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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 25, 
CULL POTATOES FOR STOCK FEEDING. 
1. What do you consider cull potatoes 
worth per bushel to feed to milch cow? 
What do you consider them worth to feed 
to horses or to fatten steer and hogs? 
Take into consideration that this is the 
only succulent feed I have. 2. Give me 
a good ration for milch cows, also for 
fattening steer. I have clover hay, small 
potatoes, corn on cob, rye and oats. 
Pennsylvania. E. e. h. 
1. We consider potatoes to be worth 
from 15 to 20 cents per bushel for cattle, 
horses and pigs, the value varying some¬ 
what under local conditions and the 
comparative prices of other feeding 
stuffs. For cows or steers, where no 
other succulent food is available, prob¬ 
ably 20 cents per bushel would be a fair 
price for potatoes. They should be 
cooked and mixed with grain to give 
best results for pigs. This is unneces¬ 
sary for cattle or horses. 
2. The following ration for milch cows 
ought to give good satisfaction: 15 
pounds clover hay; 20 pounds potatoes; 
two pounds corn and cob meal; two 
pounds ground oats; four pounds bran; 
one pound linseed meal—figured for a 
1,000-pound animal. It is not possible to 
compound a first-class ration for milch 
cows from the feeds which you have 
without buying some concentrated foods 
rich in protein. We would, therefore, 
sell the rye and purchase bran and 
linseed meal. If oats are at a premium 
for horses in your section, some of 
them may be sold to advantage. It must 
be borne in mind, however, that oats 
are worth 10 per cent more than bran, 
pound for pound, for cows. If you have 
an abundance of potatoes to dispose of 
you may feed more than 20 pounds per 
day to advantage. If your supply is 
limited it will be better to feed a com¬ 
paratively small amount so as not to run 
out of succulent food entirely before pas¬ 
tures are ready. Possibly bran and lin¬ 
seed meal may not be the cheapest 
sources of protein in your market; in 
that case a substitution may be made. 
c. s. M. 
LAME PIGS. 
For a number of years I have wintered 
from 10 to 20 pigs and about half of this 
number get stiff and lame generally in 
their hind-quarters. Sometimes they get so 
bad they are unable to come to the trough 
to eat, and consequently do not grow, and 
even if they do feed they do not grow 
nearly as well as they should, although 
they seldom die from the trouble. This 
Winter they seem to be worse than ever. 
These pigs are kept three in a place so 
they are not cramped at all. I never let 
them get wet or dirty, as I gave them clean 
straw every other day ; also they are on a 
plank floor. They are feed three times a 
day on middlings mixed up in warm slop 
and are fed no corn or hard feed at all. 
They are fed all the soft coal they will eat 
up clean three times a week, for grit. The 
pens are fairly warm, but lack much sun¬ 
light, as there are only two small windows 
in the whole large pen, and it is quite 
dark. I had another lot that were kept 
in a separate pen under exactly the same 
conditions as the ones that got lame, except 
they had plenty of light and none of this 
lot ever got lame and did exceedingly well. 
I might say I never have such trouble with 
pigs in Summer, or with heavy hogs or 
brood sows in the Winter. These lame 
pigs actually seem to shrink in weight and 
seem to shrivel up to a shadow, and mean 
a great loss to the feeder. Could you give 
the cause and cure of this trouble, or better, 
still a preventive of it? Would you con¬ 
sider this lack of sunlight would have any¬ 
thing to do with it? R. H. R. 
Probably your pigs are suffering from 
rheumatism. See that the pens, especially 
where they make their beds, are kept dry. 
The straw should be changed often; a 
little dry litter is better than a lot of 
damp material. If the cold air can cir¬ 
culate beneath the plank floor this may be 
a cause for the trouble. Try a little change 
of feed, one part of corn or barley meal 
to four parts of the middlings will help 
to keep them warm. We find that a thick 
slop, even when warm, is better for pigs 
in cold weather than too much drink. I 
have seen pigs forced to nearly drown 
themselves in order to take in enough 
solid food to keep alive. A mixture of 
salt and wood ashes helps to keep the di¬ 
gestive organs active, and a few roots once 
a day are very beneficial. Your pen un¬ 
doubtedly needs more light. Let in the sun 
if possible, and see that there is chance 
for ventilation. Dark pens are very apt 
to be damp and poorly ventilated. 
C. s. M. 
The Dairymen’s League. 
The “Dairymen's League” is being agi¬ 
tated in all dairy sections and seems to 
offer the only solution to the question of 
profitable dairying. This League has the 
same plan of action practically as the Cal¬ 
ifornia Orange Growers’ Association, and 
we all know what that association does 
for the orange grower. The Dairymen’s 
League will do Just as much for the 
dairymen if they will only organize and 
get interested, and here in our section of 
Sullivan County we are very anxious to 
do our bit of the shouting if our old 
standby. The R. N.-Y., will help out occa¬ 
sionally. Henry Vail organized a local 
branch of the League at a public meeting 
in Liberty, N. Y., on February 21. He 
has since organized branches at Blooming- 
burg, Luzon, and Livingston Manor, so that 
Sullivan County is fairly well represented. 
We belong to the Liberty Branch, which, 
however, is yet in its infancy on account 
of the small attendance at the public 
meeting, where about 160 cows were en¬ 
rolled on the spot. Then I took the sub¬ 
scription blank and in one afternoon se¬ 
cured 160 more cows. Now several more 
men will go around with the blanks and 
as we are planning for another meeting 
with some good speakers, in the near fu¬ 
ture, I trust that this section will soon be 
as well organized as Orange County is at 
the present time. Now, a word on milk 
prices. You quote 3% cents as New York 
Exchange price. IIow is it that we don’t 
realize anything like that up here? We 
are in the 29-cent zone, I think. Before 
March 1, we received at the Empire State 
Dairy Co.’s creamery at Liberty, $1.37 
per can of 40 quarts. This is a shipping 
station on the Ontario & Western R. R. 
and is supposed to be paying New York 
prices. Since the first of the month the 
price is $1.17 per can, and $1.12 at their 
Stevensville creamery, four miles from Lib¬ 
erty. Just think of it, 2% cents for Win¬ 
ter milk that probably averages four per 
cent butter fat, nine cents a quart to the 
consumer! Not much of a square deal, Is 
it? IIow is it that we are not getting 
the New York quotation price, less one- 
quarter cent for cartage to railroad? 
Ferndale, N. Y. e. o. m. 
Chorea. 
I have a good Scotch collie dog; he has 
what I would call a stroke of paralysis in 
his hind quarters; cannot control his hind 
feet and part of his back. Can you find 
out what I must do for him, as I don’t 
want to lose him? MRS. J. P. R. 
We suspect that the dog has chorea (St. 
Vitus’ dance) which often follows distem¬ 
per and proves practically Incurable. Give 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic in increasing 
doses commencing with three drops at a 
dose twice daily and increasing a drop 
daily. Go back to first dose and repeat 
when any adverse symptom is seen. Also 
give emulsion of cod liver oil twice dally 
and feed well on nutritious foods. Let 
dog live out of doors as much as possible. 
a. s. A. 
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