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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
63 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Horse Out of Condition. 
I purchased a horse the past season that 
had just come from the West. He did a good 
season's work, but did not seem to do as he 
should, and came out very much run down 
after Fall's work was over. I have taken bet¬ 
ter care of him than tlie rest of my horses 
that are fat. lie eats plenty, but still seems 
nidebound, and has a dry staring coat. What 
could I give him to improve his condition? 
I have tried some of the advertised medicine 
on the market, but have made up my mind 
that some one besides myself got the benefit 
of the money. If lie lias worms what would 
be good for him? R. H. T. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
The change of climate or food may be 
the cause of horse not doing well. The 
description reminds me of a horse that I 
was called to see a few days ago, and on 
examining his mouth found the molar 
teeth in very bad condition. It might be 
well for you to take this horse to a com¬ 
petent veterinary and have him examine 
his mouth. If you will give a description 
of what you are feeding I shall be in a 
better position to tell what to give to im¬ 
prove his condition. In regard to giving 
treatment for worms, I do not think this 
horse has them sufficiently to need medi¬ 
cation. M. D. WILLIAMS, D. V. S. 
CATTLE RAISING IN NEW ENGLAND. 
I have been much interested in the talk 
on feeding dairy cows, and would like to make 
a few inquiries, in a general way, on the sub¬ 
ject. of stock raising and dairy business for 
back places away from large markets. Could 
one raise beef on such farms in New England, 
or would a special dairy breed be better in my 
situation, where there is no sale for milk, but 
good sale for butter most of the year? Do 
you know of any successful beef farms in 
New England? What is the best book on feed¬ 
ing animals and where can it be obtained? 
What would be the best ration I could make 
of the following feeds : Mixed hay with a little 
clover; turnips; Buffalo gluten meal at $1.40 
per 100 pounds; bran, $1.30 per 100 pounds; 
cornmeal, $1.40; wheat middlings, $1.40 per 
1<»() pounds; cotton-seed meal, $1.50 per 100 
pounds; linseed meal, $1.50 per 100 pounds. 
Cows are grade Short-horns and Ilolsteins of 
1,000 pounds weight and give 30 pounds milk 
per day. w. A. w. 
Vermont. 
There seems to be a growing tendency 
to beef production in the East. In in¬ 
stances where labor is scarce and farmers 
would like to quit milking they are cast¬ 
ing about for a change. The time will 
come in my judgment when we shall 
make more beef than now, but so long as 
the present adjustment calls for a con¬ 
stantly increasing amount of dairy prod¬ 
ucts more profit will accrue through stand¬ 
ing by the dairy business. There seems 
to be very little disposition on the part 
of dairymen owning valuable dairy cows, 
having ideal feed and care, to leave their 
present moorings. They are getting a nice 
profit. One must remember that cheap 
pasture, not scanty pasture, and cheap 
corn are the fundamentals for cheap beef, 
backed up by a feeder who feeds. On the 
other hand, we must not expect upon our 
cheap pastures, which are poor pastures, 
and corn only as purchased, that men will 
at once make beef at a profit. Again, we 
do not possess beef cattle, and surely we 
cannot make beef from our dairy-bred 
stock. The facilities in our small local 
markets are not such as to make slaughter¬ 
ing an economical practice. The Water- 
town, N. Y., butchers last Summer, dur¬ 
ing the Chicago meat trouble, were con¬ 
sidering local slaughter, but soon decided 
they could not do so at a profit without 
the heavy expense of manufacturing the 
waste and offal from which the profits 
largely come. Quite a business is done 
in western New York in the fruit sections, 
where farmers have roughage not easily 
marketed, in buying feeders from the 
West and so working off the coarse feed, 
buying corn and by-products to feed with 
it. The profits, however, come not from 
beef, but from getting a market for rough- 
age and making manure for the money 
crop. Corn is expensive as a feed, and 
that is the beef feed. 
The by-products used for milk produc¬ 
tion have no other value, and are hence 
a much cheaper feed based upon actual 
feeding nutrients, all of which assists the 
dairy business. You have a market for 
butter, and skim milk is more valuable to 
grow young stock than for any other pur¬ 
pose. Whether your animals are just suit¬ 
ed to butter making I am not sure. If 30 
pounds of milk daily is a full flow on full 
feed, I should say they were not. The 
Short-horn-Holstein cross would not give 
a rich milk. Two-year-old heifers should 
give nearly or quite 30 pounds daily. I 
know of no beef herds in New England. 
Dr. W. II. Jordan’s work, “Feeding of 
Animals,” price $1.25, and Henry’s “Feeds 
and Feeding,” price $2, both obtainable 
through The R. N.-Y. office, will be of 
great value to you. 
I would suggest the following ration as 
a starter for cows in full milk: Mix 100 
pounds cotton seed, 100 pounds linseed, 
100 pounds gluten, and perhaps 100 pounds 
cornmeal if they are inclined to grow poor. 
Feed from six to eight pounds daily, in 
two feeds, with what hay they will eat up 
clean. Give from eight to 12 quarts tur¬ 
nips daily after milking. The probability 
would be that a strain of strong, vigorous 
Jerseys, of which there arc many in your 
State, kept in warm barns, would better 
suit your conditions. h. e. cook. 
DAIRY AND FEED NOTES. 
There are a lot of men feeding silage 
from frosted corn this year who are find¬ 
ing out that it requires more grain to get 
the same result. They have made up their 
minds not to get caught again. In order 
to avoid this, and get a full crop, they 
must take unusual care properly to prepare 
the land, get the seed in early and push 
it through to harvest time. 
Frequent inquiries as to how their cows 
are doing bring largely the reply: “Not 
very well.” Most of these men put off 
feeding grain as long as possible. Feed is 
high, and they thought they couldn’t afford 
it, and their cows got down so low in con¬ 
dition that they now must feed grain from 
a month to half the Winter before they 
can get practical results. Tt never pays to 
let cows get in this low condition, as the 
cow must of necessity take care of her 
own body before she feeds you. Don’t save 
a cent now and lose a dollar in the future 
by having saved that cent. Some men go 
on the plan that the less they can feed a 
cow and still have her give milk the more 
money there is in it for them. It takes 
so much feed to maintain a cow in work¬ 
ing condition. Our profit comes only from 
that part of the feed over and above what 
she uses to maintain herself that she turns 
into milk. The largest profit comes from 
feeding all they will consume that they 
will above the need of body turn into milk. 
There are so many new feeds, most of 
them by-products, being turned out that 
it is hard work to keep up with the pro¬ 
cession. Many of them are introduced 
by an agreeable, persuasive man who is 
trained to answer every objection you 
could make to trying his particular feed. 
He gets in with some feed dealer who 
agrees to take a car, provided he will get 
a certain number of farmer? to try it. So 
they get a livery team, a supply of cigars 
and strike out for the farmers. The miller 
introduces and the agent does the rest. 
All this is well and good, but before you 
try the new make sure they are better than 
the old. Testimonials and highly printed 
literature do not make them so. First 
question to ask is what is the guaranteed 
analysis, and look it up if possible in that 
feed bulletin from vottr experiment sta¬ 
tion. “Used it for kindling a fire?” Well, 
write your experiment station for another, 
and apologize, for they are really inter¬ 
esting and profitable once you get the 
‘“hang” of them, and it will pay to get it. 
If the feed is high in protein and rea¬ 
sonable in price try it, for frequently a new 
feed is offered at a low price to introduce. 
If low in protein, let it alone, for there is 
almost sure to be something in it that 
would not sell on its own merits. Feeds 
are not sold on the basis of their feeding 
value, and the man who realizes this is in 
position to buy at nearer actual worth 
than others. h. g. m. 
Mulching Saves Labor. —We had about 
3,000 bushels apples and 1 ,t»oo bushels ol' po¬ 
tatoes, 1,500 bushels green peas, besides two 
acres strawberries, one of red raspberries, 
wheat, hay and Alfalfa, 150 acres of orchard 
to mow and spray, and myself and two men 
did all of the work except picking peas and 
berries, keeping only three horses. I wonder 
how this would strike some of the cultivators. 
Net results are what count. It doesn't pay to 
spend $10 to get $10 back. 
New York. grant g. iiitoiiings. 
Fertilizer for Grass. —The Rhode Island 
Experiment Station has been conducting some 
excellent experiments with fertilizers on grass. 
The following mixture is suggested per acre : 
200 pounds muriate of potash, 350 pounds ni¬ 
trate of soda and 500 pounds acid phosphate. 
This will seem like a heavy dressing for an 
acre of grass to many, yet the returns showed 
that it was more profitable than a smaller 
amount. All those chemicals are soluble, and 
this, we are convinced, is the way to fertilize 
grass lands. We would use on the grass only 
the chemicals which dissolve in water. 
Another “Knowing” Horse. —Mr. Cos¬ 
grove’s remarks about his horse Ben, page 
934, which we read with great interest, make 
me want to get our horse Rex into print if 
possible, for he, too, had "an intelligence al¬ 
most human.” He was high-spirited and had 
a way sometimes of starting suddenly with 
a rush, and needed constant watching on that 
account. He had a record of seven runaways 
when we got him. After we bought him he 
never ran away. He made a fine appearance, 
and was a fast traveler, frequently going a 
mile in less than three minutes on ordinary 
roads. We treated him with kindness and 
consideration, and talked to him as if he 
understood us, and soon came to think that 
he did. When we were out on a drive and 
arrived at the top of a hill where there was 
a good lookout, we would halt and look the 
landscape over, and Rex would do it. too, 
looking afar off and seeming to see it all. 
One day after he had been in the stable sev¬ 
eral days without exercise I picked some 
strawberries, and piling the boxes about my 
feet in the phaeton, started to drive to town 
to sell them. It was risky and I expected 
that many boxes would be upset and the ber¬ 
ries spilled, and told my folks so as I gath¬ 
ered up the reins, saying “Now, Rex. be good.” 
Every step to town he walked, carefully pick¬ 
ing his way without a word of caution, and 
not a berry was spilled, but when the berries 
were out of the wagon it was all I could do 
to hold him, and he went back like the wind. 
Repeatedly he indicated that something was 
wrong with his harness by unmistakable mo¬ 
tions or sign language that was positively 
startling. I discovered that he could count 
a little, and believe he could think and rea¬ 
son, hut I must not now take time and space 
for further details. Who but God knows the 
mystery or limitations of any life? 
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Throat trouble makes it necessary for 
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