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SFEJEO RURAIb NEW-YORKBB 
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Feeding for Rich Milk. 
Can you food cows so as to improve the 
quality of milk? w. H. M. 
Lyons, N. Y. 
No—only to a very limited extent. It 
seems to be fully demonstrated that each 
cow has a distinct character in this—giv¬ 
ing milk of a certain definite quality. This 
will change somewhat as she come near 
to calving, but in general extra feed will 
make her produce mare milk and not a 
different kind of milk. If feed would in- 
fluence milk so freely it would be easy to 
make Holstein cows all give rich milk. We 
know that some of them do not even come 
up to the standard. 
Corn Stover in Silo. 
H. L. D., page 1256, asks about putting 
dry corn stover in the silo. While we 
have never put dry stover in the silo, 
once because we could not avoid it our 
silo corn lay on the ground a week with 
every day of the time hot sunshine. We 
did not use water and had considerable 
firefanged and moldy silage. A friend 
who had one silo in use bought another, 
but did not put it up. He filled the one 
silo, fed it nearly out, and then filled it 
again early in the Winter from the corn 
standing in shocks in the field, using con¬ 
siderable water. A short time afterward 
we met him and asked him about it. lie 
said “Say, we made an awful mistake in 
not getting the other silo up last Fall; 
we have a bad mess up there.” We have 
seen silage that came from a silo that had 
been refilled in the Fall two weeks from 
first filling from corn cut at time of the 
first filling, that was more or less burned 
and moldy where no water was used. 
' _C. B. 51. N. 
Ration for Heifers. 
I am raising 10 heifers; they are Hol¬ 
stein grades and about six months old. 
What would be a good ration for them 
during the Winter? What to feed and how 
much each at a feeding, is what puzzles me. 
Carmel, N. Y. o. v. s. 
As you will probably use such roughage 
as you have on hand for these young heif¬ 
ers, their grain ration will need to corre¬ 
spond. Should you be fortunate enough to 
have sufficient good clover or Alfalfa hay, 
they will do well with little or no grain, 
but, if they must eat corn stover or Tim¬ 
othy or other inferior hay, they should 
each have at least two quarts daily of 
ground feed, which might well be made up 
of equal parts of corn and oats ground to¬ 
gether and mixed with an equal weight of 
wheat feed. Your object should be not to 
fatten these calves, but to keep them at all 
times in a condition of thrifty growth. 
51. B. D. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The fifth week of the second contest 
shows 698 eggs produced, a gain of 75 
eggs over the previous week. This brings 
the total up to 2,269 for the five weeks. 
Any breeder who is keeping 500 birds can 
see how this compares with li is record. 
But the many pens that have hardly com¬ 
menced laying yet makes the average per 
bird pretty low, being only 4.5 eggs per 
bird. Compare this with Thomas Barron's 
pen average of 22.5 per bird. Barron’s pen 
of English White Leghorns lead all the rest 
again this week, the individual score being 
0-4-4-5-6, a total of 25. Iiis five birds have 
now laid a total of 111 eggs, and they have 
held the first place every week since the 
contest began, but were tied for first place 
the first week by the Brown Leghorns of 
A. 1*. Ilillhouse, Quebec. Either Mr. Bar¬ 
ron has extraordinary good luck in picking 
his best birds for the contests, or else he 
has a strain of layers that surpass any¬ 
thing we have here. The birds he entered 
in the first contest took the lead at the 
start and held it until some time after 
their number was reduced by death to 
four. I shall write Mr. Barron to see if 
he will raise and ship to this country a 
lot of male birds of his strain to be used 
as breeders here. We go to the Channel 
Islands for our best Jersey cows, and to 
France and Belgium for our Perclieron 
horses; now it seems we must go to Eng¬ 
land for our best laying hens. 
Edward Cam of England is tied for sec¬ 
ond place by the White Leghorns of Brae- 
side Poultry Farm, from Pennsylvania, and 
the Glen View Farm’s (Connecticut) Rose 
Comb It. I. Iteds, each of these pens having 
laid 22 eggs. Frank Toulmin’s White Leg¬ 
horns, from England, laid 20, and It. A. 
Morrison’s Leghorns from Ontario laid 20, 
as did the White Wyandottes of E. II. 
Pohle, Pennsylvania. Of the 2,269 eggs 
laid in these five weeks, White Leghorns 
have produced more than half, their total 
being 1,202. This is an average per pen 
of nearly 28 eggs. The four pens of White 
Orpingtons, however, have exceeded this, 
their pen average being 32.75. The Rose 
Comb It. I. Iteds have also exceeded the 
Leghorns, their average per pen being 29.5. 
The Single Comb Reds have averaged 22, 
the Buff Leghorns 24.6, the White Wyan¬ 
dottes 19.9, the White P. Rocks 17, and 
the Barred Rocks 10.75. Two pens of the 
Barred Rocks have laid respectively 32 and 
30 eggs; the other six pens of that breed 
have only produced 24 eggs up to date. 
In total production for the five weeks 
Edward Cam’s English White Leghorns 
stand next to Thomas Barron’s, their total 
being 91 eg’gs, and the third place is held 
by Smith Bros, of Pennsylvania with a 
total of 85. White Acres Poultry Ranch, 
Pennsylvania, holds fourth place with a 
total of 76, by their White Orpingtons, and 
Braeside Poultry Farm, Pennsylvania, is 
fifth with a score of 73. 
Edward Cam also enters a pen of Whiti 
Wyandottes, and those stand at the head 
of that breed as the best layers so far. 
their score being 60 eggs, as against 42 
for tlie next highest score of that breed, 
by E. II. Pohle of Pennsylvania. Not all 
tlie English birds go to the top. though ; 
the pen of White Wyandottes entered by 
Will Barron of England have laid only 
seven eggs to date. The W. Wyandotte 
hens from Beulah Farm, Ontario, birds 
that were in the first contest, have laid 26; 
41 out of the 43 pens of White Leghorns 
are now laying. The breeds which have 
not yet commenced are the Silver Wyan¬ 
dotte'S, Buff Wyandottes, Blue Andalusians, 
Black Orpingtons, White Laced Red Cornish 
and the Buttercups. White Leghorns are 
showing up as good Winter layers, both in 
the first contest and in tills; better than 
•ome of the American breeds. 
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The business of the steer-raising farmer is to turn feed 
into beef at the lowest cost and in the shortest time. But 
the fattening steer wastes a good portion of his ration, which 
is the reason why you let your hogs follow the steers to get the whole 
grain which they pass off as waste. 
The cause of this waste is poor digestion—the inability of the animal to ex¬ 
tract from its ration, in proportion to the large amount consumed, those nutrients which 
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