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Photographing Live Stock. 
“Taking the Cow’s Picture,” page 81: 
You got me interested, and I hunted up 
a cow that proved to be a gentleman; 
but I am wiser now. I set my camera 
in posish and waited for a pose to get 
a side view of the “cow,” when up the 
brute arose and sniffed the air with 
haughty mien and snorted with “her” 
nose. I was anxious for a picture that 
I might send to you; that would repre¬ 
sent this animal in proportion good and 
true. I haven’t got the picture—the 
camera is a wreck; and I’ve got seven 
kinds of kinks a jerkin’ in my neck. 
My nose is scratched, my breeches tore, 
and to make the thing more sad, the 
owner of that gol-dinged “cow” is most 
almighty mad. He says I trespassed on 
his ground—“spiled” the brute’s disposi¬ 
tion and made “her” paw around and 
bawl as though that was her mission. It 
took four men to drive “her” in and 
lock “her” in the barn. And now, thank 
goodness, “she” and I are safe from 
further harm. The man who “posed” 
the cow “just right” and photographed 
her rear had the proper education—if he 
didn’t stand too near. A “side view 
with her head just turned” may be a 
good position, but a full head on with 
tail in air—it stifled all ambition in me 
for photographing cows and beasts of 
high degree, unless I take it from a point 
’mid the branches of a tree—when safe 
from danger and from harm I wait for 
her to pose, and never need to worry 
’bout the tearin’ of my clothes. bill. 
Oleo and the Pennsylvania State Grange. 
I send you two clippings from the “Con¬ 
gressional Record,” one .January 2, page 
749, and the other January 9, page 802. 
So. Dakota. w. h. h. 
R. N.-Y.—This extract from the record 
of the United States Senate shows that 
Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania introduced 
a number of petitions from Granges in his 
State calling for the repeal of the oleo 
law. Upon investigation we found this is 
evidently a mistake. The Pennsylvania 
State Grange has taken a strong stand in 
favor of a tax on colored oleo. Any 
changes called for were with a view of 
strengthening the oleo law. Whoever sent 
these petitions made a mistake in recording 
them. The Pennsylvania Grange is all 
right on oleo. 
Calves and Cobs. 
Until this year I always had more or 
less trouble teaching calves to drink, es¬ 
pecially more when a sudden unexpected 
“bunt” left me with such a beautifully 
swelled lip and nose that the family 
were convulsed every time they chanced to 
look at me, which further increased my re¬ 
sentment toward the “gentle” creature. One 
calf would drink only from a bottle, and 
she came from a temperance family, too! 
That led to the discovery of how to wean 
them without losing either your good 
looks or temper, and now have no trouble 
even with the stubborn ones. We keep a 
supply of corncobs, and if the calf is the 
least inclined to be stubborn hold one in 
the milk with an inch or two of it above 
the milk and they have never refused to 
“take hold.” It is a great improvement 
over having your fingers chewed. After a 
few times they will suck the cobs floating 
on top—the docile ones will do it at first. 
Throw in two or three, as they are apt to 
get impatient and throw one out, and if 
another is right there they will take it and 
not wander off. You will not know the 
vexation this has saved us unless you have 
tried to teach several calves to drink by 
“chewing” your fingers. Another thing that 
saves a lot of bother and expense is using 
a good brand of stock feed, corn, oats and 
barley ground, instead of the special calf 
feeds that are generally expensive and also 
Borne bother to mix. We put our skimmed- 
mllk in a candy pail, add hot water to get 
the right temperature, stir in some stock 
feed and keep stirring while the calf is 
drinking. We add more water and stock 
feed for the older ones that do not need 
the milk, except for a “flavor,” but they do 
need plenty of water. I have four raised 
this way, and they are rather ahead of the 
three older ones raised earlier on an ex¬ 
pensive calf feed and skim-milk. Be sure 
to save plenty of good clover rowen for 
the smaller calves, as they will eat a lot 
before they are old enough to eat much of 
the coarser hay. My youngest is about 
four weeks old, and has eaten a lot already; 
indeed the four are getting what they will 
clean up live times a day. I cannot see the 
advantage of “hay tea” that my neighbor 
uses, as they will begin to eat the rowen 
when very small, and certainly must get 
more nutrition from it than from the small 
amount that goes to make the “hay tea.” 
I used to use it myself. Mine are all eating 
freely of dry stock feed and mixed feed, so 
shall discontinue the food in the drink until 
I get another small one. s. H. s. 
Massachusetts. 
Butter, 25 cents, sold at store, and 30 
cents engaged; milk, 30 cents per gallon 
delivered. Hay, $18 to $20 per ton ; scarce 
at that. Alfalfa shipped in from Nebraska 
as cheap. Corn, 60 cents engaged, but as 
low as 55 cents; retails 70 to 75 cents. 
Wheat, 90 cents; retails at $1 for chicken 
feed. Eggs, 30 to 35 cents. I can buy a 
quarter of beef from farmer at 7% cents 
for front quarter, and 9% cents hind quar¬ 
ter. Hogs at present 5% cents on foot, or 
eight cents dressed. Of course meat prices 
retail at 50 per cent higher. This is a 
mining region with a good agricultural 
country around. Apples from 75 cents to 
$1.50 per bushel shipped in and bought 
wholesale; rather poor. Potatoes from 80 
to 90 cents shipped in. C. O. d. b. 
Eldorado, Ill. 
The following is a list of prices obtained 
for farm produce at sales: Cattle, $30 to 
$45; horses, $175 to $225; pork, eight cents 
per* pound (dressed); chickens, 10 cents 
per pound (live weight) ; hay, $18 per ton; 
straw, $10 per ton ; wheat, $1 per bushel; 
potatoes, $1 per bushel; apples, $1 per 
bushel; butter, 25 to 32 cents per pound; 
eggs, 30 to 35 cents per dozen ; milk, seven 
to eight cents per quart. c. e. m. 
Cochrantown, Pa. 
Auction sales are very few here; prices 
range as follows: Horses, $100 to $175; 
cows, $40 to $60; young cattle from 3% 
to four cents per pound; hogs, five cents 
per pound; chickens, 10 cents per pound; 
eggs, 30 cents per dozen ; butter 25 to 28 
cents; hay, $25 per ton delivered; straw, 
$12; corn, 75 cents a bushel; wheat, $1; 
potatoes, $1.25; oats, 50 cents. No corn- 
fodder or manure sold. J. L. b. 
Santoy, O. 
At auction good milch cows bring from 
$35 to $50; horses from $175 to $225; 
clover hay, $8 to $10; Timothy, $10 to 
$15. Silage has not been sold as far as I 
know. Stable manure is sold at 50 cents 
per load. Commercial fertilizers are not 
used here to any extent. Milk retails at six 
cents per quart; potatoes brought 35 cents 
last Fall and are now 75 cents. Butter 
(dairy) 35 cents, creamery 40 to 42. Eggs 
35 cents per dozen. Oats 50 cents per 
bushel; corn, 70 to 75 cents; bran, $24 
per ton ; corn and oat feed, $31 to $32 per 
ton ; cornmeal, $30 per ton. Hogs, live, six 
cents; dressed, eight cents; chickens, seven 
to eight cents. Alfalfa (shipped in), from 
$20 to $22 per ton, last year as well as 
this. Hay up, all kinds have been much 
higher than usual, clover bringing from $12 
to $15, and 'Timothy as high as $20. in 
fact almost anything a man has the nerve 
to ask. These are Waupaca prices and I 
find the same prices prevail here at Rib 
Lake. Perhaps hay is a little higher here 
owing to the large amounts consumed in the 
lumber camps. It is interesting to see how 
little progressiveness exists among a certain 
class of people. At Waupaca potato diggers 
are used and the rudest method employed, 
where a smaller area is to be dug the six- 
tined fork. Of course that works well and 
a man can do a fair day’s work. But 
where you see a man and his wife and 
daughter down on their hands and knees 
with a manure fork, from which the handle 
has been sawed off, scratching out potatoes, 
as could be seen here last Fall, it has 
reached the limit. When they were shown 
how a six-tined fork could be used they 
shook their heads and thought it would spear 
too many potatoes and kept on in their own 
way. w. r. c. 
Rib Lake, Wis. 
Fat cattle four to six cents; hogs 5% to 
six cents. Horses, good, $100 to $'225; 
milch cows, $40 to $75; hay, $18 to $22 
per ton. Wheat, 95 cents ; corn, 55 cents; 
potatoes, $1 ; straw, $8 per ton. Chickens, 
nine cents per pound; butter, 28 cents; 
milk, six cents a quart; eggs, 35 cents a 
dozen. Apples, 50 to 60 cents per bushel; 
plenty of apples here. No silage sold. 
Hay crop short last year. Corn fair crop. 
Potatoes short crop; not enough for home 
consumption. j. b. 
So. Whitley, Ind. 
At auction sales new milch cows sell 
from $40 to $75. I know of one that sold 
for $81; yearlings from $12 to $20, both 
sexes; two-year-olds, $20 to $30; fat stock 
from four cents to six cents per pound. 
Good horses range from $125 to $225 ; brood 
sows bring six to seven cents a pound. 
Shotes are bid right up to market price 
for fat stock. Hay brings $14 to $16 deliv¬ 
ered per ton. I have never heard of any 
silage or manure being sold; can get 
manure in town for the hauling. Shredded 
fodder $7 to $8 per ton. Milk brings five 
cents a quart in Summer, seven cents a quart 
in Winter, delivered. Farmers get from three 
to four cents when they ship. A good 
many of the farmers around here have sepa¬ 
rators and ship cream ; some make butter, 
which sells this Winter for 30 to 37 cents 
per pound. Corn in shock in field sells-for 
$12 to $17 per acre. Wheat is about $1 
per bushel; oats, 45 cents; rye, 80 cents; 
barley, 80 cents to $1.20. Potatoes, 90 
cents; beans, $3. Farm lands range in 
price from $50 to $100 per acre. Im¬ 
proved farms or improved land, $15 to $30 
per acre. Land has doubled in value in the 
last eight years in this section. Hudson 
is a beautiful little city on Lake St. Croix, 
18 miles from St. Paul. e. h. w. 
Hudson, Wis. 
Changing a Ration. 
Would you suggest a change (if it is de¬ 
sirable) in the grain ration we are feeding 
our cows? We feed a ration of one part 
cotton seed, two parts gluten, two parts 
bran, two parts cornmeal, which costs as 
follows: Cotton seed, $1.65 bag; gluten, 
$1.75; bran, $1.45; cornmeal, $1.50. We 
also feed about 35 pounds of silage per cow, 
and what hay they will eat clean twice a 
day. How can I change the combination 
so as to eliminate the high-priced gluten 
and still have a balanced ration? Our sil¬ 
age will only last through February. Would 
you advise using beet pulp then ? It costs 
us about $30 per ton here. Our cows are 
mostly grade Jerseys, and we separate and 
ship the cream to the creamery. The cows 
giving 25 to 30 pounds a day we feed about 
10 pounds of the grain mixture; those giv¬ 
ing less than 20 pounds we give about half 
the quantity. Do you consider that about 
right? w. E. H. 
Maine. 
We would suggest the following changes 
in your ration. Leave out the gluten and 
add one part cotton seed meal and one 
part linseed meal, making the daily allow¬ 
ance 35 pounds silage, 12 pounds (more or 
less) hay, two pounds cornmeal, two pounds 
bran, two pounds cotton-seed meal, one 
pound linseed. We would consider beet 
pulp at $30 per ton a very expensive feed. 
A good quality of clover hay or mixed hay 
at $15 per ton (or even $20) would be 
cheaper. However, the beet pulp, if soaked, 
would provide that amount of succulent 
food and might in that way have a value 
over and above what we would expect from 
its actual food contents. Ten pounds of 
grain per day for an ordinary grade Jersey 
is pretty heavy feeding. Try seven or eight 
pounds per day and note results, c. s. m. 
Too Narrow Ration. 
Is my ration for cows all right? I am 
feeding at present 100 pounds cornmeal. 
100 pounds bran. 100 pounds sprouts, 100 
pounds cottonseed and a little stock food; 
no silo, all feed dry. I feed hay. 
New York. w. h. m. 
The nutritive ratio of your grain alone 
is very narrow, namely 1 :2.7. Whether it 
is right or wrong in your case depends upon 
the kind of coarse fodder you have to feed 
with it, and the amount of grain and of 
fodder which you feed daily. Your mixture 
is not far from correct; in fact it is very 
good, if you are feeding about eight pounds 
per day of grain and about 20 pounds per 
day of Timothy hay or mixed hay and corn 
fodder. If you have clover bay we would 
recommend the following ration : 20 pounds 
clover hay. four pounds cornmeal, two 
pounds bran, two pounds sprouts per day 
for 1,000-pound cow in milk. c. s. M. 
Ff.edixg in Better Contest. —In reply 
to the inquiry of your correspondent from 
Westbury, N. Y. (page 137), I a in sorry to 
say that I have no record of the feeding 
of the cows that were in the butter contest 
at the Vermont State Fair, but presume 
there was but a little difference in the 
amount of grain fed to each herd. I have 
had at different times in my own dairy 
one or more Jersey cows, and we always fed 
them the same grain ration as we did the 
Short-horns, and as far as I was able to 
judge by observation they ate as much hay 
and coarse fodder as the Short-horn cows, 
and in a majority of cases gave a lighter 
flow of milk. a. n. p. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
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