THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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MAPES, THE HEN MAN, 
Cow Notes. —Continuing our retro¬ 
spect from last week, we find that those 
heifer calves have been gradually devel¬ 
oping into cows, so that before the close 
of the second year O. W. Mapes & Son 
are enrolled in the great army of milk 
producers. Seven of them are already 
giving milk and producing 80 quarts of 
milk a day. Some of them dropped the 
first calf at 20 months of age. The best 
one thus far gave 30 pounds of milk a 
day when she was fresh in January. 
They have been fed cornmeal and mid¬ 
dlings, equal parts, from the same mix¬ 
ture fed to our breeding sows. The 
maximum allowance has been eight 
quarts a day. In addition to this they 
have had good mixed hay, all they would 
eat, twice a day. How shall we turn 
milk into cash? This was one of the 
first problems that confronted us as milk 
producers. We wanted skim-milk for 
our poultry and pigs, but butter-making 
on a small scale requires a good deal of 
time. Our wagon has to make a daily 
trip to Middletown, so we made an ar¬ 
rangement with a firm which has a large 
retail trade requiring the skimming of 
five or six cans of milk a day to supply 
its cream trade, whereby they buy our 
milk of us and sell us the skim-milk. 
This gives us a larger supply of skim- 
milk, and relieves us from the labor of 
butter-making. Incidentally it also in¬ 
sures a higher cash return for the milk, 
1 believe. 
CuniNG A Ktckek. —On page 383 K. C. 
tells of standing a kicking cow on three 
legs, by strapping the lifted foot of one 
front leg to the forearm. One of the 
very first cows I ever bought, 30 years 
ago, was a confirmed kicker, and had 
been trained to the use of this device. It 
was but little trouble to pick up the front 
foot on side next to milker, and slip a 
loop of I’ope over the folded knee and 
past the knuckle joint, where it will 
stay without the use of any “short 
stick” if the loop is of correct length. 
This makes it impossible for a cow to 
stand on two left legs and support the 
center of gravity while kicking with the 
hind foot next the milker. This con¬ 
firmed kicker of 30 years ago was sure 
to spill her mess of milk, and also the 
milker, if we neglected to strap up her 
foot, so we continued its use as long as 
we kept the cow. In training these 
heifers this Spring we have found this 
device a great help during the first few 
lessons. 
Piu Notes. —Billy Gormand Second 
was farrowed April 27, weighing 3*4 
pounds at birth, and at two weeks old 
(May 11), weighed 12 pounds. I am 
anxious to repeat the experiment of last 
Summer with Billy G. in order to see 
whether an animal’s requirements for 
carbonaceous and nitrogenous matter as 
indicated by its own choice of food when 
allowed to balance its own ration, are 
so radically different in Winter and 
Summer, as the evidence given by Billy 
G. and the pigs we fattened on corn and 
skim-milk last Winter seemed to indi¬ 
cate. It is probably true that the evap¬ 
oration of water from the system plays 
an important part in automatically 
holding the blood at a uniform tempera¬ 
ture in all kinds of weather and cli¬ 
mates, and it may be that my Winter 
pigs refused to drink as much milk in 
proportion to amount of corn eaten as 
Billy G. did in Summer, on account of 
the water contained in the two foods, 
rather than on account of muscle mak¬ 
ers and heat producers. 
E<;g Phices. —On page 366 C. K. R. 
complains of the treatment received at 
the hands of a dealer in the matter of 
prices for his eggs. He says that “in 
other words, he kept about two weeks 
behind the market when prices were ad¬ 
vancing, and about two weeks ahead of 
the market when prices were falling.” 
That reminds me of the unbusinesslike 
way in which many milk producers have 
been in the habit of disposing of their 
milk, and then constantly kicking be¬ 
cause of unjust treatment. Dealers are 
but human and doubtless often “look 
out for No. 1” when given a good oppor¬ 
tunity, just as farmers do. C. K. R. 
should have inserted in his bargain that 
prices should be governed by market 
prices as quoted in some reliable market 
report on day of shipment (or delivery) 
and then he could kick to some pur¬ 
pose. I have found this plan to work 
well. A grocer from Jersey City came to 
my place about eight years ago and 
wanted me to ship him some eggs. The 
agreement was that he was to pay a 
price based on the top quotations of the 
Produce Price-Cui*rent on the day eggs 
were delivered to him. I was to watch 
the market, and if at any time I thought 
he was not “playing fair” in the matter 
of price, I was to put in a protest. For 
a number of years I had no occasion 
even to make out a bill. His check came 
regularly, with prices right. We would 
simply get together once a year, and 
agree on a margin above the market for 
the different months. Things have now 
changed, so that he depends on me to 
keep track of the market and make out 
the bill every two weeks, with prices at¬ 
tached. If I make a mistake he has the 
privilege of objecting. He now uses a 
30-dozen crate every day except Sunday. 
Incubator Chicks. —Mrs. Fuller, for 
whom I hatched the incubator full of 
eggs, was a pleased woman when she 
started home with her batch of chicks. 
She had 265, and thinks she will be able 
to raise about all of them. May success 
attend her and her feather dusters! She 
expects to bake bread for them from 
wheat middlings and cornmeal, and to 
guard against chilly nights and days by 
keeping a fire in the room in which the 
chicks are to be kept. She also has a 
supply of skim-milk, and 1 expect she 
will succeed. o. w. mates. 
Oluten Meal for Cows and Horses. 
Is gluten meal a good feed for milch cows 
when first turned out on grass, or in hot 
weather during late Summer, when grass is 
getting short? Will working horses do 
well on it? What should be fed with it in 
either case? 
Gluten meal has a tendency to soften 
butter; if therefore, you are making but¬ 
ter do not use it. It is too rich in pro¬ 
tein for eariy Summer feeding. We 
must remember that the fresh grass is 
an ideal balanced food, and all grain 
additions should be of the same nature. 
Cornmeal and gluten would combine very 
well. There is probably no food cheaper 
for furnishing protein than cotton seed, 
and none cheaper for starch than corn¬ 
meal. A very good Summer food can 
be made of 100 pounds corn, 100 pounds 
cotton seed and 100 pounds bran, the 
bran to lighten up the food and make it 
more palatable. If for some reason the 
gluten furnishes cheaper protein than 
cotton seed use it with the corn and 
bran. I might add that cotton seed is 
more safely fed in the Summer on ac¬ 
count of the laxative nature of the grass. 
I do not like gluten for horses; it is 
rather too laxative. Care must be ex¬ 
ercised with any animal in constant mo¬ 
tion not to feed such foods. If you de¬ 
sire to try it make the same combination 
as suggested for the cows. 
H. E. COOK. 
Wiring a Hall.— On page 143 M. M. tells 
of the difficulty of hearing distinctly in a 
certain hall. Sometimes this defect in the 
acoustic properties of a hall can be reme¬ 
died by stringing wires across the hall 
about 20 inches below the ceiling and six 
or eight feet apart. c. k. 
Michigan. 
I HAVE read the experience of Mr. Rines 
in feeding apples to milch cows. I think 
apples are put to a much better use in 
making milk than making cider to be used 
as a beverage. We keep about 30 cows and 
make butter; have fed thousands of bush¬ 
els of apples the last 10 years, the ration 
varying from four quarts to one-half 
bushel per day. We never used any feed 
tnat gave any better satisfaction in flavor 
and grain of butter and churnability of 
cream. With grain at present prices we 
consider apples worth for feed 15 cents per 
bushel. J. H. c. 
West Rutland, Vt. 
HEY, THERE! JUNK MAN! 
I want to know how much you will give me 
for one of those separators that claim to “just 
as good” as the 
DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS 
I put in one of them last year because the agent 
claimed it was “just as good” as a DE LAVAL 
machine and was $10.- cheaper. I have looked about 
and gotten some separator experience since then and 
I find now that I could have bought a DE LAVAL 
machine of greater actual capacity for less money in 
the first place, while I have lost money every day 
through the imperfect skimming of this machine, 
aside from hard running and trouble of all kinds from 
infernally poor construction. 
I am going to have a DE LAVAL machine now 
if I have to “junk” this old one for scrap-iron. I 
know it will save its cost the first year of use and 
should be good for twenty years. I find all well- 
informed dairy farmers are using DE LAVAL 
machines and that there are over 400,000 of them. 
A De Laval catalogue may save this eccperience. 
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