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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 11 
Live Stockand Dairy 
WATERY SILAGE; ROUGH COWS. 
In 1900 I filled my silo with mature and 
fully ripe corn. It did not keep first class, 
and the grains of corn passed through the 
cows undigested. Last Fall (1901) l cut 
the corn one day, and the next day it was 
put into the silo, and the juice, or a clear 
colorless liquid of strong odor has oozed 
out of the bottom of the silo for two 
months. Part of the field of corn was not 
put into the silo, but cut at the same time, 
set up and cured, and husked. The grain 
is all right, but once in a while there is an 
ear on which the grains are a little loose. 
Part of the ears were saved for seed corn. 
The silage has kept in fine shape, no 
moldy or decayed matter at all, but seems 
dry. Is there a time when I can put up 
the silage and have the cows digest the 
grains and not have the juice ooze out? 
If there is no such time, which of the two 
losses would be the least? I feed my cows 
a bushel basket full of silage each night 
and morning, and at night, after feeding 
silage, and at noon, all the mixed hay 
(mostly Timothy, some clover) they will 
eat up clean, also skim-milk and two 
quarts bran a day. There were no ears 
taken from the silage corn, and it -ould 
have made 100. bushels of ears to the <. / "e, 
yet my cows look bad, hair rough, and 
they don’t seem to be contented, lowing a 
good deal. When turned out to drink they 
sometimes chew old bones or sticks, and 
are not thrifty. They are mostly coming 
fresh in February. A - R - 
French Creek. N. Y. 
'The corn was no doubt too dry and 
fully matured. The stalks and leaves 
had lost their water to a degree, and 
the plant cells had taken air instead. 
The air passed into the silo, and by no 
amount of treading or weighting would 
it go out. The presence of oxygen 
meant heat, and more drying out. The 
heating also meant a loss of feeding 
value. The kernels being hard when 
they went in could not be fully acted 
upon while in transit through the di¬ 
gestive tract, hence they passed the ani¬ 
mals whole. It is now evident that you 
have gone to the other extreme, and put 
in too much water in the corn, and no 
doubt your silage is quite sour. Better 
results would have followed a slight 
drying of the corn, just enough so the 
leaves would rattle; then cut fine, and 
the best of silage would follow. I never 
saw but one silo from which water was 
flowing, but this year several oases have 
been reported. In the case first men¬ 
tioned the corn was green, immature 
watery stuff of small value at the start, 
and very acid eventually. I have never 
seen such in our own experience. The 
ear development, however, on this corn 
warrants perfect silage. In regard to 
putting up corn I can only say: Do not 
let it stand and ripen before cutting. If 
cut and shocked, and a portion will ma¬ 
ture for seed, it is as near right as I am 
able to judge. If full of moisture, 
whether mature or not, dry a portion of 
it as previously suggested, and if cut 
fine failure is impossible, no matter 
whether the silo is round, square or 
octagonal. 
I am not quite clear in regard to the 
condition of the cows. I would suggest 
feeding less—a bushel of silage is as 
indefinite as the size of a piece of chalk. 
It may mean 20 pounds of loose, fluffy 
stuff, or it may mean 50 pounds of solid 
corn, as the questioner may prove by 
the scales. If the smaller amount is 
the case, increase the feed; if the great¬ 
er is true, cut it down; 40 to 50 pounds 
of silage, if good, and what mixed hay 
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New York. 
they will eat clean, with skim-milk and 
bran, should mean nice sleek looking 
stock, all other thingB being right. The 
chewing of bones and sticks is clear evi¬ 
dence, however, that a well-ordered ra¬ 
tion has not been given for any length 
of time. Cows will not chew sticks with 
a normal appetite. We passed through 
the bone-chewing age 25 years ago, but 
since practicing a system which sup¬ 
plies not only a sufficient amount of 
protein and carbohydrates, but plenty 
of ash or bone-making material, all 
trouble has ceased. It is hard to advise 
increasing the bran ration at present 
prices, but a sick man must have a phy¬ 
sician, even though one visit costs as 
much as the food for a week, so these 
cows need bran of all foods, because it 
not only contains protein, but ash, the 
much-needed element not found in the 
highly nitrogenous by-products. Feed 
them the noon feed, all they will eat 
clean of hay; feed from 15 to 25 pounds 
of silage night and morning, upon 
which has been put two pounds at each 
time of wheat bran. Give salt once a 
day. Keep up the skim-milk; give them 
a clean staible. Look out for nee; they 
are always looking out for unthrifty 
animals. Disinfect your stables and 
wash the cows with some carbolic prep¬ 
aration or sheep dip, and if things do 
not right up in two months there must 
be something constitutionally wrong. 
H. E. COOK. 
Is Morning’s Milk Richest ? 
Will morning milk test more butter fat 
than evening milk? I have heard this as¬ 
serted. c - E - s - 
Dryland, Pa. 
I am not aware that there is any evi¬ 
dence to show that milk will test higher 
in the morning, unless the time that 
may elapse between the night and morn¬ 
ing milking time may be shorter. It is 
quite true that the shorter the period 
between milking the higher the test. 
Theoretically, a cow should give a high¬ 
er test in the morning because she is 
usually less disturbed by necessary care, 
heat, flies, etc., but this is very slight 
if at all in actual test and practice. In 
case of large milkers, and where tests 
are to be made, cows should be milked 
three times a day, thus reducing the 
time between milking. h. e. cook. 
Bad Taste in Milk. 
A cow had garget two or three years 
ago, and her milk is not what it should be. 
It hasn’t a normal taste when fresh, and 
after standing until sour that in the bot¬ 
tom of the pan is slimy and ropy. What 
can be done to correct the trouble? 
South Easton, N. Y. b. m. h. 
I can see no logical or traceable reason 
why garget could effect the milk when 
it occurred so long ago. A cow may 
lose the use of a portion or all of the 
udder from garget, and for a time give 
thick milk or watery secretions, or both, 
but of course no one would think of 
saving the stuff. When this ceases, and 
the udder resumes its normal functions, 
the milk will again be quiite good and fit 
for use; that is, so far as my observa¬ 
tion has gone, although cases to the 
contrary may have occurred. I am rath¬ 
er of the opinion in this case that the 
trouble is due to some bacteriological 
disturbance of which the cow is wholly 
innocent. The peculiar taste mentioned 
may be due to some peculiarity of feed 
or foul air in the stable, which the 
owner may easily and quickly remedy. 
The ropy condition may come from 
some utensil, pail, strainer, can or dip¬ 
per, or by chance the germ which causes 
it may get in from the stable through 
dusty hay, bedding, etc. I should at 
once whitewash the stable, which means 
clean walls, partitions and mangers, 
then sterilize every dish after cleansing 
with some washing powder. Sterilizing 
does not mean a dash of water from a 
teakettle, but contact with boiling water 
or live steam for two or three minutes 
and in a severe case five minutes; thus 
killing not only the active germs but 
spores as well. Try strict sanitation; 
at the same time write to Cornell Ex¬ 
periment Station for their bulletin on 
ropy milk. H. e. c. 
Happy Cows.—I see that R. S. H. does 
not believe in keeping cows in the barn in 
cold weather. He probably gets in beside 
a warm fire while his stock stands with 
their backs in a rainbow, their four feet 
all in one place, or as near as they ca.i 
get them. I have a neighbor who wants 
his stock outdoors, too; he will carry his 
corn fodder way out in his pasture to feed, 
rather than cut it or clean the stable. In 
Spring he has no manure hardly to draw- 
out; in the Fall he has hardly any crops to 
harvest, and then lays it to the land, while 
my cattle stand in the barn with water 
in front of them, fed three times a day, 
and no tuberculin either. The stable faces 
south, with plenty of windows for light. 
The stock will get up and stretch them¬ 
selves as much as to say they enjoy life. 
In very warm dry days I let them out a 
little w’hile in the middle of the day; they 
will run like colts. f. l. b. 
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