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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Rye for Ducks and Hogs. 
W HAT do you think about feeding rye 
to ducks? Which is the better way 
to feed rye to hogs, whole or ground ? 
C. E. B. 
Most kinds of stock will not eat whole 
rye unless they are forced to do so 
through hunger. Throw down a handful 
of mixed grain and the hen will pick out 
the corn, wheat, buckwheat, or oats, and 
leave the rye. The best way to dispose 
of the rye for feeding is to grind it, half 
and half with either corn or oats, and 
feed it in a mash or slop. In this way 
practically all of the rye will be con¬ 
sumed. Hogs will not eat the whole 
grain of rye. Put them into a rye field 
and they will eat the grain and break 
down the straw. They will do much bet¬ 
ter, however, when the rye and corn are 
ground together and fed as a slop or as 
thick mush. The rye is not as good in 
feeding cattle as corn. 
The Use of Frosted Cornstalks. 
I FOUND so much to do in the Spring 
on my newly acquired farm, that I 
.. was late in getting my corn planted. 
Consequently I have only a two-acre field 
of small stalks and a few nubbins. When 
cutting time came I was still behind in 
my work, and as the apples seemed more 
important than the corn I let it stand. 
It has now stood uncut through several 
severe frosts. Would the stalks be harm¬ 
ful to feed to a horse or cow if cut now 
and stored in the barn? If so, what else 
could I best do with them? Would they 
be good to cover my Fall-set strawberry 
plants? I have started to cut the stalks 
and put them in the barn, but a neighbor 
told me that the frosted stalks would be 
bad to feed any stock. h. s. m. 
Connecticut. 
Such fodder makes very poor stock 
food and unless you try to starve them to 
it the horse and cow would not eat enough 
to do them any harm. They would sim¬ 
ply pick over the stalks, nibble a little 
hore and there, and leave the rest. In 
some parts of the West where the stalks 
are left in the field, and the cattle turned 
into harvest them, there have been cases 
of injury from eating these stalks, unless 
the cattle had some kind of laxative food 
in addition. You can run these stalks 
through a cutter, and then use them 
for bedding as an absorbent. The stock 
will nibble a little of the better portions 
and leave the rest, which would make a 
good absorbent and add to the manure. 
In our own case we should cut these 
stalks and use them whole for mulching 
the strawberries. They do quite well for 
this purpose, as they do not mat down 
over the plants, and at the same time 
protect them from being thrown out 
when the ground freezes and thaws. 
Dairy Ration Without Hay. 
I S there any combination I can make 
with chopped straw, molasses, grain 
and cottonseed meal to take the place 
of hay for milch cows? In Europe I 
have seen successful farmers feed chopped 
straw, pulped mangels and a sprinkling 
of mill stuff, bringing good results with¬ 
out hay, and think it possible a combina¬ 
tion of commodities mentioned might be 
made satisfactory, even though we have no 
mangels to put in it. I shall feed corn 
silage with the proposed combination, but 
wish to eliminate the hay if possible. 
F. P. 
It should be remembered that thfe prac¬ 
tice of feeding mangels, straw and oil cake 
that prevails in Scotland is utilized under 
a system of dairying that differs materi¬ 
ally from that prevailing in this country. 
The Scottish farmer or cheese-maker does 
not dairy extensively during the Winter 
months, but relies chiefly on the luxuriant 
pasture grass as a source of feed for his 
animals when they are in full flow of lac¬ 
tation. For the most part the mangels, 
straw and oil cake are fed to dry cows, 
or those giving relatively small amounts 
of milk, for it is rather the exception for 
the Scottish farmer to have his animals 
freshen in the Fall. Furthermore, the 
reason why he is able to utilize the straw, 
is because mangels furnish an abundance 
of succulence, and straw is primarily a 
filler. The high cost of labor in this 
country, of course prohibits the growing 
of mangels extensively, and silage being 
in itself bulky does not require a coarse 
fodder such as straw to bring about proper 
digestion of the food. The molasses would 
no doubt make the straw more palatable, 
but there is very little food value in oat 
straw, and I would very much prefer util¬ 
izing corn fodder as a source to straight 
Timothy or even mixed hay, and I am 
satisfied that the straw-molasses-cotton¬ 
seed mixture might be used for dairy cows 
and heifers, provided some corn meal and 
some corn fodder were added, but I do 
not think the plan suggested would apply 
successfully to dairy cows of great ca¬ 
pacity or high production. f. c. m. 
Dairy Ration. 
W ILL you give me a balanced ration 
for a four-year-old Jersey from the 
following: Mixed hay, some Tim¬ 
othy and Blue grass, also cornstalks, cut 
up, without corn on. I can buy yellow 
cornineal at $1.80 cwt.; wheat bran, 
$1.45; flour middlings, $1.75; gluten, 
$1.70; brewers’ grains, $1.55; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $1.80; old process oil meal, 
$1.00; distillers’ grains, $1.80. F. c. 
New York. 
For the grain ration feed three pounds 
cotton-seed meal, two pounds brewers’ 
dried grains, one pound oil meal and one 
pound bran. A good way to feed the cut 
corn fodder would be to wet it and then 
scatter the grain over it. Give all the 
roughage the cow will eat. It will be 
well to feed out the corn fodder during 
the early part of the Winter, as it be¬ 
comes dry and unpalatable with long 
keeping. c. l. m. 
Ohio Rules for Dairies. 
C OWS must have a clean bed, fresh 
water, and be kept clean hereafter 
in Ohio, according to the rules for 
dairies issued by the State Dairy and 
Food Department. If the cow "has a 
swollen jaw, inflamed udder or ulcer¬ 
ated teat or running sore her milk must 
not be used, and cows known to be afflict¬ 
ed with tuberculosis or any other con¬ 
tagious disease must be removed from 
dairies. The barn must be on well- 
drained location, and mud holes, manure 
piles, or stagnant water within 100 feet 
is a contamination. The barns must 
be ventilated by an automatic system or 
adjustable windows, and at least 300 cu¬ 
bic feet of air space must be provided 
and two square feet of light for each 
cow. Manure must be removed daily a 
distance of not less than 40 feet to 
preclude the possibility of odors getting 
back unless sufficient straw, shavings or 
absorbents are used. Floors must be 
kept clean by careful sweeping or wash¬ 
ing, and an earth floor must not be used, 
the walls must be free from manure, 
must be whitewashed or made clean and 
sanitary or disinfected. Utensils must 
be of smooth non-absorbent material, the 
seams of which are flushed smooth with 
solder. After being washed in cold 
water, they must be scalded with boiling 
water or steam and inverted in pure 
air to drain. Milking must be done in 
clean suits with clean dry hands and 
udder of cow must be clean before be¬ 
ing milked. As soon as drawn, milk 
must be removed from stable and cooled 
to temperature of at least 60 degrees. 
The milk house shall be located on well- 
drained land, free from contamination, 
must be well screened, protected from in¬ 
trusion of flies, fowls and animals. 
W. J. 
You or the Cow? 
a'TMIERE are more men keeping cows 
J. than there are cows keeping men.” 
That is a statement a dairy ex¬ 
pert made in Chicago and a prominent 
speaker said: “It takes less than two 
minutes a day to determine the value of 
the cow, less time for the herd than you 
devote to the one or two unproductive 
animals. This determining process is 
very simple, the scales and the tester. In 
the store business we would keep account 
of losses and gains, and if loss wiped out 
profit we would be looking for the leak. 
It might be in bad accounts, and when 
that person came to us to get trusted for 
the week’s supply of groceries, he would 
find his name blacklisted, or in dairy 
language would be classed among board¬ 
ers. The local merchant would not think 
of keeping a half dozen families in the 
community year after year. He would 
not allow them to run hopelessly large 
accounts, and at the end of the year tear 
up the sales slip and let them "start all 
over again imposing on his business abili¬ 
ties, taking out nice slices of profit from 
productive customers, and forcing him 
to carry an excessive stock. For my 
part I would rather have the cow keep 
me than keep the cow.” 
One authority says: “A dairy cow to 
be called such should repay her owner 
for every pound of feed, every hour of 
labor and also interest on his invest¬ 
ment.” He makes it clear that the dif¬ 
ference between a good and a poor cow, 
is often merely in difference in feed. He 
says: “Cows that give milk rich in fat 
should receive the larger amount of grain. 
The ration of the dry cow should afford 
her opportunity to get in good condi¬ 
tion for the next lactation period.” 
The IIolstein-Friesian cow Duchess 
Ilengerveld Korndyke No. 131752 has 
broken the record for fat production in 
the senior three-year class of the semi¬ 
official yearly division, by producing in 
365 consecutive days 903.38 pounds fat 
from 22,897 pounds milk. She fresh¬ 
ened at the age of three years nine 
months, 19 days. Her sire is Judge Hen- 
gerveld De Kol No. 43904; her dam is I 
Duchess De Kol Korndyke No. 52905. 
She was bred by Mr. O. A. Stubbs, | 
Lewisville, Ind.: and she is now owned 
by Emblagaard Dairy, Big Bay, Mich. 
MALCOLM II. GARDNER. 
“Don’t fish go about in schools, papa?” 
“Yes, Earlie. Why?” “Oh, I was just 
wondering what would become of the 
school if some fisherman happened to 
catch the teacher.”—Springfield Republi¬ 
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