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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 17, 
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Feed 
Your 
Buildings 
Paint! 
You feed your stock regularly 
to keep them from starving. 
And you must feed paint to 
your buildings regularly to 
keep them from rotting. It is 
one of the most important eco¬ 
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It has so many uses that It Is 
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USED IN THE TREATMENT OF MANGE, 
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DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
DETROIT, - - MICHIGAN 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Feeding Apple Pomace to Cows. 
A ROUND here they joke me quite often 
about my cows, because I take pains 
with them and keep so many (14) for 
one living in a village with ouly a small 
farm, but I have quite a little Alfalfa 
sown now, having just sown some more, 
which makes me between nine and 10 
acres, about one-third of my farm. Last 
Fall my corn crop only filled one silo, 
12x35, which was not as much feed as I 
wanted. Having a bulletin of the Ver¬ 
mont Experiment Station on pomace, 
which said it was safe to silo it I went to 
the cider mill and asked if they would 
give me the pomace if I took it all, I 
furnishing wagon and they to dump the 
cloths on so it would be clean. They 
laughed at me but said I could have it. 
People around laughed and wanted to 
know if I was crazy. I may have been, 
but from 14 cows after feeding new milk 
to six calves most of the Winter, I sold 
an average of $200 worth of milk per 
month for three or four months. I drew 
the pomace as often as they had wagon 
loaded, sometimes two loads a day and 
again one load in two or three days. I 
built a conveyor and run same in silo 
right from wagon and every few days I 
leveled the silo off according to how fast 
we put it in. I put it in alone, but when 
I got above the floor (the silo is in barn 
with a d^-foot pit, 10 feet in diameter) 
the juice ran quite a little, showing the 
press did not get all the cider out and 
I think if I do it again I shall cut some 
straw or other dry fodder in with it 
continually or in layers to hold that juice. 
Speaking of the juice calls to mind my 
experience a few years ago, before I came 
to my present location. I had an old 
orchard of very high trees, and quite a 
little natural fruit, which made lots of ap¬ 
ples which could not be peeled at the can¬ 
neries or evaporated, and I could only 
get five cents for a bushel of them, which 
would only a little more than pay for 
hauling them off. I bad about 20 cows 
in milk. I drew the apples to the stable, 
and after we had fed the cows their silage 
and grain begun to feed a bushel of those 
whole apples to five or six cows at first, 
and later fed a bushel to three or four 
cows. We gained about 25 quarts of milk 
per day after three days. I fed about 
250 bushels in that way with no bad re¬ 
sults that Fall, and they were all sour 
apples. Since then I never sell cull ap¬ 
ples very cheap. 
I fed the pomace twice a day, one 
bushel to three cows, with one bushel of 
corn silage to two cows, Alfalfa hay at 
noon. For grain I used bran, hominy, 
cottonseed, middlings, oil meal and some 
ground oats part of Winter, aiming to 
feed one pound of grain to three or four 
pounds milk. c. R. sweezey. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—In feeding apples to cows 
bettor begin with a few and slowly in¬ 
crease as the cows grow accustomed to 
them. It would be a great mistake to be¬ 
gin with a full feed. 
Dairy Ration ; Small Silo. 
W ILL you give a balanced ration for 
dairy cows? The grains to con¬ 
sist of corn, oats, wheat bran, oil 
meal and cottonseed meal; the roughage 
is fodder corn and field corn stalks; a 
few carrots on hand to give as desired. 
Would it be profitable to erect a silo for 
four cows, silage to be fed the year 
around on what is called the “soiling 
system?” What size should it be? 
Schuyler Co., N. Y r . H. s. k. 
The following ration should give good 
results with dairy cows: Cornmeal one 
pound, ground oats one pound, bran two 
pounds, oil meal two pounds, cottonseed 
meal two pounds. The amount to be fed 
each cow of course will vary with the 
cow, say about one pound of grain per 
three or four pounds of milk. 
I doubt if it would pay to erect a 
silo, or silos, for four cows. One must 
take into consideration the cost of silos, 
of feeding, and of raising the corn, as 
compared with the cost of feeding by 
other methods. You can figure up these 
things better than one not familiar with 
your conditions. For feeding four cows 
a silo should not be over seven feet in 
diameter, so that enough silage may be 
taken off each day to prevent moulding 
on top. A silo seven by 30 feet will hold 
approximately 25 tons, not quite enough 
for a year’s supply, unless you can fill 
several times. I should judge that 7x36 
would just about give you the required 
capacity. c. L. M. 
* ALL animals~ r im- 
prove i.i condition 
and increase tlieir 
product of flcsli, milk, 
wool, etc., by being fed 
liberal rations of cut 
roots. No matter what 
else you feed, cut roots will 
improvethoration. They add a zest which means 
increased consumption of roughage and aid in 
digestion and assimilation. They put a top finish 
on market sheep and lambs. They put color and 
richness in milk and cream and resulting butter. 
Banner Root Cutters 
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possible way. Cut so fine as to prevent all chok¬ 
ing of animals. It’s done with the “Non-Choko 
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free illustrated booklet. Every animal condition 
will be improved by feeding a ration of cut roots. 
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