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THE RURAL N E W-YORKER 
October 1G 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Would it be all right if 1 fed oats to 
milch cows and horses without their being 
thrashed? Do you think it would be profit¬ 
able? T. J. P. 
Skowhegan, Me. 
This depends entirely on circum¬ 
stances. If you have to pay 60 cents or 
65 cents a bushel for oats to feed and 
you have hay enough for your stock 
without using oat hay I would consider 
it more economical to thrash your oats 
thereby saving the cost of buying them. 
You would also save the loss from rats 
and mice, which is usually quite an 
item, especially when the oat hay is 
stored in the barn for any great length 
of time. On the other hand, if you 
are short of hay and do not require the 
oats to feed it would probably pay bet¬ 
ter to cut them when in the milk and 
while the straw is yet green. At this 
the contest was finished and the score 
cards handed in. lie took the full limit 
of three hours to plow the half-acre land. 
A good many long-time theories were 
knocked sky high in the two contests of 
this year. It was shown that the thor¬ 
oughly trained plow team, one that has 
plowed in many contests and teams that 
have been matched up for the set purpose 
of winning prizes, are not always the 
ones that take the money. For instance, 
Ren Davis, of Wheatland, who plowed in 
the sulky plow class at Rig Rock, was 
given first money, but neither Davis nor 
any animal of his team had plowed in any 
match for nine years. Davis drove two 
mares, a horse, and a mule. He has a 
queer way of talking to his animals while 
they are stretching traces in the contest. 
He calls them Nellie, Ruck, Notice, and 
Jim, the latter being the long-eared crea¬ 
ture. Davis could be heard half way across 
the land telling Buck to steady up, and 
asking .Tim wlia,! he was doing. He would 
check Nellie apparently by calling her 
name, and it was easy to see that Notice 
knew her master’s voice. Whether or not 
Davis made any points by thus talking en¬ 
couragingly to his team, no one is pre¬ 
pared to say. but that is the way he talks 
to them when he uses them on his 105 
acre farm, where lie raises good crops, 
and he talked that way at the Big Rock 
match, where he won' the highest prize in 
the class. 
stage it may be mowed with a machine 
and treated the same as hay. Horses 
are very fond of oat hay, and cows eat 
it with a relish, especially when it is 
cut early and well cured, but compared 
with silage, it is not a satisfactory feed 
for the production of milk. As a sup¬ 
plementary feed to be used with silage 
it produces good results. All our oats 
are either fed green or made into hay. 
I have been especially interested in the 
suggestions you have made concerning ra¬ 
tions for dairy cows. 1 should like to have 
your idea as to the best daily ration for a 
1,000-pound Jersey giving 1% gallon per 
milking now, and not to be fresh till in 
April. Prices of feed as follows: Corn 60 
cents, bran $1.25 per 100, shipstuff $1.60, 
cotton-seed meal $1.75. For roughage I shall 
have only corn fodder and mixed hay, Tim¬ 
othy and clover. What difference would 
there be in the ration if these were fed sep- 
arately at different periods in the Winter? 
Washington, Ind. c. l. w. 
From the feeds mentioned you could 
compound a good ration by mixing two 
pound cornmeal, two pounds cotton 
seed meal, and three pounds wheat 
bran, feeding half in the morning and 
half in the evening. You cannot afford 
to feed shipstuff at $1.60. If, however, 
you c»uld get dry brewers’ grains or 
distillers’ grains to use instead of the 
wheat bran it would be an improve¬ 
ment. You could also improve the ra¬ 
tion by adding a little oil meal as a 
laxative. The difference in the results 
obtained, between feeding corn fodder 
and mixed hay depends to a great ex¬ 
tent upon their quality and the way 
they are fed. Of course the hay con¬ 
tains more protein, and will produce 
more milk than the corn fodder if it 
was cut early and kept in good condi- 
It was noticed particularly at the Big 
Rock match that some of the plowmen 
adopted extreme measures to lessen wor¬ 
ry to (he team. For instance, four horses 
of a single team were protected from the 
(lies with coverings that touched their 
hoofs. A fly sting just above the hoof with 
many plow horses is sufficient to make 
them less tractable, and the farseeing plow¬ 
man guarded against the ravages of the 
insects by dressing his animals in long 
aprons that all but touched the ground. 
While most of the plowmen used horses 
well along in years, it has been shown 
time and again that there are plowmen who 
get excellent work from young animals. 
It is a matter of record that in the first 
match of the Big Rock Association Ren 
Thomas carried away the sweepstakes driv¬ 
ing in his team a three-year-old colt. Some 
of the scores were low at Big Rock this 
year, the lowest being 73. There were 
two others below 80. There were five in 
the eighties and three got 90 or above. 
There were 12 contestants, only one man 
entering the walking plow class, and he 
scored only 77. 
The gasoline gang plow got considerable 
attention this year. It is the first year 
that the power implement of this type has 
entered in the contests. The International 
Harvester Company had one of their 
plows turning four furrows at a sweep, 
and making use of two gallons of gasoline 
per acre. This kind of tractor got more 
favor than the weighty steam plow which, 
the Illinois farmers say, packs the land too 
much to produce good plowing. The fea¬ 
tures of this kind of modern plowing that 
seemed to meet favor were that the gaso¬ 
line tractor requires but one man to oper¬ 
ate it, there is no buying or hauling coal, 
or running water wagons. It is still 
claimed that only the larger farms may 
afford to run this kind of implement, but 
the gas tractor comes nearer to a more gen¬ 
eral use than the steam plow. There was 
no lack of interest at either match; each 
drew immense crowds, estimated as high 
as 10,000 people. There were more than 
the usual number of visitors from distant 
States, who greatly were interested in the 
working and the results of these Illinois 
soil-turning contests. J. L. guaff. 
Illinois. 
FEARLESS 
tion. The corn fodder should either be 
cut or shredded and, if dry, it should 
be soaked 12 hours before feeding. 
C. S. GREEN-E. 
NOTES ON PLOWING MATCHES. 
The vicissitudes in the profession of 
high-class plowing were strikingly illus¬ 
trated in northern Illinois within the last 
two weeks. A plowman who on September 
18 was given the championship, winning in 
his class and carrying away the sweep- 
stakes, did not make a sufficient number 
of good points in a contest one week later 
in a neighboring county to be scored at all. 
Three other men plowed ahead of him, 
there being four contestants in the prize 
winners’ class. For more than 10 years 
William Fairweather, of Wheatland, Will 
County, has been winning some of the best 
prizes offered by the Illinois Plowing As¬ 
sociations. On several occasions he has 
held the championship medal, and on his 
own farm is accounted one of the best 
plowmen in the State. At the Wheatland 
match he was scored ahead of all other 
competitors. At the Rig Rock contest just 
one week later, he himself said after he 
had plowed the first round that he “wasn’t 
in it at all." Fairweather had as good a 
team and plow as he ever had, and he 
managed the team in the furrow as he has 
been doing for years, but he made the fa¬ 
tal mistake in estimating the character 
and condition of the land to be plowed. 
The bottom of his plow was not suitable 
for the soil that he was to turn in a 
prize-winning contest. It would not scour 
satisfactorily, and this defect in his im¬ 
plement was sufficient to balk him in his 
best efforts. The same plow used in other 
soils had worked out a complete triumph. 
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There were a good many interesting fea¬ 
tures connected with the two regular an¬ 
nual plowing matches that never fail to 
bring together more than 10.000 people. 
The championship at Rig Rock was won 
by Maurice Williams, who lias one of the 
finest three-year records in the history of 
plowing matches in the State. A silver 
championship trophy to be held perma¬ 
nently by the plowman who would win it 
twice was taken two years in succession 
by Williams, and this year the second cup 
that bad been put on the same conditions 
was carried off by the same soil turner, 
so that he not only has taken one cup, but 
is well on bis way to the winning of a 
second in three years’ time. Williams 
plowed with two mares, one nine and the 
other 10 years old, and with a borrowed 
horse 15 years old that had never plowed 
in any match. Nine judges, forming three 
different sets to cover all of the classes, 
scored this sweepstakes winner 96 points. 
The land was picked out by hundreds of 
farmers as being the winner long before 
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