1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
363 
PRIMER SCIENCE. 
(CONTINUED.) 
and puts them in a worse condition than 
if all the dry grain they could eat were 
given them. There is a theory that a 
full feed of cooked mess would be best 
at night, but I have not tested it. One 
reason for feeding dry grain at night, is 
that it takes so much longer to digest; 
it gives the digestive apparatus of fowls 
plenty of exercise during the night. Soft 
feed at night would not stay by them as 
well. Dry grain through the day with 
lots of exercise with a full feed of cooked 
mess at night, would seem the proper 
thing, but might not work well in prac¬ 
tice. I think that almost everybody 
gives it in the morning. The objections 
are that, if cooked before feeding in the 
morning, it is rather late before the 
fowls get it, or the feeder has to rise 
pretty early. If cooked the night before 
and fed in the morning, it may sour dur¬ 
ing the night and be objectionable. 
There is a great deal to learn in this 
direction, and those experiment stations 
that are now taking up poultry experi¬ 
ments, will find this a wide field in which 
to work. The question of whether a 
certain amount of souring of the feed is 
desirable, as well as a certain amount of 
souring of milk when fed to fowls, is 
one which I hope many will write about. 
I also hope that you will hear from those 
who soak their grain before feeding to 
fowls. 
As to the reasons why bran is loosen¬ 
ing, and white flour is constipating, I 
would say that starch, white bread, 
wheat flour, crackers, etc., are the oppo¬ 
site of loosening. Cooked flour and stiff 
paste are used as a food by breeders 
who, after overfattening their turkeys 
or fowls for show purposes, wish to pre¬ 
vent them from getting loose and grow¬ 
ing thm rapidly. People eat cream 
toast and toasted crackers for a similar 
reason. They also eat oatmeal or whole 
wheat bread or mush to produce the 
opposite effect. Molasses is loosening, 
while sugar is the opposite and counter¬ 
acts the effects of mush, stewed or baked 
beans, etc. Every one knows that most 
fresh fruits, as well as their juices, act 
as laxatives. Certain fruits like rasp¬ 
berries, blackberries, raisin grapes and 
certain kinds of sweet apples, have a 
tonic or binding effect. 
We just apply the same principles to 
poultry feeding. Whole wheat if fed in 
any quantity, is rather laxative. I 
would say that, owing to its indigestible 
woody fiber as well as coarseness, the 
bran stimulates muscular action of the 
bowels, and also causes a more copious 
flow of their secretions. The mucilage¬ 
like qualities of the bran may also have 
something to do with its action. When 
combined with the starch and gluten in 
proper proportions, the latter counter¬ 
acts the action of the bran. My impres¬ 
sion is that wheat gluten entirely free 
from starch, is not constipating. Pure 
starch, we all know is, so the less carbon 
you give, the more loosening the food, 
even though you do not have the indigest¬ 
ible husks present, samuel cushman. 
Live Stock Matters 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Curing Tuberculosis. —The Tribune 
of April 22, quotes in part from a circu¬ 
lar issued by the State Board of Health 
in regard to tuberculosis. Not one word 
is said in regard to the prevention of the 
disease by conforming to the conditions 
of health in well-ventilated stables, but 
it stupidly insists on the extermination 
of all diseased animals, while the pro¬ 
cess of generating it in hothouse stable 
fashion is going on at an appalling rate. 
This, in connection with the tuberculin 
test which it recommends, would result 
in the annihilation of the dairy interests 
of the State. It would be all right to kill 
hopelessly diseased animals; but we must 
prevent their ranks being filled again. 
The disease is, doubtless, propagated in 
badly-ventilated stables, and in my judg¬ 
ment, a commission to look after the 
stables, would do more to wipe out the 
disease, than all else put together. The 
conditions of health on our State dairy 
farms, are, in the summer, perfect. Graz¬ 
ing in rangy pastures with springs of 
pure water, and sleeping on the soft- 
green sward under the blue canopy, con¬ 
stitute an ideal condition, d. carpenter. 
Skim-Miuk Calves. — The following 
note, from the Iowa Homestead, has a 
good thought in it : 
Riding with a friend the other day, he remarked 
in passing by farms on which he saw a lot of 
poor calves or steers : “ Skim-milk calves.” 
Coming to the farm of a man who I knew fed his 
calves upon skim-milk, he says, -‘There, now, 
there’s some cattle that have been raised with 
the cow.” Knowing the farmer’s practice, I told 
my friend that he used skim-milk, but fed it in¬ 
telligently. He fed it early in life, beginning at 
a week old, and to the skim-miik was added a gill 
of boiled flax seed, the ration being gradually in¬ 
creased to a pint a day, after which he added 
middlings or ground oats. This was supplying 
the oil that had been taken from the skim-milk, 
at about one-fifth the value of the butter fat. 
The skim-milk is all right for the rough- 
age, but, like hay, it needs some more 
concentrated food with it. 
Raw Potatoes for Cows. —There seems 
to be a considerable diversity of opinion 
among the people living in this section, 
in regard to the value of potatoes as a 
food for milch cows, as well as in regard 
to their effect upon the milk and butter 
product. Some who have fed them this 
spring, say that they get an increased 
flow of milk, and also more butter be¬ 
cause of feeding potatoes. Also, that 
the butter comes quickly, and is of good 
quality. Others have found much dif¬ 
ficulty in churning the cream, often hav¬ 
ing to churn three or four hours, and 
when the butter comes, it is in small 
lumps like peas and marbles and is very 
difficult to gather into a compact mass. 
The quality is often poor. This having 
been the case, some two weeks ago, I 
discontinued entirely feeding my cows 
potatoes. I had been feeding about six 
quarts of potatoes, twice a day. I also 
fed them three quarts of corn and oat 
meal in the proportion of 1% bushel of 
oats to one of corn, twice a day. I fed 
them good hay. I had been troubled as 
I mentioned in regard to the cream and 
butter. After several days, I tested the 
product as accurately as I could without 
weighing the milk or using a Babcock 
tester, and concluded that there was no 
noticeable diminution in the quantity of 
milk, or the amount of butter produced. 
The cream seemed to be thicker, was 
churned more quickly, and there was no 
trouble about gathering the butter. 
Another person of whom I heard, dis¬ 
continued feeding potatoes, and got more 
milk, cream and butter ; he fed meal 
and some wheat bran. What is the ex¬ 
perience of the readers of The R. N.-Y. 
on this line ? There is, undoubtedly, 
considerable nutriment in potatoes. 
What is there in their composition to 
affect butter differently from other vege¬ 
tables ? I suppose that all foods have 
an effect upon milk and butter prod¬ 
ucts. What is the cause of this unfavor¬ 
able effect of potatoes, or do we not 
judge correctly in regard to their effects ? 
Mendon Center, N. Y. g. e. 
Ip Duking the past 62 Years and longer Dr. D. 
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Milk record 26,021 pounds 2 ounces In a year. But¬ 
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