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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Jane 22, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
MULE PECULIARITIES AND FEEDING. 
Please give me some advice as to feed¬ 
ing mules. I have tried feeding them as 
we feed horses, three regular meals per day, 
but I iind they are not disposed as horses. 
Sometimes they come in tired, and unlike 
a horse they will not eat when tired. Con¬ 
sequently 1 have to turn them to the lot 
before they finish their meal, and as they 
are more nervous in disposition than a 
horse, ofttimes little occurrences about the 
place cause them to neglect their food. 
My experience has been that to put all the 
corn in the lot in a trough, so they can 
eat at leisure during the night proves best. 
(>thers claim this is not best. I would 
like to hear from different experienced mule 
feeders. a. J. C. 
Brandreth, Mo. 
The trouble A. J. C. is having in feed¬ 
ing his mules may come from so many 
sources that it will be necessary to men¬ 
tion a few peculiarities of the mule. 
Mules are not nervous, except chance 
ones that were foaled by nervous, irri¬ 
table mares; but they are extremely 
sensitive, and will object to anything 
tainted, as water, grain or hay that is 
foul, musty or diseased; dirty, sour feed 
boxes and mangers, etc. This is a point 
in their favor, as is their refusing to 
eat when over-tired, as it prevents many 
cases of founder, indigestion and kin¬ 
dred ills. But if the feed is all right 
and everything is clean and wholesome, 
or unless the mules are being asked to 
do more than is fair or were foaled by 
mares of low vitality, the trouble may 
come from habit. When a mule is tired 
his first thought is to find a place where 
he can roll and rub, just as a man hus¬ 
tles for a bath; also, he prefers green 
food to grain or hay as an appetizer; 
now, if he once finds that, by refusing 
his feed, he will get the two things he 
most desires, he is just smart enough 
to act his part. Mules learn very 
quickly. I know a pair of mules that 
will neither eat nor drink anything that 
is not given them by their owner. On 
one occasion, when he was ill, they re¬ 
fused food and water for I think it was 
two days. He is an elderly Scotch 
bachelor and fond of his animals. Even 
his horses will not except food from 
strangers; but any one they know can 
feed them. I suppose starvation would 
force them to yield. 
Average mules require little grain 
usually about half what horses of same 
weight require, but they must have good 
nourishing hay or grass, and time to eat 
it; for they are slow feeders. Alfalfa, 
cowpea hay, clover, any of the legumes, 
come first for the mule. Frequent 
change of grains is desirable, and a 
little oil meal now and then. 
E. A. WENDT. 
COMPOSITION OF GREEN FODDER. 
What is the comparative fooding value 
of the following when cut green for the 
production of milk? Rye, wheat, oats, 
barley, also at what time of year should 
barley be sown? h. f. h. 
Bridgehampton, N. Y. 
In his excellent book on “Forage 
Crops,” Prof. Voorhees gives the fol- 
lowing 
figures for 
green 
crops: 
Carbo- 
Water 
Protein hydrates 
Fat 
Rye . . . 
. 82 
2.1 
9.6 
0.7 
Wheat . 
. 77 
2.8 
11.9 
0.7 
Barley . 
. 77 
2.8 
11.4 
0.7 
Oats . . 
. 75 
3.1 
11.5 
0.7 
Thus oats make the richer forage, 
though barley and wheat are more 
relished by the stock. Rye is the 
toughest of all the grain fodders, and 
if left a little too long will not be 
eaten well. It has the advantage of 
coming first in the season and giving 
a very quick and rank growth. Barley 
is usually seeded about the time oats 
are put in. One good quality of barley 
is that it will grow well in the Fall. 
Seeded in August at the North, this 
grain will often make a good Fall pas¬ 
ture or even give nearly a ton of good 
forage per acre. Thus a mixed seeding 
of barley and rye will give barley hay 
before Winter and leave a crop for rye 
hay for the Spring. 
PEANUT WASTES FOR FEEDING. 
Have you any information as to the feed 
value of peanut screenings (shells, broken 
peanuts, etc.), also peanut blanchings 
(contain good deal of peanut dust or flour), 
also peanut meal (germs of peanuts) ? 1 
have successfully fed the latter to hens 
with good results'. How would the screen¬ 
ings be for hogs, and would the blanchings 
take the place of bran for cows? F. L. d. 
Mechanicsburg, Pa. 
The use of by-products such as peanut 
screenings, peanut blanchings and peanut 
meal is utilized quite extensively in feed¬ 
ing operations in the Southern States, and 
their use is growing in favor among the 
live-stock farmers. For a number of years 
it has been the practice of breeders and 
farmers to turn the swine in the fields and 
allow the animals to feed at will on the 
vegetation. It is known, however, that the 
exclusive use of either peanut meal or pea¬ 
nut blanchings causes soft flesh when fed 
to swine, and the best results are obtained 
by combining these products with standard 
feeds such as corn and middlings. The 
screenings made up largely from the shells 
and broken peanuts are relatively indiges¬ 
tible, and too bulky for use in feeding 
swine, and compare about equally with 
ground corn cobs as far as feeding value is 
concerned. They might add bulk to a con¬ 
centrated dairy ration, but I doubt if they 
could be used to any advantage or with 
any economy. The blanchings and peanut 
meal would supply protein economically, 
and might be used in a dairy ration, but 
I find no experimental records showing 
their relative value and usefulness. I 
doubt very much if the peanut blanchings 
would vary much from the malt sprouts 
as far as analysis and composition is con¬ 
cerned. but whether they could be used in 
the place of bran as suggested by your 
correspondent is a question. There is no 
doubt, however, as to the feeding value 
and usefulness of peanut meal as a source 
or protein in swine feeding, and the famous 
Smithfield hams and those of other brands 
popular and well-known for their fine 
flavor and palatability, are obtained from 
swine fed liberally on such products. I 
would think, therefore, in the absence of 
any positive information to the contrary, 
that the by-products mentioned are more 
suitable for use with swine 'than any other 
class of live stock, and the meal products 
had best be used rather than the bulky 
materials resulting from crushing the 
shucks. 
In case the middlings and meal can be 
purchased on a protein basis, it might be 
possible to substitute these products for 
tankage in a mixture of corn meal and 
middlings as a suitable ration for fatten¬ 
ing swine. The analysis of the products as 
analyzed at this Station; are as follows: 
Peanut bran: 
Crude fat.*. 4.4 
Crude fibre . 14.2 
Protein . 8.5 
Peanut middlings: 
Crude fat . 6.5 
Crude fibre . 39.3 
Protein . 9.7 
Peanut meal and hulls: 
Water . 10.9 
Crude fat . 2.4 
Crude fibre . 62.9 
Protein . 7. 
Ash . 2.1 
Nitrogen free extract. 14.7 
Peanut by-products are known to become 
rancid if exposed to the air for any length 
of time unless they are mixed with the 
hulls and other adulterating products that 
reduce their feeding value, f. c. minkler. 
Hygroma. 
I have a three-year-old Guernsey heifer; 
will soon be fresh with first calf. She has 
a bunch on front of brisket about the size 
and shape of a two-quart fountain syringe 
when full. It is somewhat soft and is not 
grown to brisket, but moves around. What 
is the cause of it and the remedy to re¬ 
move it? I do not know how long it has 
been forming. j. r. 
Washington. 
There is a cyst or sac filled with serum, 
and it has come from bruising of the part 
against the manger or on floor. If a veter¬ 
inarian is employed he will open it at the 
lowest point, evacuate the contents and 
break down adhesions possibly present; 
then inject tincture of iodine and once 
daily pack the cavity full of gauze or oakum 
saturated in an antiseptic solution. Where 
a veterinarian cannot be employed the 
favorite treatment is to run a tape seton 
down through the sac and pull it back 
and forth daily to cause the serum to flow 
out. Tincture of iodine may also be in¬ 
jected two or three times a week. 
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