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X.VThC KUKAL 14 EW-YOKKEK 
December 0, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this beading we endeavor to give ad¬ 
vice and suggestions about feeding mixtures of 
grains and fodders. No definite rules are given, 
but the advice is based upon experience and 
average analyses of foods. By "protein” is 
meant the elements in the food which go to 
make muscle or lean meat. "Carbohydrates” 
comprise the starch, sugar, etc., which make 
fat and provide fuel for the body, while "fat” 
is the pure oil found in foods. "Dry matter” 
means the weight of actual food left in fodder 
or grain when all the water is driven off. A 
"narrow ration” means one in which the pro¬ 
portion of protein to carbohydrates is close—a 
"wide" ration means one which shows a larger 
proportion of carbohydrates. 
Cotton Seed for Butter Production. 
I have a herd of Jersey cows, and am 
producing high-class butter, quality being 
the object rather than cheapness. I am 
feeding a commercial feed, Alfalfa and 
Timothy mixed. If I were to use more 
cotton-seed meal with the feed, would I 
get a deeper color in the butter? If so, 
how much would you mix with a ton, 
or would it be better to feed it separately 
and only to the heavy milkers? If so 
how much to a cow? I am feeding five 
quarts to the heaviest milkers. I., v. 
New Jersey. 
We find that by feeding a reasonable 
amount of cotton-seed mixed with about 
twice as much of the other feed by weight 
you will not only increase the quality but 
also the quantity of butter produced. The 
butter will have a higher melting point; 
that is the fat will be harder and firmer, 
but the color would only be influenced 
slightly. As a rule we would advise feed¬ 
ing about three pounds of cotton-seed 
meal mixed with about six pounds of the 
feed you are using for each cow of me¬ 
dium size in full flow of milk. In making 
this change it is very important to begin 
with a very small amount of cotton-seed, 
not over one-half pound per day, for each 
cow, and gradually increase the amount. 
Do not feed any cotton-seed to cows with¬ 
in four weeks of parturition or the same 
length of time after. Cotton-seed meal 
should always be mixed with other feed 
or silage before feeding, as it is very fine 
and heavy, and seems to be relished much 
better when fed in this way. C. S. G. 
Feeding Steers. 
I have 24 head of steers to feed this 
Winter; have a 100-ton silo filled with 
good matured corn, and plenty of rye and 
corn to grind. Can I use the rye to 
advantage? L. E. s. 
Big Pool, Md. 
Ground rye and corn make a very good 
grain ration for steers if some legumin¬ 
ous roughage is fed in connection with 
it, such as Alfalfa, clover hay, or cow- 
pea hay. If you do not have the legumes 
to feed', then it will pay you to buy some 
cotton-seed meal to supply the protein 
and feed corn stover for a roughage. The 
following is a good ration for 3.000 
pounds live weight of steers per day: 
Corn silage, 40 pounds: ground rye, five 
pounds; ground corn, eight pounds; cot¬ 
ton-seed meal, two pounds. If you have 
clover or Alfalfa hay, you may leave 
out the cotton-seed meal and feed what 
hay the steers will eat up clean. If you 
are feeding corn stover, use the above 
ration with all the corn stover the steers 
will eat without waste. k. b. 
Dairy Grain Ration. 
Will you give me a good ration for 
my cows'from the following feeds? Wheat 
bran, $1.40 per 100 pounds; shorts, $1.50 
per 100 pounds; eornmeal. $1.60 per 100 
pounds; oil meal $2.40 per 100 pounds; 
cotton-seed meal $2.25 per 100 pounds. 
Corn fodder and sorghum is mowed and 
put up like hay. Distillers’ grains, gluten 
meal and dried beet pulp cannot be bought 
in this town. The feeds that we can buy 
are: wheat bran, brown middlings, mid¬ 
dlings and bran, hominy meal, oil meal, 
cotton-seed meal, eornmeal, Alfalfa and 
molasses ground together, called “June 
pasture.” J. L. F. 
Indiana. 
A grain ration consisting of three 
pounds wheat bran, three pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal and one pound eornmeal, with 
what corn fodder and sorghum the cows 
will eat, will make a good combination for 
milk production. If the Alfalfa and mo¬ 
lasses can be purchased for not over $1.25 
per 100 pounds, I think it would be well 
to substitute it for the eornmeal. 
C. L. M. 
Ration for Brood Sows. 
Will you give a good grain ration for 
sows with litter? The litters are over 
three weeks old. I am giving sows two 
quarts of middlings, 16 per cent protein, 
and one quart of corn meal three times 
per day, with some Avhole corn now and 
then ; no roots or green feed. A. J. E. 
Oriskany, N. Y. 
A very good mixture for a brood sow 
in good condition nursing a litter of pigs 
three weeks old would be made up as 
follows: Finely crushed oats 50 pounds; 
red dog flour or middlings, 50 pounds; 
digester tankage, five pounds. This mix¬ 
ture should be fed in such quantities as 
the sow would clean up with relish, reg¬ 
ulating the amount by her appetite and 
the appearance of the pigs. If the young¬ 
sters are uneasy and persistently annoy¬ 
ing the sow for more milk, it is evidence 
that the sow is underfed, and her al¬ 
lowance should be increased. In case 
the pigs evidence a laxativeness and are 
chubby and lazy, it indicates that they 
are probably receiving too much feed, 
and too little exercise, and the allowance 
for the sow should be decreased. A safe 
rule to apply is to feed the sow such a 
quantity of this mixture as will enable 
her to' suckle the pigs without losing 
materially in weight, and if the litter 
is of average size, there is little danger of 
overfeeding the sow after the pigs are 
three or four weeks old. If the sow loses 
materially in flesh, a little corn might be 
safely added to the mixture. The feed 
should be soaked from one feed to the 
next, and if skim milk is available it 
can be added to this feed, and make al¬ 
most an ideal ration. Some soaked 
shelled corn should be put in a conven¬ 
ient place where the smaller pigs can 
have access to it and where the sow 
could not reach it, and we have had very 
good results by sprinkling a little dry 
middlings and tankage over the soaked 
shelled corn just previous to putting it in 
the small trough for the pigs. Care 
should be exercised to keep the troughs 
sweet and clean, and only put in such 
quantities of feed as the pigs will eat 
up clean and with relish. Overfeeding 
is more detrimental than underfeeding, 
as the pigs must be kept growing every 
minute from birth. F. c. M. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Tumor. 
I have a mare colt two years old last 
Spring that had a gathering or boil the 
first of July. This boil was on left side 
just back of shoulder blade and was as 
big as your double fist. I put on some 
medicine I got from a neighbor to scatter 
it, and result is we now have lump or 
hard gristle the size of an egg. I would 
like to know how to remove this lump? 
The mare seems to be all right, eats well 
and I can see no bad effect from it, yet 
I would like to have it off. I. c. 8 . 
New York. 
You will have to employ a veterinarian 
to cut out the tumor; then pack the cav¬ 
ity once a day with oakum saturated in 
a mixture of equal parts of turpentine 
and raw linseed oil. The tumor would 
not have formed had you freely opened 
the abscess at first and then treated it 
with the oakum packings until they no 
longer could be inserted. Farmers should 
remember this in treating collar boils 
and abscesses. It is not enough merely 
to open such swellings and then squeeze 
out the pus. Always open them freely 
and after evacuating the pus, syringe out 
with tincture of iodine and then pack 
with the medicated oakum. If the cavity 
proves obstinate in filling up use the 
tincture of iodine twice a week. Also 
remember that in practically every in¬ 
stance where a large, hot, sore lump 
forms upon the shoulder where the collar 
has pressed, pus is present deep down in 
the tissues and unless it is let out a 
fibroid tumor will form and have to be 
cut out later on, thus laying the horse 
aside and incurring expense for surgical 
treatment. Liniments and blisters may 
do more harm than good where pus needs 
liberating from a swelling such as we 
have indicated. A. s. a. 
Dog with Canker, 
I have an English beagle about 18 
months old; she has scratched herself on 
the inside of her fore and hind legs un¬ 
til the hair is off, and the skin is raw. 
On her back there are a few sores with 
scabs. She does not eat well and shakes 
her head considerable as if her ears 
trouble her. Is there any cure and what 
is the remedy? G. s. T. 
Pennsylvania. 
The dog no doubt suffers from canker 
of the ear, which is an eczematous dis¬ 
ease, as is that which causes the sores on 
the back and legs. If ear canker is pres¬ 
ent there will be a bad smelling brown 
discharge in the ears. Let the dog live 
an outdoor life, so far as possible, and 
feed one light meal each night. Keep it 
out of water, and if you tub the animal 
see that the ears are perfectly dried after¬ 
ward. Treat the ears as follows: 
Cleanse perfectly with swabs of cotton 
tied on a stick and saturated with wood 
alcohol. If this proves to be too irritat¬ 
ing cleanse with peroxide of hydrogen 
one part, soft water, two parts. After 
each cleansing lay the dog on its side 
and fill the ear with a solution of one 
dram each of sugar of lead and powdered 
alum, two drops of carbolic acid and 30 
drops of glycerine in two ounces of soft 
water. Hold the dog on its side until 
the sediment settles into the ear; then 
treat the other ear in the same. Wash 
the sores on body and legs clean and dry 
perfectly; then apply resinol ointment 
twice daily. Muzzle the dog. Write 
again if this does not suffice. It would 
be well also to give the dog Fowler’s 
solution of arsenic in increasing doses, 
starting with three drops twice daily and 
increasing a drop a day. Go back to the 
first dose and repeat the moment any 
adverse symptom is noticed. Diarrhoea 
would be one of the symptoms indicating 
that arsenic poisoning was being caused. 
It would be best, if possible, to have the 
dog treated by an experienced graduate 
veterinarian; but if that is out of the 
question our suggestions may prove help¬ 
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