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STHB) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 18, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Millet for Horses. 
I have read advice against feeding millet 
hay to horses. Why not? 1 have a lot, 
and it looks better than Timothy hay. Will 
it harm the horse? M. H. 
Milbury, O. 
As we have often stated, millet hay is 
not safe feed for a horse. This is true 
when the seeds have formed hard. Green 
millet can. be safely fed, but not the hay. 
It is all right for cows. 
Soaking Hard Cornstalks. 
I have enough western cornstalks to 
winter a cow, feeding twice a day, but the 
stalks are so tough the cow rejects them. 
I have tried to make the fodder eatable 
by cutting into two-inch length; still the 
cow will not eat it. Do you know of any¬ 
thing to soften the stalks before or after 
cutting? c. s. v. s. 
We have had fair results in soaking the 
stalks after cutting. They were run 
through the cutter into a barrel or box. 
Then boiling water is poured in and a tight 
cover put on. The steam softens the cut 
stalks so that they are eaten freely. 
Hungarian Grass for Horses. 
Is Hungarian grass a good hay for 
horses? R. A. B. 
Calverton, N. Y. 
No. Hungarian or other millets will not 
make good hay for horses. It may be fed 
green, but if made into hay after ripening 
you will have trouble. Horses will suffer 
from a joint and kidney disease if fed 
millet hay. It is all right for cattle. 
Balancing a Ration. 
Will you balance me a milk-making 
ration? I have the following in quantities: 
Silage, mangels, ground corn and cob 
meal, shredded fodder, but very little good 
hay. M. a. r. 
A well-balanced ration cannot be made 
from feeds you mention without the addi¬ 
tion of one or more concentrates higher in 
protein value. We would suggest that you 
mix your corn and cob meal with equal 
parts by -weight of mixed wheat feed or 
standard wheat middlings, and cotton-seed 
meal; of this mixture a medium-sized cow 
should have one pound for every three to 
three and a half pounds of milk that she 
is giving, for an ordinary cow in full 
flow of milk about eight to 10 pounds 
dally. For roughage such a cow should 
have 30 to 40 pounds daily of corn silage, 
and as much shredded fodder or hay as she 
will readily clean up in one feed. It would 
be well to' use the corn fodder first, as it 
deteriorates in value more rapidly than 
the hay. Should you desire to use your 
mangel's in connection with the other feeds, 
they mav be fed in about the same quan¬ 
tity as the silage, and, according to some 
authorities, may be made to replace about 
one-half of the grain ration without de¬ 
crease in flow of milk. M. B. D. 
Treatment of Poor Cows. 
We recently bought a place on which 
there are five Jersey cows of fair breed. 
Thev were half starved before we got them. 
We "fed them three pounds of a compound 
of bran, oats, gluten, and cornmeal, night 
and morning. We have about six loads 
of cornstalks shredded. The cows average 
five pounds of milk at a milking. They 
will be fresh between February and April. 
Would it be wiser to sell them now than 
to wait until they come in fresh? What 
is the best thing to do with poor cows? 
w. F. B. 
As vou sav nothing of your plans for 
the future, it would be difficult to advise 
vou with regard to the disposal of your 
five Jerseys. They are evidently paying 
you a fair profit now, and if you have 
sufficient fodder to carry them through the 
Winter, their greater value when fresh and 
In good condition would probably compen¬ 
sate you for keeping them. This is as¬ 
suming that they are healthy cows, but 
such an assumption is far from warranted 
in the case of five Jerseys, in poor condi¬ 
tion and of unknown antecedents. Our ad¬ 
vice would be to have those cows tuber¬ 
culin tested bv a local veterinarian, or the 
State, and if they react, to dispose of them 
promptlv to the best possible advantage, 
either to the State or to local dealers in 
“bologna stock,” taking your loss as phil¬ 
osophically as possible. If any or all of 
them prove to be healthy you can then af¬ 
ford to retain them for your own use, or 
make such other disposal of them as best 
fits your own plans for the future. 
M. B. D. 
Milk-making Ration. 
Will you give me a balanced ration to 
make a' large quantity of milk? I have 
good Timothy hay and silage which con¬ 
tains good corn. M - s * 
New York. 
With Timothy hay only for dry fodder, 
you will be compelled to feed a larger 
quantity of grain to get the maximum re¬ 
sults wHth vour cows than would be the 
case if you‘had good clover or mixed hay 
for roughage. Using what you have, how¬ 
ever, a well balanced ration for a medium 
sized cow in full flow of milk may well 
consist of 40 pounds dally of silage, given 
in two feeds, night and morning, as much 
hay as the cow will readily clean up at 
noon, and from six to 10 pounds daily of 
a grain mixture consisting of equal parts 
by weight of corn, or corn and cob 
meal, mixed wheat feed, and cot- 
tou-seed meal. This should be fed on the 
silnge and the amount needed may be 
gauged by alowing one pound of the grain 
mixture to each 3 to four pounds of 
milk being given, increasing the amount 
of grain gradually until the cow does not 
respond with an increased flow of milk^ 
It should be borne in mind that a ration 
cannot be arbitrarily balanced for all cows, 
or for any one cow at all periods of 
lactation, neither should any particular 
feeds be adhered to since good business 
management requires that the amount of 
digestible protein and carbohydrates needed 
should be furnished in such feeds as are 
at the time lowest in the market, or most 
economically produced upon the farm. No 
effort should be spared to produce upon 
the farm as much clover or Alfalfa hay 
as the needs of the dairy require, as with 
these and good corn silage for roughage, 
the minimum amount of expensive concen¬ 
trates may be purchased. M. B. D. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
For the first time in the seven weeks 
since this second contest began, Thomas 
Barron’s pen of White Leghorns have to 
take second place in the weekly output. 
This week the five pullets have laid only 
16 eggs, while the pen of Edward Cam has 
laid 25, taking first place for the week. 
Geo. H. Schmitz takes second place with 
his Buff Leghorns, their score for the -week 
being 22. E. II. Pohle’s White W.vandottes 
are third with a record of 21. Two pens 
laid 19 each ; they are the Single Comb 
R. I. Reds of Dr. .T. A. Fritchey, and the 
Rose Comb It. I. Reds of Glen View Poul¬ 
try Farm. Thomas Barron’s birds still lead 
in the total score, their record being 153. 
Edward Cam’s birds are second with a 
score of 140. The American White Leg¬ 
horns of Braeside Poultry Farm are third, 
having laid 113. Smith Bro.’s pen of White 
Leghorns have laid 9G. So the four high¬ 
est scoring pens in the Winter months of 
November and December are White Leg- ■ 
horns. As practically the same thing oc¬ 
curred last year, it seems to me ibis ought 
to settle the question as to whether White 
Leghorns equal the American breeds for 
Winter laying. The 225 eggs laid during 
the week by the 43 pens of White Leghorns 
are less than 15 per cent of the possible 
output if every pullet laid every day. I 
have GO White Leghorns shut tip in a 20x20 
house that are laying over 33 per cent, 
while 200 White Orpingtons on my farm 
a half mile away, are not laying one-third 
as many. The White Orpingtons from 
White Acres Poultry Farm have laid a total 
of 9G eggs; the next highest score by that 
breed being 37 eggs by the pen of Gilbert 
& Moore; Burton E. Moore’s White Leg¬ 
horns have laid 93, and the Rose Comb R. 
I. Reds from Glen View Poultry Farm have 
laid 92. Edward Cam’s White W.vandottes 
have laid 88, and E. II. Pohle’s birds of 
the same breed have laid 80. Mr. Pohle’s 
pullet No. 3 was the only bird in the con¬ 
test that laid every day last week; and 
No. 3 was the only one to lay seven eggs 
during the fourth week. In the third week 
a Barred Rock pullet. No. 5, from Brook’s 
Sanitary Hennery, laid seven. 
The highest score made during the week 
by the Barred Rocks was 11, by the pen 
from the above named firm, and their total 
score of 50 is the highest total made by 
the Barred Rocks, the next highest, 42, 
being made by the pen of .T. W. Miller. W. 
J. Tilley's White P. Rocks have a total of 
49. and E. S. Iloopes makes a total of 49 
with his Buff P. Rocks. The Single Comb 
R. I. Reds of Geo. P. Dearborn have laid 
81. the next highest being G2 by the pen 
of Howard Steele. Of the Rose Comb R. I. 
Reds, next to Glen View Farms, 92, is the 
70 laid by C. S. Scoville’s pen. The bulle¬ 
tin containing records of the amount of 
food consumed, weight and number of eggs, 
etc., is not yet published, but I have some 
data of results obtained last Summer in the 
first contest that are decidedly interesting. 
There was a remarkable difference not only 
in the amount of food consumed by differ¬ 
ent breeds, and by different pens of the 
same breed, but a very great difference in 
amount by the same pen when they were 
laying well, and when they were not laying 
much. Some pens ate more dry mash than 
scratch grain, while others hardly touched 
the dry mash at all. The White Leghorns 
show much the lowest cost for food per 
egg produced; their 30 pens ate 175.6 
pounds of food while laying 753 eggs, 
which is .233 of a pound (less than one- 
quarter pound) of food for each egg. The 
12 pens of Barred Rocks ate 80.8 pounds 
of food while laying 269 eggs. This is 
325 of a pound or nearly one-third of a 
pound per egg laid. The Columbian P. 
Rocks ate 8.1 pounds while laying 19 eggs; 
this equals .43 of a pound, nearly half a 
pound of food per egg. The Golden Wyau- 
dottes ate 10.9 pounds and laid 18 eggs; 
this is .605 of a pound, or considerably 
more than a half pound of food per egg. 
This record was for one week only, May 8 
to 15. When the entire year's record Ts 
made out, the figures will probably be quite 
different, but it is quite safe to figure that 
as a general rule, Fhe larger the fowl is, 
the greater amount of food will bo con¬ 
sumed per egg produced. 
GKO. A. COSGROVE. 
Raw Potatoes for Hogs. 
What is the feeding value of potatoes 
fed to hogs raw, and how do the raw 
potatoes compare w r itli cooked ones for 
feeding purposes? a. l. o. 
Colorado. 
Do not try to feed raw potatoes to hogs. 
Cook them by boiling or steaming. Such 
cooked potatoes are worth about 25 per 
cent, as much as corn. 
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