1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
391 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
Grain for Fresh Cows. 
With equal parts by weight of hominy, 
cotton-seed, gluten feed and mixed feed, 
how many quarts should I feed per day to 
fresh cows? Cows have all the good hay 
they can eat. Would it be better to have 
more of the mixed feed with the heavy 
grain I ami feeding for cream? d. s. 
Warren, Conn. 
In the ration you are now using there 
does not seem to be sufficient dry mat¬ 
ter, and I think you will find the cows 
crave some coarse fodder to make up this 
deficiency. You are in a section where 
oat straw is probably very cheap, and I 
believe it will pay you to give the cows 
once a day what clean bright oat straw 
they will eat reasonably well. An in¬ 
creased milk yield and a better condition 
of the animals will, I think, follow. We 
know there are dairymen who keep their 
cows entirely upon silage and grain, but 
in the long run I believe it will pay bet¬ 
ter to use some coarse fodder along with 
them. As to your grain, while it is a 
healthy, bulky ration it does not furnish 
very much protein for the expense in¬ 
curred. Your mixture will analyze 14.S 
per cent protein, 45.4 per cent carbohy¬ 
drates and 2.9 per cent fat. Assuming 
your pea silage to have the same compo¬ 
sition as Soy bean silage, and that you 
feed 50 pounds per day, your present ra¬ 
tion with an average of eight pounds of 
grain per cow would analyze as follows: 
Protein 
Carbohydrates 
Fat 
50 lbs. pea silage..1.35 
4.35 
.65 
8 lbs. grain... 
.1.18 
3.63 
.23 
Total . 
.2.53 
7.98 
.88 
This ration 
has sufficient protein 
and 
fat, but is deficient in carbohydrates, 
which is an unusual occurrence. Ten to 
12 pounds of good oat straw would, I 
think, be eaten by the cows, make up for 
the deficiency in dry matter and carbo¬ 
hydrates, and give you better results. A 
mixture of 500 pounds each of coarse 
bran, corn distillers’ grains, hominy feed 
and cotton-seed meal would give an an¬ 
alyses of 23.6 per cent protein, 39 per 
cent carbohydrates and 7.7 per cent fat. 
Five pounds of this mixture will furnish 
as much protein and fat, and nearly as 
much carbohydrates as eight pounds of 
your present mixture, which would 
make your milk decidedly cheaper than 
you are now doing. The mixture w'ould 
be bulky, the quality of the milk (that 
is flavor) good, and especially good for 
butter. In making up any grain mix¬ 
ture, we should use two pounds of salt 
for every 100 pounds of grain. 
Brood Sows on Bought Feed. 
With cornmeal at $1.40 per 100, mixed 
feed at $1.25, and hominy at $1.20, can any 
money be made keeping breeding sows and 
selling the eight-weeks-old pigs in the 
Spring at $4 apiece and in the Fall at $2? 
All of their feed must be bought. d. s. 
Warren, Conn. 
Whether or no you can make any 
money keeping breeding sows depends 
more upon you than upon the price of 
feeds. Some men, farmers too, couldn’t 
make a cent if the feeds cost only half 
as much as you quote, while others 
would make a profit with even higher 
cost. Cornmeal at $1.40 per 100 is rath¬ 
er dear stuff for any animal, and we 
would not buy any at that price. Hom¬ 
iny and middlings (and the cheaper 
brown middlings) will answer your 
purpose, and we should feed very little 
hominy to a breeding sow. You want 
to keep the sows in good condition, but 
the less surplus fat they carry the more 
and better pigs you will be apt to have 
to turn off at eight weeks of age. If 
the sows are too fat they will not be 
the best of mothers, and small litters 
and a good-sized loss on these will fol¬ 
low, whereas in right condition good- 
sized litters and the raising of nearly 
all can be obtained. You ought not to 
buy any corn, as it can be raised cheap¬ 
er than we can afford to pay for it, and 
the feed question with breeding sows 
ought not to be very hard to answer. 
In the Summer, with surplus skim-milk, 
the waste upon the farm, besides pas¬ 
turage, ought to keep them with very 
little grain. In Summer give them a 
good pasture, if possible, where there 
is running water that they can have all 
they want to drink. A field of clover 
would please them immensely. Perhaps 
you have an old orchard where there 
are a good many early apples mixed 
with later varieties. They will do the 
orchard good and between the grass 
and apples and wastes from the farm no 
grain will be needed save perhaps some 
middlings for two or three weeks be¬ 
fore farrowing time. In the Winter si¬ 
lage, turnips or mangels will cut down 
that feed bill and give healthier pigs. 
We have seen lots of hogs that never 
had a bit of grain until they are about 
to be marketed. The too common cus¬ 
tom in this section is to keep the pigs 
in a dirty, nasty pen that is not cleaned 
out more than once or twice a year, and 
the pigs wallow in mud part of the year 
and the remainder of the time it is a 
mass of frozen ice and filth. Many 
times they do not have even a clean, 
dry and warm place in Winter to sleep. 
Hat r e a decent place to keep them Sum¬ 
mer and Winter. Clean out the pen 
frequently and give them fresh bedding. 
In short, treat them rather humanely 
even if they are hogs, and the price of 
feed will not be the main thing. As I 
said at first: “It’s all in the man.’’ 
Cow With Double Teat. 
I have a Jersey cow, five years old this 
Sprir.g, that has a double teat. One of 
them is not as long as the other and it 
makes it very bad to milk her. I have 
tried to dry the short one, but every time 
she comes fresh she gives milk from both. 
Could you tell me of some method by 
which I could dry that one teat, as she is 
a very desirable animal? w. W. 
Sutton’s Bay, Mich. 
If both parts of this double teat draw 
milk from the same quarter, when the 
cow is dry sear the one you wish to 
close with a hot iron; it will heal and 
effectually close the end, or you can cut 
it then, making a sore that will heal 
over the end, but the burning will be a 
better way. If the two parts draw milk 
from different quarters of the udder we 
should not advise trying to close it up, 
as you may make more trouble than 
you now have. One of our best cows 
has a small double teat. We draw the 
milk only from the upper one and have 
very little trouble from it. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
Barred P. Rocks.—T hnmile and breed 
Barred Plymouth Rocks only. The Barred 
Rocks are the most popular breed. There 
is no other breed so generally used, con¬ 
sequently the demand for them is greater 
than for any other breed, which is one 
reason I keep them. All poultry men con¬ 
cede the fact that they are the most popu¬ 
lar breed, which should be sufficient evi¬ 
dence of their superiority. As broilers 
they are surpassed by none and equaled 
only by the White Wyandottes. They arc 
extremely hardy, attain a good weight, 
bodies very plump, and as layers they seem 
to be able to hold their own with any other 
breed in all climates and under widely 
varying conditions. b. H. ackley. 
Bradford Co., Pa. 
White Wyandottes.— I would like to 
inform “Mapes the hen man” that the 
R. I. Reds do not lay all the eggs. I have 
pen of 15 White Wyandottes most of which 
were hatched June 5, 1903, which laid 17 2-3 
dozen eggs during January, 20 1-5 dozen 
during February and 20 dozen during 
March. I recently set 13 eggs under a hen 
and every egg hatched. How is that for 
White Wyandottes? v. L. S. 
Stonington, Maine. 
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