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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 30 
WIHTER FEED FOR COWS. 
The old-time question, “Got hay 
enough?” that so often folii ws a few re¬ 
marks about the weather when neigh¬ 
bors meet, seems particularly applicable 
this season. How to get the stock 
through the Winter was by no means a 
pleasant problem to consider last Fall, 
and its force has diminished hut little 
since. On our farm we knew that we 
hadn’t hay and other fodder enough to 
carry all our stock. We commenced in 
the Fall feeding some wheat bran, and 
have kept it up ever since. We have 
varied the grain feed somewhat accord¬ 
ing to conditions. Have fed a little corn 
and oats ground together, as these grains 
were grown on the farm. To those cows 
that freshened in the Fall and Win¬ 
ter we have given a liberal feeding of 
bran, gluten meal and oil meal once 
a day, and oats and corn once. Of the 
former mixture by far the greater vol¬ 
ume and weight has been a wheat bran. 
The reason for introducing the bran in 
so large a proportion is to get bulk to¬ 
gether with protein. This is for the pur¬ 
pose of saving hay. The wise ones tell 
us that a cow, to do well, must have a 
certain bulk and weight of food. They 
say in the neighborhood of 24 pounds per 
day for each 1,000 pounds of live weight. 
We have fed 10 to 12 pounds of this 
grain mixture to cows weighing some¬ 
where near 900 pounds. Upon figuring it 
out the other day, by aid of the Cornell 
Bulletin No. 154, I found that our ration 
is short of the 2.2 pounds of protein per 
1,000 pounds live weight, by about one- 
tenth of a pound. If I were to plan the 
ration over again 1 should make out the 
same bill of fare, but would add a half 
pound of cotton-seed meal a day. In¬ 
deed, I have ordered some cotton seed 
already, and shall feed it from now on. 
But has it paid? Well, in a measure. 
Cows were too cheap to sell last Fall. 
We have paid a good deal of money for 
grain. I have had my neighbors say when 
I met them as 1 came from town, getting 
my check at the creamery, and hauling 
home a load of feed: “Take your money 
home in Dags, do you?” And so it 
seemed. I haven’t quite cared to figure 
closely to see whether I got enough for 
the milk to pay for the feed, including 
the hay, etc. But when the cows come 
through to grass they will be worth a 
good deal more at a cash value than they 
were last Fall. They have done nicely 
all Winter, are in excellent health and 
condition and are just what I want when 
grass grows this Spring. Yes, I think it 
has paid. It is not a serious job to fig¬ 
ure out by the aid of tables, a perfectly 
balanced ration, but it i"" quite another 
thing to feed it. The former savors a 
little of science; the latter is an art. 
The one can be done by a little study, 
but the other requires much experience 
and observation to do it successfully. 
To induce a cow to eat hay, straw,corn- 
stalks and other rough fodder greedily, 
eating all put before her without waste, 
and still do well and give a good mess 
of milk, is surely a fine art. Not every 
feeder can do it. But this year of all 
year.j is the time when it surely should 
be done. h. h. l. 
FRAUD BUTTER AND FRAUD FEED. 
I have just finished my supper, at 
which 1 had some hard butter. Last 
Winter we had such butter several times. 
It remains quite hard even in a warm 
temperature, and generally has the ap¬ 
pearance of tallow. Some time ago I 
saw a somewhat spicy letter in the Out¬ 
look, by an M. D., who defended pure, 
cleanly prepared oleo against rancid but¬ 
ter. I thought, if this gentleman wished 
to protect people against fraud, he could 
find plenty of work among quack medi¬ 
cines. But perhaps if quack medicines 
were as good as farmers’ butter he would 
not have such a good business. Several 
M.D.’s have candidly told me that patent 
medicines produce diseases which the 
doctors are called on to cure. This is 
specially so of soothing medicines for 
children. But this is not my main point. 
This doctor’s statement about bad but¬ 
ter suggested this idea: I'he butter mak¬ 
ers ought to be willing to abide by the 
results of their work, good or bad. For 
the protection of good butter makers and 
the detection of bad ones every tub 
should be plainly stamped with the 
name of the maker, the date of 
making, and the number of the 
package or tub. If this had been done 
with the tub from which I got doubtful 
butter I could go to the grocer, ask for 
the credentials of this special tub and 
send, by mail, a sealed sample to the 
makers. This might start a train of in¬ 
vestigation which would reveal a rogue 
somewhere. From this same merchant 
I buy feed. I am quite within the limits 
of truth when I say that from one-fifth 
to one-fourth of the wheat bran is oat 
shells. How do oat shells get mixed 
with bran? I have watched the same 
brand of bran during six months and 
find it the same, so it cannot De a matter 
of an occasional handful of sweepings. 
I have lately bought a feed, and it 
looks more like oatmeal dust than a 
wheat preparation. What is the penalty 
for such adulteration? When one pays 
$ 1.10 per 100 pounds for bran it should, 
at least, be all bran, and such mixing 
should be punished. 
I must not forget to say that I am 
anxiously watching the fight which The 
R. N.-Y. is making against colored oleo. 
and hope that the butter makers will 
get the protection which they deserve. 
If it is right for western beef dressers 
to sell 10-cent tallow for 25-cent butter, 
it is just as fair for the eastern horse 
killer to sell five-cent horseflesh for 
15-cent beef. a. c. 
Nassau Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—There is a law in New York 
State against adulterating cattle feed. 
Samples of that suspected bran should 
be sent to Dr. W. H. Jordan, Geneva, 
N. Y., for analysis. The United States 
Senate failed to pass the Grout bill, but 
it will be pushed harder than ever at 
the next session of Congress. 
The dearest scale vou can buy is on© with no reputation 
back of which is not built ou correct principles 
and cannot remain accurate. You can depend on an 
O^ifood. They have been on the market yeara. 
Over 25,000 buyers can recommend them. Oairood on a 
beam is aifuurunteeoi excellence. If your dealer cannot 
quote vou, write us direct* don't wait. M'e save vou money. 
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, from perfect milk. All bad odors 
Sand flavors of animal, feed of 
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The milch cow depends upon Protein to 
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IT HAS REPEATEDLY BEATEN IN COMPETITIVE TESTS 
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