1900. 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
76 
PROFITABLE COW RATIONS. 
Can some one who has had experience 
tell me which would be the most profitable 
to feed, oil cake or cotton-seed meal? We 
feed our cows corn and bran mixed. We 
have neither Alfalfa nor silage, and have 
been feeding a mixture of Blue grass and 
Timothy hay. What proportion of cotton¬ 
seed meal or oil cake should be fed at the 
start? f. M. 
Wappocomo. W. Va. 
With Blue grass and Timothy hay for 
roughage. I would feed about 2 % pounds 
of cotton-seed meal and two pounds of oil 
cake or oil meal to a 1,000 pound cow in 
full flow of milk. The most profitable feeds 
to use depend upon their cost to a great 
extent, but at the present market prices 
no doubt the cotton-seed meal would be the 
better one to use if you could not mix them, 
but it never pays to feed too much of either 
linseed or cotton-seed meal, as it would 
be liable to injure the cows. Do not feed 
more than half the amount mentioned at 
first, and gradually increase the amount 
after a few days. Here is a balanced ra¬ 
tion with a nutritive ratio of 1:5.5 com¬ 
pounded from the feeds you mention. Of 
course, the amount for each cow depends 
upon her size, appetite and the quantity 
of milk she is giving r 18 pounds mixed 
bay; four pounds wheat bran; 2 Ms pounds 
cotton-seed meal; two pounds linseed oil 
meal, one pound cornmeal. c. s. gkeene. 
Please give me a balanced ration for 
1,000 pound cows. I have plenty of corn,, 
clover hay of fine quality, and corn stover. I 
can have corn ground into cob meal. What 
must I buy to make cheapest ration with 
feeds at the following prices: Wheat bran. 
$1.25 per 100; Buffalo gluten feed. $1.00 
per 100; ground oil cake, O. P., $1.80 per 
100 . I have not found any cotton-seed meal 
on the market here. o. i. c. 
Zanesville, O. 
Here is a balanced ration, compounded 
from the feeds yon mention, which will 
produce very good results when properly 
used. The cheapest, ration in your case 
would contain the maximum amount of 
corn and cob meal, as this is probably borne 
grown, but it is a feed which is very low 
in protein content, so it cannot form .a 
very large part of the ration. In this 
ration the wheat bran is the most expen¬ 
sive ingredient, and I would suggest that 
you try leaving it out entirely and substi¬ 
tuting one pound of oil meal in its place, 
making two pounds of oil meal for the 
ration instead of one. This would reduce 
tlie cost of the ration about three-fourths 
of a cent, but it would make a more con¬ 
centrated feed with nothing but the cob 
meal to lighten it up. 
Digestible. 
12 lbs. clover bay.. . 
Dry 
Matter. 
1 0.164 
Protein 
.8856 
Carb. & 
Fat. 
5.0664 
10 ills, corn stover. . 
5.78 
.234 
3.492 
3 lbs. corn and cob 
meal . 
3.547 
.1428 
2.00025 
3 lbs. Buffalo gluten 
feed . 
2.757 
.6864 
1.7463 
2 lbs. wheat bran. . . 
1.77 
.242 
.9338 
1 lb. linseed oil meal 
.908 
.2876 
.4869 
23.920 2.4784 .13.72565 
Nutritive ratio, 1 :5.5. 
C. S. GREENE. 
ing the barn. The outside lias dried hard 
and seems to be utterly germ proof. We 
shall try to turn it into Winter eggs after 
our hens get through moulting and are de¬ 
prived of the privilege of wandering wher¬ 
ever they please. There must be nearly 200 
pounds of this meat, which ought to make 
a Cock of 50 liens happy for many days. 
C. S. Moore. 
PRESERVING GREEN CUT BONE. 
Some weeks ago we printed a statement 
from Prof. E. B. Voorhees that green cut 
bone could be safely preserved for poultry 
feeding by sprinkling it with a two per 
cent solution of formaldehyde. As readers 
will remember this chemical is used for kill¬ 
ing the scab germs on seed potatoes and 
also smut on oats and wheat. It is quite 
an important tiling for poultrymen to know 
how to keep meat and green bone as long 
as possible. In cold weather it can be 
frozen, but when warm it spoils rapidly. 
There would be a great saving if tilts meat 
and bone conkl be held sweet for a few 
weeks. There have been a number of ques¬ 
tions about the use of formaldehyde. Will 
it lie safe to feed such preserred bone to 
lions? No one seems to be side about it, 
and we would not advise its use without 
further experiment. The following letter 
from Prof. J. E. Iiice is interesting: 
“I have never had experience in keeping 
green ent bone, nor am I acquainted with 
anyone who lias information along this 
line. The only thing that wo have ever 
done is to cook the bones, which enables 
us to keep them a few days longer than we 
otherwise could. The Curtis Bros., western 
New York, have a large steam cooker where 
they reduce the bones, meat and all, to the 
form of a liquid by steaui under very high 
pressure. By this means they are enabled 
to handle large quantities of meat and bone 
refuse from the butcher shops of Rochester 
and. Buffalo, to the extent of furnishing all 
of the meat food to their very large stock 
of ducks and fowls. I would not assume 
to predict wiiat would happen if ehiekens 
should consume as much formalin as would 
be necessary to preserve the product. We, 
in practice, feed green cut bone in the cool 
weather of late Fall, Winter and early 
Spring, but depend entirely upon the beef 
scrap during the remainder of the year, 
finding great difficulty in getting the beef 
product which, is uniformly good.” 
There seems to be no doubt that the for¬ 
maldehyde will preserve meat and bone for 
fertilizing purposes. We are told that pow¬ 
dered charcoal will keep the cut hone sweet, 
and that ground limestone or marble dust 
will do the same. 
Rights of Creditor. 
I have been delivering si one to a com¬ 
pany which has recently failed. Can I put 
in my bill as “labor,” so as to be a pre¬ 
ferred creditor? g. d. j. 
. . Pennsylvania. 
If you sold the stone to them yon must, 
come in as a common creditor, but may 
make a separate item for the work of 
hauling. If you were engaged only to haul 
stone this is clearly “labor.” even if you 
hired others to help you. We suggest that 
you send in a bill sworn to at once, other¬ 
wise you may lose your preference. 
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HEIFER FOR HEN FOOD. 
It is an old saying that “misfortune 
never came singly,” and, judging from our 
experience last Summer, I am inclined to 
think there is something in the superstition. 
At any rate we have lost throe of our best 
calves, two of them nearly eight months 
old, and the other somewhat younger. One 
windy night in August the well-house door 
was blown open, and next morning two 
calves had to be fished out of the well. 
They had broken through the platform, and 
although the water was not deep, they were 
both dead when discovered. The third one 
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noon In October, so we performed a post¬ 
mortem examination and finally located the, 
offending root in the gullet of the victim, 
only a few inches from the stomach. This 
calf was running with four others in a 
field, part of which had been in grain. We 
had mixed a few turnip seeds with the 
grain, and these had made a small growth 
after the grain was harvested. On account 
of the drought the turnips were small and 
' woody. This calf had pulled up a turnip, 
rolled it round and round in her mouth in 
her efforts to chew it, and finally had swal¬ 
lowed it whole. Even had we discovered 
her in time I doubt if we could have saved 
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end unravelled and tied hack to form a 
pushing surface, might have done the trick, 
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I doubt if it could have been pushed down. 
It seemed wasteful to throw away so mueh 
good meat, so we tried an experiment with 
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After the stomach and intestines were re¬ 
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hung to a high beam over the barn floor. 
In spite of the fact that the weather has 
been unusually warm many days this Fall, 
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