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THE R U RAL NEW-YORKER 
April 4, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
CORN FEEDING FOR MULES. 
Wo know northern farmers who are 
shocked sometimes when told that in the 
South and West working mules are fed 
almost entirely upon hay and corn. It 
has come to be generally believed that 
oats in some form make by far the best 
grain for working or driving animals. 
When we figure out the chemistry of the 
balanced ration we run upon the fact 
that most of the experts declare that corn 
does not contain enough protein or enough 
of the bone-forming material to sustain 
a working animal. How then can it be 
possible that these mules kept at hard 
work can thrive without oats? Probably 
these critics have never seen a mule at 
work, and are not acquainted with his 
character or his powers. When it comes 
to cheap feeding or peculiar feeding a 
mule is in a class by himself. Yet it 
certainly makes the northern farmer 
thoughtful when he hears about this hay 
and corn feeding. The Missouri Exper¬ 
iment Station conducted an experiment 
for two years with a view to testing this 
corn and oat proposition. They selected 
two pairs of mules that were well 
matched in type, size, quality and age. 
The hay which was fed these mules was 
oats were fed. This means that the feed 
of the mule on corn and hay cost $63.80 
per year, while the feed of the mule 
fed on oats and hay cost $80.79. It woult 
seem from these experiments that the 
old belief in the great superiority of 
oats as a feed for working stock has 
been pretty well exploded. In another 
experiment with colts it was found that 
bran and oil meal made an economical 
substitute for oats, and made a rather 
better grain. It is quite probable that 
much the same thing would be true on 
our eastern farms with a rather slow, 
heavy type of farm horse. In fact much 
of the mystery and old prejudice which 
has surrounded the feeding of oats to 
farm stock seems to be passing away 
before the test of actual feeds and figures. 
We think a mule is better able to take 
care of hay and corn alone than many 
horses. At the same time on a great 
many of our eastern farms, a good sample 
of flint corn with a small quantity of 
bran or oil meal added would prove a 
more economical grain than the oats. 
Points for the Hampshire Sheep. 
We have had Hampshire ewes give 
birth to lambs in November and again 
the following April, but we do not claim 
greater prolificacy on that account. The 
present season we have had only about a 
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a mixed clover and Timothy with 10 to 
25 per cent, of clover. Both corn and 
oiits were shelled. They started out to 
feed the corn three times a day, and the 
hay twice, while the mules were kept 
hard at work. Record was kept of the 
food they consumed, the work they did 
and the spirit and endurance which they 
showed. One pair of mules was fed oats 
and hay entirely, and the other pair 
corn and oats. In order to be entirely 
fair, the experiment was shifted, i. e., 
for one period one pair of the mules 
would be fed on oats and hay. Then 
after a certain length of time in feeding, 
that same pair would have oats sub¬ 
stituted for the corn. This gave a thor¬ 
ough chance to try both ways of feeding 
with both teams of mules. This experi¬ 
ment went on for two years, and the 
bulletin mentioned contains a thorough 
set of figures showing the results. 
Briefly stated, when the mules were 
fed grain and hay, they maintained just 
as good health as when they received 
oats and hay, and the corn-fed mules 
kept their weight slightly better. The 
mules which were fed corn endured hard 
work in hot weather better than the 
others, and no difference could be de¬ 
tected in their spirit. On a fair basis 
of comparison the mules that were fed 
the corn did 6% more work than when 
they were fed oats. The oat-fed mules 
required 3% more grain, and nearly 1*4 
per cent, more hay to keep up their live 
weight than when fed corn and mixed 
hay. In this experiment the hay was 
worth $10 a ton, corn 50 cents a bushel, 
and oats 40 cents. After figuring the 
values out carefully, it was found that 
those mules were maintained for 28% 
less on the ration of corn than when 
dozen single lambs dropped among 60 
ewes, and have living over 1% lambs to 
the ewe, having lost about 12 or 15 by 
various causes, principal of which was 
the use of some unsuitable fodder in feed¬ 
ing the ewes, we being very short of Al¬ 
falfa this year. So we find the Hamp¬ 
shire a very prolific sheep and the lambs 
usually weigh from 18 to 25 or 30 pounds 
to the pair. We often have two or three 
sets of triplets in a season, and raise 
them successfully. We believe that the 
average Hampshire is a little more pro¬ 
lific than any other breed. But chief of 
the Hampshire’s assets is the fact that 
they drop large lambs, thus giving them 
a good start. The lambs grow faster and 
larger than from any other breed, often 
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