THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
797 
1910. 
CLEARING BRUSH LAND WITH GOATS. 
On page 741 a question is asked and 
answered about killing out brush, and all 
that was said I think true, but it is more 
costly than is necessary to cut and grub 
in August. The clearing out of all brush 
and weeds can be done at a profit in¬ 
stead of at an expense. Goats eat al¬ 
most everything small that grows except 
evergreens and walnut sprouts. They 
prefer browse and weeds to grass and 
grain, and are far better than sheep' in 
this respect. I have seen them tested 
as pioneers for clearing stump lands 
for orchards, and they were far better 
than fire. In two years they will kill 
out almost everything smaller than sap¬ 
lings. They will nip all foliage and small 
twigs, and peel the bark from large 
bushes, which will cause them to send 
out sprouts, and these they will devour 
as fast as they grow. Nothing is so 
fatal to vegetation that is hard to kill 
out as repeated defoliation during the 
growing season. This is just what goats 
do. They will turn stuff that is practi¬ 
cally a nuisance into valuable meat and 
mohair. They also increase rapidly and 
a flock about doubles its value each year 
if properly cared for, and that is not 
difficult. A rather mild climate is bet¬ 
ter for them than one that is severe, and 
the Winters long and very snowy. They 
will browse all Winter if allowed to 
have proper range. Sometimes trees are 
cut down that they may browse the tops, 
and where they must be cut for fuel or 
other use anyhow there is no loss of 
labor or sacrifice of the trees. Keeping 
goats is profitable aside from their val¬ 
uable service as vegetable scavengers on 
the farm and as helpers in clearing 
brush lands. h. e. van deman. 
H. B. C. asks on page 741 how to kill 
sprouts of various trees. The surest and 
easiest way to kill such brush is to cut 
them close to the ground in Spring and 
then put not less than 10 sheep to the 
acre and give them plenty of water and 
feed them enough wheat bran to keep 
them thrifty, about one pound to each 
sheep each day. At the end of one year 
there will be no further trouble from 
sprouts of most deciduous trees, and if 
this treatment is continued during sec¬ 
ond year even hickory grubs will be ex¬ 
terminated. This treatment not only 
eliminates the brush but feeding the bran 
will result in permanently improving the 
land. If overstocked, as indicated, sheep 
will eat oak and locust sprouts with rel¬ 
ish. But in order to be most effectual 
the brush must be cut close so as to give 
the sheep a start of young growth. 
J. S. WOODWARD. 
FEEDING FOR MILK. 
I am starting in the milk business, and 
I have to buy all the feed for my cows. I 
do not know what kind of feed I shall use. 
Prices are: Middlings, $32 per ton; bran, 
$27 ; gluten feed, $29.75; prime cotton-seed 
meal, $36.50; ground flax screenings, $26; 
dried brewers’ grains, $26. Let me know 
how much to use for each cow per day, 
and what kind of feed is best to use. 
Mays Landing, N. J. • s. B. 
The grain ration best adapted to the 
production of milk depends to a great 
extent upon the kind and quality of 
roughage with which it is to be fed. 
As this is not stated in your letter, I 
will assume that your cows have the 
usual Summer feed consisting of pasture 
grass, supplemented at this time of the 
year by green forage crops, which are 
indispensable in keeping up the flow of 
milk. Although your cows may have 
good pasture it becomes so dry and hard 
during the months of July and August 
that the production of milk is greatly 
reduced unless some green forage is sup¬ 
plied, together with a suitable grain ra¬ 
tion. The cheapest feeds you mention 
are dried brewers’ grains and cotton-seed 
meal. I would advise mixing them in 
the proportion of five pounds dried 
brewers’ grains and two pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal. This makes a mixture fairly 
high in protein at a cost of $29.29 per 
ton, which is quite reasonable for this 
quality of feed. The quantity for each 
cow must be regulated according to the 
condition of each individual cow and 
her ability to digest the feed and pay 
her owner a profit in milk produced 
over the cost of feed and care. It will 
take close watching and figuring on the 
part of the man who does the feeding 
and weighing of the milk to determine 
which cows are profitable and which ones 
are not. An average of seven or eight 
pounds of grain per day for each cow 
would probably be about right, unless 
your cows are extra large and heavy 
milkers. _ C. S. G. 
GRAIN RATION TO FATTEN CATTLE. 
Will you give me a grain ration to feed 
some cows which I would like to fatten for 
beef? I have five cows which I wish to 
fatten. IIow much grain should I give 
them a day? m. f. l. 
New York. 
To fatten cows at this season of the 
year is not an easy task, owing to the 
hot weather and flies making them ex¬ 
tremely uncomfortable. As a rule, it 
would not pay to buy grain extensively 
for feeding cows under these conditions; 
but the price of beef at the present time 
compares very favorably with the price 
of feed. You should give your cows the 
run of a good field of after-growth if you 
have it, with plenty of shade, and feed a 
mixture of equal parts of corn chop and 
ground barley if procurable at a rea¬ 
sonable price. You will have to regulate 
the quantity for each cow according to 
her individual requirements, which can 
only be determined by the man who does 
the feeding. A good rule to follow is to 
begin with about four or five pounds of 
grain per day for each cow, and increase 
very gradually until each cow is eating 
all she can digest properly. Feed twice 
a day and salt them often, not neglecting 
a constant supply of good clean water to 
drink. C. S. G. 
TOO MANY ROOSTERS. 
If I put 100 bens in a coop with 10 
roosters, would they produce as many eggs 
in one year as 100 hens without roosters? 
These are all young hens . C. C. B. 
Newton, N. J. 
No, they would not, for several rea¬ 
sons. First, the 10 males would take 
room that could be used by the hens to 
advantage, and the continual scrapping 
which would result from 10 males shut 
up in a room with 100 hens would be a 
constant disturbance. One rooster would 
not prove any detriment, but just as soon 
as you introduce more there is trouble, 
and there is no question but your egg 
record would show it. 
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