1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
235 
UVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(CONTINUED..) 
are allowed to bed in it. They should 
have good, dry shelter for sleeping quar¬ 
ters. My sows that have been kept in 
lots under the conditions named, have 
done well at farrowing time, and I learn 
of others that follow the same general 
plan, that are successful with their sows. 
As a rule, hogs that follow cattle are 
being fitted for market, consequently 
there is not a great deal of evidence re¬ 
garding effects on brood sows. 
In my practice, previous to this win¬ 
ter, I have taken the rings out of the 
sows’ noses, so that they could root in the 
corn stalks and other refuse for grain 
and other morsels that they relished. 
This winter, I found that the rings did 
not materially prevent this work of 
gleaning waste grain, and working the 
stalks and other material into fine ma¬ 
nure. With the rings out, I could not 
give them the range of the permanent 
pasture ; with them in, I can, which I 
am sure is a great benefit to the sows, 
and the coming litters will be the better 
for it. If J. W. Q. can give his sows the 
same liberty, he will get excellent re¬ 
sults, and no harm to the sows from 
their working over the manure in the 
cattle yard. 
Skim-milk for Calves and Hogs 
M. V., Marshfield, Oreg .—What is the value of 
skim-milk — first, for milch cows, second, for 
hogs? As it is possible that the stomach of the 
hog is more likely to digest animal food, the hog 
will, probably, make more money out of the skim- 
milk. Have there been any experiments in this 
line? Is there much difference in the worth of 
sweet and sour skim-milk for these purposes ? 
Which would be the best way to feed it to the 
cows or hogs ? One hundred pounds of full milk 
is selling here for about 60 cents, dressed pork 
$4, bran 80 cents, barley $1, wheat $1.50. Which is 
worth more for feeding calves, bran at $15 a ton, 
or linseed meal (new process), for $29 ? 
ANSWERED BY HENRY STEWART. 
The general results of experiments 
made in feeding milk to all kinds 
of animals have been that the gain in 
live weight is very nearly equal to the 
weight of the dry matter in the milk ; 
the milk being almost wholly digestible. 
As gain in weight may be taken as 
equivalent to product, it should follow 
that the feeding of skim-milk to cows 
would be as profitable as the feeding of 
it to pigs. The practice of many dairy¬ 
men in feeding the sweet skim-milk to 
the cows has been invariably thought 
profitable, and many have made a settled 
business of disposing of the milk in this 
way. It is probable that there is more 
profit, however, in feeding the milk to 
pigs than to cows; the same will apply 
to calves, which have returned from 60 
cents to $1 per 100 pounds for the skim- 
milk, while pigs fed on skim-milk with 
clover pasture have cost not more than 
1% to 2 cents per pound for the gain in 
weight. Doubtless the pig will make 
more out of the skim-milk than cows 
will, on the rule that the younger the 
animal the more profit there is in feed¬ 
ing it, and pigs are rarely fed over the 
second, or indeed, the first year, when 
they are far more profitable than those 
fed over a winter. Besides, we must 
think of the great disadvantage of feed¬ 
ing any sour food to a cow, lest the milk 
may be injuriously affected by this 
food, on account of the known certain 
ill effect on milk of any tainted food of 
whatever kind it may be, and the sour¬ 
ness is a taint. Bran and linseed meal 
are both excellent for feeding calves for 
the dairy, or indeed, for making veal, if 
not fed before they are able to digest 
them, which is during the interval be¬ 
fore the teeth are developed, at which 
time the digestive process becomes per¬ 
fected. Very good veals may be fed on 
skim-milk—always sweet—with a gradu¬ 
ally increasing ration of such meals as 
these. The feeding may be begun at 
the age of one month, a small handful 
being given to begin with, gradually in¬ 
creasing to four ounces a day. The 
milk to start with should be given 
warmed to 80 degrees ; at the end of a 
month, the milk may be gradually 
cooled down to the ordinary air tem¬ 
perature of the spring season, but should 
always be warmed for winter feeding. 
Keeping Cows Without Hay. 
A. R. W., Greene, N. T.—I have understood that 
there are farmers who have wintered cows by 
feeding’ three quarts of corn meal daily and no 
hay. I would like to hear the experience of feed¬ 
ers about feeding nothing but grain to stock 
without intending to fatten them. A neighbor 
told me that it would take more meal to keep 
them with hay (in small quantity) than without. 
Ans. —Just 20 years ago,Mr. L. W.Miller 
of Chautauqua Co., N. Y., fed his cows 
during the winters on the small ration 
of three quarts of corn meal per day, and 
thought it a great economy. The prac¬ 
tice was seriously commented upon at 
the time by me, as being wholly inade¬ 
quate for the support of any animal of 
600 or 800 pounds weight. Mr. Miller 
published a pamphlet on the subject, in 
which he made some very erroneous 
statements as regards the function of 
nutrition of animals, and which, in this 
day of truly scientific feeding, could 
scarcely find any support whatever. One 
of the fundamental principles of animal 
alimentation is that an animal should 
have, at least, 1% pound of dry sub¬ 
stance—of which one-half is digestible— 
per day, for each 100 pounds of live 
weight, and this food should have .7 
pound of protein, .8 of carbohydrates, 
and .15 of fat in it per pound. Fora 
cow of 800 pounds then, the food should 
have .56 pound of protein, 6.4 pounds of 
carbohydrates, and .12 pound of fat. 
These nutrients would be contained in 
about 10 pounds of common hay and six 
pounds of oat straw, or in 10 pounds of 
corn meal. Six pounds of corn meal will 
contain .44 pound of protein, 4.1 pounds 
of carbohydrates, and .14 pound of fat. 
Thus on our present basis of feeding, for 
mere support of life only, the six pounds 
of meal will be clearly no more than a 
starvation ration, and quite consistent 
with Mr. Miller’s statement that his 
cows lived through the winter, and were 
quite thin and empty, but alive in the 
spring, which is about the truth of his 
report. It is the modern belief that the 
winter feeding of an animal should be 
such as to afford a reserve to be called 
upon in the summer for the best possible 
product through that season, and three 
quarts of corn meal will be clearly in¬ 
sufficient. It is not surprising that Mr. 
Miller’s fad should have completely died 
out, and have become almost wholly for¬ 
gotten. Mr. Miller’s cows wholly lost 
ability to ruminate while on the meal 
feeding, which in itself is a loss of 
nutriment, due to imperfect digestion of 
food. _ h. s. 
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August 21,1894. 
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