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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 28, 
GRAIN IN COW’S RATION. 
I am milking 12 cows, two that came in 
about the first of November, one that came 
in in Summer, and one quite old cow. I 
give OJ/fj pounds of bran a day each. To 
tlie other eight, that are coming in in 1 lie 
Spring, and will have to be dried off in .10 
days or so, I feed one-half of that amount. 
Purebred Stock.— The following ques¬ 
tion brought out a decided difference of 
opinion: Can a farmer afford to keep pure¬ 
bred beef cows to produce young cattle to 
fatten and sell as yearlings, when they' will 
bring about $20 each? Some insisted that 
this could be done by judicious manage- 
The cows have silage nighl and morning, and 
what hay they will eat during the day and 
during the night. The corn that was put 
into the silo was not planted very thickly, 
and was well eared and in the milk when 
that big frost come. It was cut and put 
into silo soon after, and the silage is in 
good condition. On account of there being 
so much corn in the silage I thought it would 
not be necessary to feed any cornmeal. 
Am I graining too heavily or not heavily 
enough ? h. c. 
McI.ane, I*a. 
To the cows nearly dry I should give 
but little grain, as with good silage and 
good hay they ought to keep in fairly good 
rig. Tf thin in flesh some bran will do 
them good. Bran is a good feed, but for 
cows giving much milk one could hardly 
afford at present prices to feed that alone, 
nor would I now or ever buy cornmeal to 
feed to cows to make milk at a profit. 
This is a rather strong statement, but I 
have seen more money wasted on corn¬ 
meal to feed milch cows than all other 
feeds combined. 1 like to feel I am get¬ 
ting the worth of my money when buy¬ 
ing cattle feed, but should not do so if I 
bought cornmeal. Suppose that in place 
of all bran you try two parts bran, two 
parts gluten feed, and one part cotton-seed 
meal, from five to eight pounds per cow, 
depending on size, age, quantity of milk 
and length of time they have been in milk. 
If you can get corn distillers’ grains in 
place of gluten feed I should prefer them. 
They will be sold under various proprie¬ 
tary names, and much more bulky than 
gluten feed. I hardly think it necessary to 
feed hay twice a day when the cows have 
silage twice. Feed once what they will eat 
up clean. _ H. g. m. 
ment, while others stoutly maintained that 
it could not be done profitably, as it is 
necessary to keep two, the cow and calf, 
in order to sell one. I he point was raised 
that those who do this and think it pays, 
usually sell their best young stock for 
breeders at good prices, and practice this 
plan as a convenient method of disposing 
of the culls, and it pays them, but will it 
pay the farmer who sells all of his young 
cattle for beef? The question was not 
settled. Can R. N.-Y. readers answer it 
definitely? 
Tomatoes as Stock Feed. —It seems to 
be pretty generally understood that stock 
will not eat tomatoes, but in discussion it 
was given as the experience of many 
growers for the cannery that the pulp from 
the factory, consisting of peelings, cores, 
etc., is a very good feed for both hogs and 
cattle. In many instances farmers have 
hauled this pulp some distance and fed to 
hogs with very good results, claiming that 
they grew and fattened with a very small 
amount of grain added. Sometimes the 
hogs would not eat it when first offered to 
them, but if a little salt was scattered over 
it they soon learned to eat it greedily. 
Cattle seem to have a better liking for the 
tomatoes than hogs, and several cattle that 
were driven past the factory each night 
and morning would pick up every tomato 
that had been thrown out, and would then 
go to the pulp wagon and eat from it 
ravenously. Many growers turned their 
cattle into the tomato fields after they quit 
picking, and every vine in the field would 
soon be stripped of its fruit, the cattle even 
passing through good clover and Blue 
grass pastures to get to the tomatoes. In 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULL 
“ FRICKASON ” 34975 
of 
H'\? V n r ?P d if p - VJ'bason s ’• dam madel3 lbs. at3 years; bermilk avera K ed 3.5 p e. : her sire has 
■ K h‘ d rS< t ? r<le !^^ nd lf DOt t )leased upon arrival, return him at once at my expense and X will 
refund the purchase price, #75.00. First check takes him. expense ana l will 
Oakland Farm _T. A. MITCHELL Weedsport, N. Y. 
60-GREENWOOD HERD HOLSTEINS-OO 
u ,°f? 0ld i Sir 1 ns e o ne-h al f The^Jood "°V Ya!ty^l*OF FOR I )°cO h ONY^Xe* V ori d' ®s Champion 
Heifer in herclass; In private, official, show, and economic records she has no equal. 
I rnir l iiK ,..„2 V.>!,'Lf ! ° RN 8 » America’s leading strain for 22 years. ENGLISH BKRKSHIRKS 
Long Distance ’Phone. JE. H. KNAPP & SON, Fablus, N. Y. 
BRILL FARM. 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Home of Lord Netherlaml DeKol. Great sire 
of high testing butter cows Stock and prices right. 
K. C. BRILL, Poughquag, N. Y. 
STAR FARM HOLSTEINS. 
Enters New Year with 
250 
Two Hundred and Fifty Head of Regis¬ 
tered Holstein Cattle. 
250 
Offers for sale Service Bulls, Fresh Cows. Males and 
Females of all ages. Actual sales since Oct. 18th, 
#5 OOO. Headquarters for all. Circulars sent on 
application. 
HORACE L. BRON80N, Dept. D„ Cortland, N. Y. 
FOR SALE 
-Purebred Holstein-Frlesian Bull 
Calves and Scotch Collie Pups from 
registered stock. Prices moderate; write promptly. 
W. W. CHENEY, Manlius, N. Y. 
POULTRY SUPPLIES 
■ The Kind that Make Eggs-All per IDO lbs- 
Hecleaned Ground Oyster Shells, 50c; MicoGritfor 
Poultry. (MJc.; MicoGritfor Pigeons, 60c ; MicoGritfor 
Chicks. 60c.; Saul’s Poultry Scratching Food. $1.85; 
Saul s Poultry Mash Food. $2; Saul’s Pigeon Food. $2; 
Saul’s Chick Food, $2.50; Cut Clover, $1 60; Clover Meal, 
$1.60; Pure Ground Beef Scraps, $2.25; Pure Meat 
Meal, $2.25: Pure Meat and Bohe, $2.25; Pure Poultry 
Bone, $2.25; Pure Bone Meal. $2.25: Hemp Seed. $3.60; 
8unflower Seed, $4.25; Chicken Millet, $2.50. Cata¬ 
logue mailed free. 
CHAS. F. SAUL, 220-224 James Street, Syracuse, N. Y 
nciTU Tfi I IOC on HKNS and chicks, 
IIC A In I U LluC 64-page book FREE. 
- D. J. LAMBERT, Box 307, Apponaug, It. I. 
FOR HATCHING. Booking orders 
from best pens—White Wyandottes, 
White and Barred Plymouth Rocks, Single-Comb 
White and Brown Leghorns. No one has better 
stock. Price $1.50 per setting of 15. 
LOCUST FARM, Eatontown. N. J. 
RRFn FAR FftftC — Our Barred Rocks lay 256 to 
ontu run CUUO> 278 eggs a year. Pricelist 
with facts about better methods in Breeding, Hatch 
ing and Feeding free. F. GRUNDY. Morrlsonville, 111 
I IGHT Brahmas, Barred Plymouth Hacks, 
White Plymouth Hocks of Best and Purest 
stock. A limited number of each For Sale. 
J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Pa. 
JACKS FOR SALE. 
The finest, lot of .JACKS and JENNETS I ever 
owned. Some special bargains. Address. 
BAKER’S -JACK FARM, 
Hot 1 , Lawrence, Ind. 
Kentucky Jack Farm. 
A fine lot of Kentucky bred 
and big black Spanish jacks 
and jennets. Also one and 
two-year old jacks. Young 
stock for sale at all times. 
Write or see me before you 
buy. Come to Kentucky if 
you want a good jack. 
JoE K. WRIGHT, 
Junction City. Kentucky. 
HIGH CLASS 
PERCHEKON AND FRENCH 
Coach Stallions Scotch Collie 
Pups. E.S. AKIN, Auburn, N.Y. 
Springbank Berkshires. 
I have some grand 11 months old Service Boars. 
Some Spring Gilts and Boars, and some Yearling 
Sows; will breed them for Spring litters. All first- 
class individuals. 
J. E. WATSON. Proprietor. Marbledale. Conn. 
BERKSHIRES 
of the HIGHEST BREEDING at reasonable 
prices. WILLOUGHBY FARM, Gettysburg,Pa. 
MEADOWBROOK BERKSHIRES. 
CHOICE ANIMALS of all ages and both sexes for 
sale. Representatives of the best English and Amer¬ 
ican strains. Prices reasonable, quality considered. 
MEADOWBROOK FARMS, Bernardsville. N. J. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires and C. Whites. 
8 wks. to 6 mos.. mated not akin, 
service Boars, Bred sows. Write for 
prices and description. Return if not 
satisfactory; we refund the money. 
HAMILTON & CO., Krcildpun, Chester Co., Pa. 
nUECUIDF DIPC FOR SALE,—From First Prize 
uncomnc lIUuHerd at St. Louis Exposition 
and New York State Fair. S. G .OTIS, Sherwood.N Y. 
U r“ ^ ij ■ rj r O on ng Boars, 
W nuOnmC O Sows and 3-month 
Pigs of individual merit and from the best families. 
E. 8. HILL. Freeville, N. Y. 
INDIANA STOCK NOTES. 
Wastes in Feeding Corn. — Institute 
discussion has brought out some very 
common practices that probably result in 
as great a loss as improper methods in 
growing and harvesting the crop. The 
corn here is fed mainly to hogs, and a 
large portion of 'it is fed in cold weather 
to hogs with little or no protection from 
every instance that came to my knowledge 
the owners reported a marked increase in 
the flow of milk. . jr. j. h. 
WINTER EGGS. 
I ant not going to rush my poultry for 
Winter eggs with the exception of a few ihat 
will not be used for breeding purposes, for 
rushing them hurts them for breeding. One 
of the first and most important things in poul- 
on BUFF ORPINGTON PULLETS FOR SALK. Ort 
ONE DOLLAR EACH. £U 
A. L. BAKER, Middlefield, N.Y. 
Var’s Poultry. Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats. 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book. 10c. 
Rates free. J. A. BEltGEY.Box 8,Telford.Pa, 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
won two first premiums at New York State Fair. 1904. 
Trios, $5: Eggs, $1 per 15; $5 per 100. Catalogue free. 
ZIMMER BROS., K. D. 41, Weedsport, N. Y. 
CHESTER WHITES 
Both O. I. C. and Todd strains. 
Standard bred pigs for sale. 
Honest dealing my motto. M. L. 
Bowersox,R.3; Bradford, Dk. Co,0 
POLAND CHINAS 
Write and describe what you want, for I am in posi¬ 
tion to fill your order with up-to-date breeding; 
order a Sow bred at once for Spring farrowing. 
JACOB B. MILLER, Bradford, Ohio. 
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the weather. As one farmer expressed 
it, when fed in this way :“The pile of cobs 
grows faster than the hogs.” 'I bis corn 
is usually thrown out on the open ground, 
and in wet weather a large part of it is 
trampled into the mud and wasted, while 
that which is eaten is certainly not as 
palatable as it would be if given in some 
more cleanly way, and the farmer loses 
not only the amount wasted in the mud, 
but also the amount necessary to keep up 
the animal heat, which should he sup¬ 
plied by comfortable quarters. Another 
common source of loss is in feeding the 
corn crop alone (the usual custom) while 
a smaller amount of corn with the addition 
of some other feed to make up a balanced 
ration would be cheaper and better. 
Regular Feeding. — The necessity of 
regularity in feeding and watering stock 
was made very plain; the general opinion 
seeming to be that almost as much depends 
upon this as on the amount and kind of 
feed. It was suggested that stock should 
not be depended upon to go some distance 
for water in cold weather, as they will 
frequently stand about in sheltered places 
and fail to go to water at all, hut if driven 
to it, or if it is brought to them, they will 
drink readily, proving that they would do 
without the water they really need rather 
than go to it through the cold. Some 
thought it would pay to warm the water 
rather than let the stock drink it ice cold 
from ponds, etc., as they will drink more if 
slightly warm, and make more milk on 
the same feed. 
try keeping is good warm, dry houses, and 
supposing that you have them, the following 
is the way I feed for eggs in Winter: In 
the morning a feed of oats and corn or 
slightly scorched wheat, about four quarts to 
every 25 pullets, fed in litter composed of oat 
straw, leaves or any oilier good scratching 
material, with which the floors of the pens 
are always kept covered to depth of about 
four to six inches. At noon a feed composed 
of two parts wheat bran and one part corn 
chop or cornmeal, all they will eat up clean 
in half an hour; also beef scraps or green 
bone if 1 can get the latter, all they will eat 
up clean after they become used to it. At 
night I feed all the corn or scorched wheat 
they will eat, feeding it in the litter about 
4 1’. M. Oyster shells, grit and plenty of 
slightly warmed fresh water are kept before 
them at all times, and all feed troughs and 
drinking fountains are cleaned daily ; all drop¬ 
pings are removed every day. The pullets or 
liens kept for Winter eggs are contined to pens 
from the time the ground freezes until Spring, 
putting about 20 in every pen ; pens eight feet 
square, l'lease bear in mind that these are 
fed for eggs only, and that the eggs from 
them are worthless for hatching. 1 feed some 
green food every other day; cabbage, sugar 
beets or apples being used. My breeding 
stock are on free range at all times, and are 
fed the same as the laying stock. There are 
many things that go far towards profitable 
poultry keeping, and among these is good 
common-sense and good care, for with these 
anyone can make poultry pay, other things 
being favorable. Without them no one can. 
no matter how favorable other things may be. 
New York. grand view farm. 
Warming Milk.-—I think if G. S., page 
019, will get his cream a good deal warmer, 
say 66 to 68 degrees, he will have less trouble 
in getting butter. I do not know, of course, 
how his cream is separated from the milk. 
Mine is in Uoole.v cans, and although I had 
the cream ripening for 24 hours, it was a 
long time coming. It does not come very 
quickly now, but getting it pretty warm seems 
to help, and it is hard enough when it comes, 
so it is necessary to warm the water for 
rinsing. The room where the churning is 
done is not very warm. That probably makes 
some difference". e. s. b. 
SPECIAL BARGAINS, 
If ordered at once. In Cockerels, Bullets and 
Hens. We have s. C. and R. C. Brown, Bf. and White 
Leg. White, Bf. & Bid. P. Rocks, White. Bf. Silver & 
Gold Wynd., Buff Orpingtons, K. I. Reds, Minorcas, 
Brahmas,Cochins, PitGames, and allother breeds. 
MT. BLANCO POULTRY FARM, Carpenter, Ohio. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
I* or Egg Producers, the real egg machines. We 
are specialists in Leghorns alone. Eggs for incuba¬ 
tors $1 for 13, $6 per hundred. 80 pens, 2,000 layers. 
Largest plant in the vicinity of New York City. Also 
Snow White Pekin Ducks. Agents Cyphers Incuba¬ 
tors, Brooders, etc. Correspondence invited. 
BONNIE BRAE, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
S f» Uf Leghorns, Cockerels; fine fellows, none 
■ Ua ¥li better. $land$2each. C. A. Caklson, 
Beach View Poultry Farm, Barnegat, N. J. 
SixGreatBreeds 
White Leghorns 
White Wyandottes 
White Rocks 
Barred Rocks 
Black Minorcas 
Light Brahmas 
The Jteat for 
Pleasure and Profit 
Highest Ouality Exhibition Birds. Stock 
that has won wherever shown. Mated Pens for 
Breeding, $30 to $100. Eggs from two special 
matings, each breed, $10 per 12 straight; from as¬ 
sorted pens. $5 per 12, $10 per 36. 
Birds for Great Egg Production, have 
won an enviable and world-wide reputation for 
laying. Mated Pens for Breeding, $15 to $35. 
Eggs- $2 per 12, $8 per 100. 
Selected Breeding Cockerels, $3 to $20 
each. 
Descriptive Catalogue Free 
ELM POULTRY YARDS 
P. 0. Box Y, HARTFORD CONN. 
Angora Goats and Fox Terrier Dogs 
IMPROVED LARGE YORKSHIRES Sr,!”!" 
hog. Pigs of all ages from imported stock for sale. 
MEADOW BROOK STOCK FARM, Rochester, Mich 
O. I. C. PIGS. 
September farrow, registered stock, prolific strains, 
large litters, pairs and trios not akin. Prices low. 
F. J. SCHWARTZ. East Pharsalia.N. Y. 
B ERKSHIRES 2 to 10 mos. old, $4 00 up, 200 lb. C. 
While Boar. $16 DO. Collie Pups, $3 00 up. Barred 
Rock Cockerels, $1.00. YV. A. LOTHKRS, Lack, Pa. 
“QUALITY.” 
Registered .Jersey Calves and Yearling Heifers, 
bred right, raised right, and for sale right. Ask for 
pedigrees, and for prices delivered at your station 
Satisfaction guaranteed. E. W. Mosher, Aurora.N.Y. 
YOU CAN’T AFFORD A GRADE 
when I will sell you a registered JERSEY BULL, 
best dairy stock; ready for service: at farmer’s price. 
R. F. SHANNON, 905 Liberty St., Pittsburg. Pa. 
THE BLOOMINGDALE HERD OF 
HOLSTFIN-FRIE«IANS 
are bred for large Production. Good Size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are the kind you want write or come to see 
them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special offer on some nicely bred Bull Calves. 
A. a. CORTELYOU, Neshanic, N. J. 
uni CTEIN Rill I C from 3 to 18months old. A 
nULOlLlIl DULLO few choice young Cows; 
Improved Chester Whites of all ages. Prices right. 
CHARLES K, RECORD, Peterboro, N.Y'. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves 
FOR SALE. 
From choice A. R. O. Dams, and by such sires as 
Beryl Waynes Paul DeKol and Sir Korndyke Manor 
DeKol. We will make attractive prices on these 
youngsters as they must be disposed of to make room 
for our crop of Winter Calves. Write for prices on 
anything needed in Holstein-Friesians. 
W00DC3EST FARM, Rifton, Ulster Co.. N.Y. 
