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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 24 
SOME FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Grinding Corn-and-Cob Meat. 
Should corn-and-cob meal be ground fine 
v/hen fed to milch cows, fed In connection 
with ground bran and oats? Some of my 
cows pass some of the particles of corn 
without digesting it, when it is ground fine. 
What is the remedy? e. j. 
Mt. liberty, O. 
Corn-and-cob meal should be ground 
as finely as possible for feeding. A great 
deal of power is required to grind the 
cob, but to obtain the best results from 
feeding it, the grinding should be thor¬ 
oughly done. If the cob is not finely 
ground then neither will the grain be, 
and therefore the passing of particles of 
corn undigested may be remedied by a 
thorough grinding. It is a benefit, too, 
to feed the grain on silage, roots, or the 
like, for then it is more apt to be well 
masticated than when fed alone, d. a. 
Sheep Feed in Virginia. 
Will cow peas and oats sown together 
the last of May prove a success? 1 have 
15 acres now seeded to rye, which I would 
like to pasture with sheep until the end of 
May, and then plow and sow to something 
that would bring me a crop to take the 
place of clover hay in feeding sheep next 
Winter, as I shall not have any clover to 
cut this year. I see it stated in The Ameri¬ 
can Sheep Breeder, in answ r er to inquiry 
from Idaho, that peas and oats will make 
a crop superior to clover hay, in that it will 
furnish both grain and fodder. I would 
like to have a soiling crop to feed 150 sheep 
during July, as I fear I shall not have pas¬ 
ture sufficient for all my stock this Sum¬ 
mer. c. w. D. 
Bland, Va. 
We should not sow cow peas and 
oats together. The proper time for 
sowing the cow peas will be too late for 
the oats, and the two_ crops will not 
grow well together. The Canada field 
pea does well when sown early with a 
stout, erect variety of oats. The mix¬ 
ture makes good hay, but not equal to 
first-class clover. The cow peas may be 
sown in drills and cultivated with Crim¬ 
son clover seed sown at the last culti¬ 
vation. Then when the pea vines are 
cut and cured the clover will come on, 
and give good pasture for Fall and Win¬ 
ter. A good soiling crop for sheep is 
Dwarf Essex rape. This can be sown 
like turnip seed—in drills or broadcast, 
and pastured down several times. You 
need Forage Crops, a book by Prof. 
Thomas Shaw. It gives just the in¬ 
formation you are after. Price $1—we 
sell it. 
A Massachusetts Ration. 
Will you give me .a balanced ration for 
cows of 1,000 pounds weight? Shorts, $20 
per ton; gluten, $25; corn-and-cob meal, 
my own raising; whole meal is worth $10 
per ton. What do you consider the rela¬ 
tive value of my corn-and-cob meal with 
western corn meal? I have enough clover 
mixed hay to feed 130 pounds per day to 
eight cows, and no more, in order to get 
through to May 1. Hay, $15 per ton. 
Northboro, Mass. c. h. b. 
The following ration is suggested 
from these foods: 
Pro-Carbohy- 
tein. drates. Fat 
10 lbs. mixed hay . -.94 6.5-1 .19 
5 “ corn-and-cob meal.22 3.00 .15 
3 " shorts (wheat) .37 1.50 .11 
4 " gluten feed .SO 1.S6 .37 
Total .2.33 12.90 ,S2 
Nutritive ratio, 1:0.3; total dry matter, 
24.53. 
The grain portion of this ration is 
made up more largely than desirable of 
corn products, but this cannot easily be 
prevented, unless a smaller amount of 
corn-and-cob meal be fed. But it is 
presumed that the wish 'is to feed as 
much as possible of the home-grown 
product. Moreover, some of the cob is 
needed by the animal to provide the 
coarse fodder lacking in the hay, since 
no more of the latter can be fed. The 
nutritive ratio could be made more nar¬ 
row by feeding less shorts and more 
gluten feed, but this is not advisable for 
reason given above. Although the gluten 
feed costs one-fourth more than the 
shorts, it is relatively no more expensive 
when feeding value is considered, be¬ 
cause it contains about two-thirds more 
protein and one-fourth more of total di¬ 
gestible nutrients. The feeding value of 
corn-and-cob meal is about five-sixths 
that of clear corn meal. l. a. 
Distillery Slops for Cattle. 
I wish to know whether distillery slop 
(whisky distillery) is a healthful and fat¬ 
tening diet for hogs and cattle; I can buy 
this slop at five cents per barrel, 40 gallons, 
and haul seven barrels at a load. Toll- 
gate fare will cost me 50 cents. If the 
slop will not make a good food for hogs 
alone, what can I use with it to make .a 
proper balanced food? This distillery uses 
corn in making whisky. r. h. d. 
Lyndon, Ky. 
Distillery slop is not a healthful food 
for cows producing milk, because of its 
being usually in a high state of fer¬ 
mentation. It is of value for food pur¬ 
poses, either for hogs or cattle, in pro¬ 
portion to the dry food substance which 
it contains. One hundred pounds of slop 
contains about 93 pounds of water and 
five or six pounds of digestible dry mat¬ 
ter, which resembles gluten feed in 
composition. This amount of food sub¬ 
stance, though small, makes the slop 
worth five cents per barrel, plus the 
toll-gate fare. A mixture of equal parts 
by weight of corn meal and wheat mid¬ 
dlings makes a good grain to feed with 
the slop for hogs. l. a. 
Soy Beans in the Si to. 
Who has had experience with Soy beans 
or cow peas in the silo? Will they keep 
well? Should they be mixed with the 
corn ? 
I tried Hungarian millet and Soy 
beans in the silo last year, and the re¬ 
sult was a failure in the end, although I 
fed the mixture a few weeks before 
putrefactive fermentation set in. The 
last week in August I commenced put¬ 
ting corn in the silo, cut to one-fourth- 
inch lengths with a Smalley cutter. The 
silo was furnished by Harder, 17 feet 
diameter and 28 feet height, round, and 
built of two-inch cedar staves, and one 
of the best of its type. After putting in 
about 20 feet depth of corn, and being 
then early in September, we hauled two 
loads of Japan millet to one of Soy 
beaus, and ran them through the 
cutter to get as perfect mixture as pos¬ 
sible. We put in about 10 loads of mil¬ 
let and five of Soy beans, and finished 
filling the silo with a mixture of equal 
quantities of millet and beans, about 
five loads all told. The silage was lev¬ 
eled and packed as fast as delivered 
from the carrier, by a man who was 
kept at work for that purpose. We 
commenced feeding immediately from 
the half-and-half mixture of millet and 
beans. It made an excellent ration as 
long as it Kept in condition. We were 
feeding down into the two-thirds millet 
and one-third Soy-bean mixture the be¬ 
ginning of October, when we ceased 
using ft. The material began to spoil 
for days before we gave up feeding. It 
turned black, sticky and slimy, having 
entered the stage of putrefactive fer¬ 
mentation. We then threw out the 
spoiled beans and millet down to the 
corn silage, and that was spoiled where 
it had been in contact with the upper 
mixture. We removed about a ton of 
the damaged corn, and all below was in 
the best condition, and we are feeding it 
now. Of course I shall not again take 
the risk of putting Soy beans into the 
siio in the present state of our knowl¬ 
edge. s. it. DIVINE. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Colic Remedies. —Having seen so 
many inquiries in farm papers for colic 
remedies for our good friend, the horse, 
I send ours, which has been used in 
some very bad cases, always with best 
results: Spirits of niter, two ounces; oil 
of juniper, one ounce; laudanum and 
tincture of benzoin, of each one ounce. 
For horses or cattle in flatulent colic, or 
diarrhea, give one-half this amount in 
1 Yj pint warm water; if not relieved in 
one hour, give half the remainder same 
as the first; and if needed, in two 
hours more, give the remainder In the 
same way. a. m. d. 
Atwood, Ind. 
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