THE RURAL NEW-Y0P?KB:R 
January 18, 
78 
INFORMATION ABOUT SOY BEANS. 
On page 1263 is an article on the Soy 
bean which is interesting to me. I have 
been growing the Soy bean several years 
now, and find it very profitable in a 
small way, but I have met with difficul¬ 
ties that the writer of the article re¬ 
ferred to does not seem to have had. 
We find it almost impossible to cure it 
when cut for hay, and to save the seed 
except in small quantities is almost im¬ 
possible, and no kind of stock will touch 
the straw as feed. We plant the large 
Yellow Mammoth variety principally, in 
rows about 30 inches apart, and the 
yield is as much as 30 to 50 bushels per 
acre. When cut for hay it is done when 
pods are just about grown, but it lies 
so compactly that it will not cure out 
even when not raked at all for several 
days. We use no tedders. We have 
made hay from it by turning land after 
grain, and mixing the beans with cow 
peas, using about one-half bushel seed 
per acre, then crab grass comes in with 
it, and it improves the hay, but we get 
but little of the beans or pea hay. When 
wanted for seed we wait to cut until 
leaves are off the plants, the pods near¬ 
ly dry, but stems still green, and we 
thrash as soon as cut, for if we do not 
the pods burst and seed is all lost. The 
beans then seem dry, but if not spread 
very thin, and very carefully stirred 
for two weeks or more, will damage so 
as to be unfit for seed or feed. We 
use them principally for hogs, turning 
them on when beans are hardly grown, 
and they eat them greedily and thrive 
on them when given a small amount of 
corn with them. 
We also find Soy beans good for 
horses or cows in the green state. In 
1911 I thrashed 40 bushels from seven- 
eighths acre, and as they seemed dry 
I spread them on a floor 16 feet square, 
opened two windows and a door, and 
gave them no further attention, and 
had to buy my seed for this year. If 
left a few days too long before cutting 
for seed they will all pop out. Now, 
will Mr. Markley tell me how to man¬ 
age them for hay and seed, as 1 should 
like very much to grow them for both? 
I will state that we have found, no mat¬ 
ter when we plant, whether in May or 
as late as the middle of August, that 
the pods came at the same time, about 
September 15, but attain greater size 
and produce more seed when planted 
earlier. They produce the nitrogen¬ 
gathering nodules in abundance with¬ 
out inoculation, but the cow pea, Lima 
and snap beans have been grown here 
for a very long time. I am along the 
Atlantic Coast, about 50 miles off, and 
while as a general thing we have but 
little rain in September or October, at 
the time we would have to make hay, 
we have very heavy dews, the fog often 
being so dense as to render objects in¬ 
visible even short distances away, not 
lifting until 9 or 10 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing. J. o. LOFTIN. 
North Carolina. 
CONCENTRATES WITH HOME FEEDS. 
I have big 1 strong grade cows weighing 
about 1,100 pounds, and have a quantity 
of corn and barley that I wish to grind for 
feed. I have good silage, corn fodder, 
bean fodder, clover hay, wheat, oats and 
barley straw, and would like to know 
what’ to buy to mix with corn and barley 
meal to get most milk. J. C. C. 
New York. 
All of your feeds are relatively low in 
protein; therefore in order to balance the 
ration vou need to supply something to 
make up the deficiency. Cotton-seed meal, 
which contains 37 per cent, digestible pro¬ 
tein generally is one of the cheap sources 
of protein. I do not recommend feeding 
cotton-seed meal to “strippers,” that is, 
cows about to come in, nor within 10 
days to two weeks after freshening. It 
should be mixed with a more bulky feed, 
such as ground barley, and if mixed in 
the proportion of 100 pounds cotton-seed 
to 100 pounds corn and barley meal, 
should give good results. Oil meal may 
be substituted for cotton-seed meal with 
about equally good results, but the price 
of oil meal has been prohibitive of late. 
Gluten feed with 23 per cent, digestible 
protein is also a good source of protein, 
is highly relished by cows, and seems to 
give excellent results. Other protein feeds 
are distillers’ dried grains, 25 per cent, 
digestible protein ; buckwheat middlings, 22 
per cent.; dried brewers’ grains, 16 per 
cent., and wheat bran, 12 per cent. For 
growing stock, and dry cows about to come 
in a mixture of equal parts wheat bran 
and barley meal would make an excellent 
ration, but for cows in full flow of milk, 
bran would not be worth anywhere near 
as much as some of the feeds higher in 
protein. With a mixture of one-half to 
one-third corn and barley meal, the rest 
one or two of the protein feeds I have 
mentioned, five to eight pounds a day per 
cow should be a good ration. A general 
rule is one pound of grain to three or 
four pounds of milk, but after all this is 
pretty indefinite, for who can tell whether 
a cow's capacity is 15 pounds or 40 pounds 
a day, until he has fed her to her full 
capacity? Not knowing what feeds you 
can get, nor the prices, I have not laid 
out a definite ration. However, 1 have 
given them in about the order of their 
value, and you can tell for yourself which 
are the best to buy. As to roughage, cows 
should have all they will eat with good 
relish. This can best be determined by 
the feeder. Wheat straw has very little 
feeding value, about four-tenths of one 
per cent, digestible protein, with a nutri¬ 
tive ratio of 1.93. It is scarcely worth 
eating, if you are not absolutely obliged to 
feed it. c. l. m. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Unthrifty Horses. 
What can we do to better the condition 
of our horses? Our team will weigh about 
2000 pounds. We thought they had every 
indication of worms, but we have given 
them brown sugar followed by a bran mash 
several times, then we have fed them to¬ 
bacco, also gave them tobacco infusions, but 
with no results. We are feeding four 
quarts of cob meal, and three-quarter 
pound of oil meal a day. At present we 
are feeding corn fodder, but they seem to 
do as well on it as they did on hay. 
Michigan. ‘ j.‘ r. s. 
The feed is unsuitable and inadequate. 
Feed five parts whole oats and one part 
wheat bran, dampened with water, and-in 
addition feed ear corn at noon. Feed 
mixed clover hay in place of corn fodder. 
To each horse feed as a day’s ration, by 
weight, one and one-third pounds of grain 
mixture and one and one-quarter pounds of 
hay, per 100 pounds of body weight of 
horse. Allow free access to rock salt. Do 
not give medicine of any kind, as plenty 
of good feed is all that the horses need. 
a. s. A. 
Lame Horse. 
My horse has been lame more or less all 
this season in right front quarters. Veter¬ 
inarian doctored for strained tendon with¬ 
out results: he favored shoulder and 
flinched considerably when touched on mus¬ 
cles of shoulder. I have used many lini¬ 
ments, also steamed shoulder with hot 
water, witch hazel and arnica; not much 
improvement. lie has always been used 
as a saddle horse, but during the hay and 
harvest, 1 put the horse in team and 
worked him right along. In the hot 
weather he would sweat considerably and 
get over lameness but after a while get 
lame again. Within the last two months 
I put two blisters on shoulder and leg, 
used cerate of cantliarides; he is still 
lame. The horse is kept in light box stall 
and has the best of care. M. g. 
New York. 
Without an examination we are quite un¬ 
able to give a confident opinion as to the 
cause or seat of lameness of mysterious 
character. It strikes us as likely, however, 
that the lameness is not located in the 
shoulder, as so much treatment has had 
no lasting effect. If the horse points his 
foot forward when standing at rest the foot 
is the seat of the lameness and we would 
clip the hair from the hoof-head and blister 
repeatedly with cerate of cantliarides at in¬ 
tervals of two or three weeks, a. s. a. 
Knuckling. 
I have a colt four years old, broken last 
Spring, and worked this Summer but not 
too hard. lie stands with cocked ankle 
part of the time, sometimes one foot, then 
the other. Can you give me a remedy 
to stop him doing this? h. a. 
New York. 
Overfeeding and prolonged standing on 
a dry, board floor induces this condition 
in a growing colt. Make the colt run out 
doors daily and occupy a dirt floor box 
stall when in stable. Hand rub the fet¬ 
lock joints and back tendons twice daily, 
and bandage each time colt comes into 
stable. a. s. a. 
Catarrh. 
I traded for a mare about six months 
ago, and I found that she had running 
from one nostril; the discharge smells very 
badly. The disease is not catching, and 
she is no better. Can you tell me what 
to do for her ? F. B. s. 
Virginia. 
A diseased inolar tooth in upper jaw no 
doubt is causing the bad smelling discharge, 
but it should lie remembered that glanders 
may be indicated by the same set of symp¬ 
toms. Employ a graduate veterinarian to 
examine the mare and remove the tooth, 
if that is found to be the cause of the 
discharge. 
Tongue Lolling. 
I have a horse that hangs his tongue 
out of the side of his mouth. He began 
doing it about a year and a half ago, at 
first, only out while in harness, but now 
all the time. In the Summer the tongue 
was sunburned, and in the Winter badly 
frozen. I have consulted doctors, but they 
cannot help him—say it is not caused by 
the teeth. The horse is well in every 
other way, and eats as usual, but his 
spirits are not what they formerly were, 
and I believe he must suffer. He is too 
good a horse to have chloroformed. Do 
you know anything that will help him? 
If any of your readers have known of 
such a case would be very glad to hear 
from them. a. b. g. 
Cut a pear-shaped patch of upper leather, 
or harness leather, six inches long and two 
and one-half inches wide. Sew the wide 
end to the bar of a straight bar bit. in 
such a way that the pointed end will lie 
on tongue and point toward throat. When 
this bit and leather is in place the tongue 
probably will be retained in the mouth. 
If this plan does not work have a veterin¬ 
arian amputate a portion of the tongue, as 
such an operation is not dangerous, does 
not long inconvenience the horse and proves 
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