wolf teeth, but pull them as 1 am 
requested. You will feel better satisfied 
if the wolf teeth are pulled, so it wouid 
be better to have a veterinary remove 
them. 0. E. HATCH, v. 8. 
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