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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 30 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DAIRY AMD FARM MOTES. 
Building the Dairy Barn. 
Part II. 
Effect on Dairy Cows. —The highly- 
bred animal, of course, is the first to 
succumb, because she is last to sacrifice 
milk, and the remark becomes current 
that the purebred is more tender and 
susceptible, which in a way is true. The 
animal possessed of a more selfish na¬ 
ture provides against such vicissitudes 
by laying on fat, as extra woolens, and 
by milk shrinkage. I do not think we 
should ignore entirely the habit of self- 
preservation, because we have not been 
able to make artificial conditions so per¬ 
fect that the cow does not need some es¬ 
sentially so-called “hardiness." The hap¬ 
py medium seems wise in this instance 
as in most cases; a good strong con¬ 
stitution, made stronger by proper sur¬ 
roundings, which means increased avail¬ 
able vital force for milk or beef, as the 
case may be, instead of a strong consti¬ 
tution for the purpose of withstanding 
unnecessary drain upon its vitality. It 
should be remembered that the greater 
effort and expenditure of vital force 
developed through food is for self-pres¬ 
ervation in the animal, heat, energy 
and building of waste tissue, and the 
smaller proportion expended for avail¬ 
able return. Every unit of vital force, 
therefore, given out to w^ard off the evil 
effect of cold, damp stables is taken 
from the profit side of the ledger in 
the form of milk, fiesh or health. It 
is not alone the present generation with 
which we deal, but the offspring is most 
certainly affected by unnecessary drain 
of vital energy upon the parents. In 
animal life as in the human, the first 
effect of over strain is a “cold.” I wish 
some w’ould testify as to the origin of 
the word as applied. We are certainly 
not cold; on the contrary, the first evi¬ 
dence in both animals and man is a 
fevered condition. Call it what you 
will, this peculiar disease, or, more 
clearly stated, forerunner of disease, is 
caused by an over draft upon available 
vitality and a desire to meet it. The 
digestion is at once called upon with 
increased vigor and sooner or later is 
overtaxed; then comes the “cold” and 
then—why, of course, if there is a 
tuberculosis germ in the neighborhood 
he floats around and finds lodgment in 
the part of the animal which by virtue 
of his ancestry is weakest. No one 
will deny the force of the argument, 
but thousands will deny the practice of 
it to the animals in their keeping. 
Have you ever watched the steam 
gauge dial and observed the indicator 
fall 10 pounds at each stroke of the 
piston in some of the big fellows that 
run a large plant or on ocean steamers, 
and see it come back to its original 
position before another draft for a sec¬ 
ond stroke? All works well until the 
call for steam is beyond the capacity 
of the boilers to supply, and then if a 
storm overtakes the boat at this critical 
time she is at the mercy of the wind. 
Just such conditions as we have been 
discussing have made possible the pro¬ 
tracted struggle between the old State 
Board of Health in New York, and 
bodies of a similar nature in other 
States on one side, and farmers chiefly 
upon the other, and, in order to carry 
out the respective notions, have in my 
judgment gone to extremes. It seems 
to me now that the chance for extreme 
action on the part of the State board 
having been eliminated, the conserva¬ 
tive force should be felt in a way that 
will not antagonize, but bring forth 
fruit in a way of health and comfort 
to our animals, leading at the same time 
to increasing confidence on the part of 
city consumers, and consequently in¬ 
creased consumption of the crude prod¬ 
uct. This relieves the congested condi¬ 
tion of the markets when overstocked 
with butter and cheese. At such times 
prices are always low, and low prices 
have a redeeming feature, in that they 
increase consumption. H. e. cook. 
ADVICE ABOUT OR AIM FEED IMG. 
One of our readers In Connecticut asks the 
following questions: “I keep a dairy and 
sell milk to the consumers direct. My cows 
are Jersey, of average size. I have plenty of 
corn and stalks, and can buy bran at ?21, 
wheat feed at $22 and gluten at $30. Give 
me a proper ration for cows in full flow of 
milk. I wish also a suitable ration for work 
horses; they are used every day at ordinary 
farm work, and do not travel on the roads 
very much except In peddling milk, at which 
they take turns.” What, with your experience 
and this feed, would you buy in his place? 
Let us know what you consider the most eco¬ 
nomical ration for such cows. What would 
you do with this ear corn, and how much 
grain per day would you feed? 
Bran and Siieixeu Corn. —We feed 
work horses about 20 pounds Timothy 
hay, with wheat bran and shelled corn 
equal parts, quantity governed by size 
of horses and amount of work being 
done. For cows we feed ears of corn 
ground fine and gluten, equal parts, with 
nearly as much wheat bran in weight 
as of gluten and meal, and as much good 
hay as they will eat up clean. We 
have never succeeded in curing corn¬ 
stalks so they would be a good feed for 
cows. If we dry them in the fields 
sufficiently so they will not mold in the 
barn, the cows will not eat them; if fed 
when moldy, milk will have a taste 
which will be objectionable to custom¬ 
ers. Regardless of price we have a rule 
to feed either wheat bran or middlings 
every day. The head of the herd is 
usually compelled to eat the stalks. 
Portland, Me. J. h. r. 
A Ration Figured. —We understand 
that the animals are Jersey cows of 
average size, in full flow of milk, with 
plenty of home-grown corn and stalks, 
presumably no other roughage. Wheat 
bran is $21 per ton; wheat feed $22, and 
gluten meal $30. We should give them 
all the corn stover they would eat up 
reasonably clean, and should prefer for 
better results that it be cut, and each 
feed allowed to soften 12 hours by pour¬ 
ing over the, pile a few pails of hot water 
to which a little salt had been added, 
covering the pile with an old blanket. 
We should do all possible to make the 
food palatable without too great expense. 
For the grain part of the daily ration 
we should give two pounds coarse wheat 
bran, four pounds cornmeal, and four 
pounds gluten meal. The cows will eat 
about 20 pounds of the stover and with 
the grain the ration will analyze about 
as follows: 
Pro- 
Garbo- 
teln. 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
20 
lbs. 
corn stover. .40 
6.68 
.12 
2 
lbs. 
wheat bran. .2.5 
.88 
.06 
4 
lbs 
cornmeal... .27 
2.74 
.15 
4 
lbs. 
gluten meal. 1.36 
1.67 
.12 
Total 
. 2.28 
11.97 
.45 
This will give nutritive ratio of 
1:5.7, and the cash outlay for each cow’s 
grain will be 8.11 cents per day. For 
cows giving the most milk we should 
increase the gluten, and decrease for 
those giving a lesser amount. An occa¬ 
sional meal of some other kind of 
roughage if possible will be appreciated 
by the cows. For the horses we should 
give what stover they will clean up, and 
in addition two quarts each of wheat 
bran and cornmeal three times daily. 
At present prices for oats, and having 
plenty of corn, we should hardly want 
to buy them. H. Q. m. 
Connecticut. 
Cut the Stalks. —To feed the aver¬ 
age-sized cow in full flow of milk, with 
plenty of corn and stalks, bran $21, 
wheat feed $22, and gluten at $30, I 
should cut up the cornstalks. Place 
before each cow what she will eat clean; 
we do not expect they will eat the 
large, dry stalks; then wet the stalks 
and put on four quarts bran, 1^ to 2 
quarts gluten for each cow. In this 
way they will eat most of the stover 
with the grain. We think it a better 
way than to feed the grain all by itself. 
The ear corn is not a profitable feed for 
cows; should surely want the corn on 
cob ground fine, and then it will not 
make so very much milk. But the ear 
corn makes a fine feed for horses. The 
dent varieties are better than the hard 
flint for them. Just how much one 
should feed depends on how much hard 
work you want them to do. Enough 
ears of corn to make three pints to two 
quarts shelled corn, and about the same 
amount of bran three times a day is a 
good feed. What this man should do 
if he expects to make milk right along 
is to build a round silo to keep his 
cornstalks. After using one a year he 
would wonder how he ever got along 
without one. e. b. 
Wilbraham, Mass. 
Breeders’ Directory 
JERSEY BULL 
Y^’arllng—repristered, from a prreat show cow: al¬ 
most fanltlPss, by a prndac dr sire. Farmer's price. 
R. F. shannon, 1107 Liberty 8t., Plttsburj?, Pa. 
123 HOLSTEINSn^f: 
DKLLHUB8T FARMS, Mentor. Ohio. 
Holsteln-Frieslan Bull 
ready for urrloe, and a fine lot of Bull Calvea. Best 
af breeding, and from de« producing families. 
C. K. BmCOBD, Peterboro. N. T. 
F or sale—T horonghbred 
HOL.STEIN-FBIESIAN CATTLE 
of the best families. A so, KO high-bred Bulls 
reasonable prices Write the MAPIaKS STOCK 
FARM, Binghamton, N. Y., WM. ROOD. prop. 
Cnr Cola— PUREBRED HOLSTEIN-FRIBSIANS 
rOl udlB from best famUles. Two registered 
balls ready for service and bull calves. Also have 
purebred BERKSHIRE SWINE and SCOTCH 
COLLIE PUPS at low figures. Write for breeding 
and prices. W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y, 
—Five head left; must be dis¬ 
posed of. Also the handsomest 
Hay Bricks. —The Hay, Flour and Feed 
Journal refers to the need of pressing hay 
into small compass before shipping for a 
long ocean voyage. It says that in the 
South African war horses appeared with 
what seemed to be bricks strung around 
their necks. These were really “condensed 
rations.” “A compound of hay, bran and 
oats is made and pressed until a ton equals 
but 35 cubic feet. Portions of this com¬ 
pressed material are then placed between 
iron plates and a tremendous pressure 
brought to bear upon the plates until the 
feeding material is of the requisite size of 
the brick. Clamps are then bound around 
the plates, and they, with the inclosed 
bricks, are removed from the press. Then, 
to overcome the inherent elasticity of the 
hay, which even after all this pressure 
would Inevitably rebound, the clamped 
bricks, loaded on a truck, are run into an 
oven and raised to a moderate heat. This, 
it has been found, overcomes that diffi¬ 
culty. After being removed from the oven, 
the clamps are taken off, and the bricks 
are ready for transportation. These bricks 
weigh about six to eight pounds each, and 
measure nine by four inches.” 
AYRSHIRES 
Bull Of the breed. Oakum Lad No. 6590, three years 
old. weight close to 1,500 pounds. Cheap If sold soon. 
A. F. GRINB, Homewood, Pa. 
Sprin^dslc Filin, J^AUAMS. proprietor. 
Breeder and Shipper of Bed Polled Cattle, O. I. C. 
Swine and Dorset Sheep. Stock for sale. 
Oerkshire, P. China and C. White Pigs (also, serv- 
^ vlceable Boars; sows bred), at farmers’prices. 
B. P. Bock Cockerels. 75c.; W. Holland Turkeys, 
$1.50. W. A. LOTHEKS, Lack, Pa. 
Reg. P. CMnas, BerlisMres and C. Whiles. 
Choice Pigs. 8 weeks old, mated not 
ak'n. Bred Sows and Service Boars. 
l»OULTBY. Write for hard times 
—«- prices and free circular. 
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New book sent free. Address 
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Cure before cost, of cou-ec: but besides being a 
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Dr. I). Jayne’s Expectorant is about r he least expen¬ 
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y' 
splint,” “sprain a cord,” “de¬ 
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Get a bottle or two of 
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Itcurea all these troublesandColic, 
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I fowl. Breeding Pens. Cockerels and Yearling Hens 
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There is Music:“rc?Kri 
Leghorn cockerels, $1.25 each. They are good breed¬ 
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