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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 12 
Live Stockatid Dairy 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
Tiir Drunken Cow. —On page 818 Dr. 
Smead presents a new view of the old 
cow that has gorged herself with apples. 
Whether drunk or not makes little dif¬ 
ference perhaps to the practical farmer. 
She is surely “knocked out” so far as 
business at the milk pail is concerned, 
and in very many cases her days of use¬ 
fulness are over, except for the fertilizer 
factory. I have known so many cases to 
terminate in this way that the subject 
is of peculiar interest to me. Apples 
fed in moderation in the stable are with¬ 
out doubt a valuable food for dairy cows. 
We use ours in this way in preference 
to selling them for cider making at 20 
cents per 100 pounds. Now, if the scien¬ 
tists will “go one better” and kill the old 
cow when she is supposedly drunk on 
apples, and analyze the contents of her 
stomach, or rumen, we oiight to know 
for sure whether the trouble is due to 
alcohol or not. Gentlemen of our ex¬ 
periment stations, who will be first to 
give us this really practical solution of 
the discussion? When this question is 
settled, will some one tell us why it is 
that the effect of a little corn or corn- 
meal is so often disastrous when fed to 
read horses that are usually fed on oats? 
Such a change of feed has no bad effect 
on a cow, pig or chicken, and yet colic 
is quite likely to result when tried on a 
horse. There must be some difference 
in the digestive tract of the horse which 
accounts for this. Can Dr. Smead or 
some of our scientific friends explain to 
us what it is? 
WiNTKH E(;(:s.—Bulletin 212 of Cornell 
Experiment Station, just issued, gives 
another year’s experience as to the food 
cost of producing eggs in Winter. For 
17 weeks, from December 1 to March 29, 
careful records were kept of amount of 
food consumed and number of eggs laid 
in 11 flocks, containing in all 3,131 hens 
and pullets. The records show so much 
difference in results that one must con¬ 
clude that there is still a good deal of 
luck and chance in the poultry business. 
The participants in this cooperative test 
are among the best-informed in the 
State, including the Station itself, and 
yet the food cost of one dozen eggs 
ranges all the way from six cents to $6 
per dozen. The bulletin referred to 
says: “On examination it is found that 
this remarkable range is not corelated 
closely with breed, character of build¬ 
ing, or kind and quantity of food.” The 
Station is next to take up and investi¬ 
gate the individuality of the hens them¬ 
selves, paying special attention to se¬ 
lecting eggs from hens of known per¬ 
formance. While this will in all prob¬ 
ability be found to have some influence, 
I have no faith that any great results 
will be accomplished along that line. 
Best Results. —The banner flock in 
this test consisted of 500 White Leghorn 
pullets. It is remarkable that this flock 
had the least variety in its bill or fare 
of any of the flocks reported. It consist¬ 
ed of only three articles—wheat, cabbage 
and cooked cut meat and bone. The 
wheat was fed morning and night, and 
the meat and bone in the afternoon. It 
is also remarkable that the best results 
were obtained when the least cabbage 
was fed, showing that green food is not 
as necessary as most people suppose. 
Very little cabbage was fed at any time, 
ranging from 450 pounds per month to 
the 500 hens in January, to only 48 
pounds in the month of March. This 
fleck averaged 15 eggs per 100 hens, 
daily, in the month of December, 24 in 
January, 45 in February and 69 in 
March. On the other hand the flock en¬ 
titled to the “booby prize” in this test 
consisted of 387 hens and pullets, mostly 
White Leghorns, and their bill of fare 
included corn, wheat, oats, buckwheat, 
H.-O. feed, wheat bran, wheat middlings, 
meat scraps, fresh ground bone, cabbage, 
turnips, apples and ground clover. This 
flock averaged only 1.3 eggs per 100 hens 
daily in December, 1.5 in January, 8.6 in 
February, and 25.1 in March. It is evi¬ 
dent that I am not the only one who 
must depend on the Summer months for 
the profits to be secured from hens. 
O. W. MAPES. 
MULE BEATS AN AUTOMOBILE. 
Experiments have been made in the 
use of automobiles on some of the rural 
mail routes. It appears, however, that 
before the auto is really practical we 
must have better country roads, and in 
the meantime the best substitute for an 
auto is the great American mule. A Mis¬ 
souri carrier recently asked the possi¬ 
bilities of using an auto on his route, 
which included 53 clay hills and four 
big swamps, with mud and water up to 
the wagon bed. An experienced Mis¬ 
souri postmaster responded as follows 
Our roads are mostly dirt, and in rainy 
weather they’re pretty bad, to put it mild. 
Lhider such conditions it seems to be 
necessary for a man to have something to 
oxpre-ss his opinion to. If he got an au¬ 
tomobile stuck in the mud he might reason 
with it till the chickens came home, and 
yet fail to relieve liis mind. With a horse 
or mule it is different. I note with interest 
there are 5,5 clay hills and four big swamps 
on your route. If that is the situation 1 
would advise a flying machine, with a life¬ 
boat attachment. Oi‘ you might tunnel 
under your route, in which case an auto 
would go through dry-shod. Fearing these 
suggestions might involve greater expense 
than you would care to assume, I venture 
to offer as the next best solution the fa¬ 
mous Bird of Paradise, commonly called 
the Missouri mule. A Mis.souri mule 
would go where no auto would dare to 
tread. He will haul you over those 53 clay 
hills on time or kick holes through them 
and go under. Nothing will discourage 
him. W’e use ’em on all our routes, and I 
know. You never have to stop to fix him. 
You don’t have to take a monkey-wrench 
and a kit of burglar tools along. A good 
stout club is the only instrument he has 
any respect for. There’s no danger of his 
blowing up. Difficult roads only enthuse 
him to greater effort. After colliding with 
a tree or a fence or a brick house, the 
automobile is sent to the junk shop, while 
the mule is only brighter and gayer and 
stronger subsequent to each collision; it’s 
the thing he runs against that goes to the 
scrap pile. A mule eats more than an 
automobile, but he gives greater results. 
That endorsement of the mule v/ill be 
subscribed to by most people who have 
had experience with that sagacious ani¬ 
mal. It is a noticeable fact that the in¬ 
creased use of automobiles has not low¬ 
ered the price or lessened the demand 
for good horses and mules. 
Cows AND Apple.?. —The discussion on 
apples making a cow drunk seems to 
have brought out different views. I have 
seen cows down that have eaten too 
many apples and also corn, both green 
and dry. The symptoms are so similar 
in overfeeding that I cannot distinguish 
between green corn and apples. I think 
the gases formed by these fermenting 
substances cause these symptoms. 1 do 
know that giving the animal alcohol, 
camphor or ether, especially alcohol, 
helps to bring about an abatement of 
those drunken symptoms. 
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