1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
io3 
MANCHESTER'S DAIRY NOTES. 
Clulen for Milch Cows. 
We feed the new milch cows each morning 
about five quarts of grain, equal parts gluten 
and wheat feed, and a handful of linseed 
meal, all the hay they will eat up clean 
morning and night, with oats and peas for 
noon feed. I would like to know if more 
gluten could be added safely, and more lin¬ 
seed meal also. Do you think 200 pounds 
gluten to 100 pounds wheat feed too much 
for new milch cows, each getting about five 
quarts a day of this mixture? What quan¬ 
tity of linseed meal could be put into the 
300 pounds? S. E. J. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
From your letter I assume you are feed¬ 
ing grain only once a day. The five 
quarts will weigh about six pounds and 
with what mixed hay and oat and pea hay 
they will naturally eat up clean you 
a fairly well balanced ration: 
12 pounds hay.71 4.91 
8 pounds oat and pea hay.. .48 3.45 
4 pounds gluten feed.95 2.06 
2 pounds wheat feed.28 .96 
have 
.14 
.12 
.11 
.08 
Total_2.42 11.38 .45 
I should prefer to feed the grain both 
morning and night; that is, divide the 
daily ration into two feeds. 1 f you had to 
eat a half pound of cheese daily you would 
find it went better if divided into three 
portions and eaten with other food. Lin¬ 
seed is an extra good, healthy feed, but al¬ 
most too high at present prices for eco¬ 
nomic feeding. You could safely add 50 
pounds to 300 of the other grain. With 
coarse bran you could use two parts gluten 
to one part bran. This would be a better 
feed, and not much more costly. For cows 
giving 15 to 20 quarts of good milk daily 
we should feed seven to nine pounds daily 
of the mixture. It pays to keep a record 
of the milk yield, to find out whether 
changes in feeding really pay. 
Value of Apples and Buckwheat. 
What is the analysis of apples, sweet and 
sour? What amount per day would be profit¬ 
able for a milch cow, say of 1,000 pounds 
weight, after she is used to the apples? 
What is the analysis of bright buckwheat 
straw? I feed sour apples to the cows and 
sweet ones to the horses; no cider apples 
on my place. I have known horses to relish 
buckwheat straw and eat it without apparent- 
injury. F. A. J. 
Mendon, N. Y. 
The analysis of apples is given as .7 per 
cent protein, 17.8 per cent carbohydrates, 
.4 per cent fat. This is probably as apples 
run, mostly sour; sweet apples having 
more sugar would run a little higher in 
carbohydrates. Although their analysis is 
not very high they seem to have a bene¬ 
ficial effect in feeding, and their use in 
moderate quantities will help out the milk 
yield. Ten to 20 pounds twice daily is 
what we usually give, and prefer to feed 
grain right after feeding the apples. Buck¬ 
wheat straw has 5.2 per cent protein, 78.1 
per cent carbohydrates and 1.3 per cent 
fat, but only a small part of this is diges¬ 
tible. When grains are allowed to mature 
seed the stalks become woody, and so full 
of fiber that although they may have a fair 
analysis the animal is only abl£ to digest 
a small portion of the nutrients as found 
by the chemist. This consuming a lot of 
food that is indigestible hardly pays, as 
the animal uses up considerable energy 
that can be better spent in other ways. 
Most animals relish a change in food once 
in a while, and a feed of straw is appre¬ 
ciated this way, but is hardly advisable 
as a steady diet. 
Mineral Water for Stock. 
I have an important question to settle, 
in regard to requiring cows to drink water 
from a 45-foot drilled well in the rock, which 
furnishes cold clear water except at times, 
when there is an oily appearance and a dark 
scum on the top of a body of this waterfcwhen 
warmed up. Persons find after drinking it 
there is a mineral or sulphury taste to it 
and causes a very unpleasant gulping up 
from the stomach of gas or wind which 
creates a strong dislike for it. This is in 
a section of country where natural gas can be 
had for fuel by drilling from 200 to 800 feet. 
Would this affect our water in any way? 
Of late since watering cows in a cement 
manger I can see how some drink of it more 
freely than others, as the more sensitive ones 
seem to drink as little as possible, and carry 
an empty, gaunt look while in fair to good 
condition of flesh and health. What would 
one cow (capable of producing four to five 
gallons of milk per day) pay towards get¬ 
ting plenty of good spring water that she 
would like and drink freely for the space of 
six or eight months, while fresh and at her 
best for milk? f. d. r. 
Plenty of good pure water is of prime 
importance to profitable dairying. A cow 
requires about four pounds of water for 
every pound of dry matter consumed, and 
this means that she needs 80 to 100 pounds 
daily. Of course silage and roots or other 
watery foods supply some of this, but 
most cows, even when fed silage, will use 
60 to 90 pounds daily'-. Our experience has 
been that when this water supply is cut off 
in any manner there is always a shortage of 
milk. T personally know of several dairy¬ 
men whose water froze up last Winter, 
and their cows shrunk, many of them one 
quart and over each per day. Unless the 
outlay to get pure water was beyond com¬ 
mon sense I should try to get it for them. 
I should be inclined to think that the 
water they are now getting would have an 
injurious effect upon the flavor of the 
milk, and certainly if they are not getting 
what they want you are losing in their 
product constantly, and these little losses 
daily eat up profits pretty fast. There is 
not any too much money in the business 
anyway, and we cannot afford these little 
daily leaks. I notice that the dairies pay¬ 
ing best are those where the comfort and 
care of the cows in every particular is 
looked after and attended to in the best 
manner possible. h. g. Manchester. 
OLDER BIRDS FOR BREEDING. 
I have about 105 pullets that were bred 
from White Wyandotte males. One-half of 
the pullets were hatched April 28, and the 
other half May 28. They all have been kept 
growing well and are fine birds. The April 
pullets started laying in November and the 
May pullets in December. I wish to run 
.two 350 egg incubators (his year and breed 
from the pullets. T thought of purchasing 
three cockerels. Why do successful poultry- 
men generally mate mature birds with pul¬ 
lets? Which would you advise to purchase? 
* JERSEYMAN. 
There is generally a good reason when 
you find all of the best breeders following 
a certain method, and it is well to look 
into the wliys and wherefores before you 
condemn or change the methods. In this 
case we have reason as well as custom to 
sustain us in only breeding from old or 
mature stock. The young stock is imma¬ 
ture, and the chicks lack the vitality which 
is so necessary to grow a flock of Winter 
layers. It is of no use to say never breed 
from pullets, for sometimes we have no 
old stock, and in order to get a start we 
must breed from pullets at a loss to their 
vitality. As the male is half the flock 
we should use an older male in order to 
remedy the blunder as much as possible, 
but in using the older birds we must use 
more of them, as they are not so active as 
the young ones. It is certainly good 
business to save the best of the hens for 
one, two or even three years, as they are 
rarely out of business for more than two 
months in the year, and it takes five to six 
months to grow a pullet to laying age, and 
for breeding the hens are far superior to 
the pullets. fi.oyp q. white. 
hand cream 
separator has 
become a fixed 
fact in dairy 
economy all 
you need de¬ 
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you will buy. 
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fat in the milk and produces a 
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ROE’S FAMOUS HERD 
Pure Bred Holstein=Friesian Cattle 
to be sold Before April, ’05 
Throat trouble makes it necessary for me to 
move to a drier, milder climate. At this place 
more great A. R. O. record cows have been bred 
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Herd will be sold either singly or all to one pur¬ 
chaser. 
H. D. ROE, Augusta, N. J. 
If you skim by the old setting method you leave 
cream in the skim milk which you feed to your 
stock. This is in reality feeding butter, which you 
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