1901. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
831 
FEED IMG BONE MEAL TO COWS. i he latter cross appears to be prefer- 
Havc you ever found it necessary to feed ^ ^ee no reason why a variety 
fine ground bone to milch cow.s? We are of animals might not be produced which 
would give a larger amount of milk 
than the Jerseys, and richer milk than 
the Holsteins. Of course we would get 
a great mixture of colors. Our expe¬ 
rience is that the tendency is to pro¬ 
duce animals that are quite dark, but 
I think this would soon disappear after 
a generation or so. The Holstein male, 
when bred to common stock, in our ex¬ 
perience, tends to produce offspring that 
are darker colored than either the sire 
or dam. By many the Holstein cow is 
considered a little large, and the Jersey 
cow often too small and delicate. The 
cross-bred animal should be one that 
is intermediate between these two promi¬ 
nent characteristics of the breeds named. 
Of course it would take a little while to 
get the blood mixed harmoniously, be¬ 
cause both breeds are strong ones, but 
when success is attained an ideal cow 
should be the reesult. i. r. nonRars, 
told that under some circumstances, es¬ 
pecially where cows are fed largely on 
corn, that a light feeding of bone meal will 
lirove very useful. 1 know from my own 
experience that this is true in feeding hogs, 
but we would like to know whether the 
same thing is true in feeding cows. 
1 feed my cows a small amount of 
ground hone about three times a week, 
during the Winter. Several years ago 1 
was troubled with abortion in my herd, 
but since feeding as above it has not ap¬ 
peared. 1 do not hold that it is a rem¬ 
edy, however. .j. s. wii itri'oiu). 
Maryland. 
We have fed, very successfully, boiled, 
specially-prepared bone meal to cattle, 
especially to young, growing stock. 
Without a doubt it is valuable to feed 
to dairy stock, especially if much carbo¬ 
hydrate grain is fed. It can be success¬ 
fully fed with cornmeal or any food high 
in carbohydrates. w. m. hk.vnin’oer. 
Pennsylvania. 
I have never experimented with 
ground bone, however, 1 am impressed 
with the belief that under certain con¬ 
ditions, an occasional feed would be 
beneficial. This opinion is partly based 
on the fact that I have very often seen 
cows greedily chew bones, and I have 
known cows to be choked by so doing. 
Pennsylvania. .j.vs. j,. iir.ndkuson. 
Feed for Cows and Horses. 
Referring to the question from Con¬ 
necticut about feeding cows and horses 
(page 814) one of the best dairymen in 
this county says ‘that the best feed to 
produce milk is six parts wheat feed to 
one part gluten. The wheat feed was 
what is called “mixed feed”; that is, 
bran and middlings together. One gets 
it in this way. The wheat feed he 
weighs, six pounds at a feeding, morning 
and night, with one quart of gluten at 
each feeding. This ration is for large 
Holstein cattle; for Jerseys it would 
probably be a rather heavy ration. His 
other feed was cornstalks, hay and mil¬ 
let. The inquirer from Connecticut says 
he has plenty of corn. If he will take 
his corn in the ear, have it ground fine, 
cob and corn together, take four quarts 
of this cob meal, and four quarts of his 
wheat feed and mix them together for 
each feeding, he will find this a good ra¬ 
tion for milk production. The coarser 
wheat feeds are better for milk than the 
flour middlings. A good ration for work 
horses is wheat feed of any kind, with a 
little cornmeal; say three quarts of 
wheat feed and one quart cornmeal, 
three times a day. I give my own horses 
ground rye and oats, half and half by 
measure, 12 quarts a day, and my horses 
work hard every day. g. w. h. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Daily Rations for Hens. 
1 have never measured or weighed 
the grain required by a hen each day. 
In my experience the amount of grain 
a hen seems to require daily varies 
greatly, depending on the season and 
condition of the bird. For instance, 
when a hen is moulting she will sel¬ 
dom eat much more than half the 
amount she will when laying her best. 
My rule is to feed all they will take 
up promptly and with relish, except in 
the morning, when I give a scant ration. 
New York. ii. j. blanciiard. 
We have two or three most excellent 
cows, the result of crossing the Hol¬ 
stein upon the Jersey, and in another 
case the Jersey male on the Holstein. 
Juggling of Separator Facts 
— AT THE — 
Can You 
do a little pleasant and profitable work 
for us in your own town? No experience 
necessary. We will explain just what 
you have to do. The work will be light, 
and we will arrange for the time you 
shall be able to give to it. We can give 
you work for all your time or just for 
your spare time. Write for full par¬ 
ticulars. THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
New York. 
Notes from MHk Producers. 
'Phe two milk-rcceiving .stations at this 
place are taking in quite a large amount 
of milk for the time of year; the Tuttle 
station receiving about 55 cans daily and 
the W’^hite station about 45 cans. Prices 
range from $1.10 to $1.25 for 40-quart can, 
according to the test of butter fat; 10 
cents per can is added to the above prices 
if the producer delivers two-thirds as much 
milk during the months of November and 
December as was delivered during June. 
These prices are considerably higher than 
formerly paid at this place, on account of 
comi)etition. although the actual profit is 
hut ver.v little better on account of the 
higher cost of feed, it being from one-third 
to one-half higher than usual. Wheat bran 
is selling at $22 per ton. and cornmeal $27 
per ton. w. j. w. 
Pohlcskill, N. Y. 
Milk is $1 per can of 40 quarts at the 
local station, w’hen it should be at least 
$1.20 per can. taking into consideration the 
price of the feeds ff)r milch cows. A num. 
her of the farmers in this section raise a 
great many turnips for Fall and early 
Winter feed, w'hich materially reduce 
their feed bills. They are mostly raised 
with corn sown at the same time; the corn 
is drilled or planted by mixing the seed 
with the fertilizer. One of our progre.s.sive 
farmers has fed two wagon-loads a day 
since July 15. and has 1.000 bushels in the 
cellar for Winter feed. They are fed with¬ 
out cutting, .simply pulled and scattered 
in lot or manger just after milking. The 
kind principally grown Is the Strap-leaf 
Purple-top for Fall and the Germain Sweet 
for Winter. They are certainly great milk 
producers. Cows are very high; that is. 
nearby springers from $40 to $65 each. 
More turnips will be raised in this locality 
next year than ever before. b. 
McGraw, N. Y. 
Tt would seem the milk business has 
reached a situation where the margin of 
profit (if such there be), if seen, will have 
to bo looked at through a microscope. 
With meal selling at $25 to $28 per ton, and 
bran and middlings propoi'tionately high, 
a fair quality of hay selling readily for 
$12. how is it possible to make milk at the 
pre.sent prices? The Horseheads Creamery 
Company is receiving about 700 quarts of | 
milk daily from this place. Such of the 
l)atrons as are paid “station” prices are 
receiving at this time 04 cents for 40-quart 
cans, this being the net price in this zone. 
Of course, the price of hay has little or 
nothing to do with the cost of milk, as 
very little hay is being fed these days. It 
is the corn fodder that makes it possible 
for the dairyman to exist. Corn in this 
vicinity made a most magnificent growth, 
and the fodder kinds were especially well 
eared. Hundreds of bushels of fine ears 
went into the silos, and are now safely 
housed till such time as needed. I hear of 
a number of cows being offered for sale. 
Erin, N. Y. g. e. m. 
I.EGHORN Hens.— The Mediterranean va¬ 
rieties will probably stand more abuse in 
the matter of overfeeding than will the 
larger breeds. It is claimed by physiolo¬ 
gists that nervous persons should eat 
largely of animal food. The TiOghorns 
repre.sent this temperament among fowls, 
and I am accustomed to make their daily 
ration partly of meat regularly, f. w. p. 
The Hen’s Mash.— I would like to dis¬ 
pense with mashes for poultry altogether, 
but for the difficulty in getting the meat 
ration properly fed out. When some en¬ 
terprising firm puts up a choice article of 
lean meat screened to the proper size to 
throw Into the litter, and at a reasonable 
cost, I shall be glad to dispense with 
mashes, as I believe them to result in less j 
action of crop and gizzard and diminished 
vigor. r. w. PROCTOR. 
BUFFALO EXPOSITION. 
One of our desperate would-be competitors persists in its unscrupulous 
juggling of Separator facts and records at the Buiralo Exposition. One lie 
or misrepresentation stamped out it bobs up the next week with another. 
But everything must come to an end, and as a correspondent pertinently 
writes us ‘‘long after both these second-rate imitating machines and their 
projectors are turned into poor fertilizer the J)e Laval will continue—as in 
the past—to demonstrate its all-round superiority to anything else ever made 
in the shape of a cream separator.” 
The De Laval Cream Separatprs having been awarded the Gold Medal at 
Buffalo and the concern in question a gold medal on its combined exhibit of 
churns, separators and Babcock testers, it at once brazenly advertises having 
received “the Gold Medal and Highest Award” on its “separators,” without 
qualification, in the hope to thus influence some possible separator buyer. 
Next it proceeds to put out what purports to be a skim-milk record of 
the work done by the “IT. S.” machines in the Model Dairy at Buffalo. As 
a matter of fact this is not a record of the full run of the machines but simply 
of a selected part of it. Much of the “U. S.” work during the first month 
of their run would not compare favorably with ordinary gravity setting. It 
was so bad that one machine was thrown out altogether. Their average for 
the full time shows a skim-milk loss of nearly three times the published 
figures. 
Even then these so-called “skim-milk” records were but mere jugglery 
and show absolutely nothing as to the ]>ractical work of the machines. These 
“records” were achieved only through excessive speed, excessive power, cut¬ 
ting down capacity and running so thin a cream that more fat was lost in 
churning than saved in separating, ddie following voluntary statement from 
the engineer of the Model Dairy tells its own story in this regard: 
Buffalo, N. Y., November S, 1901. 
Tin; Df Laval SuPAnATOR Co., 
74 Cortlandt St., New York, N. Y. 
Gentlemen:—As engineer of the Model Dairy at the Ban-Aineriean Ex¬ 
position, Buffalo, T was impressed with the following points of merit in the 
running of your Cream Separator. Tt did its work very smoothly and quietly, 
showing by its running its mechanical excellence. T could run it with a 
much smaller consumption of fuel and lower steam pressure. In fact, it 
took blit one-fourth as much steam to do our worh with it as the ^‘United 
States” separator used to do the same worJc, and at no time did T have to force 
my fire or boiler to keep up the supply of steam as T did when the latter 
machine was in use. 
We were sorry to see the De I^aval leave on June 28 and glad to see it 
returned on August 9th, as it made less labor for all. Your representatives 
let the regular Dairy force handle it, while your competitor, the “United 
States,” had an expert to run their machine during the greater part of 
the tivu of their run, and even then he could not make a record for close 
skimming except by running his machine at an excessive speed of 11,000 to 
12,000 revolutions a minute, cutting down the capacity, and making a thin 
cream. One morning in particular the cream was so thin that I bad to run 
the churn two hours and twenty minutes before the churning was done. 
While I am not an expert in creamery work, I hold a first-class engineer's 
license, and I want to say that your separator, from a mechanical standpoint, 
in the design and finish of the parts and in the economy of fuel and labor, 
easily ranis first, and I do not wonder that your competitors would rather 
not place their machines alongside yours. 
Yours very truly, 
James F. Downy, 
Engineer Model Dairy. 
The published records of the De Laval machine in the Model Dairy at 
Buffalo were made under practical use conditions, such as may be duplicated 
by any De Laval machine in everyday use, and the machine was run by the 
Exjiosition enqdoycs themselves and not by a manipulating expert juggling 
for “skim-milk” records. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
General Offices: 
74 CORTLANDT STREET. 
NEW YORK. 
Ilandolph A Canal Sts., 
CHICAGO 
1102 Arch Street, 
PHILADELPHIA 
327 Commissioners Street 
MONTREAL. 
75 & 77 York Street, 
TORONTO. 
108 A 105 Mission Street 
SAN FRANCISCO 
JW MoDermott Avenue. 
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