1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
171 
SOME FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
["Wearing Out Cows.—I have kept about 10 cows 
for the past 8 or 10 years. Iu Winter, I feed four 
quarts of bran and four quarts of middlings at 
each feed, night and morning, one peck of beets 
at each feed, stalks mornings and hay nights. Is 
that too heavy or too light for the cows to last, 
as in about six to eight years, they are worn 
out? Are barley sprouts as good as bran, the 
same amount ? I. w. L. 
A half bushel of wheat bran and mid¬ 
dling's daily is rather heavy feed for a 
continuous diet, especially if the hay fed 
be clover, because both are highly nitrog¬ 
enous, and serve to narrow the whole 
ration. A narrow ration, i. e., one with 
a large proportion of nitrogenous mat¬ 
ter, or protein, has a tendency to wear 
the animal out sooner than a ration with 
a less proportion of protein. This may 
be the cause of the wearing out of your 
cows. The grain ration ought to be 
sufficient if one-fourth less were fed, 
making 12 quarts per day of equal parts 
of bran and middlings. It would, prob¬ 
ably, be a further benefit to them to re¬ 
place half the bran by hominy chop, or 
half the middlings by corn meal. Bar¬ 
ley sprouts, or malt sprouts, contain 40 
per cent more protein than wheat bran, 
and thus two parts by weight of sprouts 
will go nearly as far in furnishing pro¬ 
tein as three parts of bran. In the above 
ration, it would not do to replace the 
bran by malt sprouts, except as indi¬ 
cated, because there is, evidently, too 
much protein already. L. A. 
Barley for Pigs. — I have a lot of pigs which I 
am trying to fatten on barley. Which will be 
more profitable, the grains ground at four cents 
per bushel, or boiled ? Which will give the best 
results ? f. a. w. 
Oswego County, N. Y. 
An experiment recently reported from 
Germany gives us an answer to this 
question. Four lots of pigs were fed 
on barley. Lot one received whole bar¬ 
ley raw; lot two, crushed barley raw ; lot 
three, ground barley raw ; and lot four, 
whole barley cooked. The results were 
that there appeared to be a very slight 
disadvantage from cooking whole barley. 
It is believed that cooking diminishes 
the digestibility. The pigs on ground 
barley had the best appetites through¬ 
out, looked the best, and gave the most 
satisfactory results on slaughtering. 
Besides the barley, all the pigs received 
skim-milk and steamed potatoes. Judg¬ 
ing from this experiment, it would seem 
most profitable to feed the barley ground. 
The general opinion is that ground feed 
should be wet for pigs. L. a. 
Buttermilk for Horses.— I have a surplus of 
buttermilk, and have been giving it to my horses. 
They are very fond of it, and are in good order. 
Is there any danger in feeding milk to horses? 
Are buckwheat middlings mixed with corn bran 
a good feed for horses ? t. p. r. 
Goldsboro, Md. 
There is no danger in feeding horses 
skim-milk or buttermilk in reasonable 
quantities. It must be borne in mind 
that both these are foods, and that, with 
them, the animal does not need so much 
other food as when drinking water alone. 
One hundred pounds of skim or butter¬ 
milk contain about 10 pounds of dry 
matter, nearly all of which is digestible. 
Some horses may do better on butter¬ 
milk than on skim-milk, just as some 
persons can digest the former more 
easily than the latter. The acid of but¬ 
termilk makes it more easy of digestion. 
Buckwheat middlings and corn bran 
mixed, about equal parts by weight, 
ought to be a good feed for horses. Taken 
together thus, they make a fairly bal¬ 
anced ration. L. A. 
Dairymen in parts of Tennessee are able to run 
the following rotation on their farms: Wheat is 
sown in the Fall, and thrashed in July. After 
the wheat is cut, the ground may be disked and 
harrowed, and sown to cow peas. The cow peas 
may be cut before frost, and put in a silo, and 
then the ground well worked up and sown to 
wheat again. The cow-pea ensilage makes,very 
strong food in connection with corn meal or corn 
ensilage, and the ground produces a better wheat 
crop because of the cow-pea stubble. This is one 
advantage enjoyed by southern dairymen, and it 
seems singular in these days to remember that, 
50 years ago, dairymen estimated tnat Tennessee 
could hardly be classed as within the so-called 
“corn belt.” 
Hogs That Paid. —On page 88, a sub¬ 
scriber from Ohio writes that he has been 
so prejudiced agai nst hogs that for 30 
years he has banished them from the 
farm entirely. I was reared on a farm, 
and of all the animals on the farm, I 
looked on the hog as the most contempt¬ 
ible and useless. In the Spring of 1893, 
I left the farm, taking a contract to cut 
and stack about 3,000.000 feet of logs. 
To do this took 40 men, and this num¬ 
ber of men, also consumed considerable 
provisions. I could find nothing to use 
the table scraps, etc., to better advant¬ 
age than hogs. I also found that I must 
feed them myself to insure them against 
starving. There is where I found the 
usefulness as well as the profit in hogs; 
so when I commenced farming again I 
bought two pigs, from a Poland-China 
sow, and an O. I. C. boar. I kept them 
six months, when I selected one for a 
breeder and fattened the other which, 
when one year old, dressed 3(54 pounds. 
My breeder is two years old, and has 
raised 31 pigs, which I sold at four weeks 
old, for $2 each, or $62, and I have an 
offer of $35 for my sow. Here is the cost 
of both pigs to November 1, 1896, also of 
the brood sow to November 1, 1897, and 
the credits of both : 
First cost of two pigs, November 1, 1895. $5 00 
Cost of grain for two pigs one year, Novem¬ 
ber 1, 1896. 18 00 
Cost of grain fed to brood sow in 1897. 14 00 
Use of boar. 3 (X) 
Butchering hog. 1 (X) 
Total cost. $41 00 
Pork, 364 pounds, at five cents.$18 20 
Thirty-one pigs, at $2. 62 (X) 
Brood sow. 35 00 
Receipts. $115 20 
Total profit. $74 20 
There is a profit of $74.20, or $37.10 a 
year. The above includes only grain, as 
my pigs had grass to run on during Sum¬ 
mer, also kitchen swill made by a family 
of five, but no milk. In the Fall of 
1896, they had a wood lotto run to where 
there were jfienty of nuts, which saved 
the grain bill, probably $10, which 
would reduce the profit to $64.20. J. c. B. 
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