1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
727 
THREE TOHS OF MILK PER COW. 
The past year from April to April I sold 
139,539 pounds of milk from 23 cows, aver¬ 
aging a little over 6,000 pounds per cow, 
and the year before from the same cows 
5.000 pounds per cow. Mr. Cook said he did 
not think that, the 5,000 pounds per. cow 
was a big yield. What does he think of the 
6.000 pounds per year cows? I fed these 
cows during the Winter months from middle 
of October to middle of May 24 tons of feed, 
is that, in his opinion, enough for the cows, 
bran, gluten and hominy? T. F. k. 
New York. 
Six thousand pounds per cow may be 
a profitable yield. The relation which it 
bears to the capacity of the cow would 
depend upon the amount of feed used. I 
should say, provided the milk was not 
low in butter fat, that it was a very good 
profitable return. It is like this: 1 he 
total flow is not in and of itself the only 
indication of profit, and that is what we 
are after, with all the fun thrown in that 
we can get. 
If this milk contained 4^2 per cent 
butter fat there would follow 310 pounds 
of butter, a very good yield. If it was 
3/4 per cent milk we should have only 
240 pounds, not large. Holstein cows of 
good size, and mature, with perhaps a 
sprinkling of young things, should do 
better than 6,000 pounds if they are full 
fed. I would not, as I feed, give much 
for a heifer with first calf that would not 
make 6,000 pounds. I was just adding 
the milk of one which freshened in 
February, and she has just passed 7,000 
pounds, and is now running 35 pounds 
a day, but I am frank to say I know of 
nothing which can be done to make an 
increase and not overdo the job. Some 
one might look at the feed and care from 
a different viewpoint, and she would make 
just half as much. It would be a foolish 
thing to sell her and get another because 
she had not come up to my standard. 
Every man has his standard, and his cows 
usually come pretty close to it. If this 
herd was mine I would at once begin 
weighing each cow twice a day; note the 
feed, period of lactation, etc., and the 
result no doubt would justify a sale of a 
half dozen without decreasing the profits, 
and those that remain will eat all the 
feed and give nearly all the milk. Dairy¬ 
ing by the process of elimination is the 
safest and most satisfactory, and each one 
then will answer his own question. 
H. E. COOK. 
QUESTIONS ABOUT CHICKS. 
This Spring I began keeping bens and 
raising chickens in order to supply a small 
family and sell whatever surplus of poultry 
products I found convenient. I have met 
with some difficulties and would like to ask 
for information in regard to the following: 
1. After my chickens hatched under hens, 
1 found a good number of dead chicks, 
caused probably by their being stepped on. 
I found about two dead chicks to each hen. 
Is this usual and can I prevent It? 2. Where 
chickens are sickly and fail to grow well, 
I did nothing except use insect powder a 
few times, which did not effect a cure. I 
had four such chickens out of 110. I sup¬ 
pose it was a lack of vitality though it 
may have been something else. I did not 
use any charcoal and that might have saved 
one or two chicks. Finally I lost two chick¬ 
ens that were probably two months old at 
least one night when there was a thunder 
storm, one in each coop. I think that these 
were undoubtedly smothered to death. 3. 
M.v chickens have had the run of the yard 
and garden until large enough to do serious 
damage and have done well I think. Many 
of the chickens seem to be shedding their 
feathers. Ought they to shed their feathers 
the first year? 4. I purchased some animal 
meal which I fear may be spoiled, as it has 
a strong odor. Do you consider it safe to 
feed animal meal when it smells very much 
like fertilizer? F. p. w. 
Vermont. 
1. Answering F. P. W.'s first question 
I would say that there is always more 
or less loss of chicks by hens trampling 
on them while hatching, particularly if 
the hen is annoyed or disturbed from any 
cause. If a lot of hens are hatching in 
the same room, and some lively chick 
gets out of the nest and begins to peep 
in alarm, most of the hens will become 
uneasy and trample around or leave 
their nests, and often kill a number of 
their own chicks. To avoid this, I make 
a practice of removing the chicks as 
soon as they are well dried off, putting 
them in a basket and covering with 
woolen rags, leaving them by the kitchen 
stove, until the hatch is completed. There 
is a great difference in hens; some will 
manage a nest full of 12 or 15 chicks 
and not kill one, and others will crush 
the life out of two or three out of a half 
dozen. I have had hens that would kill 
and eat the partly hatched chicks as fast 
as they were pipped. As to sickly chicks, 
would say that out of 110 chicks a loss of 
four only was doing exceedingly well; 
probably it was weak vitality, perhaps 
prenatal, perhaps due to other causes. 
2. Eternal vigilance is necessary in rais¬ 
ing young chicks. I have had chicks that 
weighed three to four pounds each 
smothered by leaving their own coops 
and crowding in with other chicks. Only 
last night I found in two little A coops 
the chicks had crowded in until some 
were standing on top of others. There 
would have been a half dozen smothered 
to death by morning if 1 had not noticed 
it. 3. Young chicks do not shed their 
feathers, at least my observation has not 
been close enough to notice it. Pullets 
a short time before they begin to lay, 
shed their tail feathers and grow a new 
set. There will always be some feathers 
pulled out by the chicks fighting and 
picking at one another, but I have never 
seen chicks shed their feathers as a hen 
does. 4. I should not want to use animal 
meal that had a strong odor, or “smelt 
like fertilizer”; it would most likely be 
economy to use it for fertilizing, rather 
than as food for chicks. 
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TONGUE LOLLING. 
I am annoyed very much by my horse ex¬ 
tending his tongue when I am driving him; 
not always, but certain times when he takes 
a notion. I like him very much every other 
way. Is there any kind of a bit or some¬ 
thing else that I could use that would pre¬ 
vent it? i>. h. w. 
Try effect of buckling a strap around 
nose of horse just in front of where bit 
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axle upon which the disk can move. This 
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protrusion of the organ. In obstinate 
chronic cases where the tongue is hung 
out of the mouth all of the time while 
driving amputation of a portion of the 
tongue has been suggested as the only 
cure, and may be done painlessly by use 
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