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HANG ON TO THE GOOD COWS. 
VV ithin a •short distance of my home 
is a progressive farmer who has made 
a determined effort to improve his herd 
of' cows. His last move was to sell off 
25 or 30, leaving about 35 selected cows 
from the larger number that had been 
previously picked. Among the 35 are 
two Holstein grade heifers, four years 
old. Another neighbor, who realizes 
the value of a good cow, went over to 
the stable for the first man mentioned 
not long ago, and weighed the milk 
from the two four-year-olds. These 
cows were picking their living from the 
pasture, the same as the cows of all our 
farmers do. One of the heifers gave 24 
pounds of milk and the other 25 pounds. 
They have been milked about four or 
five months. The visiting neighbor 
promptly offered $80 apiece for those 
two cows. He didn’t get them. Had 
they been owned by a farmer of the 
usual order they would have changed 
hands. The owner, in this case, realized 
as well as did the 'buyer that a really 
good cow is not to be found at a mo¬ 
ment’s notice, and that in comparison 
with the ordinary run of cows, $80 could 
not be so well placed by making a 
change in stock. It is only by coming 
to a realizing sense of the value of a 
thoroughly good cow for dairy purposes 
that the dairyman is going to make any 
money in his business. h. h. lyon. 
SHED FOR FEEDING CHICKS. 
When a man has several hundred 
half-grown chicks running together, 
even though they have a two-acre lot 
to range in as mine do, it becomes some¬ 
thing of a problem, when a rainy day 
comes, how to feed them to one’s satis¬ 
faction. It is impossible to feed them 
in their little roosting houses, and one 
hates to throw the grain down in the 
mud, and with 400 chicks crowding 
around you and imperiously clamoring 
to be fed, and the rain continuing to 
pour down without any sign of letting 
up, one cannot help thinking how nice 
it would be to have a big shed where 
they could be fed “in the dry.’’ This 
Summer I built such a shed, and find 
it such a convenience, especially on 
stormy days, that I wonder how I used 
to get along without it. How it was 
made is what this article is written to 
tell. 
It was to be a temporary structure, 
so that it could he taken down after the 
chicks had gone into Winter quarters. 
I had some chestnut trees sawed into 
boards and scantling last Winter; they 
were 8, 10 and 12 feet long. I did not 
want to saw up any of these boards so 
I contrived to use them in this manner. 
I set three posts in line, and nailed a 
2x4 inch scanning 20 feet long on top 
of the posts for a ridge-pole; then I 
drove some stakes into the ground sev¬ 
en feet away from the center posts, and 
nailed boards to them for the sides of 
the shed, making it 18 inches high. Then 
I took the 10-foot boards, and nailing 
the top end to the ridge pole, let the 
other end rest on the edge of the side 
boards, and nailed it lightly to them. 
All the nails were only oartly driven 
in, being left so they could be drawn 
out with a hammer. I had only enough 
10-foot hoards to cover one side, so for 
the other side I nailed some 2x4 scant¬ 
ling from ridge pole to side boards, and 
on these laid horizontally the 12-foot 
boards, lapping each one two inches 
over the edge of the one below it, vir¬ 
tually shingling that side with the 
boards. The eight-foot boards added to 
the 12-foot ones just completed the 20 
feet length of the shed. Now I have a 
feeding shed 14 feet wide by 20 feet 
long, and the whole 400 chicks can get 
in there and be fed where it is dry. 
Ihe comfort of it on a rainy night, 
(like it is to-night, September 24), is 
out of all proportion to the trouble and 
cost of building it. It took only little 
more than half a day to build it, and it 
is so handy that I doubt if it is taken 
THE KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
down as intended. An acre of oats was 
raised for litter for the scratching 
sheds, and a liberal supply is kept in the 
feeding shed, and that litter is turned 
over a hundred times a day by the 
chicks. The center posts are seven feet 
high, the sides only 18 inches, hut there 
is abundant room to move around com- 
fortab’y, and on hot days it was cool 
and pleasant inside, being open at the 
north and south ends, except a wide 
board at bottom to keep the litter from 
being scratched out. If one had to buy 
the boards the total cost would be less 
than ten dollars. GEO. a. cosgrove. 
TOBACCO DUST FOR SHEEP. 
I have just bought a barrel of tobacco 
dust, and would like you to tell me just in 
what proportion I should mix it with salt 
for my sheep, and second, if you think it 
safe to feed it to ewes that are with lamb. 
Are tobacco stems better than the dust? 
New York. c. c. v. 
At the start, I would mix half salt 
and half tobacco dust. After the sheep 
have become accustomed to the tobacco, 
you can put two-thirds of the dust. Keep 
the mixture where they can have access 
to it at all times. Their desire for salt 
will prompt them to eat the tobacco. I 
have fed it to my breeding ewes for 
two years, right up to lambing time, 
with no evidence of anything but good. 
Personally I prefer the stems, and have 
never used the dust, but I have talked 
to several who feed the latter, and they 
are well satisfied with it. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
FIGURING A COW RATION. 
What do you think of this ration for 
cows that arc averaging nine to 10 quarts 
per day? We mix 160 pounds dried brew¬ 
ers' grains, 75 pounds cerealine, 200 pounds 
hominy and 50 pounds cotton seed. This 
makes one feed for 80 cows. They also 
get field corn about 9 a. m. in the field, 
and an armful of sugar corn at night in 
the barn. I cannot find any analysis of 
the digestibility of either cerealine or star 
hominy, so I cannot work out tiie value of 
this ration. We have a good many grade 
Guernseys and Jerseys, and about eight 
heifers with their first or second calves, all 
by a purebred Guernsey bull. We think 
these cows are doing pretty good work. 
Our milk tests 4.7 per cent to five per cent, 
and about three-fourths of it is bottled 
right here and delivered retail in Moores- 
fown about one-half mile away. We get 
file milk from one purebred Guernsey herd, 
and they do not average ns high as ours, 
either in fat or quantity. We also handle 
the milk from two other herds, and they 
barely make four per cent:. a. h. f. 
Moorestown, N. .1, 
Here is the 
analysis 
of the 
ration 
which you are 
feeding: 
Digestible 
Carb. 
Dry 
Tro- 
and 
Feeding Stuff. 
Matter. 
tein. 
Fat. 
40 llts. green 
corn 
fodder . 
.44 
5.2 
4 His. drv brewer’s 
grains' . 
.7616 
1.814 
2 IDs. cerealine. 
. 1.85 
.135 
1.404 
5 lbs. star hominy 
feed . 
. 4.445 
.3203 
3.8445 
1 Vi lbs. cottonseed 
meal . 
.... 1.147 
.4626 
.5996 
19.402 
2.1195 
12.8621 
Nutritive ratio, 1 : 0.07. 
This shows only 19.4 pounds of dry 
matter, but your cows, no doubt, get 
enough grass to make up the deficiency. 
You will also notice that in feeding 12^4 
pounds of grain yon only have a total 
of 2.1195 pounds of protein, which is 
entirely too low. Surely your cows 
ought to do good work with a grain ra¬ 
tion of 12 pounds each, but right here 
let me ask you to figure the cost of the 
grain ration which you are feeding, and 
compare it with the cost of the follow¬ 
ing ration which will give you equally 
as good if not better results. 
5 lbs. Ajax (lakes. 
2 lbs. cottonseed meal. 
1 lb. O. I*, linseed meal. 
Of course these amounts only repre¬ 
sent an average ration and must be va¬ 
ried according to the condition and re¬ 
quirements of the individual cows. I 
am very sure that you can save at least 
$3 a day on the cost of feeding your 
herd of 80 cows, by changing to the 
above ration. The cerealine which you 
are feeding is nothing more than corn 
bran sold under a fancy name for the 
purpose of making a large profit for the 
manufacturer and dealer. I would not 
feed it to cows unless it could be 
bought for less than $20 per ton. The 
star hominy which you are feeding is 
worth about three-fourths as much as 
hominy chop. You arc feeding too much/ 
of this feed, which usually costs about 
$s per ton more than it is worth, and 
you are not feeding enough cotton-seed 
meal to produce the best results. 
C. S. GREENE. 
A Run-Down Horse. 
I have a six-year-old black horse, bought 
about four months ago. lie was then a 
high stepper, had a beautiful neck, and 
supple body. Now lie Is a shadow of bis 
former self, lost lots of flesh, so that ribs 
are visible, thin neck, lets bis head hang 
down, lazy leg action, groans when starting 
out, and I use him very little. I had 
two veterinarians look him over, and pre¬ 
scribe for him, bm apparently there is no 
improvement except a very, very slight 
one. From your varied experience, can 
von advise something? He also has boon 
bitting bis left front leg, below the knee, 
and has a bump of proud flesh there. 
New Jersey. h. r. 
We suspect that the horse was plumped 
and pampered prior to sale and lias fallen 
away from change of feed and lack of 
"dope." While we do not like to drug a 
horse, the quickest way of getting this one 
back to former flesh and spirit will be to 
administer Fowler's solution of arsenic in 
half-ounce dose twice a day for 10 days 
and then increase to three doses daily. Add 
to each dose of. the arsenic solution one 
dram of fluid'extract of mix vomica. Weight 
his fore feet and have the shoer put on 
extra weight where lie thinks best to stop 
the striking. No specific manner of shoe¬ 
ing is possible in such cases. One has to 
study and shop each case according to exact 
condition present. Feed the horse gener¬ 
ously, and if lie is a Western horse and 
you have been feeding oats change to corn, 
as lie may have been accustomed to that 
grain. If no feed leads to good flesh resort 
to a quart dose of black strap molasses to 
be fed night and morning. Mix it in three 
quarts of Hot water and (lien stir into a 
mixture of wheat bran, cornmeal and cut 
hay.- Feed whole .oats at noon and long 
hay at night. The. molasses feed should be 
given morning and night. It may lie neces¬ 
sary to starve him to if at first, but soon 
he will take tip*, new food with relish, and 
it should quickly plump hint up without 
causing indigestion or colic. A. s. A. 
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