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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 27, 
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES. 
/I Cow That Won't Stand . 
I have a Holstein-Jersey cow due to come 
fresh January 1. When she came fresh with 
her first calf three years ago we had to 
keep her hind legs strapped together for 
three or four weeks when milking, as the 
milking process was so painful to her she 
could not stand still. It was during cold 
weather and on dry feed. Her breath and 
her milk both smelled strongly feverish for 
at least three weeks. She came fresh the 
second time about 10 months ago on pasture 
without feverish symptoms, but the “danc¬ 
ing” when being milked lasted three months 
before we could do away with the strap; 
sometimes she would stand perfectly still 
while being milked, when all of a sudden 
she would jump as though a needle stuck 
her. The udder was hard at first, but soon 
got in normal condition as far as I could 
see. Can I do anything to prevent the pains 
in udder when she comes fresh again? 
Kansas City, Mo. S. n. 0. 
Somehow I feel that it isn’t pain that 
causes your cow to act in this manner, 
but that she has a bad habit formed 
when you first began to milk her. If 
she was brought up normally and not fed 
so as to injure the udder and cause seri¬ 
ous inflammation, she ought not to act 
in any such way. Two of the worst 
kicking cows we ever saw were brought 
up as cossets and the special pets of 
children, who could handle them almost 
in any way, but when milking time came 
around better keep out of the way. When 
a heifer gives a large amount of milk, 
often the udder is so full as to distress 
her, and I have seen them fly to be 
milked, and because the udder was so 
distended they were nervous and hard to 
milk. Milking three times a day will 
often stop this trouble, but it is a nui¬ 
sance often to milk three times daily. 
By giving the cows their grain just at 
milking time many become more quiet 
and easier to milk. At one place I saw 
a simple harness, looking like a pair of 
hames that fitted over the back just in 
front of the hips, and fastened just above 
the hocks on the hind leg. This pre¬ 
vented the cow from stepping, was not 
hurtful, and after a few times used gen¬ 
erally need not be put on again. T do not 
know where it is made. We don’t have 
to strap legs and have good luck with 
heifers by being a little patient and kind 
to them 
/I Ration With Alfalfa. 
I keep a dairy, for milk, not butter pur¬ 
poses. My principle fodder feed is Alfalfa. 
My grain feed is wet brewery grains, also 
barley meal. The brewery grains are 10 
cents a bushel, and barley meal $1 per hun¬ 
dred; feed 00 bushels grains and 200 pounds 
barley i..ea! per week, to 16 cows. Can you 
suggest a cheaper or better feed, with or 
without grains, to produce better results? 
East Syracuse. N. Y. c. e. w. 
Assuming that you are feeding 15 
pounds daily of Alfalfa, 30 pounds wet 
brewers’ grains and one pound barley 
meal, we find they have the following 
analysis: 
Carbo- 
Protein. hydrates. Fat. 
15 lbs. Alfalfa hay. 1.65 5.94 .18 
80 lbs. wet brewers' 
grains .. 1.17 2.74 .42 
1 lb. Barley meal. .08 .65 .01 
Total . 2.90 9.33 .61 
This ration contains too much protein 
and not sufficient carbohydrates for the 
cows to do their best. I should expect 
to find cows giving considerable milk so 
fed, but always in poor physical condi¬ 
tion and subject to all manner of trouble. 
If the cows would eat it, I should give 
some good straw or cheap hay. Two or 
three pounds of cornmeal would improve 
the ration. You are getting a very cheap 
ration now, and if cows are all right 
well and good. 
A Ration With Timothy Hay. 
Will you give me balanced ration for milch 
cows? My feeds are early-cut Timothy hay, 
oats cut green for fodder, and good silage, 
also bran, cornmeal, gluten and oil meal. 
Plymouth, N Y. w. j. t. 
Timothy hay is one of the poorest to 
feed dairy cows. Practice and theory are 
both back of this statement, and we 
should plan to feed as little of this as 
possible. Oat hav cut in bloom is a first- 
class hay for milk, and much better than 
the Timothy. Timothy is a good hay to 
sell, but poor hay to feed. By mixing up 
equal parts, say 100 pounds of each of 
the grain feeds you mention, bran, corn¬ 
meal, gluten and oil meal, you will have 
a very good palatable feed that will run 
in digestible nutrients 21 per cent pro¬ 
tein, 45.5 per cent carbohydrates and 2.8 
per cent fat. You can get a fine balanced 
ration by feeding 
Protein. 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
30 lbs. silage. 
.39 
4.33 
.18 
6 lbs. oat hay.... 
.30 
2.00 
.08 
6 lbs. Timothy hay 
.18 
2.00 
.08 
8 lbs. grain 
mixture . 
1.68 
3.64 
22 
Total . 
2.55 
12.47 
.56 
If we could sell our Timothy hay at a 
good price we should use the oat hay in 
place of it, and could reduce the grain by 
one pound. This ratipn is for cows 
weighing about 1,000 pounds in full flow 
of milk. Heavier cows would require 
more, also cows not in full flow or smaller 
would need less. Give only what they 
will eat up clean each time. 
Value of Buckwheat Hulls 
If wheat middlings are worth $19 per ton, 
and wheat bran $18 per ton, what are buck¬ 
wheat hulls worth? L. s. s. 
West Camden, N. Y. 
Buckwheat hulls are poor property, hav¬ 
in'- only 2.1 per cent digestible protein, 
27.9 per cent digestible carbohydrates and 
6 per cent digestible fat. They are not 
as good as hay, and but little better than 
straw. They are not in a class with 
wheat bran or middlings, and we should 
not care to pay over $5 per ton for them. 
Short Talk on Silos. 
In your issue of November 4, on page 791, 
II. G. Manchester, in reply to a young dairy¬ 
man, says in regard to a silo: “These . . . 
ought to lie built for $1 per ton capacity." I 
thoroughly agree with him in his next state 
ment that : “There seems to be too much profit 
between the producer of the materials (of 
the readymade patent silo) and the man who 
gets the silo.” I want a silo badly. Will 
Mr. Manchester describe and give specifi¬ 
cations of the $1 per ton capacity silo? By 
so doing he will help me and doubtless a 
whole host of others. T. s. w. 
News Ferry, Va. 
The cost of building a silo will depend 
much upon the cost of lumber in your 
vicinity. Lumber such as hemlock and 
chestnut are comparatively cheap here, 
but are even cheaper in some localities, 
and there are other kinds that can re¬ 
place these. Hemlock here costs in the 
rough $15 to $18 per 1,000, and chestnut 
$2 per 1,000 higher. Planing and bevel¬ 
ing adds $2 per 1,000 to the cost, so that 
we can get the lumber laid on the ground 
at $18 to $22, depending upon the kind 
used. A silo 15 feet in diameter, 30 feet 
high, will hold a little over 100 tons, and 
can be built here in good shape for about 
$100. Such a silo has a circumference of 
51 feet, and will require 110 2x6 sticks 
30 feet long, which calls for 3,300 feet 
lumber at say $20 per 1,000. It will re¬ 
quire about 20 pounds of nails and spikes 
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