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FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Hog* Fed on Hay. 
I have 40 Berkshire hogs, and last 
Winter I fed them on hay cut fine and 
boiled (clover and Timothy) and cheap 
flour made into a slop, and mixed the hay 
in I wish to make a meal of the hay to 
feed in the slop. I can make pork for 
314 cents per pound on the above feed, 
and have done it this season. I wish to 
get a mill to grind the clover and Timothy 
into meal like Alfalfa meal. G. L. h. 
Brookfield, Mass. 
This is a new one to us. In the 
West hogs are freely fed on clover 
and Alfalfa hay, but it is not thought 
there that it pays to grind the hay. 
It is fed whole in racks and the hogs 
eat it out like sheep or cows. It 
forms only part of their ration. We 
have some notes on this coming from 
Western feeders. We have advertised 
several mills. 
at rest the cornmeal should be omitted en¬ 
tirely and mixed feed substituted. 
c. s. o. 
Soapy Water for Hogs. 
Is there any harm in feeding dishwater 
that has soap in it to pigs? e. g. b. 
Fernwood, N. Y. 
No—not when a reasonable amount of 
soap is used. There is danger in using 
dishwater when the washing powders are 
used, but good soap will not hurt. 
Balanced Dairy Ration. 
Will you give me a properly balanced 
ration for my dairy? We have 14 average 
scrubs and three registered Holsteins. 
About half calved this Fall, the remainder 
are due from the middle of March on. We 
have plenty of clover hay and corn silage. 
Our grain we buy; oats, $17 per ton; corn- 
meal, $13; wheat bran, $19; middlings, 
$20; flaxseed meal, $30. Can we get a 
properly balanced ration from the above 
named feeds? If so what proportion or’ 
each should we use? We skim our milk, 
get 40 cents for butter fat and feed skim- 
milk to pigs. Can you tell me the value 
of skim-milk for growing pigs? 
Minnesota. w. g. c. 
For the cows fresh last Fall a ration 
about as follows should give good results: 
Dry Carb 
Matter Protein and 
Fat. 
1.020 5.940 
.270 3.870 
.158 1.528 
.244 .906 
.879 1.455 
Clover hay. 
Silage ..... 
Cornmeal . 
Bran .. 
Oil meal . 
15 lbs. 
30 lbs. 
2 lbs. 
2 lbs. 
3 lbs. 
12.75 
6.30 
1.78 
1.76 
2.73 
Dry Corn Silage. 
On page 1256 is an inquiry in regard 
to putting in dry corn fodder as silage. 
A few years ago an early frost caught our 
corn in August; it was in the days of fill¬ 
ing with horse power and three or four 
neighbors changing work, and of necessity 
it was at least two weeks before we could 
get to our corn, and it was so dry that 
the leaves would rattle and break, but 
some juice left in the stalk. We used from 
two to three 40-quart milk cans of water 
on each load, thrown on as evenly as we 
could do it. and we never had any better 
silage than this was. It came out green 
and bright as any I ever saw; cattle ate 
it up clean and did well on it, and It 
seemed to be a success. While we would 
not put it in this way from choice we 
would from necessity, and would be reas¬ 
onably sure of success, as we have seen 
it tried a number of times with perfect 
keeping silage. c. w. 
Franklin, N. Y. 
Ration for Jersey Cows. 
Will you balance a ration from the fol¬ 
lowing feeds for fair sized Jersey cows? 
Wheat bran, gluten, dried beet pulp, sugar 
or molasses feed, dried brewers’ grains, 
cornmeal and cotton-seed meal. I have 
common meadow hay and cornstalks. The 
fodder and hay is not very plentiful. We 
make butter and feed the milk to pigs. 
Montgomery, N. Y. o. p. 
At the present prices of feed stuffs, we 
should select cornmeal, wheat bran, and 
cotton-seed meal from the feeds you men¬ 
tion to give cows in full flow of milk, re¬ 
membering that neither cotton-seed nor 
cornmeal should be fed heavily, if at all, at 
or near calving time. Of the above mix¬ 
ture in equal parts by weight, a cow should 
have about one pound per day for every 
three to 3% pounds of milk she is giving 
daily, and, in your case, we should prefer 
to feed the grain upon the cornstalks or 
hay after they had been cut and moistened. 
Without silage, roots, or other succulent 
feeds, you are handicapped in milk produc¬ 
tion, and, were it not for relatively high 
price, we should recommend dried beet pulp 
as part of the ration. M. b. d. 
25.32 2.571 13.699 
Nutritive ratio, 1 :5.3. 
I assume that oil meal is meant by 
flaxseed meal. Ground flaxseed may be fed 
to dairy cows with good results, but it con¬ 
tains an excess of oil, and might sometimes 
prove too laxative. If you desire you 
can feed more corn and less bran, and 
of course it is understood that the amount 
to be fed each cow will vary accordingio 
her appetite and milk production. For 
the dry cows (they should be dry six 
weeks to two months before calving) a 
quart or two of a mixture of 100 pounds 
of ground oats, or wheat bran if you can¬ 
not get the oats ground and 25 pounds oil 
meal, would be excellent along with hay 
and silage. I believe that 20 cents per 
hundred pounds would be a fair valuation 
for the skim-milk. Cornmeal of middlings 
should be fed with the milk, as skim-n.ilk 
is too low in carbohydrates for a sole 
ration. c. n. 11 . 
FUR UN ED OVERCOATS 
Increasing Milk Flow. 
We have five milking cows which were 
under bad care; they give but a very 
little milk. What shall wfc feed them so as 
to increase the flow of milk? We have on 
the place only hay, Timothy and clover; 
our cows are common stock, middle size; 
they used to give 16 quarts a day. k. b. 
New York. 
I wish you had given more definite in¬ 
formation as to when these cows were 
fresh, and when they will be fresh again, 
also as to just how you are feeding them 
now. If they are to freshen earlv ir the 
Spring, it probably would not be profitable 
to try to feed them up to a big milk pro¬ 
duction. In this case a daily ration of 
two pounds wheat bran, one pound oil 
meal and one pound cornmeal with hay 
will probably increase the milk considera¬ 
bly, and also improve the condition of the 
cows. The cows should be dried off six 
weeks to two months before coming in. 
When the cows are dry cut down the 
grain ration half, and two weeks before 
they come in, cut out the cornmeal. Two 
weeks after coming in the following ration 
will be a good one: Three pounds wheat 
bran, three pounds cotton-seed meal, one 
pound oil meal, along with what hay the 
cows will eat up clean. c. L. 11 . 
Rye for Stock. 
I have about half a ton of rye bran left 
from the grinding of the rye flour. The 
middlings and bran are mixed together just 
as they come from the grinding. How can 
I use that feed to the best advantage? I 
have two cows, two horses and a hundred 
or more chickens, and some ducks. Both 
cows are in calf. Last year I fed it to 
the cow, as she was not in calf, and as 
soon as I stopped feeding it, when the sup¬ 
ply ran out, the milk dropped right down. 
I tried gluten and other things, but nothing 
seemed to give as good results as the rye 
bran. Will it make a good feed for the 
horses, fed carefully, and how will it do 
for poultry? What must be added to it to 
balance the ration? e. m. c. 
Connecticut. 
Bye is not a very desirable feed for 
cows or poultry, but you can use what vou 
have to good advantage in a ration for 
horses. It may be composed of equal parts 
of rye bran, cornmeal and ground oats if 
your horses are working very hard everv 
day. if only working moderately, I would 
use but half the'amount of cornmeal and 
substitute mixed feed (wheat bran and 
middlings) for the other half. For horses 
Dogs and Sheep. 
I note in the December 28 issue of your 
paper W. L. of Rochester, N. Y., enters a 
strong protest against keeping dogs, and 
he especially directs his protest against 
farmers. I agree with him that far too 
many dogs are kept, and the number should 
be reduced at last 75 per cent; however, 
it seems to me that he directs his especial 
protest against the most innocent and the 
most useful dog that could be selected. It 
is not the farmer’s dog as a rule that 
does most damage to sheep, but rather the 
town dog and the dog owned by the most 
irresponsible persons that can be found. 
The well-kept, well-trained farm dog as a 
rule finds more pleasure in serving his mas¬ 
ter, driving stock and watchink away in¬ 
truders than he does in chasing his neigh¬ 
bor's sheep, while the dogs owned by town 
dwellers many of them are half starved. 
Their owners have no real use for them, 
so they are allowed to lie around in the 
daytime and gather in packs at night and 
go on a foraging expedition. It is the 
town dog that is most to be feared by the 
sheep owner. Then why not direct the 
protest most especially against the town 
dog, since it is to the interest of the town 
dwellers that sheep are protected? They 
wear woolen clothing and most of them 
relish mutton. I noticed a well-trained dog 
helping to drive a flock of nearly 500 tur¬ 
keys along the public road a few days 
before Christmas, and the dog was doing 
the work that would have required from 
two to three men, and was doing it bet¬ 
ter than men coukl do it, since the dog 
could get around the turkeys and back to 
her master in so short a time. A well- 
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