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THE RURAL NtCW-YORKEH 
October 10, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Sorghum as Fodder. 
I S sorghum injurious as a feed for 
horses? Is it likely to cause abortion 
in cows? What is the feeding value; 
as compared with corn fodder? 
Yates Co., N. Y. or. F. w. 
Sweet sorghum is not injurious as a 
feed for horses in case it is properly 
cured and fed while in good condition. 
It very easily deteriorates in feed value, 
and it is difficult to store the material 
without danger from mold or decay. It 
is the moldy and decayed sorghum that 
is especially injurious as a feed, in fact 
it is dangerous under certain conditions 
of storage. It is sorghum that is in a 
bad condition that may cause abortion 
when fed to breeding cows, but there 
would be no danger in feeding it to dairy 
animals, provided it is well cured and 
not damaged in any way from storage. 
As far as its feeding value is concerned it 
is superior to corn forage for horses and 
the analysis shows the following content: 
u 
Carbohydrates. 
Feeding Stuffs. 
■S 
£ 
cc 
c 
Crude 
Protein. 
Fiber 
N-free 
extract. 
Fat 
Fresh Ghekn- Cohn 
Forage. 
Fodder corn. 
79.3 
1.2 
1.8 
6.0 
12.2 
0.5 
Sorghum. 
79.4 
1.1 
1.3 
6.1 
11.6 
0.5 
Dent varieties.... 
79.0 
1.2 
1.8 
6.0 
12.0 
0.5 
Dent, kernels glazed... 
Flint varieties. 
73.4 
1.6 
2.0 
6.7 
15.6 
0.9 
79.8 
1.1 
2.0 
4.3 
12.1 
4.7 
Flint, kernels glazed... 
77.1 
i.i 
2.7 
4.3 
14.6 
0.8 
Sweet varieties. 
79.1 
1.3 
1.9 
4.4 
12.8 
0.5 
Sweet corn. 
80.0 
1.2 
1.4 
4.9 
12.0 
0.6 
Corn leaves with husks. 
06.2 
2.9 
2.1 
8.7 
19.0 
11 
Stripped corn stalks.... 
76.1 
0.7 
0.6 
7.3 
14.9 
0.6 
Field Cured Corn 
Forage. 
Corn stover ears re- 
moved. 
40.5 
3.4 
3.8 
19.7 
31.5 
1.1 
Amber caue forage_ 
41.7 
3.0 
3.2 
17.0 
32.2 
2.9 
F. C. MINKXER. 
Cull Apples for Hogs. 
I SHALL have several hundred barrels 
of Baldwin and Greening apples that 
were damaged by hail and are not mar¬ 
ketable. Would it be profitable to put 
them in the cellar and pay $5 for shotes 
to feed them to? Corn meal is worth 
$1.05; middlings $1.85; dressed hogs 12 
cents per pound. How many apples 
would it do to feed? s. 
Maine. 
The feeding value of apples is not very 
high, and the expense of harvesting and 
storing the apples would have to be taken 
into consideration. If you can take care 
of the apples without very great expense, 
and can provide comfortable quarters for 
the hogs, it would seem to me that 
good thrifty shotes at $5 apiece ought to 
turn a profit. Give them all the apples 
they will eat, hut also give them a slop 
of equal parts cornmeal and middlings 
twice a day, what they will eat with a 
good appetite, but not enough so that 
they will not eat a good quantity of ap¬ 
ples. The pigs will not need much drink 
aside from the liquid furnished by the 
apples, just enough to make the meal and 
middlings palatable. Provide a box of 
salt and ashes where the pigs can help 
themselves and if practicable let them 
run out of doors except in severe weather. 
c. l. m. 
Grain for Dry Cow. 
I HAVE a cow that is due to freshen 
tin* middle of October. I stopped milk¬ 
ing her two weeks ago and continued 
to give her the same feed as when I milk 
her, which was three quarts mixed wheat 
feed and one quart of cornmeal. Her 
milk seemed to keep up, and I was told 
not to feed her any grain, only plenty 
of grass. I stopped giving her grain for 
a few days hut she seemed always hungry, 
so I gave her a quart of mixed wheat 
feed. Pasture is not very good now. Is 
new hay good for her? g. m. 
Rhode Island. 
A moderate amount of grain will cer¬ 
tainly be beneficial to your cow. How¬ 
ever, it is not best to give cornmeal. I 
would suggest three parts by weight of 
wheat bran and two of ground wheat 
feed. A week or 10 days after she fresh¬ 
ens add two parts cottonseed meal or oil 
meal to the mixture. Newly cut hay is 
not at all injurious to cows. c. L. M. 
Balancing Rations. 
W ILL you give me a balanced ration 
when cows are on pasture and fed 
corn from field; stabled and fed 
Timothy hay, with the following feeds: 
Corn and oats on the farm to be fed up; 
beet pulp $32; hominy $32; gluten $33; 
cottonseed $36; wheat feed $26; mid¬ 
dlings $28. G. s. B. 
New York. 
When cows are on pasture, cottonseed 
meal two pounds, ground corn and oats 
two pounds, middlings one pound. This 
ration will be equally good when cows 
are being fed green corn fodder. When 
the cows arc stabled, with Timothy hay 
for roughage, a good grain ration would 
be cottonseed meal three pounds, beet 
pulp two pounds, ground corn and oats 
three pounds, gluten feed one pound, 
wheat feed one pound. c. L. M. 
Comparison of Food Value. 
W ILL you give a comparison of stand¬ 
ard wheat middlings and a stock 
feed containing cornmeal, hominy, 
dried brewers’ grains, wheat bran, oat 
hulls, oat middlings, oat shorts, and salt, 
analyzing protein 10 per cent., fat five 
per cent., fiber 16 per cent., to be used 
as a feed for heavy work horses? The 
stock feed costs $1 per ton more than the 
middlings. j. h. d. 
Rennselaer Co., N. Y. 
While the middlings contain more nu¬ 
trients than the stock feed, they would 
not make a suitable grain ration for 
work horses. The stock feed will make 
the better feed for work horses if either 
is to be fed alone. A mixture of equal 
parts middlings and stock feed would be 
better than either one alone. c. L. M. 
LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
Cows and Hogs on Same Pasture. 
UT HAVE my sows farrow in August 
X and September,” says Harry Runs 
of Ashtabula County, Ohio. “I have 
a large farm and considerable pasture. 
My pasture is fenced hogtight, and I al¬ 
low my hogs to run in the pasture with 
my dairy. This can be successfully done, 
and where there is water one need not 
give much attention to the pigs, provided 
woods are in the field. One bunch of 
little fellows, numbering 15, were sold 
last Fall for $35. I had not seen them 
until they were two weeks old. Pigs feed 
on roots and they work in the low places 
where the cows seldom visit. Of course 
I would advise rape, clover, and the 
cheapest gain I ever put on Spring pigs 
was by hogging down corn. There are 
many farms on which brood sows and 
pigs may be maintained in the same pas¬ 
ture with the cows.” w. j. 
Salting Silage. 
O N page 1046, in II. U. W.’s article, on 
cooperative silo filling I read: “To 
prevent the surface of the silage from 
decaying j[ soak the corn with a solution 
of common salt and water almost concen¬ 
trated. Following this method there is 
almost no decay.” What does he mean 
by “ almost concentrated?” Can you give 
me the right proportion of each and the 
amount to be spread over a 12-foot silo? 
We had two feet of our good feed spoil 
last year, which we would like to prevent 
this year. n. a. e. 
Fond du Lac, Wis. 
What I meant in my recent article by 
“almost concentrated,” is that the liquid 
used in preserving the surface of the sil¬ 
age is so heavily impregnated with salt 
that not more than half of it is dissolved. 
That is, much more salt is used than the 
water can take up. This is put over the 
silage until the undissolved portion of the 
salt is about a third of an inch deep over 
the surface. \v. h. u. 
The Brighton cow market near Boston 
takes place every Wednesday and almost 
every dairyman buys his cows there; the 
prices range from $60 to $120 for cows 
fresh in milk. The market is well sup¬ 
plied every week, but is considered even 
by shrewd buyers a renewal of a lottery, 
as the cows are all well bagged up and 
it is hard to tell what one has bought un¬ 
til the cows have been milked about one 
week after market day. Of course like 
everywhere else, the price of grain is 
getting so high that it will be still harder 
to make a profit in the dairy business. 
I am glad to state that this Fall a great 
many silos are being built, and this will 
help to solve the question of cheaper milk. 
At the Fairoaks farm we retail our milk 
at 10 cents a quart the year around, and 
we received 60 cents a quart for cream. 
Providence, R. I. a. p. 
Sept. 21. Milk retails at five and six 
cents a quart; butter 30 to 40; cattle, 
about 10, calves 10. Peaches 25 to 60 
16-quart basket; onions 40 to 60; melons 
25 to 40. Horses high. Hay $22; new 
hay $12. Potatoes $1.60 barrel. Giants; 
round stock $2 per barrel. Eggs 33. 
Severe drought now, grass suffering very 
much. Corn, 100 pounds $2; wheat 
$2.20; oats $1.50 per 75 pounds. 
Adelphia, N. J. f. l. h. 
Sept. 13. This is a dairy section ; we 
have one of the largest cooperative cream¬ 
eries in the State, doing a business of be¬ 
tween $200,000 and $300,000 yearly. No 
market for garden truck nearer than La 
Crosse—13 miles—so very little truck is 
raised here. Cattle and hogs are raised 
very extensively. Few of the cattle are 
finished for beef here, most of them are 
sold as feeders. Following were prices 
Sept. 10: Wheat 90; rye 85; oats 40; 
corn 60; barley 55 to 60; hogs 8*4 to 8 y 2 
cents per pound, live weight; cows 4y 2 ~, 
heifers five cents; steers five to seven 
cents; hay $8 per ton. Butter, cream¬ 
ery, 31; potatoes 60; strawberries in sea¬ 
son, $1.25 to $1.50 per 16-quart case; 
raspberries $2 to $2.25 per 24-quart case; 
blackberries $1.75 per 24-quart case; 
currants $1.35 per 16-quart case. Other 
fruits are raised very sparingly. Apples 
are very scarce (home-grown), j. b. n. 
West Salem, Wis. 
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