1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
743 
FEEDING CABBAGE TO COWS. 
I feed cabbage every year to my cows. We 
sell the butter to our neighbors and we never 
have had any fault found, f always feed 
right after milking and never before. I should 
judge that I feed 15 or 20 pounds apiece at a 
time with any kind of grain or without any 
grain. This makes splendid feed: cows give 
lots of milk ou it. We use the milk on the 
table and never see any difference in it. I 
generally gather up the leaves by cutting tlie 
stump off with a shovel or spade and store 
them away in the barn, it is no uncommon 
sight to see cows turned in the cabbage field 
after the crop is gathered: but if they eat 
too many of them, especially lie fore they get 
used to them, it is liable to make (hem bloat. 
o. E. F. 
When cabbage is properly fed to cows I 
consider it a very valuable food for milk pro¬ 
duction. Growing each season several acres 
of cabbage, I have a large amount of surplus 
leaves after cutting it. There is little trou¬ 
ble in disposing of this at the rate of $1 for 
what can be loaded in the double box of a 
lumber wagon. When I kept several head of 
cows I was able to utilize the cabbage for my 
own stock, lmt with only one cow the greater 
portion is sold. Cabbage must be fed to milch 
cows immediately after milking, and only as 
much as will be eaten within an hour or so, 
else the milk will be spoiled A single leaf 
of cabbage, eaten by a cow within several 
hours before milking, will give the milk a 
pronounced caTibago flavor. Hence it is very 
necessary to feed only as much as will be 
eaten up clean at once. It is a difficult mat¬ 
ter to say just how many pounds per day a 
cow will receive. Some cows will eat several 
times as much as others at a feeding. Wheat 
bran fed in connection with cabbage gives me 
best results. M. h. b. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
In this locality farmers mostly follow 
mixed farming, and few keep more than six 
or eight cows. Butter is the main product 
from them. They do not hesitate to feed cab¬ 
bage in moderate quantity. A neighbor keep¬ 
ing 20 or more cows and seliing the milk for 
city use fed cabbage. I heard no complaint 
from customers. There was no cabbage odor 
in the.milk. Ilis practice was to cut the cab¬ 
bage heads from the coarse outside leaves, as 
if preparing it for shipment, and give to each 
cow from three to five heads immediately after 
milking. Any of the grain feeds in common 
use may be fed with cabbage. Of course hay, 
corn fodder, and perhaps bright oat or wheat 
straw are also fed. If silage were a large 
part of the feed, cabbage would hardly be 
desirable. Excessive feeding of cabbage so 
that other food would be largely excluded 
would taint the milk, but a moderate use 
will not, but will increase Hie quantity. Cab- 
bage may be given freely to sheep of all kinds 
and ages, and is a profitable feed; sheep 
fhrive finely on it. G. F. w. 
Hair port, N. Y. 
In the town of Tally, N. Y., for years past 
when the price of cabbage has been low large 
quantities of it have been fed to cows, as this 
is quite a cabbage country round about us; 
thousands of tons have been shipped some 
years from our railroad station when prices 
were fair. Cabbage should always lie fed to 
cows immediately after milking, morning or 
evening, not as a principal food, but in con¬ 
nection with good hay, all they will eat, be¬ 
side some ground feed, such as oats and corn 
ground, bran, middlings, etc., to help form a 
balanced ration for best results, and the milk 
will be all right to make butter and cheese, 
with no unpleasant flavor. Cabbage will in¬ 
crease the flow of milk in quantity, but does 
not improve the quality of milk or butter. It 
is of i I self too thin to form me principal food 
for an animal, but should lx* fed with judg¬ 
ment, as over-feeding will scour and weaken 
the animal, not being a balanced ration. When 
the price falls to $2 or $3 a ton it will pay 
farmers to feed lots of cabbage with plenty of 
hay and grain. When the price is $5 or more 
a ton it does not pay to feed them, except the 
refuse stuff, leaves, stumps and poor heads. 
Some dairies of cows have been injured and 
weakened with less of flesh and made less 
useful by turning into large cabbage fields, 
and there has been occasionally a dead cow 
found as the result, but people find that they 
need to be more careful in this matter. Some 
years, when the price was very low and cows 
ate cabbage at all times of day, fault was 
found at some milk stations about (lie flavor 
of the milk, but of late we hear no fault, as 
the farmers learn to feed the cows properly. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. m c. tbowbgidgb. 
When cabbage is low in price we feed heads 
and trash every year in large quantities. In 
feeding we begin with a small quantity, and 
increase until we feed all the cows will eat. 
We fet'd always after milking. After the 
cows become accustomed to the cabbage some 
turn them into the cabbage and let them eat 
all they want. We do not feed any special 
grain feed, but they should have feed of some 
kind because the cabbage makes a large flow 
©f milk and the cows will run down in flesh 
if they do not have something besides cab¬ 
bage. Everyone who raises cabbage and has 
any cows in this section feeds cabbage. We 
sell our milk at a milk station; some is made 
into butter and some is shipped to New York, 
and we do not have any trouble with the 
milk. Some of the farmers buy the waste 
that is trimmed off cabbage stored in the Win¬ 
ter as the dealers ship. The waste is thrown 
in a heap outdoors; some is frozen and some 
slimy, but they do not have any trouble about 
the milk. We turn the cows on the cabbage 
until they eat leaves and everything; they 
will eat the stumps close to the ground. 
When we first began to raise cabbage I was 
away from home, and my son thought that 
it would not hurt anything to turn the cows 
in the cabbage trash. He put them in and let 
them fill up. That spoiled the milk and but¬ 
ter, but that was because they had not been 
fed cabbage till they were used to it. 
Apulia, N. Y. F. w. R. 
l keep but few cows and feed cabbage only 
in limited quantities. A large number of 
farmers iu this section do raise cabbage for 
their cows, and get an increased flow of milk. 
Their cows are fed all they will eat after 
the first few days. If they are fed imme¬ 
diately after milking and at some place out¬ 
side of the stable no bad flavor is noticed. I 
think that a good deal of the cabbage flavor 
is absorbed by the milk if the cabbages are 
stored or fed in the stable. Any grain may 
be used in connection with cabbage. They 
take the place of silage to some extent and 
make a green succulent feed. Many farmers 
do not use any grain when they have plenty 
of cabbage. It is a general opinion that they 
are worth about $4 per ton to feed. This de¬ 
pends of course on the price of mill feed and 
i he distance to market. B. ®. 
Baldwinsvillc, N. \\ 
A Water Problem. —I have been very 
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few weeks. I get my water from a small 
spring. 2*A to five gallons per minute, 3,800 
feet away, with about 12 feet, fall from 
spring, 1.500 feet down grade, then up grade 
about six feet. I have 300 feet 1 •A-inch 
pipe; rest of line one-inch pipe. Every 10 
days I have to pump out the rust, as I have 
black pipe. This gives me a full flow of 
water for four days, then it gets weaker each 
day thereafter. I wish to know what to do 
to this line to give me a full flow all the time. 
If I shottId use 300 feet of three-inch pipe at 
start would that give me force to run out 
rust? c. d. n. 
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