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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 26, 
SOME FEED MIXTURES. 
This is the heyday for the makers of 
cheap (?) feed stuffs. Not cheap to the 
farmer who buys them, though the price 
may lie considerably under what is asked 
for standard goods. Practically nothing 
that has any feeding value is allowed to 
go to waste. Almost every day we are 
offered some new feed made to take the 
place of an honest feed. r J o-day it was 
ground flax screenings. T hese are low 
in price, and are made of broken flaxseed 
and weed ends. They have a fairly good 
analvsis, but smell decidedly unpleasant, 
and we prefer something else. It is hard 
work now to get good wheat screenings 
for chickens, as the mills are grinding 
them all up into bran. Buckwheat feed is 
being offered at a little over $20 a ton, 
but this has enough hulls mixed in to 
lessen its value greatly. Hominy feed that 
contains no ground cob is not as plentiful 
as it used to be. Rice hulls, rice polish 
and rice bran are used to adulterate vari¬ 
ous feeds. Oat clippings, which were 
formerly considered of no value, are now 
all used in the making of some of the 
prepared feeds. Pure cotton-seed meal 
is scarce. Formerly it contained 43 to 45 
per cent protein, but 41 per cent is as 
much as any of the mills now guarantee. 
Improved machinery makes it possible to 
grind many of these good and bad by¬ 
products so fine that the naked eye can 
be easily deceived. The practice with 
many of these makers of by-products is 
to add some feed that has value in itself 
and a good analysis to give the mixture 
a little character. 1 hus a useless good 
for nothing oat by-product that will ana¬ 
lyze two to three per cent protein can 
by adding 100 pounds of gluten feed 
and 200 pounds of cotton-seed per ton 
make a feed that will analyze seven to 
eight per cent protein, and sell at from 
$23 to $25 per ton when practically all 
the value in the ton of feed is found in 
the 300 pounds of gluten and cotton-seed 
that were added. The buyer is paying 
for mixing, bagging, freight and handling 
on 1,700 pounds of miserable stuff, and 
all these expenses are just as much as 
for a high-grade feed. But there is 
money in it, and plenty of men are will¬ 
ing to push whatever has money in it. 
It is not a pleasant thing to dwell on the 
seamy side of life or business too mu< b, 
but it is well to know of some of these 
things, and to protect the old cow who 
wants to do her work well, but must have 
good materials of the light sort if she is 
to do it. __ H - G - M - 
"SANITARY COW MANGERS.” 
Prof. Card’s timely article on mangers, 
on page 971, hits the nail on the head. 
My barn has modern cement mangers; 
may sound all right, but I do not think 
they can come anywhere near to the 
mangers or “tubs,” as they are called, 
of the dairymen on this end of Long 
Island- dairymen are scarce in this sec¬ 
tion now. Their managers were whisky 
barrels cut in half, which made two 
mangers. When not in use they were 
removed from in front of the cow-s; 
they could likewise be easily scalded if 
necessary, and stood out in the sun and 
air. They were simple, inexpensive and 
never needed the service of a stable 
broom to sweep up the leavings, and to 
my way of looking at it left the cement 
manger far in the rear. New things are 
not always the best, neither is the most 
costly thing necessarily better than the 
old-fashioned homely art'icle. j. w. P- 
Brooklyn. 
HANDLING THE COLT. 
My experience in raisins colts has been 
that they make larger and stronger horses 
when given good hay in Winter and good 
pasture in Summer, with no grain, than when 
kept too fat with concentrated food. Should 
the colt become too thin it would be well to 
give him regular light rations of oats and 
wheat bran in Summer, or a few ears of corn 
in Winter. The colt should he allowed to 
run in the field or yard when the weather per¬ 
mits as much as? possible, with a chance to 
run to shelter when inclined. It is better 
for a colt or horse to be led some distance 
from the stable to water and hack than that 
they should drink cold water while standing 
still in the stall. It is easy to teach a colt 
many things when small which will be very 
useful when old enough to harness. By tell¬ 
ing him “back” when backing him out of the 
stall, and “whoa” when stopping, etc., he will 
know just what it means when first hitched 
to a wagon. Always take an apple or nubbin 
of corn or some other dainty to give the colt 
when loose and it is desired to catch him. 
lie will then come willingly, and often save 
a great deal of trouble. It also tends to keep 
him good-natured. When in the pasture field 
the colt should have a good chance to drink 
whenever lie may want to without going in 
mud to his knees to get it. The colt should 
never be teased by silly men or boys. The 
disposition of a spirited colt is easily ruined 
in that way. No exact rule can be given for 
raising a colt, as some are naturally stronger 
than others, and do not require the same 
care, and like the human race, dispositions 
differ. The most nearly perfect rule I can 
think of is common sense and experience. 
New Jersey. wm. R. budd. 
Always bear in mind that it takes good 
feed and plenty of it to produce constitu¬ 
tional vigor. First see that the mare 
is fed properly before foaling that she may 
produce a strong healthy colt. I feed corn, 
oats, bran and barley chop. I like mangers 
for a horse stable, and have an adjustable 
partition between tin* two upper stalls, which 
I take out and use for a box stall. By the 
time the colt is two weeks old lie will begin 
to get his nose in the feed box with tlie 
mare, and once lie comes regularly for his 
share of feed the boys put his little halter 
on and get him over to the other feed box, 
and he soon learns to eat there. Then I 
fasten a rail across the corner to keep the 
mare away, and then always keep more oats 
and bran in the box than he will clean up. 
There is no danger of over feeding when you 
don’t allow them to get hungry. 1 always 
feed chop, fed at noon, from April to Octo¬ 
ber, consisting of three parts smooth wheat 
chaff to one part barley chop, allowing a 
half peck of chop to eacli work horse; the 
chaff is made wet and then the chop is added. 
T prefer to wean at three months old. I 
tie the mare and colt and let them stand 
side by side with a pole between—this avoids 
fretting. I then feed all the oats he will 
eat for two or three months after weaninj 
then regulate according to condition. For 
a change I substitute bran for part of the 
oat and an occasional feed of corn and bran. 
Let the colt out in the yard for exercise 
morning and evening. When horses are 
pastured I keep the mare in and turn out 1 lie 
colt with the other horses for a few weeks— 
then take a piece of good leather about eight 
or 10 inches long and drive 10 eight-penny 
nails through it, and with a good strip of 
cloth wrap it on the nose band of his halter 
and then turn both mare and colt out, and 
you will have no trouble. I like to raise 
colts in pairs. aimi,ng for perfect matches, 
but do not pasture them in daytime the 
first Summer except pretty days in the late 
Fall. I do this way to avoid pot-bellied 
colts, and for the same reason feed all the 
oats they will eat after weaning to prevent 
eating too much hay. 
The next Summer, along about .Tune 1, 
I turn out to good pasture and let them 
run till Fall without grain ; then feed enough 
oats morning and evening with corn and bran 
at noon to keep them plump. Some one has 
said “Let a colt lose his fat and there is no 
telling where it will come back on him,” 
or in other words take a fat colt with a 
perfect shape, let him get poor, and then 
refatten, and he will most likely have quite 
a different shape, but if he is kept fat until 
he is a matured horse his shape will be 
insured. ,T. P. w. 
Detour, Md. 
Child’s Awful Skin Humor 
Screamed With Pain-Suffering Nearly 
Broke Parent’s Heart-Speedily 
Cured by Cuticura. 
“I wish to inform you that the Cuticura 
Remedies have put a stop to twelve years 
of misery I passed with my son. As an 
infant I noticed on his body a red spot, 
and treated same with different remedies 
for about five years, but when the spot 
began to get larger I put him under the 
care of doctors. Under their treatment the 
disease spread to four different parts of 
his body. The longer the doctors treated 
him the worse it grew. During the day it 
would get rough and form like scales. At 
night it would be cracked, inflamed and 
badly swollen, with terrible burning and 
itching. When I think of his suffering it 
nearly breaks my heart. His screams 
could be heard down stairs. The suffering 
of my son made me full of misery. I had 
no ambition to work, to eat, nor could I 
sleep. One doctor told me that my soil’s 
eczema was incurable, and gave it up for 
a bad job. One evening I saw an article 
in the paper about the wonderful Cuti¬ 
cura and decided to give it a trial. I tell 
you the Cuticura Ointment is worth its 
weight in gold, and when I had used the 
first box of Ointment there was a great 
improvement, and by the time I had used 
the second set of Cuticura Soap, Oint¬ 
ment and Resolvent my child was cured. 
He is now twelve years old, and his skin 
is as fine and smooth 'as silk. Michael 
Steinman, 7 Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., April 16, 1905.” 
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