1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THE STORY OF THE COWS. 
Some months ago the following note ap¬ 
peared in The R. N.-Y.: 
"Seven Good Cows.— I send you my but¬ 
ter record for 11 months, up to January. 
1899: seven cows, six Jerseys and one Dur¬ 
ham. , „ . 
Pounds. Pounds. 
March . 180 October . 274% 
April . 241% November . 226 
May . 342% December . 163 
June . 351% January . 47 
July . 311% 
August . 288% Total ...2,703% 
September ... 278 Per cow . 386 
Homer, N. Y. w. c. l.’’ 
I would like to have this dairyman tell 
us through The R. N.-Y. the manner or 
method of his feeding, etc. Does he have 
a silo, and what has he to say about it? 
Pennsylvania h. g. m. 
My cows at present are all Jerseys, 
nearly, if not quite purebred, only one, 
however, registered. Some I raised my¬ 
self, others were bought in as needed. 
I have no silo, and never feed silage. 
My meadow hay is mostly Timothy, 
with some clover. This is the second 
Winter that I have fed oat and pea hay, 
and I like it well. I also feed some oat 
straw and cornstalks, and they have the 
skim-milk, except what is needed for 
calves and hens. The grain fed is most¬ 
ly corn and oats ground together. If I 
am obliged to buy feed I am quite likely 
to buy clear cornmeal. I know that alone 
is not a balanced ration, hut fed with the 
milk and roughage, it has given me sat¬ 
isfactory results. I feed some bran 
when the cows first come in to milk, 
but my one experience in adding bran 
to their usual grain ration, or of sub¬ 
stituting it in part, was far from satis¬ 
factory. Recently I have had part of 
my cows come fresh in the Fall to sup¬ 
ply the demand for freshly made butter 
the year around. Ten days after calv¬ 
ing in Winter or Spring, I put them on 
their usual Winter ration of about seven 
pounds of provender, reducing it to two 
pounds after turning out to grass. Every 
day a cow gives milk she has grain. The 
middle of July I commence to feed 
freshly cut oats and peas for three 
weeks, then sowed corn, then Stowell’s 
Evergreen until late in the Pall. I 
think one great mistake in Summer, 
when feed gets short and dry, is to wait 
until the cows shrink a good deal in 
milk before feeding extra, either of 
grain or some green crop. The milk 
is set in seven-quart pans in the cellar 
in the Summer. From 'March 1, 1900, 
to March 1, 1901, my seven cows were 
fed on an average 1,450 pounds of grain 
apiece, giving me 2,702% pounds of but¬ 
ter, weighed as taken from the churn 
for salting. When one has learned all 
he can from others, best results can be 
obtained only by constant, unremitting 
attention to details. Each cow has her 
own peculiar temperament and capacity 
for assimilating food; her likes and dis¬ 
likes must be humored, provided such 
treatment gives best results. Give her 
as much food at all times as she can 
not plant any field corn at all, and had 
to buy all my grain. Under the cir¬ 
cumstances, a profit of over $305 is not 
bad. You will notice that I say, “from 
about 150 hens”—it is diflicult to strike 
a correct average number. January 1, I 
both for show and for eggs. I think two 
pounds of cut bone every other day right 
for 40. laying hens, and as much more for 
that number of show birds. 
Salem, O. c. f. chalfant. 
Experiments with Poultry. 
Experiment Station, Orono, Me., Bulle- 
had 175, more than half of them hens tin No. 79. Poultry Experiments, in fatten 
9 T ii ing, chickens made greater gains when 
one, two or three years old; these I sola given a little liberty than when confined in 
T oo *v.*v«r “laiH rmt r lav- small coops. The period of cheap and rapid 
alive, as fast as they laid out their lay gain was found to be early in life. In 
ing” and got broody, so that I had only birds 160 days old the gain was only one- 
& 6 half that of those 95 days old. A desirable 
ration was found to be one pound each 
cornmeal and wheat middlings, and one- 
third pound beef scrap, mixed with skim- 
milk. In treatment of eggs before incuba- 
120 in the Summer, and this was not in¬ 
creased until the pullets began laying 
in November and December. So I es¬ 
timate the average at about 150. Your 
correspondent, L. J. W., gives on page 
63 Mr. Underwood’s record of 77 eggs 
from 243 hens in one day during first 
week in January. My record for the 
first week in January is 80, 66, 87, 76, 
76, 73. and 79, a total of 537 eggs from 
210 hens. 
I note with pleasure L. J. W.’s com¬ 
ments after giving the manner of feed¬ 
ing, etc. He says; “Now, isn’t that 
easy and simple? But don’t think 
everybody can do it with the same feed 
and following directions to a T, for they 
can’t. There is a good deal of difference 
as to who throws the feed.” He is 
right about that. I raise about 500 
heads of cabbage for the hens. I don’t 
“hang them up,” or “throw them in,” 
but I dig a hole in the earth and put 
the stump in it, and the cabbage looks 
tion results showed that in those exposed 
to light and air the hatch was one-third less 
than from those kept in close cases at the 
same temperature. Eggs kept at 50 degrees 
for 10 days before incubation hatched one- 
fourth less than those kept at 70 degrees. 
It is often recommended to rest for 24 hours 
eggs that have been transported by rail, 
but In these tests those put into the incu¬ 
bator at once after a journey of 514 miles 
actually hatched better than those rested 
24 hours before incubation. Eggs become 
fertile very soon after mating. Those laid 
eight days after the introduction of the 
male made perfect hatches, while those 
laid the second day showed strong signs 
of fertility, and in one instance eggs laid 
only 40 hours after mating gave vigorous 
chicks. Tests made of eggs laid after the 
male had been removed from the flock 13 
days showed a diminishing of one-fourth 
in fertility. 
SEVEN TO ONE 
Sometimes the weight goes 
up that way when taking Scott’s 
Emulsion. Seven pounds of 
as if it were growing there. Now, if HCW, healthy flesh fiom a One 
any of that cabbage is there the next pound bottle of Scott’s Emul¬ 
sion is on record. 
Scott’s Emulsion brings 
everything to its aid ; good ap¬ 
petite, strong digestion, rich 
blood, new body strength, and 
above all the power to get all 
the good out of ordinary food. 
For those who are in need ! 
of more flesh there is nothing 
better. Thin folks—try it! 
day, the coop won’t get any for a day 
or two—they are not cabbage hungry; 
but if it is all eaten up and a hole picked 
in the stump, as often happens, that 
coop will get a cabbage every day for a 
while. I would like to say something 
as to my way of feeding, about cold 
coops, about the laying of early pullets, 
etc., but this article is too long already, 
so will cut it short off. g. a. c. 
Willington, Conn. 
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How to Feed Green Bone. 
How much green cut bone should be fed 
to 40 laying hens, and how should it be fed? 
We consider green bone the most valu¬ 
able of all feeds, both for making good 
growth in young birds, and egg produc¬ 
tion. We feed one ounce each daily, to our 
grown fowls, and have never seen any 
bad results from its use. Fowls that have 
never been fed green bone, would have to 
be gradually brought up to this amount. 
During warm weather, we scatter it 
broadcast in the yards at noon, to young 
and old; during the late Fall and Winter, 
we mix it in the evening mash feed. We 
feed a mixture of grains in the morning, 
and in the evening, a mash consisting of 
two parts bran and one part each of white 
middlings, cornmeal or corn and oat feed, 
and add the green bone to the mixture. 
Give them all that they will eat of this 
mash. We have never noticed effects on 
eggs, from feeding mash, or all grain 
foods. We now have chicks two weeks 
old, which were hatched from eggs laid 
by pullets hatched April 26, 1901. 
W. Alexander, Pa. w. b. gibson & sons. 
We’ll send yc t a little to try, if you like. 
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl street,. New York. 
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J. E. WYLEtt, Mount Hope, Ohio. 
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Green bone is one of the best aids for 5s indicated for the most complicated 
make good use of; keep her comfortable good health, activity and egg production aggravated, offensive cases of grease 
which we have for Winter, but in the use heel, scratches, mud fever, abscesses, old 
of this food there is danger that it may sores, hoof rot, cow-pox and skin diseases 
have been allowed to stand until it be- of months’ or years’ standing. No mat- 
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and contented; then if she does not re¬ 
spond generously through the milk pail 
make her into beef. w. c. l. 
YEAR'S RECORD OF HENS. 
Under the caption, “Hen Partners 
That Pay,” you published last year my 
egg and poultry record for the year 
1900, showing a profit from an average 
of 100 fowls of $290, or $2.90 per hen, 
all eggs and fowls being sold at ordin¬ 
ary market rates. The egg record for 
1901 is as follows from about 150 hens: 
Jan. 1 to June 30.14,071 
July 1 to Dec. 31. 9,526 
Total .23,597 
Cash sales of eggs. 
Poultry sold and eaten. 
Value of manure, est.• 
Increase of flock. 
$369.26 
77.05 
20.00 
45.50 
$511.81 
$206.00 
$305.81 
This is a much smaller profit per hen 
than last year, although a greater 
total profit, one reason for which is the 
tremendous increase in the price of 
grain, and—owing to sickness—I did 
Total . 
Value of grain fed. 
Net profit . 
benefit. We would not advise anyone to 
use the green bone after it has any dis¬ 
agreeable smell to it. In the use of this 
we mix the green bone with other food 
usually in a warm ration made by mixing 
provender with ground clover about equal 
parts, then adding bone to the amount of 
about one ounce for each hen. In begin¬ 
ning to feed bone less than one ounce 
should be used, as there is danger that 
it will physic the hens in the first few 
feedings. No one should give enough of 
the green bone to cause any trouble of the 
bOWelS. G. S. VIBBERT. 
Clintonville, Conn. 
I feed green cut bone every other day to 
my laying hens, and birds that I am get¬ 
ting in shape to show. I feed them all 
they will eat once a day. I do not mix it 
with any other feed, but scatter it in 
their straw and make them work for it. 
I feed it at noon; no other feed at that 
time. I think hens will work harder and 
longer for green cut bone than they will 
for any other feed, and the more work 
they do the better condition they are in, 
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