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April 12 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
WHEY CAL YES; CROSS-BRED COWS. 
1. Can calves be raised successfully on 
whey, or how would you raise calves when 
taking: milk to the cheese factory? 2. 
Which would be the better cross for milk, 
a Durham bull with Holstein cows or Hol¬ 
stein bull with Durham cows? 
Ellington, N. Y. w. j. m. n. 
1. The waste in the feeding value of 
whey is enormous. The rapid decompo¬ 
sition which follows its separation from 
the curd requires feeding soon after for 
health and economy. The feeding value 
when sweet is from seven to 10 cents per 
100 pounds. Nearly one-half the total 
milk solids are found therein, all of the 
sugar, five pounds, 2 y 2 pounds of fat, 
the same of casein and six-tenths of a 
pound of albumen; total of 6.10 pounds; 
not the most valuable portion to be 
sure, but much more than usually sup¬ 
posed. I mention the composition to 
call attention to greater care in the 
cheese sections. Farmers repudiate 
whey chiefly because in the hot months 
it is kept in sour filthy tanks, and often 
not better in cool weather. Not alone is 
the factoryman responsible, but the 
farmer seldom cleans his barrel or tank. 
It taxes my patience daily to scrub and 
scald whey tanks, and then find the pat¬ 
rons using a barrel that has not seen hot 
water or a scrub in three months. Pas¬ 
teurizing will prevent fermentation. The 
expense, however, is almost too great 
generally to expect it. A clean sweet 
vat each day can be depended upon to 
ing, and having sweet or only slightly 
soured whey as a part food. What we 
have said will also apply to hog feeding. 
2. In the first place, why cross the 
breeds? We were foolish enough to try 
it, and failed, so have thousands of 
farmers who expected in the short space 
of nine months radically to improve by 
uniting two forces which have never 
been joined before, each one being the 
result of many generations of selection 
on each side. We expect before mating 
to get the strong points of each breed 
united in the offspring. When the ani¬ 
mal begins to develop we are usually 
surprised to see the weaknesses of each 
breed brought out. If grade Durhams 
are the stock and Holsteins are what 
you want then I should get a Holstein 
bull, that is, provided the Durhams have 
shown some milking capacity. If they 
are beef-bred Durhams I certainly 
should not waste time in developing a 
dairy herd from them. Then top-cross 
the calves with a Holstein bull again, 
and good results will follow. 
H. E. COOK. 
A Good Guernsey Cow. 
At Fig. 105 is shown a picture of 
Cassiopeia 4885 A. G. C. C. This was 
the second best Guernsey cow in the 
Pan-American Model Dairy herd. In 
the six months’ test this cow gave 6,270 
pounds of milk, which tested 4.26 per 
cent butter fat, or 267.73 pounds butter 
give fairly satisfactory results. Sweet 
whey is worth more than at any subse¬ 
quent period, no matter what is done 
for it. Another difficulty is found in 
feeding the animal too much at a meal. 
We ask the animal to take a large quan¬ 
tity of water to get a small quantity of 
food; hence frequent indigestion and 
scouring. Do not feed so much that you 
cannot give water and have a demand 
for it; always start the calf upon new 
milk, feeding not less than four weeks, 
not enough to fatten, but to give a 
gradual growth; then begin a gradual 
change from milk to whey provided 
always that the calf has begun to 
take dry coarse food. Ground oats put 
into the pail after giving whey or milk 
is usually taken with more relish than 
at other times. Keep a close watch on 
the barrels; do not let them scour; do 
not try to save a few pounds of new milk 
and ruin the digestion of the calf. 1 
know we have permanently injured the 
value of the cow by overfeeding upon 
foods not yet adapted to the young 
stomach. There is a peculiar trade 
mark upon a whey calf, not because 
whey has no value, but for the reason 
that it has been injudiciously fed. Do 
not expect calves of different ages and 
temperament to drink from a common 
trough and get the best of results. No 
two drink alike; one gets too much, an¬ 
other not enough, producing indigestion 
in both cases. We have grown fine 
e&lves by this careful method of feed¬ 
fat which made 315.01 pounds of actual 
butter. The financial record of the cow 
for these six months stands as follows: 
1,118 pounds hay . $3.54 
4,142 “ silage . 4.14. 
3,580 “ green clover . 3.12 
1,241 “ bran . 
68 “ oats . 
734 “ gluten . 
42 “ cornmeal . 
42 “ linseed meal . 
89 “ cotton-seed meal. 
Total value of grain. 17.56 
Total .$2S.36 
This left a profit of $50.40 on the pro¬ 
duction of butter fat. 
Whooping Cough.— Sorry to hear of the 
whooping cough at Hope Farm. In the 
case of my children, I found that a quarter 
of a teaspoonful of vaseline taken three or 
four times a day not only eased the par¬ 
oxysms, but those who took it coughed but 
two weeks, while those to whom it was 
obnoxious kept it up two months. 
New Jersey. m. e. l. 
Chicken Cholera.— For several years I 
had cholera among our turkeys. Usual 
remedies failed, so that finally as soon as 
a bird became affected, its head was cqt 
off and body burned or buried. Last year 
my crack gobbler was taken sick and 
grew sicker; black head, empty craw and 
staggers. As he seemed fated to die either 
by the disease or the hatchet, I deter- 
mind to try an experiment. I gave -him 
two grains of calomel; next morning, mixed 
cornmeal stiff with sulphur and stuffed his 
craw full of it; repeated the dose late in 
the day. Second morning the Dird was 
still sick, but decidedly better. I dosed 
again with cornmeal and sulphur, aad 
again on the third day. That gobbler to¬ 
day is a picture. Have not had any cholera 
since, but if it comes again, calomel and 
sulphur will be the dose. e. c. p. 
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