1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
855 
Pro- 
Garbo- 
tein. 
hydra fes. 
20 lbs. 
cornstalks... 
.. .34 
0.48 
5 lhs. 
wheat bran.. 
. . .63 
2.02 
5 lhs. 
cornmeal. ... 
3.26 
Total 
11.76 
This 
would give 
you a 
nutritive 
MANCHESTER’S DAIRY NOTES. 
Rations for Cow. 
Would you give mo a balanced ration for 
cows? I have a cow and heifer, the cow 
a part Jersey, small, fresh six weeks. I have 
had her (wo years; she is about six years 
old. 1 have been feeding her three bundles 
of corn stover, live pounds Cornmeal and live 
pounds bran daily. She is only giving about 
eight, quarts daily; after taking a quart 
(whole) for house I make about live pounds 
butter from remaining cream per week. 1 
think she should do better. She is in line 
condition; everyone remarks on her appear¬ 
ance. I think she gets too much fat-pro¬ 
ducing food. I buy all my feed but corn 
and corn stover. Hay is $20 a ton; clover 
$10; bran $1.25 per 100 pounds; middlings 
$1.00 per 100 pounds. I*, u. s. 
Secane, I*a. 
You are right in thinking that the ra¬ 
tion you arc feeding is a fat-producing 
one. Assuming that you feed about 20 
pounds daily of the cornstalks it would 
analyze as follows: 
.28 
.15 
.15 
.58 
of 1 to 10, which is very wide. Nutritive 
ratio is the relation of the protein to 
carbohydrates and fat, and is found by 
multiplying the fat by 2 ’/$, adding the 
product to the carbohydrates and dividing 
by the protein. What you need is some 
grain feed rich in protein like cotton-seed 
meal or gluten feed, or corn distiller’s 
grains to replace a part of the meal and 
bran. I think it would pay you to feed 
about five pounds daily of the clover hay 
and what corn stover she will eat clean. 
Your price on middlings is too high, and 
they arc out of the question. If in place 
of the grain you are now using you will 
use three pounds each of cornmeal and 
ei'her gluteit feed or corn distiller’s grains 
and two pounds of bran you will have a 
well-balanced ration at considerably less 
expense per grain fed, and one that ought 
to give you more milk. 
Gain ot Fattening Cows. 
How fast ought cows to gain in weight 
while fattening under ordinary circum¬ 
stances? A. a. i>. 
Dwight, Mass. 
Cows that gain one pound per day in 
live weight will be found to be doing well 
under average circumstances. Much de¬ 
pends upon age, as the younger the ani¬ 
mal the faster will be the gain. I have 
seen some old cows that would gain very 
slowly no matter how fed. Some cows 
are poor feeders, and lack capacity to 
handle much food, and these are slow 
gainers. n. G. m. 
MILK SUBSTITUTES FOR CALVES. 
We are often asked if there is any sub¬ 
stitute for skim-milk in feeding calves. 
The Massachusetts Experiment station 
tried several mixtures. The following 
notes are made about one of them: 
Hayward of the Pennsylvania Experi¬ 
ment Station studied the question of pro¬ 
viding a cheap and suitable milk substi¬ 
tute, and published his results in Bulletin 
No. f>0 of that station. He succeeded in 
rearing 10 unselected grade Guernsey 
calves without the aid of milk after the 
first 14 to 18 days. Most of the calves 
weighed from 150 to 250 pounds when 
from four to five months old, and were 
produced at a feed cost of from $8 to $9 
each. He concluded that the calf meal 
was a fairly satisfactory milk substitute, 
if used judiciously by careful feeders, but 
that it was not equal to whole milk. The 
formula proposed by Hayward for the 
meal was as follows: 
Wheat flour ... 80 pounds. 
Cocoa nut meal . 25 " 
Natrium .. 20 “ 
i.inseed meal .. 10 “ 
Dried blood . 2 “ 
“Nutrium” is a milk powder—skim- 
milk evaporated. After feeding this meal 
carefully the following conclusions were 
reached: 
1. It is evident that, with reasonable 
care and cleanliness, calves can be success¬ 
fully reared on Hayward’s calf meal. 
2 . The meal is 'to be preferred only 
when a supply of skim-milk is not avail¬ 
able, or as a substitute for a portion of 
the milk. 
3. The cost is likely to be somewhat 
greater than when skim-milk can be had 
at two cents a gallon. The expense of 
the meal is largely due to the nutrium, 
yet it is doubtful if a mixture as satis¬ 
factory for young calves could be ob¬ 
tained without the use of this substance. 
4. The meal is evidently better utilized 
by calves after they are three months old 
than before that period. 
5. The best method to be employed 
would probably be to allow the calf to 
suck the cow for the first .two days, then 
feed whole milk for five days, to be fol¬ 
lowed by half whole arid half skim-milk 
for a week, gradually reducing the whole 
milk, so that at the beginning of the fourth 
week the diet may consist of three quarts 
of skim-milk and three-quarters to one 
pound of the meal, dissolved in the neces¬ 
sary hot water. At the end of the fourth 
week the skirii-milk may be dropped, and 
the calf put upon a diet of two pounds 
of the calf meal a day. Slight modifica¬ 
tion may be made in this method depend¬ 
ing on the condition of the animal. The 
writer has grown seven unselected young 
calves, having an average Weight when 
three days old of 73 pounds, to an average 
weight when in weeks old of 173 pounds, 
on skim-milk, together with such common 
grains as cornmeal, wheat Hour, flour mid¬ 
dlings and gluten feed, at an average food 
cost of $4.SO each. By this method of 
feeding, calves ought to be produced that 
will weigh 200 to 300 pounds when five 
months old, at a food cost not exceeding 
$9 or $10. (See eleventh report of Mass¬ 
achusetts State Experiment Station, P. 
125. _ 
TROUBLE WITH HORSES. 
Horse With a Cough. 
What can I do for my horse, which seems 
lo he troubled with a dry cough? 
ltossville, N. Y. s. G. w. 
The inquirer does not state how long 
the horse has been so affected, nor what 
caused the cough. The chances are that 
lie has been feeding poor hay or grain, and 
that the lungs are affected. If so, give 
better feed and a small handful of oil meal 
once a day for a few days, but if the trou¬ 
ble is in the throat or trachea it will be 
much relieved by giving the following: 
Extract of belladonna, one ounce; pulver¬ 
ized camphor, six ounces; pulverized 
chlorate of potash, one ounce; pulverized 
licorice root, two ounces; simple syrup 
enough to make a paste. Put a piece as 
large as a walnut on molar teeth twice a 
day. m. d. w. 
Mare With “Broken Wind." 
We have just got a very fine horse through 
a trade: can return her if not pleased within 
two weeks. Iter wind seems to be very bad. 
Hornier owner claims it was affected by a bad 
case of distemper, (’an a wind-broken horse 
be cured? How about heaves? What is the 
difference? i>. o. s. 
Myerstown, VV. Ya. 
It looks as though the former owner of 
the horse gave very good description, as 
most jockeys do. If the horse has had 
distemper it may recover with good feed¬ 
ing and good care, but if of long standing 
the chances are that it will not, and that 
the lungs are affected. It may be caused 
by bad feed or bad feeding, from dust, or 
by being brought from a high to a low 
level, or the animal may be predisposed to 
such trouble. 1 leaves and tbe condition 
called wind-broken are lung troubles, and 
when the disease is established there is no 
cure for it. Proper attention paid to the 
diet will relieve the distressed symptoms 
to a certain extent for a time.. If you have 
a good horse it may pay you to take her 
to a good veterinary and have a talk with 
him. m. i). w. 
TherS are only two classes of 
hand cream separators 
The Omega 
and all others. Because of the 
great simplicity, ease 
of operating, ease 
in cleaning and per¬ 
fect skimming the 
Omega is in a class 
by itself. No other 
can be compared to it 
or classed with it. 
The proof is in the 
trial. You will know 
to a certainty, if you 
try it. Our book, 
Milk Returns, tells all 
about the Omega 
and much more which 
every cow owner 
should know. We 
mail the book free. 
We want a good, active agent 
in every locality. Special in¬ 
ducements to experienced sep¬ 
arator salesmen. 
The Omega Separator Co. 
38 Concord St. or Dopartmont S. 
Lanalng, Mich. Minneapolis, Minn. 
SLOANS 
5 0t LINIMENT 
$i.oo CURES 
HQG CHOLERA 
gENO FOR CIRCULAR WITH DIRECTION* 
OR E APL 5.SLOAN 615 ALBANY ST,B05T0N.MA5S. 
DR. DAVID ROBERTS, 
CATTLE SPECIALIST. 
IOO Grand Ave., Waukesha, Wis. 
Questions regarding diseases of cattle receive my 
prompt and personal attention. 
Nothing equals green cut bone for hens. 
Any one can cut it with 
Mann’s \TX\ Bone Cutter. 
I Open hopper. Automatic feed. 10 Day*’ 
Free Trial. N*) pay until you're satisfied. 
If you don't like return at mi/expense. Isn’t tbit 
better for you than to piy for* machine you never 
triad? C»tl‘gfm. p. W. MANN CO. 
box |5, Jlllforil, Hass. 
2? ORMAS 
Incubators 
& Brooders ^ 5B ' 
Low in price. Fully guaranteed. 
Send for free catalogue. 
BANTA MFG. CO.. LIGONIER, INDIANA. FritCitaloe 
Every Tubular 
Starts 
a Fortune 
If you hart a gold mine would you 
throw half the gold away? Properly 
managed dairies are surer than 
gold mines, yet many farmers throw 
half the gold away every day. The 
butter fat Is the gold—worth twenty 
to thirty cents a pound. Gravity 
process skimmers — pans and cans — 
lose half the cream. Your dairy 
can’t pay that way. 
Like a Crowbar 
Tubular Separators 
are regular crow¬ 
bars — get right 
under the trouble- 
pry the mortgage off 
the farm. How? 
Gets all the cream 
—raises the quan¬ 
tity and quality 
of butter — starts a 
fortune for the 
owner. It’s a 
modern separator. 
The picture shows. 
Write for catalogue P-153. 
THE SHARPLES CO. P. M. SHARPLES 
CHICAGO, ILL. WEST CHESTER, PA 
A Lady uau hold him. 
'ofthe BEERY BIT 
TOUR CITS IN ONE 
turps Klrkers, Kunawnyn, 1’ullrrs, 
Shyrrs, pit. Send for Ittt on Ten 
Par.’ Trial and circular showing 
tin- four distinct, ways of using it. 
I*rof. , ,) Beery, Flrasant Illll, Ohio. 
p CHAIN-HANGING 
CATTLE STANCHION 
The Most Practical 
CATTLE FASTENER 
ever invented. 
Manufactured and for 
sale by 
O. H. ROBERTSON, 
Forestville, Conn. 
WARBINER’S S A H N§.ltS STANCHION 
HOLDS THE 
ANIMALS AS 
FIRMLY 
AS RIGID 
STANCHIONS. 
W. B. CRUMB, 73 Main St., Forestville. Conn 
Excelsior Swing Stanchion. 
Warranted the best. 30 Days Trial. 
Can be returned at our expense 
if not satisfactory. 
The Wasson Stanchion Co., 
Box 60. CUBA, NEW YORK. 
1904 November 1904 
Sun Mon ■——mw?_ 
t/ewNoon BrstC^ 
7 » l\ 
Sat 
_ 5 
6 HHT// 12 
13 l\mH&wB 18 1!) 
20 2Jf\2 23 m 25 26 
27 2829 30 
You Can 
Shorten the 
Feeding Period 
from one to two months by feeding to your cattle Dr. ITess Stock Food in small doses along with their 
regular rations. It is self-evident that the sooner cattle are finished the more profit to the feeder. There 
is just one way to shorten the feeding period—sharpen up the animals’ appetite and tone up the organs of 
digestion so that the greatest possible proportion of the food will be assimilated and turned into weight. 
STOCK FOOD 
1 r the greatest preparation ever formulated for forcing beef cattle to markt 
from a tried prescription of Dr. Hess (M. D., D. V.S.). No unprofessional, unscientitie manufacturer can equal it. It 
puts weight on hogs and cattle, makes milch cows more productive and gives energy to horses, because It makes every 
organ do its proper work thoroughly—turns to account till the food eaten. 
Except in Canada 
and extreme 
West and South. 
(t per lb. in 100 lb. sacks, 25 lb. pail $1.60. 
I ' Smaller quantities a little higher. Small dose. 
SOLD ON A WRITTEN GUARANTEE 
Remember that from Hie 1st to the 10th of each month, Dr. Hess will furnlsli veterinary advice an«l pre¬ 
scriptions free if you will mention this paper, state what slock you have, also what stock food you have fed, and en¬ 
close two cents for reply. In every package of Dr. Hess Stock Food there is a little yellow card that entitles you to 
this free service at any time. . ... , 
Dr. Hess Stock Book Free, if you will mention this paper, state how much stock you have and what kind of stock 
food you have used. 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Ohio. 
Also manufacturers of Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a and Instant Louse Killer. 
Instant Louse Killer Kills Lice. 
