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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Live Stockand Dair 
A JERSEY COW. 
Ira B. AVatson, of Fredonia, N. Y., 
sends us the photograph of the cow pic¬ 
tured on the first page, Fig. 242. This 
cow has a record of 24 pounds of butter 
in seven days. 54 pounds of milk in one 
day, and 10,900 pounds in 11 months. 
Her dam has a record of 20 pounds of 
butter in seven days. This cow has a 
tremendous udder—too large for her 
size, one would say at first glance. 
FEEDING CORN AND COB MEAL 
In regard to feeding corn and co>) 
meal there is a wide difference of opin¬ 
ion among feeders. It will pay ex¬ 
tremely well under certain conditions 
and where the meal can be prepared in 
an economical way. The one neces¬ 
sary article to have is good sound dry 
corn. The cob must not be wet, rotten 
or musty, as the meal prepared from 
grain of this kind would have less feed¬ 
ing value with the cob left in than if 
taken out. Having good bright sound 
grain we must now consider the ex¬ 
pense of preparing the meal. I believe 
the only practical way to manufacture 
cob meal is to have some heavy power 
located at the feed yard where the 
meal can be made as fine as desired, 
and in large quantities. You will fini 
it will take heavy machinery and 
plenty of power to make a good quality 
of cob meal, but with the proper equip¬ 
ment it is possible to reduce the ex¬ 
pense to 2% cents per 100 pounds of 
shelled corn, or five cents per 100 of 
ear corn. 
The question arises as to whether 
the cob has any feeding value. In my 
own experiments I have come to this 
conclusion, and I believe it is the same 
as that of nearly all feeders throughout 
the West who have studied carefully 
the gains made by cob meal. In start¬ 
ing cattle on feed, or in feeding stock 
cattle, cob meal is a much better feed 
than cornmeal taken pound for pound, 
and therefore is worth as much or 
more. But how can that be when there 
is no feed in the cob? Are you entire¬ 
ly sure of that? They are using corn¬ 
cobs now for many other purposes 
than the making of pipes, and actual 
experience is a good teacher, especially 
in the feed yard. There is no place on 
a farm where a man must use his eyes 
and mind in order to take advantage 
of every side of a difficult proposition 
more than behind a drove of cattle in 
the feed yard. All aged cattle when 
started on feed consume for quite a 
time all or nearly all the ear. So the 
man who usually has the most to sa>' 
alwut the uselessness of feeding cob 
meal, feeds ear corn and his cattle eat 
the cobs just the same. After cattle 
have been fed ear corn for some time, 
say 60 or 90 days, they usually begin 
to shell off the corn from the cob, thus 
making their feed a little stronger. 
Now the man who can feed meal gives 
his cattle just a little better chance of 
getting fat quickly. By grinding the 
feed, ear and all, bulk is added to the 
feed, which is a very necessary require¬ 
ment in starting a drove of cattle. If 
you use straight cornmeal you would 
add bran or some bulky ration to take 
the place of the cob left out. If you 
intend to use some by-product to bal¬ 
ance the ration it is always best to add 
enough of this product at first in order 
to educate the appetite, as they read¬ 
ily acquire a liking for these feeds if 
started while hungry. You now have a 
bulky mixed feed that for the first 60 
days will put on as much fat, pound 
for i)ound. as any feed now known if 
used intelligently and with the proper- 
roughness. 
After this length of time it is well 
to make the ration richer in corn by 
adding shelled corn to the ear corn 
when grinding. Cattle in the feed yard 
are hard-worked animals and should 
be brought to do their best w'ork by 
proper fitting, the same as a trotting 
horse is brought to do his best work. 
They must be gradually brought from 
the coarse grass pasture stage up to 
the point where they can digest 25 to 
28 pounds a day of a well-balanced 
and nutritious ration, and convert it 
into beef at the rate of from three to 
four pounds per day. In order to se¬ 
cure this condition there is no feed so 
-well adapted for the first 60 days • as 
cob meal. In my judgment the cobs 
are useful in several ways. They give 
bulk to the feed and more readily sat¬ 
isfy a craving appetite. They act as a 
divisor, separating the corn particles 
to a certain extent, thereby allowing 
the gastric juices better to act on the 
food. The cob is a great absorbent, 
and takes up the moisture in the sys¬ 
tem, thus preventing scouring and at 
the same time calling for plenty of 
v/ater. Old feeders w-ell know that a 
good feeding steer is a good drinker as 
well as a good eater. With the facts 
in view that you get 20 pounds of feed 
equal in value to corn for five cents, 
that for a time at least it is just the 
kind of feed you want, and that it is 
no experiment but a proven fact, it 
only remains for the feeder to deter¬ 
mine whether he can afford to put in 
the necessary machinery to make the 
meal. a. n. ames. 
BONE FOOD FOR PIGS. 
Could you tell me some good hone-mak¬ 
ing' food.s which are reasonably obtained? 
Would not some of the mineral food.s be 
good to feed small pigs? a. b. l. 
13enton J-Iarbor, Mich. 
Let us first sludy the following table: 
Pounds in 1,000. 
Xitro 
- 
rhos. Pot- 
gen. 
Dime. 
acid. ash. 
Vive hog . 
.... 20 
9.2 
9. 1.8 
Wheat bfiin . 
.... 27 
1.7 
20 16 
Whole wheat ... 
.... 24 
<1.6 
8. 5 
Middling.s . 
.... 26 
0.6 
9.5 6 
Corn . 
.... IS 
o.:i 
7 4 
Ground bone . 
300 
2.30 
Wood ashes . 
340 
18 50 
Wheat flour . 
.... IS 
0.2 
3.5 2.5 
You will .see 
that 
the hog 
and his 
bones in particular require nitrogen, 
lime and phosphoric acid for growth. 
While but little potash is found in the 
body of the animal, still there must be 
an abundance of it present in the food 
a.s it does an important work in diges¬ 
tion. We must understand one thing 
abcvit feeding “bone-forming” feeds. 
We cannot largely increase the frame 
or bone structure of the hog by feeding 
these foods. There is a limit set to 
this size by inheritance: that is. Na¬ 
ture designed the animal to reach a 
certain size and no more. We cannot, 
by feeding pass the limit but unless the 
animal is supplied during its youth 
with proper food he cannot reach this 
limit. Another advantage in giving 
food that provides an abundance of 
lime and phosphoric acid is th t the 
bones are harder and firmer p i thus 
give more strength to the body. For 
example, hogs fed on nothing but corn 
will have weak “spongy” bones and 
will not, as a rule, make such a large 
frame on which to pack meat. The 
“brans” or different grains, that is the 
outer hard coat crushed or ground, 
contain more of the bone-forming 
foods than the whole grain or flour. 
That is because the lime and phos¬ 
phoric acid are put in the shell or hard 
outer covering of the grain. Notice the 
difference between wheat bran and 
wheat flour. So far as the bone-form¬ 
ing materials go wheat bran is about 
the best of our ordinary feeds, but we 
have not found it desirable to feed 
large quantities of bran to young pigs. 
It i? too coarse and ma^ cguse indiges¬ 
tion. If the pigs are well fed on other 
grains it is well to leave a box of bran 
where the pigs can help themselves. 
They are not likely to eat too much 
bran, as they prefer other grains. The 
most practical way we have found for 
providing these bone-making foods is 
to keep wood ashes and fine ground 
bone constantly before the pigs. I^et 
them help themselves at will and even 
v.'hen fed on corn alone they will make 
good growth of frame. Corn is the 
best food for fattening pigs, and if 
skim-milk can he bought at a fair 
price it will, with ashes, provide plenty 
of bone-forming food. If skim-milk 
cannot be fed green clover or clover 
hay and wheat bran with the ashes 
will make a good substitute. We con¬ 
sider it a mistake to try to force pigs 
to eat large quantities of the “bone- 
formers.” We would rather leave the 
pigs free to help themselves. 
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Great Stock Book 
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Winters, of Winters Farm, Smithboro, New 
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TUBUIAR 
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A lot of people make 
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are made with the 
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Breeders’ Directory 
fOK HOLSraN CATTLE 
9eod ones, and ail ages. Fine Yearling Bnlli 
ready for servloe. 
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■wrrhi.8 DEETHURST FARMS, Mentor, Ohio 
HOLSTEIN - FRIESIANS. 
Choice young stock of the best breeding for sale. 
Prices reasonable. Kverv animal registered. 
WOODCREST FARM, Rifton. Ulster Co.,N. T. 
I?!e^isterea Jersey iSySi C^lve« 
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R. F. SHANNON, 907 Liberty {Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
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bog. Pigs of ail ages from imported stock for sale. 
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FOR SALE. 
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pOCR .SOLID COLORED .JERSEY HULLS, 
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HAMILTON & CO., Brclldoun, Chester Co., P* 
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The best large hog. Get a Boar and have large Utter*, 
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