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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 8, 
How to Preserve Brewery Grains. 
In one of your issues a person wished to 
be informed how to keep brewery grains. I 
have used grains for many years, and have 
tried many different ways to preserve them, 
and have become convinced that wet 
brewery grains cannot be kept over Winter 
in good condition. My way is to put the 
wet grains in oak barrels or hogsheads, 
salt them well, and tread or tamp them 
down firmly, then add a couple of pails of 
water to each barrel and leave them un¬ 
covered over night. By this plan they will 
keep about a week in warm weather, but 
to keep them a week or two longer they 
must be covered on top with a number of 
layers of paper and weighted down. The 
best way to keep grains for any length of 
time is to dry them. Steam drying is the 
best way on a large scale, but that is not 
a practical way for the ordinary farmer to 
dry them, consequently a different way 
must be adopted, which is this: (let some 
burlap or any kind of coarse strong cloth 
about five feet square, and spread them on 
the ground in a sunny location, and then 
with a wheelbarrow and a small shovel 
spread the grains as evenly as possible over 
the cloths. If they are spread in the after¬ 
noon they will need no attention until noon 
the following day; then the grains must 
be got together in piles in the middle of 
each cloth and spread out again, and at 
night they can be got together and stored 
if the day be a fair one. By a little ex¬ 
perience they are more easily dried than 
anyone would suppose. Dried grains are 
very coarse, and are not of much value for 
any kind of stock, but if they are ground 
they are good enough for any purpose and 
the animals do not get sick or tired of 
them. The cheapest way for me to get 
power to grind them is by a windmill, and 
thus far the best kind of a mill I could find 
to grind them is a stone mill. I dry my 
grains when they are cheapest, which gives 
mo cheap grains all Winter, fine important 
fact about drying grains is that a farmer 
can have sweet grains to give his stock all 
the time, Summer or Winter, and any sur¬ 
plus he may have may be saved if he so 
chooses. Last Summer I dried enough for 
three cows, a horse and 150 hens for the 
Winter, and did not lose any by my method 
of drying. I use 3% to four quarts of 
ground grains twice a day for each cow, 
and about five quarts for my horse a day, I 
with what other grains would ordinarily 
be given with wet grains. For hens in I 
Winter 1 use some ground grains in place of 
shorts in dry mash, but do not have good i 
results with dry grains fed otherwise. 
Islington, Mass. c. d. 
Dutch Belted Cattle Association. 
The annual meeting was held In New i 
York May 9. The president emphasized the | 
need of weighing and testing the milk of 
each cow and of breeding from mature bulls 
whose daughters have proved the value of 
their sires. Rules for the government of 
an advanced registry were adopted. An 
appropriation of .$<>00 was made for ex¬ 
hibition of Dutch Belted cattle at the Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show. The following officers 
wore elected: President, Dr. H. W. Lance, 
Peapaek, N. .T.: vice-president, Wendel An¬ 
dreas, W. Englewood, N. .T.; supt. adv. 
registry, Dr. II. W. Lance, Peapaek. N. .T.; 
sec’y-treasurer. G. G. Gibbs, Marksboro, 1 
N. J. ; executive committee, Northrop Fow¬ 
ler, Whitestone, N. Y.; Chas. 8. Davison, 
(iO Wall street, New York: L. L. Rasey. 
DeKalb Junction, N. Y. : O. A. Leonard, 
Tolland. Conn.; E. J. Kirby. Covert, Mich. 
Cow Chews Old Boards. 
What Is lacking in a cow’s rations when 
she chews old rotten boards and such, also 
what feed contains such minerals? 
Tyrone, N. Y. w. p. o. 
Chiefly lime and the phosphates. The 
cow has not received in her food the 
proper minerals. The unsatisfied demand 
for them has upset her entire system, 
“every bone aches for food.” Thus she de¬ 
velops these nasty habits. The remedy is 
to give what she craves. This is best done 
by feeding each day a handful of fine bone 
Tneai. Grain, like wheat bran, ground oats 
or oil meal, will also help. Cornmeal is 
the worst feed for such cows. 
Cement Floors for Stalls. 
Will you give me advice about cement 
floors in stalls, as I am about to build a 
barn and would like to have your experi¬ 
ence, and what others think about it. 
Should it run upward or level? If up¬ 
ward, bow much? Should I give more bed¬ 
ding than for wood floors? w. b. 
Claremont, N. II. 
If the inquiry had been made stating 
definitely what kind of stock were to occupy 
the cement stalls, the desired information 
could have been given somewhat easier. 
But ns the stalls are to be built in a barn 
they must be intended for either horses or 
cattle, and I will make my guess that he 
wants the stalls for horses. I will give 
what information 1 can on cement horse 
stalls. Opinions are so varied in regard 
to this particular use of cement one is 
liable to get in a pretty lively discussion 
when recommending them. Personally, I 
would not ask a good faithful horse that 
is quiet in the stable and undergoing hard 
work to stand on a cement floor. On the 
other hand, if I had the kind that are 
continually pawing and tearing their stalls 
up. I would cement and make a thorough 
job of it, too, as it is very annoying to 
step in a hole next the manger while groom¬ 
ing and harnessing. The most satisfactory 
horse stall in my opinion is one leaving 
2% or three feet next the manger for front 
feet to stand on, which should be kept 
filled with good clay which is much better 
for the horse’s feet, and unless the horse is 
pretty uneasy and a habitual pawer, will 
require very little attention as the cement 
will hold it in shape. The stalls should 
be cemented at a grade of 1% inch to 10 
feet, being careful to have the grade uni¬ 
form to avoid liquids standing in the un¬ 
even places. After cementing back as far 
ns the stall proper the intervening space 
behind horses should be cemented level 
back to sill, which makes a very nice sani¬ 
tary and humane stall for our most faith¬ 
ful and abused friend. In warm sultry 
weather the stable can be easily cleaned 
and sprinkled with cold water and will stay 
quite cool all day for the horse when stand¬ 
ing idle. 
As to the amount of bedding, I don't 
think any more would be required for 
cement than wood. When a plank floor 
gets thoroughly soaked with liquids it is 
hard to find anything more foul-smelling, 
and it is so completely soaked it takes 
weeks for one to dry out, but clean a 
cement stall and it is dry in a short time. 
Although the bedding should be used a 
little thicker on cement, I think straw will 
last longer and stay cleaner on cement than 
wood. w. A. B. 
Duuoc Jersey I loos.—The Duroc Jersey 
hog will grow to weigh 250 pounds as 
quickly as any breed raised, I believe, and 
the market about here demands a hog that 
will dress about 200 pounds, that is, to sell 
at the best advantage. A neighbor had 
some Durocs for two years to fat, but last 
year he bought some Chester Whites. lie 
told me this Spring that lie had better get 
Duroc Jerseys even if they cost him more. 
Massachusetts. john f. pesham. 
Scai.es and the Cow.—This story 
comes from the North Dakota Agri¬ 
cultural College.: A boy who was learn¬ 
ing how to test milk at school, tested 
his father’s herd. lie also weighed the 
milk from each eow morning and evening 
and kept a record of it. lie also kept a 
record of the feed given the cows. After 
a while the 14-year-old informed his pa 
that Brindle didn’t give enough butter fat 
to pay for her feed. Pa looked at him 
kind of funny. 'The idea of his boy telling 
him that. Yet hi' did not attempt to con¬ 
tradict the boy. He knew the boy had been 
weighing and figuring. The boy also in¬ 
formed him that Spot was paying a splen¬ 
did profit, and Rosy was not paying for' 
her feed, and so on. What was to be done? 
'The boy’s information was taken and acted 
on. At the end of the year the herd had been 
reduced from 21 to 14 cows by selling the 
poorest and buying some more good ones. 
The 14 gave more profit than the 21. That 
was what a 14-year-old boy could do by 
weighing and keeping accounts. The time 
the boy spent in doing that weighing and 
figuring, only a few minutes a day, brought 
more profit than the day after day of 
work put in by this father. And these 
few minutes of work a day make it pos¬ 
sible for that farmer to increase bis re¬ 
turns year after year. 
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