THE KUKAE NEW-YORKER 
December 14, 
LAXATIVE FOOD FOR HORSES. 
In the feeding of horses the owner 
must take into serious consideration the 
kind and amount of work to be done in 
making up a ration that will prove at 
once economical and nutritious. He 
can afford to feed in one way when the 
horse is idle or doing but light work, 
but this feeding would be wrong and 
wasteful of animal tissues if the animal 
were at hard labor. The food at all 
times must supply a sufficient amount 
of material to maintain the horse with¬ 
out loss of weight. This is the food 
of maintenance. The latter food is suf¬ 
ficient if the animal is idle, but must be 
augmented whenever the animal is to 
perform labor or produce a healthy 
foetus. Where work is expected every 
day the bowels must be so regulated 
that nothing of value is lost. When 
the animal is idle work does not remove 
any surplus nutrients of the food not re¬ 
quired for repair of tissue or actual 
maintenance. If the bowels in the latter 
condition should become constipated 
and the surplus matters are not re¬ 
moved through the kidneys and sweat 
pores, the liver and kidneys become sur¬ 
charged and the blood sluggish and im¬ 
pure. These facts shows the importance 
of a right use of succulent food for 
horses. While the horse is working 
hard the succulent food is a positive in¬ 
jury in that it tends to remove undi¬ 
gested, as a result of laxity of the 
bowels, food nutrients that are daily 
required for formation of muscle sup¬ 
ply or vim and vigor and in other words 
repair of tissue waste. Where, on the 
other hand, the horse is idle, the succu¬ 
lent food may be and usually is required 
to overcome the tendency to constipa¬ 
tion and its accompanying train of evils. 
In the former case the feeding of much 
bran daily might be detrimental, and in 
the latter case it would be useful and 
profitable. The hard-working horse 
keeps its bowels in condition by exer¬ 
cise and utilizes all of the food nutrients 
supplied him so long as his digestive 
organs are kept in good condition. If 
he be fed a bran mash daily he may 
continually suffer from what may be 
called subacute indigestion, and fail to 
derive the proper amount of nourish¬ 
ment from the sound oats given him in 
addition to the bran. When Sunday 
arrives, however, his wonted exercise is 
stopped and he is unable to throw off 
the surplus food nutrients not needed by 
work. If he has been daily fed dry 
bran, he will now be liable to suffer 
from acute indigestion, if given a bran 
mash. 
This being the case, the feeding of a 
bran mash to a horse that has been tak¬ 
ing dry bran throughout the week is a 
dangerous practice. Where the hard¬ 
working horse not fed upon bran, but 
getting large quantities of oats during 
the week, is given a bran mash on Sat¬ 
urday night, the effect will be good and 
the practice is to be commended. Oc¬ 
casional bran mashes are also excellent 
for idle horses when fed upon corn, and 
a small quantity of bran will make the 
crushed oats fed to colts more effec¬ 
tive. We say these things for the rea¬ 
son that bran causes opening of the 
bowels by irritating the bowels. It does 
not give a great amount of nutrients, 
although its analysis would lead one to 
suppose that it was even more nutritious 
than oats. It is indigestible, and passes 
through the intestines in many cases 
wholly undigested. It acts as a laxative 
for the reason that it is a foreign body 
and is thrown off as useless by the ins¬ 
tated intestines. For this reason it is 
an excellent preparation for a physic 
ball, as when fed in the shape of a bran 
mash without any other food for two 
or three feeds the bowels are opened up 
somewhat and rendered fit for the pur¬ 
gative effects of an aloes ball. Carrots 
act in a somewhat different manner. 
They do not prove laxative on account 
of any irritating effect, but on account 
of real succulence, and have the special 
power of acting nicely upon the pores 
of the skin. They may be fed to a 
horse irj poor condition when bran 
would only aggravate the impoverish¬ 
ment. Roots are relished by horses and 
digestible, but bran must be fed with 
caution. dr. a. s. Alexander. 
Dry Stover in Silo. 
A man we do work for is determined to 
put his dry corn stover in the silo. I 
have made it plain he must use water very 
liberally with thorough tramping. I have 
never seen this plan carried out in this 
community. About how much water to 
the hundred bundles should be used? Have 
any of your readers done this and re¬ 
gretted it afterwards? I would like the 
truth about this dry stover business, as it 
bobs up very frequently. h. l. d. 
Pennsylvania. 
Personally we would not put the dry 
stover into the silo, but would shred it 
several times during the Winter and feed 
it dry, with the orts for bedding. If put 
into the silo it must be watered, but the 
amount to use would be a matter of judg¬ 
ment. We would like to hear from those 
who have tried this plan. How much 
water? 
Comparison of Pig Feeds. 
What is the cheapest for the money to 
feed pigs four and six weeks old, wheat 
bran at .$1.75 per hundredweight; meat 
meal analyzing 85 per cent, protein, 7 per 
cent, fat, or meat meal 60 per cent, protein, 
10 per cent, fat, G.7 per cent, bone phos¬ 
phate? The first is $3.50 per 100 pounds, 
the latter $2.45. it. 
North Carolina. 
For the purpose of feeding pigs it is not 
exactly fair to compare the price of bran 
with that of animal meal, as they belong 
to two distinct classes of feeding stuffs, 
and the exclusive use of either one would 
be unsatisfactory, to say the least. Prob¬ 
ably your meat meal, which is said to con¬ 
tain 85 per cent, protein, contains a large 
proportion of dried blood, which decreases 
the fat and increases the protein content. 
I would therefore choose the meat meal 
analyzing 60 per cent, protein at $2.45 per 
hundred, provided you know it is manufac¬ 
tured properly for feeding purposes and not 
for fertilizer. Bono phosphate, bone ash 
and calcium phosphate arc nearly synony¬ 
mous terms applied to ground bone either 
before or after being steamed or chemi¬ 
cally treated. c. s. G. 
Ration for Holstein Cows. 
Will you help me in compounding a ra¬ 
tion for large milking Ilolsteins from the 
following material on hand ? Roughage on 
hand, silage, oat hay, cornstalks and mixed 
hay, about half clover, and about 500 
bushels of ear corn, with mill and power 
to grind same. I can buy brewers’ grains, 
dried, $1.40; distillers’ grains, $1.65; cot¬ 
ton-seed meal, $1.65, and gluten, $1.50. 
Connecticut. w. n. 
You have proper feeding stuffs with 
which to compound very good rations for 
large milking Ilolsteins. I would suggest 
that you feed about 40 pounds of silage 
per day to each cow, dividii'"' t* into two 
feeds for morning and evening, always 
feeding it after milking. At noon give all 
the cut cornstalks, oat hay or mixed hay 
the cows will eat up fairly clean. For 
the grain ration, make a mixture of 500 
pounds dried brewers’ grains, 200 pounds 
cornmeal, 200 pounds cotton-seed meal and 
100 pounds gluten feed, and feed of this 
mixture one pound of grain for each 2% 
or three pounds of milk a cow gives in a 
day. This is a safe and economical method 
of feeding, provided you do not feed any 
heavy feed like cotton seed, gluten or corn- 
meal to cows within three weeks before or 
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