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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
9i9 
FEEDING QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Trouble With Cow's Udder. 
What is the matter with my cow, and what 
can I do for her? She is a good cow about 
eight years old and will soon be fresh. When 
she commenced to go dry a small bunch came 
in her right hind teat, which soon disap¬ 
peared. After that until she was dry, I 
could only get the milk very slowly, and by 
pressing very hard, until sometimes she would 
kick. Her milk was good until the last, not 
at all gargety. Do you think when she 
comes in she will lose that teat? Is there a 
remedy for this trouble? G. e. x. 
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 
A good many of these troubles are 
caused by improper feeding; that is, too 
much grain or a one-sided ration when 
the cow is going dry. Some men feed 
the same amount of grain right straight 
along without any regard as to how the 
cow is doing, and when going dry she 
can't handle it. Many stables have no 
partitions between the cows, and one ly¬ 
ing down is crowded over upon a neigh¬ 
bor, who steps upon her teats, and trouble 
ensues. I am inclined to think the latter 
may have been your trouble, and she 
may be all right after coming fresh. Tf 
she milks very hard, try putting a hard 
wood or hard rubber plug in for a day or 
two, keeping it in from milking to milk¬ 
ing. Have this plug absolutely clean, and 
enlarged at the bottom so as not to slip 
clear into the teat. 
A Connecticut Ration. 
My roughage is silage and millet. To a 
fresh cow I am feeding about four quarts 
bran and two of cotton seed; the others half 
as much. The product desired is butter. Can 
you suggest a better ration? Soon the 
roughage will be all mixed hay. What grain 
ration then? e. s. n. 
Connecticut. 
The ration you are now feeding is a 
well-balanced one, and will analyze about 
as follows, assuming you are feeding 30 
pounds of silage and 14 pounds millet 
hay: 
Carbo- 
I’rotein. hydrates. Fat. 
30 His. silage . 
.30 
4.33 
.18 
14 lbs. millet . 
.03 
6.40 
.14 
3 lbs. bran . 
,38 
1.20 
.12 
3 llis. col ton-seed meal. 
1.10 
.02 
.28 
Total . 
12.44 
.72 
You will find it hard work to get one 
as well balanced that requires so little 
purchased grain as this one. Six pounds 
daily and at retail on lit not to cost over 
eight cents per day. When silage and mil¬ 
let are gone and you have hay alone for 
roughage the same grain ration will hard¬ 
ly work, provided it is good early-cut 
hay, as you would have an excess of pro¬ 
tein and not enough carbohydrates. By 
taking off two pounds of cotton seed- and 
replacing it with three pounds of gluten 
feed or corn distillers’ grains it will be 
a fairly well-balanced ration ; thus : 
20 lbs. good bay. 
I’roteln. 
. 1.18 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates. 
0.18 
Fat 
.24 
3 llis. gluten feed ... 
. .71 
1.54 
.08 
3 lbs. wheat bran... 
.. .38 
1.20 
.12 
1 II). cotton-seed meal. 
. .40 
.20 
.00 
Total . 
! 1; 
\fi 
12.12 
.53 
Ration for Work Horses. 
Did I not see in a recent issue of The 
It. X.-Y. that 100 pounds bran, 100 cornmeal, 
and 100 of gluten, mixed together, was a 
good feed in place of oats for working horses? 
If the above is not correct kindly tell me 
what would be a good substitute for oats, 
cost considered, and quantity to feed in 
quarts per day with Timothy hay. Horses 
are 10 and 14 years old, weight, 1,100 
pounds. w. H. s. 
Livingston Manor, N. Y. 
Equal parts of the bran, cornmeal and 
gluten feed would make a very good ra¬ 
tion for working horses, but I have not 
been able to get our horses to take kindly 
to gluten feed, and in place of cornmeal 
we much prefer hominy feed, which is bet¬ 
ter and cheaper. Oats are now about the 
same price or a little cheaper than corn¬ 
meal, and we should prefer to feed them 
for a part of the ration, at least when 
prices were alike. Oats are certainly the 
horse food, especially for driving horses, 
but for work they will not keep a horse in 
as good condition as when used with 
bran and meal. A good ration for work¬ 
ing horses we have found to be equal 
parts by measure (not weight) of coarse 
bran, hominy and oats. For the size 
horses you mention say a heaping quart 
measure of each three times a day. 
This will make a total feed of about 
12 quarts of grain a day, and will weigh 
12 to 13 pounds. A good mixture, if you 
drop oats out, is one-third bran and two- 
thirds hominy or cornmeal. • Horses fed 
either of these rations will keep in good 
rig, stand hard work, and have little 
likelihood of colic trouble. I have in 
mind now two farmers whose horses al¬ 
ways look well that are fed on hominy 
alone year in and year out, but I should 
expect trouble, especially in Summer, if I 
fed hominy alone. 
Butter Does Not Come. 
What is the matter with cream when the 
butter will not come? I have been having 
trouble about butter. We get our cream at 
00 degrees and it will look like whipped 
cream after being churned 15 minutes, and it 
would stay that way if I churned a week. I 
feed three pounds meal and 1 Vi pound 
bran, some turnips and Hungarian for hay. 
This difficulty began about three weeks ago. 
The cow is half Jersey. She dropped her 
calf in April. g. s. 
Eastondale, Mass. 
The cow is getting so far along in 
milk; that is, I think the trouble is be¬ 
cause she is getting to be a stripper. Drop 
out the turnips for a while and give her 
two to four ounces of salt daily mixed 
with the grain and see if this corrects the 
trouble. If this doesn’t cure, better get 
some cream from a fresher cow to add 
with yours. Does your cream Jook right 
before churning? Sometimes cream that 
is not properly ripened will not look right 
and will not churn well. I do not think 
this your trouble, but if so my advice 
would be to clean up everything from 
the cow to the churn. H. G. MANCHESTER. 
ORIGIN AND USE OF GREAT DANE 
DOGS. 
Where was the breed of Great Dane dogs 
originated, and what are they used for? 
Lake Grove, X. Y. ,r. a. h. 
The origin of all the older breeds of 
dogs is unknown, though tncrc is more or 
less data for speculation thereon. Yet 
their existence is traceable back for 
greater or shorter periods. For instance, 
while the Boston terrier originated less 
than a decade ago, the greyhound was the 
favorite dog of the ancient Egyptians 
The Great Dane was in existence, under 
such various names as boar hound, Dan¬ 
ish hound, Ulmer dog, etc., centuries ago 
in Sicily, Spain, Denmark and Germany, 
as is attested by paintings of those times. 
Enthusiastic admirers find a fair likeness 
of a Great Dane head on a Greek coin of 
the IV. century, B. C., and accordingly 
extend the breed’s history several hundred 
canine generations back. The Germans 
adopted the breed, and are entitled to all 
the credit for relieving it of an abundance 
of names, improving and establishing the 
type, and giving to the dog-loving world 
the most majestic of the canine race, from 
which it is clear that the English name 
(Great Dane) for Deutsch dogge is a mis¬ 
nomer. The breed was originally used 
for hunting the wild boar, elk, etc., and 
as companion and guard for foresters and 
game wardens. Very equable in tempera¬ 
ment, affectionate in disposition, coura¬ 
geous without being savage, possessed of 
greater strength than any other breed, the 
chief value of the great Dane is found in 
him as a companion and guard. 
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