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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 19 
Live Stockand Dairy 
THE BREEDERS' WAYSIDE. 
Silage and Abortion. 
Is abortion contagious In a herd of cows? 
If so, what can I give to prevent it? Does 
feeding silage have anything to do with It? 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. J. c. o. 
I will answer the last part of the ques¬ 
tion first, by saying that silage will not 
cause abortion. There is no doubt about 
that, lo be sure, abortion may occur 
in herds where silage is being fed, but 
that is only an incident. Contagious 
abortion is due to the occurrence of a 
disease germ prevailing in the stable. 
Only extreme cleanliness and special 
medical treatment will cause the disease 
to disappear. The stable should be 
thoroughly disinfected with crude car¬ 
bolic acid or chloro-naptholeum, about 
the barn, and especially the stalls and 
manure trenches. The cows also need 
special treatment. They usually abort 
at five or seven months pregnancy. Af¬ 
ter an abortion the parts should be 
washed off and syringed out with a two- 
per-cent solution of chloro-naptholeum. 
This treatment, however, should be con¬ 
ducted under the direction of a compe¬ 
tent veterinarian, which I am not, and it 
requires unceasing labor to get rid of 
this trouble. c. s. plumb. 
Value of Corn Fodder. 
Can you tell me the feeding value of a 
ton of dry corn fodder, stalks stripped of 
the leaves and husks? I have often heard 
that the bare stalk would be worth more 
alone than the leaves and husk. j. h. s. 
Bernhart, Pa. 
Chemists for many years have been 
studying the composition of the corn 
plant in its various parts and stages of 
development, so that now we can have 
a fair idea of what there is of value in 
the crop. Of course the real value of a 
food lies in its digestibility, and that is 
ascertained by studying the effects of 
the digestion of animals on the foods, 
or by means of artificial digestion ex¬ 
periments, in which pepsin is used in 
that connection in the laboratory. Sev¬ 
eral years ago Prof. Patterson, of the 
Maryland Station, made a study of the 
corn plant, in which he brought out the 
following facts: One acre of Indian corn 
yielded of digestible food, in the differ¬ 
ent parts of the plant, as follows: Ears; 
Dry substance, 1,530 pounds; protein, 
157 pounds; carbohydrates, 1,343 pounds; 
fat, 30 pounds. Topped fodder: Dry 
substance, 450 pounds; protein, 10 
pounds; carbohydrates, 422 pounds; 
fat, five pounds; ash, 13 pounds. Blades: 
Dry substance, 197 pounds; protein, six 
pounds; carbohydrates, 193 pounds; fat, 
four pounds; ash, 14 pounds. Husks: 
Dry substance, 426 pounds; protein, six 
pounds; carbohydrates, 414 pounds; fat, 
two pounds; ash, four pounds. Stubble: 
Dry substance, 569 pounds; protein, six 
pounds; carbohydrates, 545 pounds; fat, 
13 pounds; ash, five pounds. 
The dry substance referred to is that 
part of the plant digestible after abso¬ 
lutely all moisture has been removed. 
The protein, of course, is the most val¬ 
uable portion, and the value of feeding 
stuffs is largely dependent on the 
amount of this present in them. In re¬ 
porting on his work, Patterson states 
that the corn husks or shucks contain 
72 per cent of digestible matter, the 
stubble or butis 66^ per cent, the blades 
or leaves 64.2 per cent and the stover 
(stalks) 55 per cent. There is more di¬ 
gestible matter in the corn fodder from 
one acre than in the ears from one acre. 
The stover from one acre yields as much 
digestible matter as do two tons of Tim¬ 
othy hay. At both the Pennsylvania 
and Georgia stations similar experi¬ 
ments were conducted, and conclusion 
arrived at much the same as at the 
Maryland Station. Out West, where corn 
Is grown in enormous areas, the people 
are beginning to appreciate the great 
value of the stover. Each Fall and Win¬ 
ter great quantities are shredded and 
fed. For two Winters at the Indiana 
Station -ve have been keeping five horses 
on shredded fodder and grain in a small 
way, and feeding no hay. The horses 
have done more or less hard work, and 
thrived on the food, and we have been 
much pleased with it. Every bit of our 
20 acres or so of corn fodder is shredded 
or cut up and fed out to horses, cattle 
and sheep. To be sure, there is some 
waste of the more pithy parts, but the 
stock relishes the feed greatly. Our 
people should feed more fodder, and 
they would gain thereby. Indian corn 
is the greatest farm crop grown in 
America. Corn is King! 
C. 8. PLUMB. 
THE COMTEHTED COW. 
No, we do not pretend to say that the 
scene pictured on the first page is an 
ideal milking scene. Your expert breed¬ 
er will prove without any trouble that 
the cow has not the true dairy shape, 
that her udder is too small, and that she 
cannot give a large yield of high-testing 
milk. Some good farmer will stand up 
and say that it’s all a mistake to feed a 
cow while you are milking, and some 
professor of domestic science will say 
that the milking is not done in a sani¬ 
tary manner. The young woman who 
is milking ought to have something over 
her head, and her dress is all wrong 
for the barnyard—besides, what is 
Grandmother doing out there when she 
might be at work indoors? In spite of 
all that these critics may say this pic¬ 
ture illustrates one great foundation 
principle of successful milking. Every¬ 
one, including the cow, is comfortable 
and happy. The person who coined the 
phrase, “the milk of human kindness,” 
must have been a dairyman, for the first 
principles of milk production are based 
on love and kindness. A contented cow 
is the milker for you. The cow in the 
picture may be a scrub so far as her 
breeding goes, but she is thoroughly 
happy and contented—willing to give 
down all the milk she can make up. The 
scientists and the sanitarians may im¬ 
prove her surroundings and ward off 
germs, but unless they copy the good 
nature and contentment which she now 
shows their labors will have been in 
vain. _ 
A Bottle Pig. —One of our readers, 
Lovell Lea, of British Columbia, sends 
us the picture shown at Fig. 16. He 
says this is one of the ways they have 
of raising pigs in British Columbia. This 
little pig was hurt when it was only a 
few days old. Mr. Lea’s sister said she 
would try to raise it on a baby’s bot¬ 
tle. The pig soon learned to take its 
milk in this way, and is now as large 
as any oi the others in that litter. We 
are glad to get this picture, because 
there has been a good deal of talk, first 
and last, about the chances of raising 
little pigs in this way. Dr. Jordan, of 
the New York Experiment Station, once 
invented a plan for feeding such pigs. 
He had a tin trough with a number of 
rubber tubes, and it is said that the lit¬ 
tle pigs learned to take their nourish¬ 
ment in this artificial manner. One 
thing is pretty sure, whenever there is 
a weak or ailing young animal on the 
place it pays to turn it over to the wo¬ 
men folks for care, for they are far more 
likely to give it the attention that it 
needs than any of the masculine mem¬ 
bers of the family. 
Oleo Morals.— One of the best speeches 
on the oleo question was made by Con¬ 
gressman Cousins, of Iowa. Among other 
good things he said; "A hair in the butter 
used to be regarded as an awful thing. 
l>nt now statesmen would defend it on 
constitutional grounds, holding that the in¬ 
gredients of hair are harmless and that Its 
trade between States should be unrestrict¬ 
ed.” 
There has been considerable stock sold 
off here on account of short hay crop, but 
as far as I know by observation it has 
been mostly young stock and culls from 
the dairies. Most farmers have sold their 
surplus stock, keeping dairy cows, owing 
to high price of butter and cheese. 1 
think it would be a hard matter to pick 
up a desirable lot of cows at ?25 to ?3u. 
Most farmers have already disposed of 
stock enough so that they can winter what 
they have on hand. w. j. m. 
East Randolph, N. Y. 
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each. The transformation from a street 
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a form of evolution in bird life which Dar¬ 
win probably never dreamed of.” 
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