1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1036 
HE SAVED HIS NECK. 
The bronze turkey shown on the first 
page escaped the carving knife this year 
through 'his friendship for the boy. He 
knew his business, and banked well on 
the boy’s influence in that family. 'This 
is the story: 
“The wise old Mammoth Bronze 
shown in the picture, although the 
largest and finest in the flock, escaped 
the Thanksgiving dinner-table by for¬ 
saking the rest of his comrades for this 
little Wyoming County boy. The two 
chums attracted considerable attention 
walking about the farm, the boy always 
upon the turkey’s back, not resting his 
entire weight upon him, but helping him 
with his feet, also.” 
POULTRY PRIZES AT FAIRS. 
1 notice you deprecate the ability of the 
poultr.vmen throughout the State to win 
$50,000 in prizes at the fairs. The visitor 
to a fair can look the birds over to his 
own satisfaction under the present method, 
the same as in other departments. If your 
suggestion of having the judge explain his 
work to the curious can be inaugurated at 
our fairs, some judges will be bothered to 
tell why they do thus and so. Here in 
Orange County the fair management, like 
you, begrudges us our winnings, this, too, 
despite the fact a discriminating entry 
fee of 25 per cent of first prize is charged 
against the poor old hen. Stock comes in 
on a 10 per cent basis, other departments 
no entry fee. A potato or fruit huckster 
comes in and wins a couple of hundred 
dollars and he is called a good fellow; 
a hen man puts up one dollar to win 
two and he is looked upon as a robber. 
At a meeting of the Orange County Poultry 
Association, held recently, our president 
made the assertion that 2,000 county birds 
were on exhibition at the last fair. In 
this ease at least “a comparatively few” 
do not win all the money. In order to 
encourage turkey raising they raised the 
value of the first prize from $3 to $5 per 
pair, a most literal premium, no one can 
deny. In order to discourage hog raising 
they still continue to pay $5 first prize on 
a hog, where other fairs pay $10. 
GEO. E. 1IOWELL. 
R. N.-Y.—We do not “begrudge” poultry 
men their winnings. We would like to 
see the fight of way given to local or 
county exhibitors of all kinds of stock or 
produce. Why should some judges “be 
bothered to tell why they do thus and so?” 
Moving Field Stones.— Take tomato 
baskets, second hand can be had cheap, 
pick the stones in them, load with baskets, 
empty where desired. In this way they 
can be moved expeditiously with little hand¬ 
ling. Where stones are plentiful and 
small they can be raked in heaps with an 
iron rake, shoveled in the baskets and 
easily disposed of. w. h. s. 
Pine Grove, Pa. 
R. N.-Y.—IVe have seen fruit and vege¬ 
table crates used for. the same purpose. 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this heading -we endeavor to give advice 
and suggestions about feeding mixtures of grains 
and fodders. No definite rules are given, but the 
advice is based upon experience and average 
analyses of foods. By “protein” is meant the 
elements in the food which go to make muscle or 
lean meat. “Carbohydrates” comprise the starch, 
sugar, etc., which make fat and provide fuel for 
the body, wuile “fat” is the pure oil found in 
foods. “Dry matter” means the weight of actual 
food left in fodder or grain when all the water is 
driven off. A “narrow ration” means one tn which 
the proportion of protein to carbohydrates is close 
—a “wide” ration means one which shows a larger 
proportion of carbohydrates. 
The following analyses are used in figuring 
rations: 
Dry 
Feeding Stuff. Matter. 
Corn fodder, green. 20.T 
Corn fodder, cured. 57.8 
Mixed hay.87.1 
Red clover hay. S4.7 
Timothy hay. 80.8 
Alfalfa hay. 91.6 
Corn meal . 85. 
Distillery grains, 
dry, principally 
corn.93.2 
Wheat bran. 88.5 
Cotton-seed meal.. 91.8 
Linseed meal, O. P. 90.8 
Hominy chops.88.9 
Buckwheat mid- 
lings .88.2 
Brewers' grains, 
dried.92. 
Pro¬ 
Digestible 
Carbo¬ 
tein. 
hydrates. 
Fat. 
1.1 
12.08 
.37 
2.34 
32.34 
1.15 
4.22 
43.26 
1.33 
7.38 
38.15 
1.81 
2.89 
43.72 
1.43 
10.58 
37.33 
1 -38 
6.26 
65.26 
3.50 
21.93 
38.09 
10.83 
12.01 
41.23 
2.87 
37.01 
16.52 
12.68 
28.76 
32.81 
7.06 
8.43 
61.01 
7.06 
22-34 
36.14 
6.21 
19.04 
31.79 
G.0* 
A Dairy Ration. 
Will you give me a balanced ration - for 
a 1.000-pound cow from the following: 
Cornmeal, wheat bran, white middlings 
(or red dog), oil meal and good mixed hay. 
Pennsylvania. w. a. k. 
Here is a balanced ration, composed 
of the feeds you mention, which can 
be safely fed to a 1,000-pound cow with 
good results: 
Digestible. 
Dry 
Tro- 
Carb. 
Feeding Stuff. 
matter. 
tein. 
& Fat. 
18 lbs. mixed 
hay 
(partly clover) 
_15.66 
1.116 
8.28 
*> 
llis. cornmeal... 
_ 1.78 
.158 
1.528 
4 
lbs. wheat bran.. 
.... 3.52 
.488 
1.812 
2 
lbs. wheat middlings 1.76 
.256 
1.214 
2 
lb. oil meal. . .. 
_ 1.82 
.586 
.97 
24.54 
2.604 
13.804 
Nutritive ratio, 1:5.3. 
If, however, your mixed hay con¬ 
tains no clover, your ration will be 
deficient in protein. This can be sup¬ 
plied by substituting Alfalfa hay for 
about one-third of the mixed hay, or if 
Alfalfa is not available, you should sub¬ 
stitute one pound of cotton-seed meal 
in place of one pound of cornmeal to 
make up the deficiency in protein. 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
1 wish to get some information about 
a ration for milch cows. I am at present 
feeding the following ration to produce 
three gallons of milk per day : One pound 
cornmeal, five pounds wheat bran, three 
pounds linseed meal, one pound cotton¬ 
seed meal, 40 pounds corn stover. I find 
that this ration will produce the full 
amount of milk, but it costs me too much 
. to feed. I wish to work ki as nano* corn- 
meal as possible, as I can have my own 
corn ground, and I wish to retain the 
cotton-seed, as I think it gives me a firmer 
butter than a ration that does not con¬ 
tain it. I have nothing but corn fodder 
- to feed this Winter, but intend putting 
up a silo next season. R. 
Maryland. 
Here is the analysis of the ration you 
are feeding and cost of the purchased 
feed, which it contains at New York 
prices: 
Digestible. 
Dry Pro- Carb. 
Feeding stuff. matter, tein. and fat. Cost 
1 
lb cornmeal.89 
.079 
.764 
5 
lbs wheat bran. 4.40 
.64 
3.035 $.065 
3 
1 
lbs. linseed meal 2.73 
lb. cotton seed 
.879 
1.455 .057 
meal .02 
.372 
.444 .018 
40 
lbs. corn stover. 24.00 
.368 
13.76 
32.04 
Nutritive ratio 1 :7.3 
2.65 
19.458 $.14 
You will see that this ration has a 
nutritive ratio of 1:7:3, which is much 
wider than it should be to produce the 
best results. It is also a very expensive 
ration, caused by using wheat bran at 
$26 per ton, which is more than it is 
worth for this purpose. From the fig¬ 
ures given, we find that you are feed¬ 
ing your cows nearly 33 pounds of dry 
matter instead of 24 pounds, which is 
the standard for a 1,000-pound cow. It 
appears that your corn stover must 
have been weighed while wet, as 25 
pounds of dry -stover is all a common 
cow requires with a good grain ration 
to produce 12 quarts of milk a day, and 
part of this is sometimes wasted. You 
, cannot get the full feeding value out 
of the stover unless it is cut or shredded. 
If you want to feed all the cornmeal 
you can I would advise you to increase 
the amount to three pounds or five 
pounds, if you have the cob ground with 
the corn. The following ration will 
produce better results than the one you 
are using, and it will save you $.023 
a day on the purchased feed for each 
cow, or over $8 a year, which is quite 
an item if you have many cows. 
Dry 
Pro- 
Carb. 
Feeding stuff, matter. 
tein. 
and fat Cost. 
25 lbs. corn 
stover .15.00 
.425 
8.60 
4 lbs. Ajax flakes 3.68 
.024 
2.611 
$.062 
1 lit. linseed meal .008 
.287 
.4869 
.019 
2 lbs cottonseed 
meal . 1.84 
.744 
•S88 
.036 
5 lbs. corn & cob 
meal . 4.25 
.22 
3.325 
25.678 
2.60 
15.91 
$.117 
Nutritive ratio 1 :6.1. 
When you get your silo you can dis¬ 
continue feeding the oil meal and save 
its cost. Of course, you will under¬ 
stand that in feeding this ration, as with 
any other, each cow must be feed ac¬ 
cording to her individual ability to di¬ 
gest the food and produce a profitable 
amount of milk and butter. 
C. S. GREENE. 
ALFALFA AND SILAGE FOR COWS. 
With plenty of Alfalfa hay and good si¬ 
lage the feeding problem, page 996, is not 
very difficult. The dry corn fodder is the 
worst proposition. If you have a cutter 
I think it would be best to cut *the stalks 
as fine as you can, and mix them with 
the silage as fast as you feed it. I 
would get rid of the dry stalks as soon 
as possible, as they are more palatable 
early in the season. From 24 to 30 
pounds of silage is a good feed per day 
for a Jessey cow, and probably five or 
more pounds qf dry corn fodder could 
be worked in. In addition to this I 
would feed all the Alfalfa hay each cow 
would eat up clean, and the grain ration 
should be according to the capacity and 
characteristics of the individual cow. 
If the corn in the silo was mature and 
heavily eared there is probably all the 
fat in it that is needed, and even too 
much for some of the more beefy in¬ 
clined cows, in which case the amount 
of silage should be cut down if cows 
begin to get too fat. On the other hand, 
if corn was planted thick, and was put 
in silo without ears and in an immature 
condition, it may be necessary to feed 
cornmeal to keep some of the thin- 
fleshed deep-milking Jerseys up in good 
working flesh. 
As a ration given at random, I might 
suggest 20 pounds Alfalfa hay, 24 
pounds of silage, either mixed or un¬ 
mixed with dry fodder, two pounds of 
cornmeal (if cows are thin), four 
pounds bran, two pounds oil meal and 
four pounds gluten feed. I do not like 
to formulate rations, for cows are so 
different in temperament and capacity 
that a ration fitted for one cow is very 
bad for another. One must know his 
cows and be with them from day to day 
to be successful with them. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Thirty-five Polled Jerseys, including a 
number of calves, brought $2,711 at a pub¬ 
lic sale at Yellow Springs. Ohio, on October 
26. Cows and heifers in milk averaged $100 
per head, and bulls old enough for service 
$114. 
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