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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
•January 6 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A SUBSTITUTE FOR ENSILAGE. 
There are a good many farmers who 
think that they cannot spend the time 
or money to attend farmers’ institutes 
or dairy meetings; they say that they 
don’t got their money’s worth. The 
trouble is too often that they do not 
use their ears and their heads when they 
do attend, and go back home and do just 
as they did before. At the Winter meet¬ 
ing of our State Dairymen’s Association, 
one of the speakers told of feeding ap¬ 
ple pomace. We had seen lots of it go to 
waste, but had never thought of feeding 
it, although we feed all our “cider” ap¬ 
ples to the cows. Feed was scarce this 
Fall, and we made arrangements with 
one cider mill, a mile away, to take all 
the pomace, and secured a lot from an¬ 
other mill free. We commenced by feed¬ 
ing about 10 pounds a day, and increased 
to 35 or 40 pounds. 
Perhaps you will ask, Do the cows 
like pomace, and is it safe to feed 35 
pounds per day? We say yes. They like 
pomace, soon become accustomed to it, 
and are as greedy for it as for ensilage. 
It seems to agree with them, and our 
cows have never done better than this 
Fall. We’ve had surplus milk to sell, 
while many of the milkmen have had to 
buy. If the weather is very warm, and 
the pomace gets sour, it will have a 
tendency to bloat, but feeding the grain 
with the pomace will stop this. An in¬ 
telligent feeder will have no ti*ouble in 
feeding it. We took the pomace as fast 
as made, about a load of 3,000 or 3,500 
pounds every other day. Get it as fresh 
as possible, but if you can get a lot at 
one time, and cannot feed as fast as 
you wish, you can fill a silo with it the 
same as corn. As soon as we filled our 
silos with corn we had to begin feeding, 
as feed was scarce, but we stopped the 
ensilage as soon as the pomace came. 
We found 35 pounds of pomace giving us 
as good results as a bushel of ensilage, 
so that pomace this year saved us from 
50 to 60 tons of ensilage, and figuring 
ensilage at $2.50 per ton, we are in an 
even $100 for attending a dairy meeting 
and acting on a sensible suggestion. 
Thousands of dollars in feeding value 
have gone to waste the past Fall in Con¬ 
necticut, when most farmers need all the 
feed they can obtain. Pomace contains 
1.4 per cent protein, nearly as much as 
corn ensilage, and by good authority is 
said to be as easily digestible. 
Connecticut. h. g. Manchester. 
THE FEEDING VALUE OF WHEY. 
If skim-milk is worth 25 cents per 100 
pounds for feeding hogs, with corn at 40 
cents per bushel, what is whey trom cot¬ 
tage cheese worth for the same purpose? 
The whey is to be fed warm when drawn 
off curd. J. p. w. 
Kerrmoor, Pa. 
The following table shows the average 
analyses of the three substances named. 
These figures are the number of pounds 
of digestible nutrients in 100 pounds of 
the original substance: 
Total 
pounds of 
digestible 
Pro- Carbohy- nutrients 
tein. drates. Fat. in 100. 
Whey .0.8 4.7 0.3 5.8 
Skim-milk .2.9 5.2 0.3 8.4 
Corn .8.0 66.2 4.3 71.3 
In this table it is assumed that the 
whey from cottage cheese is of the same 
composition as whey from Cheddar 
cheese, although the former may be less 
rich in fat and richer in protein. If the 
digestible nutrients in each food are 
considered of equal value per pound, we 
then have a basis of comparison. With 
skim-milk at 25 cents per 100, each 
pound of digestible nutrients would be 
worth very nearly three cents, at which 
rate the value of the whey would be 
about 17 y 2 cents per 100 pounds. 
On the other hand, if the value of 
whey be calculated on the basis of corn 
at 40 cents per bushel, we find the di¬ 
gestible nutrients to be worth one cent 
per pound, or 5.8 cents for the food sub¬ 
stance in 100 pounds of whey, which is 
more nearly the correct value than the 
previous calculation. The difficulty is 
that too high a value is placed on the 
skim-milk. Experienced feeders rarely 
assign it a value of more than 20 cents 
per 100 pounds, w'hile 15 cents is nearer 
the average value given. With skim- 
milk at the last-named price, the value 
or whey would be about 10 cents per 
100 pounds, which is liberal. 
A TYPICAL OLEO ARGUMENT. 
“Where ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to 
be wise,” would seem to be the condi¬ 
tion of the writer of an article in a re¬ 
cent number of the National Provisioner 
on Butter Inconsistencies. He appears 
to think that the farmer receives only a 
nominal value for his crude milk when 
manufactured into butter, and that the 
profits are 400 per cent to the middle¬ 
man. Says he: “The butter interests 
hold up the hand of horror at the pos¬ 
sibility of .08 worth of stock being made 
into an .18 retail butterine product. . . 
Our dairy friends, in their beneficence 
of sentiment, are not in the least 
shocked at the fact that .08 worth of 
milk—the farmer being paid the .08 for 
his barnyard milk—is manufactured into 
a .31 retail product, having a residue of 
skim stock sufficient to help fatten quite 
a herd of porkers at the dairy pigstye.” 
This same article quotes from the re¬ 
port of a creamery in which it says 
“Farmers get 2% cents per gallon for 
milk on a five-per-cent butter-fat test,” 
or the farmer gets .08 for the milk to 
produce one pound of butter. These 
figures seem ridiculous to an intelligent 
man. The great bulk of creamery but¬ 
ter in New York, as in other States, is 
manufactured at a fixed price per pound, 
usually from 2J4 to 3% cents, and the 
farmer gets the remainder; if New York 
quotations are 25 cents, the creamery 
will get 23 to 24 cents, and the farmer 
20 to 21 cents net. The average milk of 
New York will require about 22 pounds 
of milk for one pound of butter, averag¬ 
ing the year. The average price of but¬ 
ter for the past year was about 20 cents; 
this would give the farmer .077 per gal¬ 
lon for his milk. 
The inconsistency of this article is 
also shown by its conclusion, when it 
says that “No wonder dairies are mul¬ 
tiplying, and the covetous eye bulges 
with greed.” The creamery business re¬ 
ferred to as “dairies” has succeeded as a 
financial scheme only when wisely and 
economically managed, as the writer 
knows from many years’ experience and 
observation. The only commendable 
) feature of these oleo advocates has been 
their persistent misrepresentation. They 
have associated so long with their pro¬ 
duct, which has always masqueraded 
under the color and semblance of an¬ 
other product, pure and wholesome, that 
they now partake of its essential fea¬ 
ture. H. E. COOK. 
Is the Tamworth hog too slow in matur¬ 
ing? This complaint is made by some of 
the Australian farmers. 
Fresh cow’s milk is selling for $4 a quart 
in the Klondike. This is enough to make 
the projected milk trust feel very small. 
Ex-President Shattuck, of the New 
York Dairymen, thinks he has solved the 
problem of abortion in the dairy. He 
bought a ?4 can of a patent abortion cure 
for $3 from an agent who made the low 
price simply to introduce it. He corked it 
up tight and put it away in the corn crib, 
and has not had a case of abortion since. 
Of course, the inference was that he at¬ 
tributed the exemption to the efficacy of 
the medicine. 
The Agricultural Department has been 
experimenting with a new cattle food, 
made by grinding dry corn stalks, leaves, 
tops, and all, to a powder, which is mixed 
with blood or molasses, and then pressed 
into cakes by a hydraulic press. For feed¬ 
ing the substance is broken up and mixed 
with water. It is said that this food will 
be particularly valuable for our cavalry 
in the tropics. It can be prepared at a 
minimum cost in Cuba and the South, 
where thousands of tons of low-grade mo¬ 
lasses are wasted annually, and where 
cane refuse could take the place of corn 
stalks. The cost of making the food cakes 
is estimated at $10 to $12 a ton, and their 
nutritive value is estimated at $22 to $25. 
Selling Carves.— With the price of veals 
and other products there are enough of 
our neighbors who desire our young calves 
if we do not wish to make veal of them 
ourselves, but with the advanced price of 
milk we let them go at about 10 days’ old. 
Our milk goes to the Borden's works, and 
as the milk is not taken until that time 
we keep the calf 10 days or two weeks, 
when we have a ready market here, as 
there are shippers who will take them at 
any time. It is very seldom that a calf 
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