1908. 
<THEC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
446 
A TALK ABOUT FEEDING. 
The discussion of a grain ration for milch 
cows always interests me, as I raise only 
hay and some corn fodder, and buy all the 
grain fed. Part of the time I sell my milk 
to a peddler and part of the time I separate 
it. For several reasons I am firmly op¬ 
posed to buying a ready-mixed ration. I 
do not care to try “the latest dairy feed,’’ 
as one firm said to me in my search for a 
brewers’ grains. I taste and smell my cow 
feed, and sometimes it is rancid or bitter, 
or too much salt, and sometimes it is saw¬ 
dust and corncob sold for mixed feed, and 
the cows throw the pails in all directions, 
and the dealer takes back the feed and sells 
it to some one else. I found that Fourex 
and gluten or Fourex and cotton seed gave 
the best results, and last Fall and fore¬ 
part of Winter I could get the Fourex 
Now must I go back to bran and gluten or 
bran and cotton seed? I never feed ground 
feed dry to anything. I always feed it 
dampened in pails with a teaspoonful of 
salt, and much of the tuberculosis is in¬ 
duced by a dry ration, for they certainly 
draw in with their breath enough to do 
injury to the membranes. I prefer to mix 
the grain and salt it myself, and I do not 
want to take the opinion of a grain dealer 
on what I shall feed my cows. He sets 
the price of what I purchase. That is suffi¬ 
cient. I enclose some correspondence I have 
had in regard to this, and you perceive they 
thought me skeptical in regard to the truth 
of statements by the grain dealers here. I 
am certain they are all for selling “Union 
grains’’ or some other ready-mixed feed. 
I have tried Union grains and do not wish 
to continue the use of it. You see I feed 
in pails, and dampen it, not a sloppy feed 
with water only; when I feed the milk back 
to the cows I have it quite wet. I enclose 
a notice of a milking machine. Do you 
know anything about it? If it did not milk 
any faster than I do it would be a change 
and rest from milking by hand. c. s. m. 
Vermont. 
You are certainly sound on the ques¬ 
tion of mixed feeds. Would that all 
others were equally so.| To listen to 
the claims of those selling them, one 
would think the makers were philan¬ 
thropists, very zealous for the welfare 
of the farmer and anxious to save him 
labor, with their complete or balanced 
(?) rations. It depends on what one 
has in the other side of the scale to 
know what will balance, yet they send 
the same to you with your hay and 
corn fodder and to me, with silage and 
oat and pea hay. As a rule the 
mixture is made either to sell something 
that we would not buy at all alone (if 
one knew it) or to obtain a higher 
price in the mixture than could be ob¬ 
tained separately. I have fed both 
“Fourex” and “Union grains.” Both are 
good. The former contains more than 
36 per cent of protein, the element that 
we usually need to buy, the latter 24 
per cent. Both sell at substantially the 
same price. The Union grains are 
slightly more palatable. It certainly is 
much cheaper to get the extra 12 per 
cent of protein for the same money, 
and, mixed with it, the more palatable 
foods. The Fourex is not so much in 
evidence, because the makers find it 
more profitable to make the “Union” 
and sell them in that way. I am much 
amused and interested, too, in the state- 
men in the letter enclosed; that Fourex 
is scarce because the prohibition move¬ 
ment is shutting up the distilleries. I 
would to God it were true. We would 
then save enough in other lines to afford 
to feed bran. In any event it is the 
handwriting on the wall that impels the 
whiskey man to try to enlist sympathy 
and support from the farmers. 
It is hard to say just what you can 
best substitute, for I don’t know what 
you can get, and the cost. Bran and 
middlings are too expensive at present 
prices, excellent and safe as they are. 
Gluten is a splendid milk producer, 
but lacks fat and bone material. Cot¬ 
ton-seed and linseed meal are the cheap¬ 
est feeds on the market to-day, con¬ 
sidering what they contain, but are too 
heavy or concentrated to feed alone. The 
ordinary dried brewers’ grains or malt 
sprouts make a good “lightener” with 
them, are safe and good milk producers. 
Buy them, as all feeds by the analysis 
they bear. Be sure the malt sprouts are 
bright straw color, free from dirt. 
I will have to criticize your sound¬ 
ness on the damp feed and tubercu¬ 
losis germs. If the latter are present 
the cow will inhale them, whether the 
food is wet or dry. I have tried many 
times the wetting of feeds, with the ex¬ 
ception of malt sprouts, which must be 
soaked to swell them. The cows will 
give as much milk on the grain dry as 
wet unless you scald it. When they 
take it dry the saliva is secreted with 
it, in nature’s way, and digestion begins, 
as it should, in the mouth. When you 
feed back the skim-milk, which is good, 
you must, of course, dampen the food, 
unless they will drink it, and all cows 
will not. At present I am wetting malt 
sprouts with it. I do not believe you 
would better bother with a milking ma¬ 
chine unless you have a number of 
cows and are able to invest a good 
bit of money in the outfit. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Obstructed Teats. 
I would very much like your advice con¬ 
cerning a valuable iive-year-old Ayrshire 
cow. Slio freshened about three weeks ago, 
and has a “kernel’’ in both front teats. 
They must have formed there while she was 
dry, as I never noticed them before. They 
are small now, and one does not bother, 
but in the other teat the passage is partly 
closed. What would you advise me to do? 
Can they be successfully removed by a com¬ 
petent veterinary surgeon? If so, when 
would be the best time to do it? H. h. 
New York. 
If the obstructions are close to the ends 
of the teats they may safely be slit through 
in four different directions by means of a 
teat bistoury, by preference to be used by 
a qualified veterinary. If the “kernels” are 
high up in the udder, treatment by slitting 
is dangerous, being likely to involve the en¬ 
tire udder in a serious inflammation. With¬ 
out seeing the case we are unable to say 
just what should be done, and under the 
circumstances the best course therefore will 
be to trust to the judgment of an experi¬ 
enced practitioner. Serious operations upon 
the udder should, however, be undertaken 
when the cow is dry. a. s. a. 
Tumor in Udder. 
The cow with the hardness in her udder 
I wrote about some time ago is still here 
with the lump. I have been using iodine 
ointment on it once a day, but the lump is 
still there, not any larger, and still no 
smaller. There is no competent veterinary 
here so I thought I would first try the 
ointment. I cannot think she has tuber¬ 
culosis, as she looks so healthy and gives 
such an abundance of nice rich milk. When 
I milk her she steps about and draws her 
udder up as if it hurt her to be milked. 
Her coat is all right and breathing good. 
Wlmt rnusf I do? She is a valuable cow, 
and I would like to know if I can get her 
value if she has tuberculosis m. e. w. 
Missouri. 
Apparently external applications will 
have no effect, and the cow certainly should 
be tested with tuberculin as previously ad¬ 
vised, although such tumors also may be 
due to actinomycosis. Tuberculosis of the 
udder may be present, and the cow yet be 
in apparently perfect health. If the disease 
is there the milk is unsafe for use ; if the 
tumor is not due to tuberculosis it should 
be let alone. Evidently it would be best to 
have the test applied, and you can do it 
yourself with proper instruction, to be had 
by writing the veterinarian of your State 
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