1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
795 
A FEW HEN NOTES. 
Skim-Milk. —On several occasions I 
have tried to figure out a profit in feed¬ 
ing sliim-milk to kens, using the feed¬ 
ing tables. Sometimes it has seemed to 
me that I succeeded, but at tke prices 
we have to pay for skim-milk now if we 
haul any back from the creamery it is 
a hopeless case. Skim-milk costs us 
about 27 cents per 100 pounds. For all 
that we are feeding skim-milk to our 
poultry, and feeding it quite liberally. 
Our reason for doing it is that the hens 
seem to prefer it, and it appears to im¬ 
prove the general health of the flock. 
At this season and earlier there is lia¬ 
bility of losses. The losses seem to be 
occasioned by the moulting process, 
which offers a good opportunity for dis¬ 
ease to enter. I know there are many 
who never have any disease in their 
flocks, when they tell the story; but I 
know dozens of people who actually do 
have trouble with poultry diseases, and 
I don’t personally know of one who is 
never troubled. Those who never have 
diseased hens either keep a very small 
flock or they live too far away for me 
to visit them. Milk is not a cure, but 
I am satisfied that its use will help to 
ward off disease and will also help to 
start egg production. 
Fat Hens.—A lthough I have at times 
favored the idea of most writers and 
many poultry keepers, that fat hens will 
not lay well, my own experience does 
not prove it, and the experience of some 
of my neighbors tends to disprove it. I 
am inclined to regard Mr. Mapes’s idea 
as a good one. Among the dozen or 
more farmers in this vicinity who add 
materially to their incomes by attending 
with more or less care to the wants of 
several hundred hens, there is none who 
secures better rewards than Mr. Davis, 
who resides near me. His hens are al¬ 
ways fat, not excessively so, it is true, 
but he prefers to have them well rounded 
out with that adipose tissue so much 
condemned. If he can get good results 
from fat hens (some years he has 
cleared $1 a head selling eggs on the 
general market), there seems little rea¬ 
son for me to condemn them simply be¬ 
cause some one’s theory pronounces 
them unprofitable. I have known many 
a fat heifer of the sort that some people 
say will never make a profitable cow 
turn out to be among the best in the 
herd. They tell us that fat cells in hu¬ 
mans tend to help in fighting off disease 
germs, and that fatty tissue comes into 
play when one is fighting off an attack 
of grip, a cold, or something else that 
we want to get rid of. Perhaps hens 
that have a good supply of fat may be 
less susceptible to disease than those 
that are kept, apparently, more in train¬ 
ing for “racers.” Of course, I am not 
speaking for those hens whose good tis¬ 
sue is replaced by soft fatty tissue, such 
as that described in school physiologies 
under “fatty degeneration.” Possibly 
right here is where some of the good 
people misunderstand each other. 
_h. n. LYON. 
THE OUTLOOK FOR SHEEP. 
The outlook for the best mutton 
of November and December in these 
northern latitudes. Special care should 
be taken during these months to keep 
the whole flock steadily improving; a 
set-back to the lambs intended for the 
future breeders in the flock will lower 
the standard. A decline in condition 
of the ewes will mean a smaller per¬ 
centage of lambs, and lambs of less 
vigor and vitality when born. The 
frosting of the grasses makes them less 
nutritious, and less digestible. To make 
up for these losses in the grasses a little 
grain or good clover or Alfalfa hay 
should be fed. This also gives another 
advantage, that of a gradual change 
from green to dry feed. We find with our 
Oxford Down and Southdown flocks 
that to breed them up to the highest 
standard of excellence, we have to 
attend to feeding and care as well as 
to breeding. The only way we can suc¬ 
cessfully fit our winners for fairs and 
fat stock shows, is to be very careful 
in all changes of feed to make them 
gradual, and this policy is the one that 
gives us the best satisfaction in the 
management of our breeding flocks. 
Sussex, Wis. geo. m’kerrow & sons. 
Silage Blowers in Canada. 
I have lately been reading the letters, 
page 629, R. N.-Y., on blowers for silage. 
I think the first and the last letters show 
the reason why some machines fail to 
give satisfaction with green corn, that 
is because they rely wholly on speed to 
give draft to move the corn. In this 
neighborhood we have several machines 
which are not intended to run much over 
650 revolutions per minute. In them the 
pipe rises perpendicularly and the fans 
are intended to throw the heavy pieces 
up the pipe, being helped by the draft. 
I do not think much more power is used 
than for carriers. I notice in The R. 
N.-Y. pictures of machines in which the 
pipe comes out obliquely; in them the 
tendency is for the heavy parts to drop, 
and unless the draft is very powerful it 
passes over the top of them and may 
leave them behind and clog the machine. 
I only know of one man who used a 
carrier machine this year. He wanted 
to put in some second-crop clover with 
his corn and was afraid of it plastering 
on the pipe as corn that is too green 
will sometimes do if cut very fine. 
Ont., Canada. J. R. job. 
How Western Farmers Feed Corn. 
I grind my corn and cob together, which 
I find a very good way to feed young 
cattle. I have fed it in that way for sev¬ 
eral Winters, with cood results. 
Blanchardville, Wit. m. bainbridge. 
I am not only in favor of grinding, but 
of grinding fine. I would reduce the grain 
to flour or powder, if possible, feeding with 
some product like beet pulp or mixing with 
cut dry fodder, moistening or not as con¬ 
venient. R. 11. ALLEN. 
Ames, Neb. 
We have never fed soaked corn to cattle. 
We crush it, corn, cob and husk all to¬ 
gether. We feed from 100 to 150 cattle each 
year. We think it pays to crush corn 
when on grass. We generally get a gain 
of 2 y 2 to 3 pounds per day, feeding from 
four to six months. J. w. Andrews. 
Altona, Ill. 
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sessed of early maturity and producing 
quality of mutton that the market de¬ 
mands. We base our prediction on the 
present status of the market, and the 
fact that the American people are fast 
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learning to discriminate between good 
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I do not have at hand now the figures 
which express accurately my experience, 
but I have found that it pays well to grind 
feed. Last year we ground the corn as 
soon as it was dry enough and fed it to 
cattle with oil meal. It took less corn in 
that way and the cattle did better. This 
year we are thus far feeding corn in the 
ear, and with it a small quantity of oats. 
For hogs we grind oats and corn together, 
and find that it pays. w. E. COLVIN. 
Arthur, Iowa. 
We do not think it pays to grind or soak 
corn if a feede’ has plenty of hogs to fol¬ 
low the cat*' , -uit if one is short of hogs 
we think either plan a saving of corn, that 
is, he can feed with a less number of 
hogs after the cattle. We believe that it 
is a good plan to feed oats with the corn, 
as they fatten much more smoothly than 
on corn alone. Clover hay is also highly 
valued in fattening cattle, or corn and 
Blue grass make a profitable ration. 
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