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U'HS I^UKAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17, 
A DISCUSSION OF COWS. 
We have six cows; two are purebred Jer¬ 
seys, age two years past and one milking, 
one is due to calve in April, the other not 
at all. One of the other four is a grade 
Alderney fresh the forepart of last No¬ 
vember, not yet two years old. These three 
We bought last Fall. The Alderney is ex¬ 
tremely thin and has a very poor appetite, 
sometimes declining to eat at all. Two of 
the remaining three are grades of what is 
known around here as dark Jerseys. One 
is due in May and the other not at all, but 
was fresh last Spring. The remaining cow 
is a grade Holstein and has been milking 
now for almost two years, having lost her 
calf through no fault of hers. She is 
about 10 years old. She is due to calve 
in May. I have just discovered that this 
cow has a small lump between her front 
and back teats on the right side; her udder 
does not seem swollen, nor does anything 
seem to be the matter with her milk. She 
is now giving but a very small quantity 
of milk, but whether it may be due to the 
lump or her having milked so long I do not 
know. She seems bright and brisk and has 
a good appetite. We are feeding corn and 
cob meal, middlings and beet pulp. We 
mix about 200 pounds of corn and cob 
meal with about 100 of middlings, and 
feed about three quarts per cow night and 
morning with about one pint of beet pulp. 
We did use bran instead of middlings, 
but the cows seemed to get thin on’ that. 
I would like to know what would be a good 
ration for these cows. What shall I do 
for the Alderney? What is the matter 
'with the Holstein and how best to treat 
her? Nothing seems to be the matter with 
her milk. The food stuffs available are 
wheat bran, $1.45 per 100; wheat mid¬ 
dlings, $1.75; corn and cob meal, $1.37; 
beet pulp, $1.35: cornmeal, $1.65; suergne, 
$1.35. We feed mixed hay and cornstalks. 
The Jerseys and Alderney are very small, 
the grade Jersey and Holstein quite good 
size. We churn and are selling butter, 
buttermilk and cottage cheese. E. n. b. 
New York. 
1 he corn and cob meal is really much 
more expensive than the cornmeal. I 
believe you will get better results if you 
substitute 100 pounds each of bran and 
cornmeal for the corn and cob meal. 
Otherwise your ration is a good one. 
The amount of feed per cow will, of 
course, depend upon the size of the 
cow and her capacity for producing milk. 
I think the Alderney is debilitated by 
the strain of producing a calf at so early 
an age, and especially 'in the Fall. My 
experience has been that heifers fresh¬ 
ening in the Spring do much better than 
those freshening in the Fall. As she 
does not eat well, you will have to tempt 
her appetite with something she es- 
Pigs and Rape Pasture. 
At occasional intervals of varying time 
our attention is called to some half 
truth that has been printed in good faith 
for a fact. On page 84, article entitled 
“Hogs on Rape and Alfalfa,” in the 
computations there given you will note 
there is no value set on the 30 hogs 
when they were turned on the pasture, 
and as hogs or pigs vary in price ac¬ 
cording to locality, would it not be fair 
to give in such instances along with price 
the age and weight? Assuming that the 
30 averaged eight weeks old, and they 
ought to be that at least before looking 
out for themselves, here in Hartford 
Co., Conn., at that time, they would 
have brought $6 each, making $180, 
which if deducted from the $261 would 
leave but $23.10 per acre profit instead 
of $87 as stated, or if we call them $8 
each we have a profit of $48.86. 
The next man had “fine hogs,” no age, 
weight, or value, but they brought fin¬ 
ished at the rate of $144.38, but how 
came they there? Were they two 
months pigs or yearling hogs? From 
wha't we read they may have been either, 
or some other age; they may have 
weighed 100 or 150 pounds when turned 
on pasture. 
The third case is in a measure more 
definite; here we find one-third of an 
acre furnished feed for nine shotes till 
July, and conditioned them so that they 
were sold at a profit. It also provided 
feed to raise seven more pigs to an 
average of 200 pounds, besides summer¬ 
ing the sow from July first, which we 
might figure out somewhat after this 
fashion according to locality: 
6 weeks feed !> shotes at 25c each.. $13.50 
13 weeks feed 1 sow at 50. 6.50 
1400 pounds pork at 5y 2 c. 77.00 
$97.00 
Less 7 pigs at $3 each. $21.00 
$76.00 
This would be a very good showing 
for some high-priced land. 
I have written this with no desire to 
criticize anyone in particular, simply to 
call attention to the need of care in 
figuring out a statement of profit or 
loss, also the need of stating it in such 
form that it can be adapted to any lo¬ 
cality, for prices vary greatly with lo¬ 
cality. Can you induce Mr. Hunt to 
give us some idea as to the worth of 
the different lots (hogs) mentioned in 
his article, with a fair estimate of their 
weight when turned on pasture? If he 
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touch. Her stomach bulges out and is hard. 
Please let me know what this this and how 
to cure it. She only gives about four 
quarts of milk a day. a. m. 
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