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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 8, 
TROUBLE WITH SOWS. 
We have had three or four sows that had 
litters of young pigs and found that they had 
no milk for them, tried to raise them, but 
one after another died for want of nourish¬ 
ment. We feed grains, middlings and small 
boiled potatoes. Can you tell me what is 
the cause and how to remedy the trouble? 
New York. c. l. p. 
C. L. P. does not say in what condition 
his sows were, as regards flesh, whether 
thin, in good flesh, or fat. Nor does he 
say the kinds of grains that were fed. 
My judgment is that the feed has been 
too much in the line of fat producers, 
rather than of bone and muscle makers. 
The former does not tend to develop milk 
secretions, while the latter does. 1 he 
sows have not had as much exercise as 
they should have had. This kind of 
trouble comes in the Winter and Spring 
time—very seldom during the grazing 
period, when the sows are out to pas¬ 
ture and have constant exercise. The 
remedy is to reach Summer conditions 
as nearly as possible. Feed little corn, 
and instead, clover, or Alfalfa leaves, 
with oats for grain ration, and for slop, 
or it may be fed dry. Use bran and mid¬ 
dlings, equal parts by weight. On this 
kind of feed, with plenty of exercise, a 
sow can be put in high flesh, and still 
do well when she farrows. If corn is 
fed sows, it is a good plan to shell it, 
and scatter it in litter, and make them 
hunt for it. If fed oats, scatter them 
thinly over a floor, and let them work to 
gather them up. Plan some way to com¬ 
pel exercise. john m. jamison. 
RATION FOR MILCH COWS. 
What Is your idea of the below named 
rations for milch cows: 
No. 1—50 pounds corn silage, $2 per ton ; 
10 pounds clover hay, $10 per ton; three 
pounds cotton seed meal, $26.50 per ton. 
No. 2—45 pounds corn silage; 10 pounds 
clover hay; three pounds bran (wheat, $22 
per ton) ; two pounds oil meal, $32 per ton. 
No. 3—40 pounds corn silage, 7V& pounds 
clover hay; six pounds bran (wheat); two 
pounds oil meal. 
No. 4—65 pounds corn silage ; five pounds 
oat straw, $5 per ton; eight pounds wheat 
middlings, $24 per ton. 
Ration Cost at Approximate 
No. Present prices. Fertilizing value. 
1 .15 per day.10.3 per day 
2 .16 per day.10.25 per day 
3 .17.55 per day.10.75 per day 
4 .17.35 per day.8.70 per day 
Grantsville, Md. 
No. 1 has more silage and hay than 
you can persuade an ordinary cow to eat 
in one day; analyzes as follows: 
Pro- Carbo- 
tein. hydrates. 
50 lbs. silage.65 7.05 
10 lbs. clover hay.68 3..>8 
3 lbs cotton-seed meal. 1.20 .61 
Fat. 
.30 
.17 
.28 
Total 
2.53 11.24 .75 
Cut off 10 pounds silage, three pounds 
clover hay and add two pounds hominy 
and three pounds bran; this gives you a 
better ration and nearer what a cow 
would handle. No. 2 analyzes as fol¬ 
lows : 
Pro- Oarbo- 
45 lbs. silage. 
10 lbs. clover hay.... 
3 lbs. wheat bran... 
2 lbs. oil meal. 
Total .2.24 
tein. 
hydrates. 
6.35 
Fat. 
.27 
.68 
3.58 
.17 
.38 
1.20 
.00 
.69 
.12 
2.24 
11.82 
.65 
This is better, and a couple of pounds 
of hominy or cornmeal would balance it 
well. 
No. 3 analyzes 
as 
follows: 
Pro- 
Carbo- 
tein. 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
40 lbs. 
silage. 
5.64 
.24 
7V> lbs. clover bay.. .. 
2 .6!) 
.13 
6 lbs. 
bran. 
.75 
1.43 
.18 
2 lbs. 
oil meal. 
.69 
.12 
Total 
2.36 
10.45 
.67 
* This lacks carbohydrates, and could be 
much improved by using three pounds 
bran or mixed feed and four pounds glu¬ 
ten feed with one pound hominy, which 
would make a good ration. No. 4 is 
“way off,” containing too many carbo- 
hydrates, and not a 
ration 
that the 
COW 
could handle well. 
It analyzes as 
fol- 
lows: 
Pro¬ 
tein. 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
65 lbs. silage. 
.. .85 
.. .06 
9.17 
.39 
5 lbs. oat straw.... 
1.93 
.04 
8 lbs. middlings.... 
3.83 
.40 
Total . 
. . 2.06 
14.93 
.83 
Simply getting an analysis near the 
standard doesn’t make a good ration. It 
should be palatable, healthful and eco¬ 
nomical. Combine the three and you 
have a balanced ration. 
I heard of some students figuring ra¬ 
tions for a prize, and one, to balance his 
nicely, added sawdust, and strange to re¬ 
late he got the prize, when he ought to 
have had a licking, and the professor (?) 
should have been compelled to eat the 
ration. “Approximate fertilizing value” 
should be taken with a grain of salt. 
Most of these values are figured on the 
plan of saving every particle of both 
liquid and solid manure, and we hardly 
believe 10 per cent of our farmers do 
this. In making up a ration go on the 
plan given above, then save all excre¬ 
ment and you cannot miss it. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
TANKAGE FOR PIG FEEDING. 
If 1 have no bad luck I shall have a great 
number of pigs come In May and June, with 
a good number In March. Corn is worth 
45 cents now, and I can buy digester tankage 
at $35.50 per ton, analysis '60 per cent pro¬ 
tein. Would it be good policy for me to sell 
some of my corn and buy tankage and mid¬ 
dlings to grow those pigs on (middlings at 
$22 per ton) ? i shall have 10 acres Blue 
grass and one patch of rye and rape, and one 
of rape, each about one-sixth acre. Of course 
I would feed some corn. Wouldn't it pay 
to grind it? R- 
Barnett, Ind. 
Corn is no doubt th. cheapest of the 
foods mentioned, but cannot depend on it, 
alone, for full ration. The tankage, as 
I understand it, also cannot well be fed 
alone. It would be necessary to pur¬ 
chase middlings to mix it with, and as it 
is so strong in protein, not a very great 
amount need be fed. Some men succeed 
well without feeding slop, when they 
have corn, and good pasture, by soaking 
the corn and feeding it in limited quanti¬ 
ties. But in this case, as soon as it turns 
a little dry, the Blue grass will not make 
good pig pasture; the rye will also soon 
be too tough to be relished. If there are 
many pigs, the rape patch will not meet 
their demands. After rye is matured and 
allowed to fall down and the young clo¬ 
ver grows up through it, I have had it 
relished so much by pigs that they would 
not come to the feed lot for slop. In this 
case I would purchase a desired amount 
of middlings, and one-sixth as much 
tankage by weight, and try the two, 
mixed, in these proportions, going care¬ 
fully at the start to know what amount 
should be fed. Although I have never 
fed tankage, it is said to be a good feed, 
and well liked by some feeders. But the 
price is high, and it is well for the far¬ 
mer who uses it, or any other prepared 
food, to remember that the manufactur¬ 
ers will make the price to correspond 
as near as possible to that of other foods 
in regular use by stock feeders. And 
often they are too' high in their prices, 
considering the high price that the farmer 
must pay for the by-products of the mills, 
and the correspondingly high prices for 
other food products on the market, it is 
well for him to grow as far as possible 
all needed foods on the farm. Then he 
knows their value for his purposes. 
JOHN M. JAMISON. 
WHAT PRICE MEANS 
IN BUYING A SEPARATOR 
There are two most important considerations in the purchase 
of a Cream Separator. One is efficiency and the other life or dura¬ 
bility. 
Every buyer thinks of efficiency, and while recognizing the 
superiority of the De Laval in such respect is frequently tempted 
to overlook it because some inferior machine, claiming equal 
capacity, is $io.— to $25.— “cheaper” in first cost. 
Few buyers stop to think of comparative life and durability. 
The established life of a De Laval machine is at least twenty years, 
and may be as much more. The twenty years is already proved. 
On the other hand, as they are made to-day and run at the 
tremendously high speeds they are, in the effort to approach the 
efficiency of the De Laval machines, no other separator on the market 
can last for more than two to ten years at the outside. The average 
will not exceed five years. Examination alone will satisfy every 
buyer of this. 
The price of a 10 to 25 cow De Laval machine is $100.— and 
its established lifetime twenty years. Even if just as good in every 
other way, the machine which lasts ten years is worth $50.—. That 
which lasts five years is worth $25.—. And that which lasts two 
years (and there are several makes on the market which cannot 
possibly last longer) is worth just $10.—. 
And when you add to this the fact, which nobody who knows 
attempts to dispute, that a De Laval machine gains and saves at 
least twice as much every year as any imitating separator, it will 
be better understood how little FIRST COST of the separator 
really means, or rather HOW MUCH IT MEANS even if it is a 
little more to begin* with. 
A De Laval catalogue, or better still a De Laval machine itself, 
helps to make all these facts plain to everybody having use for a 
separator, and either is to be had for the asking. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
Randolph & Canal 8ts., 
CHICAGO. 
1213 Filbert Street 
PHILADELPHIA 
y & 11 Drum in St., 
SAN FRANCISCO. 
General Offices: 
74 Cort/andt Street, 
NEW YORK. 
121 Youville Squar 
MONTREAL 
76 & 77 York Street. 
TORONTO. 
248 McDermot Avenue, 
WINNIPEG. 
>V V 
The Bone and 
Sinew of the Fan_ 
Unlike most animals, the horse is a beast of burden. 
The amount of work he performs and the spirit in 
which he performs it, depend largely upon the v 
ability of his system to appropriate his dinner. 
Bone and muscle are required, and if he is unable 
to assimilate and appropriate the nitrogenous material 
which makes up bone and muscle a weakened and debili¬ 
tated condition will soon be apparent. j 
DR. HESS STOCK FOOD 
rv.ntn.ins the very essential tonics and laxatives that put the system to work and compel it to take care of the stuff fed. 
It la especially valuable for the development of calves and pigs at this season of the year. It prevents flatulence, 
indigestion and the like, whets up the appetite and assures perfect assimilation and rapid growth. 
maigesyu ^ a condimental food, but a scientific stock tonic and laxative. It is the famous prescription of Dr. Hesa 
(M.D., D.V.S.), and Howes its origin to his medical education and long practical stock experience. 
per pound in 100 lb. sacks; 25 lb. pail, $1.60. j 
Smaller quantities a little higher. Small dose, j w *g t am/south. 
SOLD ON A WRITTEN GUARANTEE. 
n.membfrthatfrom the 1st to the 10th of each month Dr. Hess will famish veterinary advice and pre- 
_ .iJinn. free if YOU will mention this paper, state what stock you have, also what stock food you have fed, and enclose 
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service^** tmytime^ Booh Free _If you will mention this paper, Btate how much stock you have and what kind of 
stock food you have used. 
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