1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
189 
LIVE STOCK MATTERS. 
(continued.) 
fowls, neither too many nor too few, 
they will keep warm enough for health 
and comfort. If a man is not “ in and 
out” of the henhouse “off and on” all 
the time, it is impossible to keep the 
heat uniform. It will he first too hot, 
then too cold, and the hens will never 
maintain health under these conditions. 
They soon get “ tender,” and are espe¬ 
cially susceptible to cold and roup. We 
must keep farm stock comfortable, but 
avoid going to the other extreme of 
pampering them, so as to weaken their 
strength and vitality. 
M. SUMNER PERKINS. 
Food for Calves.— What is the best 
feed for calves ranging from two days 
to six weeks old? They are bought to 
fatten and sell to butchers, and I wish a 
diet that will agree with them and in¬ 
crease their weight rapidly. 1 have tried 
cracked wheat and potatoes, both boiled 
in milk, and both gave them the scours. 
Maryland. l. w. f. 
R. N.-Y.—Warm, fresh milk is, of 
course, the best food for calves. The 
readiest substitute is, probably, the 
“ calf meal ” made by Blatchford & Co., 
Chicago, Ill. This will dissolve in warm 
water, and make a very fair substitute 
for milk. 
Why Stop With One Cross ?— My wife 
has a Jersey-Holstein cow, that is solid 
black, except a white streak on the belly, 
white hind feet, and white pencil on 
tail. She is more compactly built, is 
heavier than her mother, and gives a 
larger yield, longer continued, and better 
quality of milk. Bred to a Jersey bull, 
her calf recently dropped, is mouse- 
colored, black feet, black muzzle, black 
border around eyes, black upper tongue, 
white streak on belly, and white pencil 
on tail, compactly built, andlaiger than 
her dam at the same age. She is a hand¬ 
some creature, but what she will develop 
as a cow remains to be seen. h. r. 
Fairmount, Ky. 
Barley Hay: Worms. —Is there much 
nutriment in bright barley straw that 
has ripened grain and been thrashed ? 
How will barley compare with oats to 
cut green and cure for hay ? Some one 
told in The R. N.-Y., of mixing J^-inch 
pieces of horse hair in a horse’s feed to 
rid the horse of worms. While feeding 
corn stalks, my horses had worms ; since 
I began feeding barley straw, all signs 
of them have disappeared. They had 
grain in both cases. I think that the 
barley “ beards ” were too much for the 
worms. w. v. h. 
Deer Park, L. 1. 
R. N.-Y.—Barley makes the best grain 
hay of all the small grains. Baled 
barley hay is always brought East to 
feed the California race horses. It sells 
for more than Timothy in the San 
Francisco market. The Dutch farmers 
feed rye heads to horses to “ drive out ” 
worms. 
FEEDING CORN TO THE BEST ADVAN¬ 
TAGE. 
I have considered corn the cheapest 
stock food for this locality, so far as it 
can be fed, but how best to prepare the 
corn and ground feeds, has bothered me 
much. I have tried the corn-and-cob 
meal, even fine enough for bread, and 
was not satisfied. I did not like corn 
meal or corn in the husk with hogs to 
follow. I have an objection, from obser¬ 
vation, to corn in the ensilage. Scien¬ 
tific experimenters tell us, and my own 
experience has shown, that there is no 
profit in sloppy feeds. 
1 now run ear corn through the corn- 
and-cob mill to shell off the corn and 
break the cob, but do not crack the corn. 
This I cook well done, in a homemade 
feed cooker and put this in the mixing 
box with cut clover hay, ground feeds 
and salt; in a few hours it has steamed 
all through, keeps warm over-night, and 
the cows like it the best of any feed I 
ever tried. 
Now for the profit. On first trying the 
cooked corn, I was feeding four baskets 
of corn-and-cob meal with ground feeds, 
and for roughness one good feed of 
clover hay and the rest corn fodder. I 
then cooked but three baskets of the 
cracked corn-and-cob, used the same 
ground feeds, the same fodder and cut 
about one-lialf the clover hay in the 
mixing box, and gave no hay feed. At 
the time of this trial, the cows were on 
the shrink; they at once responded, 
making a good gain. I keep the weight 
of each cow’s milk. I think that it takes 
less labor and time to crack and cook 
the corn, than to grind it fine, is a sav¬ 
ing of one-fourth of corn, with more 
milk. I now cook the oats with the 
corn, and save the grinding. e. g. s. 
Athens, O. 
Straining and Racking your Lungs and Throat 
with a rasping Cough, is but poor policy. Rather 
cure yourself with Dr. I). .Jayne’s Expectorant, an 
excellent remedy for Asthma and Bronchitis .—A dr. 
Young 
Chickens 
Grow strong and 
vigorous and attain 
| THE IMPROVED 
early maturity if 
from birth they 
receive a 
daily feeding of 
regular 
u 
tt 
Bradley's 
Superior Meat-Meal. 
There is nothing 
like it for a llesh- 
producer, and 
chicks fed with it 
are a constant de¬ 
light and early 
source of profit. 
We tell all about it in “Feeding for 
Growth and Eggs,’’ a copy ol which 
we send FREE. 
Bradley Fertilizer Co., Boston. 
COW DON’T BREED? 
THOUSANDS CUBED—BOOK FREE. 
MOORE BROS., ALBANY, N. Y. 
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If so, you should try a 
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