1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
77 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
Bran for Young Cattle. 
What is the best grain or mixture of 
grains to feed to young cattle in the Winter 
to keep them growing? w. b. h. 
Greenfield Hill, Conn. 
What is wanted is a food that will 
lceep young cattle growing without lay¬ 
ing on fat, and we know of nothing bet¬ 
ter for the purpose than wheat bran. 
We do not want to fatten calves and 
young cattle intended for the dairy, as 
the habit, once formed, of using their 
food for this purpose is apt to cling to 
them later in life, when we want them 
to use as little as possible for mainten¬ 
ance, waste nothing, and convert all 
possible into milk. Bran supplies more 
mineral matter than any other safe food 
on the market. It is palatable, cooling, 
keeps the bowels in good condition, and 
is almost an ideal food for the purpose 
wanted. Plenty of good hay to distend 
the stomach, so that later it will be able 
to handle large quantities of coarse food 
as well as grain supplemented by bran 
(do not feed too much, it is not neces¬ 
sary), will keep the young cattle thrifty 
and growing. A good many farmers 
seem to think that anything is good 
enough in the hay line, even without 
grain, for calves and young cattle, but 
this is poor economy. 
A Cow With Garget. 
What can I do for a cow that got garget 
through eating raw potatoes? This happened 
last Fall, and the cow has been of no account 
to us since. Some boxes containing cul's 
were set out in the barnyard, and she ate of 
them two or three times, all she could eat. 
We could make no butter from her after¬ 
ward, and the milk became unfit for use. 
This cow is a good cow for milk and but¬ 
ter; I do not think there is a better one 
anywhere. She wall be fresh some time in 
March. Do you think she will come all 
right again after she is fresh? She is such 
a good cow I dislike to part with her, and 
I do not much like to feed her all Winter 
long and get no good from her. We have 
got her about dried off; have not used the 
milk for two months. What would you 
advise trie to do with her? a. w c. 
Ohio. 
If this cow’s udder is soft and the tis¬ 
sue now seems healthy and teats nor¬ 
mal, we should keep her at least until 
she became fresh again. If all four teats 
gave thick, clotted and decomposed milk, 
and the quarters are hard or teats 
dwarfed and shrunken, there is not 
much hone, but from your description I 
think chances are good that she will be 
all right again. 
What About Bitter Cream? 
I have a cow whose milk seems all right, 
but the cream is bitter, and we cannot 
churn butter from it. The cow' is 5Y> years 
old, and part Jersey. What can we do to 
correct the trouble? f. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
The bitter cream may be caused by 
keeping it too long before churning. 
When one has only a small amount of 
cream, one is apt to keep it too long be¬ 
fore churning. Try churning every oth¬ 
er day, or once in three days at the 
most. It may be caused by using a sep¬ 
arator and not stirring or aerating the 
cream, but immediately putting it in 
cold water without much access to air. 
It may be caused by keeping the cream 
at too low a temperature. The bacteria 
that cause bitterness thrive much more 
rapidly in cold cream, and in Winter 
cream is often kept down to 32 to 40 de¬ 
grees. Keep it at 50 to 00 degrees and 
this may stop your trouble. Without 
knowing exact conditions it is hard to 
prescribe a remedy, but we think one of 
the. above will fit your case. 
A Cow Probably Lousy. 
Will you tell me what alls my Jersey 
four year old, due to calve April 17? Sh 1 
seems to have the itch. She is constantly 
scratching, so much so that there are some 
ugly raw spots on her tail. I do not be¬ 
lieve she ever had much grain until we 
got her last Fall. I fancy her blood is out 
of condition. Since taken off grass she 
has had a mixture of oats, ground corn- 
meal and bran, with Timothy and clover 
hay. ‘ e. h. b. 
Maplewood, N. J. 
Your cow T is probably lousy, and a 
careful examination of her will no doubt 
show the lice, also eggs. Sulphur and 
lard is the old-fashioned remedy, one 
part powdered sulphur, five parts lard, 
well mixed and rubbed on affected parts. 
A tobacco solution or tea, say about two 
ounces tobacco to one quart of water, 
rubbed over parts, will probably effect 
a cure. Apply treatment two or three 
times at intervals of four or five days 
to kill any young that may hatch after 
first application. Lice are more preva¬ 
lent on young cattle and on cattle of any 
age that are neglected. Animals that 
have good care, both as to feed and sur¬ 
roundings, are not apt to be lousy. It is 
a good plan to clean out thoroughly 
stables near cattle troubled, and put on 
a good coat of whitewash. Sometimes 
old barns are so much infected that it 
means quite a little work, but it will 
pay, as animals cannot be thrifty and 
lousy at same time. 
The Watf/r Supply. —We have run¬ 
ning water with basins for the cows in 
the barn, besides usually letting them 
out in the yard once a day where they 
have access to a large tub. During the 
recent cold spell our water froze up, and 
we despaired being able to get it started 
again, but were finally able to do so af¬ 
ter going about 10 feet into a bank wall 
with a steamer. The cows shrunk 30 
quarts the first milking after missing 
their regular supply of water, not being 
accustomed to drink much outside. We 
let them out twice daily and did all we 
could to make up for the change, but we 
couldn’t get them back. Now, since 
they can have water at any time they 
are coming back to their normal supply 
We found eight different breaks in the 
barn pipe because of the freeze, but in 
spite of this we are very thankful to get 
the water back again, as it means quite 
a difference in the barn income. Our 
silage gave out at Christmas, and where 
we were making 425 quarts daily they 
dropped to about 400 or a little over, 
showing the value of silage even when 
fed only once a day, and good early-cut 
hay to replace that silage. 
The Work Problem. —“Build a silo; 
then you’ll double up the number of 
cows,” is the advice we heard more than 
once in silo talks at institutes. The silo 
advice is all right, but go a little slow 
on the latter. A good many farmers are 
keeping eight to 12 cows and doing all 
or nearly all their own work, and get¬ 
ting all there is in it. Doubling up the 
cows doesn’t mean doubling up the 
profit; sometimes it means less profit 
and more money and trouble. It often 
means the addition of a hired man in 
the family, and some of the ills that fol¬ 
low in his wake. The home that har¬ 
bors only the farmer and his family is 
safe, but adding an outsider, sometimes 
good and often bad, changes the com¬ 
plexion of things. We could tell some 
sad yet true tales of the moral injury 
to children brought up with an indis¬ 
criminate lot of hired men. The farmer 
thinks that with the hired man some of 
the disagreeable hard work would be 
shared by the man. So it would, but 
the attendant evils overmatch. If you 
have a happy home, working hard but 
doing well, be content therewith. Build 
a silo if you can. It is one of the best 
things on the farm, but if you have to 
increase the help outside your family to 
run it, you can afford to go without it. 
Selling Cows.—What would you 
think of the manufacturer who allowed 
some one to come into his factory and 
pick out the most profitable machines 
he had, and because he offered him a 
few dollars more, than they cost, let 
them go thinking what a good price he 
received? There were other machines 
that did similar work, and he could find 
them. It cost money to look them up, 
to get and install them, and put them 
in smooth working order, and even then 
he might find they wouldn’t turn out the 
product that the old ones did. Yet there 
are farmers who will sell their best cows 
to the first drover that comes along if 
he will give them $5 to $10 more than 
the prevailing price. “Distance lends 
enchantment,” with the cow as well as 
some other things. A good many Con¬ 
necticut farmers will buy a cow that 
came from northern New York or Ver¬ 
mont a good deal quicker than they will 
a cow they know something about that 
belongs to a neighbor. Can you tell 
why? 
Home-Raised Cows. —“All the cows I 
have now are of my own raising, and 
the heifers that are coming on now have 
splendid udders and are doing finely. I 
keep a purebred Jersey bull of good 
breeding to continue building up the 
herd.” This was the substance of what 
a man told us recently, and one could 
see that he had considerable pride in his 
herd, as well he might, for we knew it 
was a good one. It is also the result of 
years of good faithful work on his part. 
How much more such a man thinks of 
his herd that he has watched and cared 
for from birth than the man who buys 
his cows hither and yon, and scarcely 
ever has one that he has kept more than 
one or two seasons. We believe there is 
much more fun and considerably more 
money in the home-raised herd. One 
added advantage is that the cows are al¬ 
ways “wonted” to their surroundings, 
and no time is lost after calving getting 
used to new conditions. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
DR. HESS 
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