1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
43 
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES. 
Cow Questions. 
1. I havo a young heifer 2 y, years old. 
She has her first calf, and I find on milking 
her one teat has a hole half way up; the milk 
comes out of this as well as the regular hole 
at tne bottom. Is there any way to close up 
the side so she will milk regularly? 2. I am 
feeding 100 pounds cornmeal, 100 pounds 
brown middlings, and 50 pounds coarse wheat 
bran. If not a balanced ration how should 
it be mixed to balance it? a. h. d. 
Boonton, N. J. 
1. When the heifer dries up you can sear 
the upper hole with a hot iron, or cut it 
a little there to make a sore and put in 
a fine stitch or two. Don’t try to stop 
it until she is dry, or you will have 
trouble, although it is not very pleasant 
to milk a cow in this condition. Calves 
from such a cow, we find by experience, 
are not likely to have perfect teats. 2. I 
cannot commend your ration for cows. 
Middlings and bran answer the same pur¬ 
pose, and you should drop one of them, 
as at present high prices for wheat prod¬ 
ucts you cannot afford to feed any more 
than necessary to make a healthy, palata¬ 
ble ration. Cornmeal I should also drop 
with a thud, unless I raised the corn, as 
I have never yet seen the time or place 
where something else could not be sub¬ 
stituted with decided advantage. Corn¬ 
meal only has b 1 / per cent digestible pro¬ 
tein, less than good clover hay or rowen, 
and is about on a par with nice, bright 
early-cut mixed hay. Suppose you try 
this ration, if possible to get the feed- 
tuffs in your vicinity at reasonable price: 
100 pounds brown middlings or coarse 
bran; 100 pounds gluten feed or corn dis¬ 
tillers’ grains, and 50 pounds cotton-seed 
meal. 
Horse and Cow Rations• 
In the advertisement of Ajax Flakes Mr. 
.Manchester Is quoted as using them largely. 
Would he recommend them as part of the ra¬ 
tion for cows, horses or hens this Winter? 
Is it the gluten that resembles bran some¬ 
what that he means, or the tine gluten, and 
there are several grades and prices for that? 
I was also interested in the ration for horses. 
I have been using equal parts by measure of 
bran, oats and cracked corn. This seems to 
please the horse, and she is looking well. I 
am not feeding as much per day as he speaks 
of, hut the horse does not average more than 
one or two days’ work in a week this Winter. 
Would there he an advantage either in cost 
of feed or in the value to the horse in chang¬ 
ing? Can you tell me whether either skim- 
milk or dishwater, or both mixed, would be 
lately to harm a horse? My horse is fond ot 
them. I often see in medical articles objec¬ 
tions to the use of milk by grown people. 
Ito you know the reason for such objection 
and whether such reason would apply to 
creamery milk, or only to the whole milk, 
which would of course include the cream? 
Torrington, Conn. E. s. B. 
Ajax flakes is the trade name for one 
brand of corn distillers’ grain. There are 
a number of them on the market, just as 
there are different brands of rolled oats 
for breakfast foods, all made about alike 
and having practically the same compo¬ 
sition. Most of these corn distillers’ 
grains are sold as gluten feeds of some 
kind, although they are totally unlike 
gluten feed or meal, as they somewhat 
resemble coarse bran, and weigh about 
three-quarters of a pound per quart, while 
gluten feed weighs about l/> pound per 
quart, and is finer and more like cornmeal 
m appearance. I have been told that 
these are a by product from the manufac¬ 
ture of alcohol from corn. I have come 
across them under various names, such as 
"Hall’s Feed," “Union Grains,” “Bile's 
XXXX,” "Corn Protegran,” “Manhattan 
Gluten,” “Continental Gluten,” “Atlas 
Gluten,” “Merchants’ Feed.’’ They are a 
valuable food, having a high content of 
protein and fat, and have the decided ad¬ 
vantage of being bulky. It is too bad they 
have to be disguised under so many 
names. They are good for horses and 
poultry, though horses do not take to 
them very kindly at first. Genuine gluten 
feed and gluten meal are often confused 
by many people. The starch is taken out 
of corn, and the residue, including the 
husk, is ground up and sold as gluten feed 
and advertised to contain about 27 per 
cent crude protein, though most of them 
only contain aliout 23 per cent. Gluten 
feed weighs from 1.2 to 1.5 pounds per 
quart. Gluten meal is heavier, weighing 
1.7 pounds per quart; is usually darker 
in color and it feels more gritty. It does 
not contain any of the husk or shell of 
the corn, and has about 35 per cent crude 
protein, or about 32 per cent digestible. 
Although higher in price than gluten feed, 
its increased value is such that it is usu¬ 
ally cheaper. It is a highly concentrated 
food, and must be fed with care. 
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Your horse ration is all right, and of 
course they do not need as much feed 
while doing light work. One of the quick¬ 
est ways to spoil a horse is to feed it high 
and allow it to stand in the stable doing no 
work. Skim-milk is all right for horses, 
and will help keep the coat shiny. I 
should skip the dishwater, for sentimental 
reasons if no other. Soap and soap pow¬ 
ders will not help the horse. I am not 
up in medical affairs enough to see. any 
harm in milk for grown people unless 
they were putting on surplus fat that ac¬ 
cumulates on some people in middle life. 
Skim-milk surely would not hurt them, 
and this with buttermilk is often pre¬ 
scribed in kidney and similar troubles. 
Butter-Making Experience Wanted . 
We are milking cows, none strippers, feed¬ 
ing hay morning, then cornmeal and bran; 
silage at noon; hay and meal and bran at 
night. We use a Reid creamery kept in cel¬ 
lar, and use only water, and are unable to 
make butter. We took same milk and set in 
pans in pantry, where it was warm, and 
churned fine butter in 15 minutes from cream; 
returned (o the creamery, and no butter, prov¬ 
ing that it is not in feed or cows. Does it. not 
all hinge on the low temperature and not on 
tlie feed? I would like an expression from 
as many as have had similar experience. 
Ilagadorn's Mills, X. Y. m. m. 
Your feeding ought to bring butter of 
the best quality, and with ease. I should 
quit using the cellar as a place for the 
creamery, as cellars are scarcely ever fit 
places in which to keep milk. Better have 
a little room above ground, and use ice 
if necessary to keep the milk. It is not 
because of the cold in the cellar, but prob¬ 
ably some bacterial cause. Conditions are 
such that the proper bacteria do not grow 
in the cellar, and as your experiment 
shows, they do grow when the right con¬ 
ditions are given them. By quickly cool¬ 
ing the milk down to about 40 degrees and 
keeping cream at same temperature until 
you get ready to ripen (or sour it, as some 
people say), then warming to about 70 and 
allowing it to remain at this temperature 
for 12 to 20 hours, then churn at about 
00 or 62 degrees, you ought to have no 
trouble in getting good butter. Churn at 
least twice a week. See that everything 
about the creamery is absolutely clean, as 
sometimes when wrong bacteria have had 
control of things they have to have a 
thorough house cleaning, steaming and 
scalding after scrubbing to get them out 
of the way. See that the cows get at least 
two ounces of salt daily in their grain 
feed. H. G. MANCHESTER. 
Cow Comport. —I spray my cows' teats 
with a liquid tty-killer thinned with kerosene 
It keeps the teats soft, aud prevents scales 
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