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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
November 2, 
GRAINS FOR COWS ON PASTURE. 
With butter fat at 20 cents per pound and 
cream of 18 per cent test, would it pay to 
buy grain to feed cows now while at pasture 
with hominy at $27 per ton, bran at $26, 
cornmeal at $27 and cheap mixed feeds at 
$25. What is the best grain feed to be 
fed with cows at pasture? 
I do not see that the test of cream 18 
per cent lias anything to do with the case. 
While 29 cents per pound is a good price 
for butter fat at this season of the year, 
whether it will pay to feed to make it 
depends on the individual capacity of the 
cows. With poor cows incapable of giv¬ 
ing much milk, under any conditions, it 
will not pay to milk them anyway. If 
the cows have been allowed to shrink 
in their milk flow and get very thin in 
flesh, no feed will return its cost for the 
time being, and it will not matter much 
what price is obtained for the product. 
On the other hand, if these cows are ex¬ 
pected to do anything in the future, it 
will be necessary to get them in good 
condition before Winter, and pasture 
alone, while they are milking, will not do 
it. This is a question I have studied 
a good deal, and I have come to this con¬ 
clusion. With normal prices for both 
food and product it will not pay to feed 
grain on pasture, provided there is pas¬ 
ture enough to keep up both the milk 
flow and the flesh of the cows. Such 
pasture usually does not exist except for 
a brief period in the early part of the sea¬ 
son. If the cows keep up their milk and 
lose flesh, as they sometimes will, it will 
pay to feed grain with the pasture, even 
if there is no immediate return in the 
amount of value of the product. The 
cows will give more milk and require less 
grain during the Winter if they are kept 
in good condition and their milk flow is 
kept up. That is, it will usually pay to 
feed good cows more grain after the 
flush of pasture is over. Green feed in 
the stable, valuable and necessary as it is, 
will not wholly take the place of the con¬ 
centrated food in good grain. 
Just what is fed depends largely on 
the price of the product. “Cheap mixed 
feeds” at any price I would shun as I 
would the pestilence. Bran at $26 is too 
dear W'hen we can buy the same or a 
greater amount of protein in dried brew¬ 
ers’ grains or some of the glutens or 
cotton-seed meal for very little more per 
ton. At present cotton-seed meal at about 
$32 is the cheapest food on the market. 
This, mixed equal parts by weight with 
cornmeal makes an ideal feed on pasture. 
A couple of pounds per day will go far¬ 
ther and do more than double the amount 
of bran. In any case don’t expect great 
results if the cows have been allowed to 
run down and shrink; it will take time to 
build them up. edward van alstyne. 
DIPPING HENS FOR LICE. 
Would it be practical to dip hens in kero¬ 
sene emulsion to rid them of body lice? I 
am thinking of dipping three times at in¬ 
tervals of about five days. Would it be in¬ 
jurious to the feathers of exhibition birds? 
What I want is to get entirely rid of body 
"ice, as mites do not give me any trouble. 
READER. 
We know nothing about dipping hens in 
kerosene emulsion. It does not appeal to us; 
in fact, we would use no kind of a dip. When 
we have occasion to fight lice we use a good 
lice powder; hold the hen by the legs in a 
barrel, sift the powder through the fluff and 
feathers, and do this two or three times at 
intervals of a week. lakewood farm co. 
I do not know anything about dipping hens 
in any liquid for lice, nor would I care to 
try it unless on some stock of no value. We 
do not allow our birds to get in such con¬ 
dition that anything like this would lie neces¬ 
sary, as we fight lice continually (some¬ 
times imaginary ones), and find this the best 
Way. L. T. HALLOCK. 
We have used kerosene emulsion diluted 
with water one to 20 with very satisfactory 
results so far as freeing the birds from lice 
was concerned, but I would not advise using 
such a dip where the birds are to be put on 
exhibition, as it discolors the feathers. We 
have always used It early in the season or 
just before moulting began. I doubt if it 
would he advisable to try it during colder 
iveather. I have had no experience with 
tobacco water. As a rule, we take the ordi¬ 
nary liquid that Is used for sheep dip, and 
it gives excellent results. c. k. graham. 
I do not believe a kerosene and soap emul¬ 
sion would hurt the hen, although pure kero¬ 
sene is not safe. But if this reader will 
only give the hens a chance they will rid 
themselves of all body lice, and save him 
the trouble oT as mean job as we would want 
to run up against. Give the hens a good 
dust bath and add some of the “Death to 
Lice” powders, advertised by poultry supply 
houses, and they will clean out the lice in a 
very short time. We never find body lice 
on our birds, and never use any lice powder. 
But the mites bother us, and have to be kept 
down with sprays and kerosene. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
No, it would not be wise to dip the hens 
for body lice, but I would use some reliable 
kind of lice powder and thoroughly dust 
every part of the plumage, particularly the 
fluff, at intervals of four or five days for 
three times, which will rid them of every 
louse if the powder is fresh and good. 
After dusting I put, say 10 or 12 in a tight 
box with a bag over it and let them remain 
for half an hour, not much longer, until 
the powder has had a chance to do its 
work, as I found when I turned them loose 
in the room immediately after dusting that 
they would shake a large portion of the 
powder off before it had done much good. 
Dipping would be detrimental to birds in¬ 
tended for exhibition, as it is almost im¬ 
possible to clean spots of oil or grease out so 
that a bird is fit to show. I once dipped 
a fowl in clear kerosene and it caused the 
skin to come off the entire body and the 
feathers to have a dirty greasy appearance 
until it moulted. I spray the roosts and 
inside of the house two or three times each 
month with crude carbolic acid or liquid 
lice killer of some kind to kill mites or 
other lice. Tobacco stems or dust put in the 
nests are also good to help keep down lice 
of all kinds. a. c. van deman. 
TALK ABOUT WINTER FEEDS. 
It is sometimes said that the presence 
of weeds drives people to do better farming 
than they otherwise would. In much the 
same way the high price of feeds this season 
may force dairymen to study for a better 
selection of grain feeds for their cows. Corn 
and wheat feeds are both held at almost 
prohibitive prices, except in cases where 
necessity requires their use. These two 
feeds have been the mainstays as a usual 
thing. Gluten feeds have also been advanced 
beyond the point of profitable feeding for 
most farmers. Other feeds, such as cot- 
ton-seed meal, linseed oil meal, dried distill¬ 
ers’ grains, malt sprouts and perhaps some 
of the molasses feeds, etc., while high in 
price, have not gone to so high a notch, 
relatively. Because cotton-seed! meal costs 
$32 a ton it does not follow that it is more 
expensive than wheat bran at $28. Dis¬ 
tillers’ grains at $28 are much cheaper for 
most uses than wheat bran at the same 
price. In the case of purchased feeds, we 
usually select, mainly, for the protein con¬ 
tained, although that may not always be the 
case. The distillers’ grains furnish double 
the protein that wheat bran does, and cotton¬ 
seed meal contains two and one-half times 
as much of that substance. It is true that 
cotton-seed meal may not be used exclusive¬ 
ly, nor even for a main reliance in the ra¬ 
tion, but two pounds or more may be used 
safely and profitably. As for distillers’ 
grains, I do not know that there can be any 
harm in feeding a whole ration of them, or 
at least a large portion of it. They furnish 
protein at a less cost price than it has been 
furnished in wheat bran in more than a dozen 
years. We all like to use wheat bran be¬ 
cause it is a safe feed, and because it is one 
of the few grain feeds that contains min¬ 
eral matters in good supply. It is also some¬ 
what laxative and therefore desirable. Its 
only objection is Drice. Oil meal is a laxa¬ 
tive, and we always use it to the extent of 
one-tenth to one-eighth of grain ration for that 
purpose, as we do not use a silo. Where a 
silo is used, I presume something may take 
the place of oil meal with profit, but without 
silage, I would keep the oil meal. Malt 
sprouts if well soaked with water for some 
hours before feeding, can be fed even to the 
extent of a full ration ,1 am told. We have 
never fed them for more than half the ra¬ 
tion. Our only reason for not feeding them 
now is the trouble to soak them, which in 
our case would necessitate carrying quanti¬ 
ties of water. Were we situated to use them 
we should undoubtedly do so, as they cost 
only $22 a ton, being perhaps one of the 
cheapest of feeds, all things considered, that 
we can get. There would be no need of oil 
meal with malt sprouts, for they act much as 
the silage does. The molasses feeds cost 
somewhat less than wheat bran, and they 
contain rather more protein if one selects a 
good brand. They too,' like the malt sprouts 
when wet, are laxative, and do not require 
oil meal to be fed with them unless other 
grains are used for a large part of the ration. 
By making a careful selection it will be pos¬ 
sible now to provide grain feeds for the Win¬ 
ter at only a small advance upon values of 
feeds that were used last Winter. In ease 
one buys corn (and some of us are obliged 
to do so) the present price is much above 
last year. We shall buy but little wheat 
bran because we can get other feeds cheap¬ 
er. and we shall not buy any more cornmeal 
than we feel obliged to buy, unless the price 
is reduced considerably when new corn comes 
on the market. h. h. l. 
How Prof. Henry Feeds 
Dairy Cows 
In his very popular and authentic book. “ Feeds and Feeding,” Prof. 
Henry says under “ Feed and Care of the Dairy Cow 
(1) “As the dairy cow, when givinglarge flow of milk, is accomplish¬ 
ing much work, it is best to prepare the feed for rapid mastica¬ 
tion. Grains should generally be ground and roots sliced.’’ 
(2) " Cows take kindly to dry feed, and as a rule prefer it to that in 
a sloppy condition. * * * By supplying dry feed, mangers can be 
kept more wholesome,” 
(3) “ Dried brewer’s grains form an excellent feed for cows. Their 
purpose being to supply protein which they carry in abundance. 
* * * No dry forage can prove superior to good clover hay.” 
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