1914. 
TH ED RURAL NEW-YORKER 
197 
Forage tor Pigs. 
I wish to raise 12 pigs. April farrow, 
next Summer, besides keeping three sows. 
What can I grow for green stuff (I have 
no pasture) ? My land is very sandy and 
full of witch-grass, and I wish to fence in 
a bad spot to keep pigs on. Shall grow 
a lot of rape to cut and feed. How 
about Soy beans and cow peas to feed 
after and with rape, using corn fodder 
with poor ears (sweet corn) in Fall, then 
fattening with ear corn? I want to raise 
them without buying much grain. 
So. Milford, Mass. c. J. i>. 
Undoubtedly the best forage crop to 
use for swine in the absence of Alfalfa 
is Dwarf Essex rape. It would yield a 
far greater amount of forage than would 
be the case where Soy beans or cow 
peas were used, an- 1 successive planting 
of rape may be appropriately made any 
time during the season up to August 1st. 
The amount of seed to use per acre 
varies with the method of planting, and 
in case the rape is drilled in rows it 
would require six pounds of the Dwarf 
Essex variety per acre. If it is not con¬ 
venient to drill the seed in rows it can 
be broadcast, in which case it will require 
from six to 10 pounds of the seed per 
acre. A very good mixture to be seeded 
as early in the Spring as soil conditions 
will permit would be as follows: Oats, 
20 pounds; Canada field peas, 30 pounds; 
Red clover, six pounds; Dwarf Essex 
rape, six pounds; the same mixed and 
drilled in with an ordinary eight-inch 
grain drill. The oats and Canada field 
peas will seemingly out-distance the rape 
and clover, but in case the animals are 
not turned into the field until the oats 
and peas are about 10 inches high, and 
care is exercised not to let the animals 
pasture the crop too closely, you will 
find that you will have a continuous 
green forage crop throughout the entire 
season. 
It is advisable, however, in case forage 
crops are used for pasturing purposes, to 
have at least two yards to alternate dur¬ 
ing the season, and by this practice it 
would be possible to give the plants suf¬ 
ficient freedom to grow vigorously with¬ 
out serious interruption by tramping or 
cropping it down too closely. I would 
also suggest that the rape be seeded in 
the sweet corn just previous to the last 
cultivation of the corn, and after the 
marketable ears are taken away the small 
cull ears can be gathered and fed to the 
pigs. Rape and corn make an ideal and 
well-balanced fattening ration. It is 
sometimes suggested to feed a small 
amount of tankage in addition as an ap¬ 
petizer and a source of protein. Un¬ 
doubtedly the inquirer is familiar with 
the usefulness of Alfalfa or clover hay 
for brood sows, as it can be fed in slat 
racks with very good profit and great 
convenience. F. C. M. 
Rye for Mares. 
I have’50 acres of nice rye, on a tobac¬ 
co patch; would like to put some mares 
on it to graze, that are supposed to be 
in foal. Would you advise it? I had 
supposed there was no danger unless they 
grazed on rye which had headed out, and 
that it was the blasted grains, which did 
the mischief, but have been told it was 
not safe to graze at any stage for mares 
in foal. w. w. w. 
Kentucky. 
Sudden full pasturing on green rye 
often has caused mares to abort. If used 
at all the mares first should be fed plenty 
of hay, and oat straw, and then should 
go on the rye for a very short time at 
first, gradually increasing the time daily. 
Frosted rye is unfit as feed for mares in 
foal, as is rye that contains ergot. It 
would be much safer to use the rye for 
the pasturing of cattle. A. s. A. 
Buying Cow Feed. 
One dairyman writing about profits 
from his cows says that the price of milk 
is so low that farmers through his sec¬ 
tion are hardly making a living. He says 
they don’t begin to get 35 cents on the 
dollar. Yet he also gives some facts in 
connection with his own individual case 
that show there is another side to the 
question besides the consumer’s end of it. 
This writer says that lie has been all 
his life on a farm of 200 acres, yet ad¬ 
mits that he buys 30 tons of feed to carry 
his cows through the Winter. This fact 
alone proves why his profits are small. 
If it is impossible to raise Winter feed 
on a farm, the farm cannot be adapted 
for dairying. Tf the 30 tons of feed is all 
grain, and the farmer has a silo and 
raises his hay, the farm operations sure¬ 
ly are much more profitable than he 
states if the idle horses are put to good 
use. during part of the time they would 
otherwise be idle, raising a cash crop to 
be sold to pay part of the grain bill. 
\\ ith 6,000-pound cows as hi' states he 
possesses there would be undoubtedly a 
good profit at the end of the year. How¬ 
ever, if no silo is being used, if part of 
that 30 tons of feed is roughage, evidently 
the land is not adapted for dairying, or 
not enough crops are raised. 
Experience shows that silage fed to 
cows in connection with clover hay and 
grain will reduce fnaterially the cost of 
keeping a cow, and if a farmer on 200 
acres of land cannot find enough crop 
land to enable him to have three 15-acre 
fields in rotation of silage corn, some 
small grain and clover, either the land 
is high up in the hills or is too rocky to 
plow. While the producing farmer in¬ 
deed does not get his fair share of what 
the consumer pays, still, if he must make 
the most of what he does get, he would 
better prepare to keep his cows as cheap¬ 
ly as possible if he cares for a profit on 
his year’s work. H. B. cobb. 
Jackson Co., O. 
Balancing a Ration. 
In what proportion must I mix the 
following feeds to make a good balanced 
ration? Corn and cob chop, wheat bran, 
gluten and cottonseed meal, with mixed 
hay (clover and Timothy) and shredded 
stover for roughage. a. h. 
Elverson, I*a. 
Two parts by weight each of corn and 
cob chop, wheat bra*i and gluten feed, 
and three parts cottonseed meal, will 
make a good ration for milk production. 
I think it will pay, if labor is not too im¬ 
portant a consideration, to sprinkle the 
corn stover and scatter the grain over it. 
In this way the cows will relish the stov¬ 
er better, and digestion of both grain "and 
stover will be aided. Of course one should 
not give more stover than the cows will 
eat up clean, or some of the grain will 
be wasted, as well as stover. c. l. m. 
A Good Ration. 
Will you criticise and improve the fol¬ 
lowing ration for Guernsey cows giving 
from 30 to 20 pounds milk daily? 35 to 
-10 pounds silage; 10 pounds mixed hay, 
Timothy and Red-top; two pounds 
gluten; two pounds wheat feed; two 
pounds brewers’ grains; one pound oil 
meal. I am feeding one pound grain for 
every three pounds milk, gluten costing 
$1.50, brewers’ grains $1.80, meal $1.78, 
wheat feed $1.55 per hundred. M. a. p. 
Milford, N. Y. 
I can find no fault with your ration as 
far as nutrients are concerned, and it 
seems to be giving good results. The 
brewers’ grains are higher in price than 
they ought to be. However, something 
light and bulky is desirable in the ra¬ 
tion. If you could get distillers’ dried 
grains at about the same price they 
would be preferable as they contain more 
protein and also furnish the desired bulk. 
C. L. M. 
Dairy Judging Contest. 
During Farmer’s Week which will be 
held at the College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 
New York, February 9-14, the Depart¬ 
ment of Dairy Industry will hold a con¬ 
test for judging butter, cheese and milk. 
The contest for judging butter will be 
held on Tuesday and the contest for 
judging cheese and milk will be hold 
respectively on Thursday and Friday 
from 9 to 12. With the exception of 
the present Winter Dairy Class the con¬ 
test is open to any resident of New York 
State. On any day of the contest from 
11 to 12, anyone not taking part may re- 
view the _ work of the judges, and 
thereby gain information regarding dairy 
products. It is hoped that a number will 
take part in these contests as they are 
instructive to anyone who is manufactur¬ 
ing or in any way interested in dairy 
products. First and second prizes will 
be offered in each class. 
You can’t - k 
cut down the amount of your cow’s 
feed or change to a cheaper feed without - 
cutting down your profits. The cow is just a 
milk factory and she can only make milk according to what you \ 
feed her. Give her good rich, easily digested feed, something she rel¬ 
ishes and that will keep her in good health and she will give you all the 
milk she possibly can. A ration to be the most productive must also be 
properly “balanced”; that is to say, must contain food elements in such pro¬ 
portions as they are found in milk. Don’t lose anywhere from one to three 
quarts of milk daily per cow by attempting to mix your own ration — let a: 
expert do it for you. 
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