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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 36 
RYE AND CORN FOR SHEEP. 
Would a mixture of rye and corn be a 
good food for sheep, say half and half? 
How can I feed rye to hogs to get the best 
result? d. o. s. 
Myerstown, W. Va. 
In answer to the above I would say 
that rye is not a particularly good food 
for sheep, although it can be fed in mod¬ 
erate quantities under certain condi¬ 
tions. In the first place, it will depend 
on what kind of sheep they are. If ma¬ 
ture sheep to be fattened, and rye is 
more plentiful and cheaper than corn, it 
might do very well fed half and half 
with corn. If the coarse feed is clover 
hay or some other protein food, i. e., 
that which contains a good amount of 
blood-making elements, they will also 
get much more out of it and digest it 
better if with it they have roots. The 
rye and corn are both starchy or heat¬ 
making foods, and a healthy growth can¬ 
not be expected unless they have a por¬ 
tion of their blood-making material. If 
the coarse food is corn fodder or Tim¬ 
othy hay I would take out either the 
corn or rye and substitute bran, gluten 
feed, cotton-seed meal (equal money 
value), or better still, linseed meal, 
which is very cheap this Winter, and 
has a good effect on the general health 
of the animal. If the sheep are to be 
fattened and are young growing animals 
then the rye and corn, equal parts, alone 
would be wholly wrong, as such sheep 
need very much more bone material in 
their food than the mature animals. 
They should have about twice the 
amount of protein fed in their ration as 
these that are full grown, and have no 
frame to build. 
If they are breeding ewes, and are thin 
in flesh they might have say a quarter 
of their grain fed of the rye and corn 
together or either alone. The remainder 
may be of the food mentioned above. If 
oats are at hand there is nothing better 
for a breeding animal. One important 
factor in successful lamb raising is to 
have the lamb strong at birth. This 
can be accomplished by healthy, strong 
parents. On the part of the dam par¬ 
ticularly this may be secured by the 
proper feed, such as will supply the 
mother with plenty of material to make 
blood and to build up in her offspring 
before birth a strong physical structure. 
If must also be remembered that the 
same foods that do this will also fur¬ 
nish the ewe with an abundance of milk. 
If mills are convenient that will take 
the flour out of the rye and return the 
bran, this will generally be a wise thing 
to do, particularly when corn is at hand 
to supply the heating elements. The 
flour seldom sells for less than $1.50 per 
100 pounds, which will purchase about 
150 pounds of bran, just what is needed 
to balance the corn. The rye bi'an is 
sticky fed alone, and the sheep do not 
eat it well. It should be mixed for them 
with some other gi’ound feed when they 
eat it all right, or it may be fed to 
young pigs, cows or horses, for all of 
which it is excellent. It will usually 
pay to grind the rye for hogs, and it is 
an excellent food for fattening them, or 
if not ground it is spread over a tight 
floor where they can pick it up a few 
kernels at a time; they will do very well 
on it. If it is put in a trough and they 
eat it by mouthfuls a large part will pass 
through them undigested. This is also 
the case when it is cooked. If fuel is 
plenty and not too much labor is in¬ 
volved in the process it will pay to cook 
if it is thus fed on a floor as above. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
fine White Leghorn poultry trade. He has 
two houses 250 feet long by about 15 wide, 
and half a dozen smaller buildings. Houses 
are an important item in poultry raising in 
the Mohawk Vallej r , where the Winters are 
severe, more protection being needed than 
in south Jersey or Maryland. As outside 
yards are of but little use in Winter, provi¬ 
sion is made for plenty of glass covering 
and inside scratching ground. These long 
buildings are divided into 10 or 12-foot sec¬ 
tions where different flocks are kept. Of 
course the fowls are on the sunny side. 
On the other is a passage way wide enough 
to go through with a wheelbarrow. The 
steam-heated brooders are between this 
passage and the pens, arranged so that the 
chicks can run back and forth at will. 
Wheat, corn and oats are the grains fed. 
Several times a week cooked food is given. 
This varies in composition from time to 
time, consisting of some sort of green stuff, 
like chopped clover hay, and standard 
ground feeds. At the time these notes were 
made Mr. Roach, the manager, was using 
H. O. mixed feed and the refuse of a 
shredded wheat factory, both of which 
were giving satisfaction. The buildings 
will accommodate about 3,000 birds. The 
sale of breeding stock and choice eggs both 
for hatching and table use are the matters 
receiving most attention. 
The school referred to above is really an 
outgrowth of this business. At the head 
of this is Dr. A. A. Brigham. He obtained 
his degree at the University of Gottingen, 
Germany, spent 10 years in practical farm¬ 
ing, was three years professor of agricul¬ 
ture at the Imperial University of Japan, 
and later conducted an excellent poultry 
course at the Rhode Island Agricultural 
College. The ! nstruction is by written lec¬ 
tures, systematically covering all branches 
of poultry culture, supplemented by an¬ 
swers to questions suggested by these talks 
and various outside problems peculiar to 
the individual requirements of the students. 
As there is no limit to the number of ques¬ 
tions that may be asked, one has the ad¬ 
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new branch on the preparation of poultry 
products will be added shortly, handled by 
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eggs and chickens that one often gets 
prove the need of this, and it is believed 
that the poultryman in an unobtrusive way 
by circulars or otherwise, can give hints 
on preparation to his customers that will 
result in increased trade. This has been 
found true in the sale of other products. 
The correspondence school idea is no 
longer an experiment. It is an outgrowth 
of the typewriter and modern methods of 
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the less they know about it the great¬ 
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