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THE RURA.Iv NEW-VOKKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A Canadian Dairyman on Costs. 
44 T) Y ^associating skim-milk with other 
JD feeds you increase value of both.” 
W. E. Phoenix of Ontario makes this 
statement in connection with views on 
dairy costs in Canada. “We figure, ” 
Mr. Phoenix remarked, “we can make a 
6,000-pound cow pay with milk at $1.36, 
five months, and $1.55 seven months and 
we have close to $40 to pay interest and 
overhead expenses. She will pay about 
$8 profit on 3.5 per cent, milk, 28 cents 
a pound butterfat, fat considered. I am 
not advising any man to be satisfied with 
the 6,000-pound animal, but there are 
many cows yielding less. The owner 
should aim to get his animals in the 
three-ton class, and better. Alfalfa is 
my salvation; I am not worrying about 
pasture. My Alfalfa I sell to myself via 
the cows at $12 a ton, that is a good 
price. X feed the cow $15 worth of sil¬ 
age at $4 a ton, I feed her $30 worth 
of chop at $25 a ton. This makes $50. 
There will never be a time when skim- 
milk is worth a cent less than 25 cents 
a hundred to me. It was worth 50 cents 
a hundred on a bunch of pigs which I 
sold for $9.85, not many months ago. 
Just use the value of the skim-milk in 
getting some purebreds, and you will have 
a purebred bunch pretty soon. My con¬ 
tention is the fertility and the calf re¬ 
imburse the owner for labor, and if we 
have a little life in our system the in¬ 
crease in value of our land will pay in¬ 
terest on investment.” w * 
Live Stock on Six Acres, 
I EXPECT to increase my poultry to 
500 laying birds next year. Therefore 
I can use about all the corn I can 
raise on six acres. I also think of put¬ 
ting on a small herd of six cows and 
making butter or selling the cream, hav¬ 
ing the skim-milk for chickens. W ould it 
be more economical for me to put my 
corn in a silo (I have none built) and 
buy my corn or husk my own corn and 
buy more mill feeds to balance my cows’ 
ration? Both dent and Hint corn seem 
to do very well here, and the farmers as 
a rule consider one as good as the other 
for grain. I tried both, and find that the 
cows eat all the flint stover (when cut), 
but the heavy stalks of dent are so woody 
that they leave them. 2. I have a pen 
of 225 S. C. White leghorn pullets. I 
did not house them until November, as 
they were late hatched, and I wanted 
them to get all the growth they would. 
They were caught in an early snow¬ 
storm. We then housed them. Quite a 
few seemed to be less active than the 
rest, so I watched closely for colds. Two 
weeks later colds seemed to develop and 
I separated 14 which had one eye closed 
with it. At first I gave them all kero¬ 
sene, rubbing a little on the eye. Then 
I used olive oil on the eye—giving a lit¬ 
tle kerosene in the mouth and on nos¬ 
trils. The eyes did not swell but had 
some matter in them. The birds are all 
alive and active now, but their eyes are 
still shut in some cases, while others 
seemed to have formed a kind of wart 
near the affected eye while the eye seems 
to be all right again. Have you any idea 
what this is and would it be all right to 
put the cured birds back in the flock i 
E. f. r. 
1. An attempt to keep six cows and 
500 fowls on six acres is a more am¬ 
bitious one than most farmers would care 
to undertake. The amount of feed that 
you would be able to raise would be so 
spiall a part of what you would need that 
it would be of little aid in solving the 
feed problem. I would suggest that you 
start with one or two cows, without a 
silo, and ascertain from a year’s exper¬ 
ience about what you are able to do in 
the way of feeding them. If you then 
feel like keeping six, you will have a 
pretty good idea of what is before you. 
I know of no better crop than corn for 
your use; the whole plant is available; 
the grain feeds about all animals, includ¬ 
ing man, and the stover makes excellent 
roughage for the cattle. Where it is 
adapted to soil and climate, corn is easi¬ 
ly king of crops. 
2. Your pullets have evidently taken 
colds from exposure and it will be a good 
idea to add a teaspoonful of permangan¬ 
ate of potash crystals to each quart of 
their drinking water, in earthen or 
wooden vessels and keep them where they 
will not be exposed to drafts or damp¬ 
ness; though they should have an ample 
supply of fresh air. The swellings be¬ 
low the eyes of some are caused by an 
accumulation of matter and if this hard¬ 
ens or appears to have become perman¬ 
ent, the tumor may be opened with a 
sharp blade and the contents expressed. 
The wound should then be dressed with 
a drying, antiseptic, powder, like aristol, 
and the fowls turned loose. Kerosene 
should not be put into the fowl’s eyes 
but a drop or two may be injected into 
each nostril and the cleft of the mouth. 
After being cured, affected birds may be 
returned to the flock. M. B. D. 
Why Do Cows Shrink ? 
I N the article by A. E. P., entitled 
“The Milk Situation in New Eng¬ 
land,” Dec. 19 issue, it is stated that 
there is general complaint of cows not 
doing well and giving a poor yield of 
milk. My experience in this respect may 
be of interest to some of your readers, 
and perhaps some one may be able to 
offer something in the way of explana¬ 
tion. 
I had four cows, grade Ilolsteins, 
which freshened during the last half of 
October. When they had come to a full 
flow of milk three were giving from 25 
to 28 pounds daily, and the fourth about 
32 or 33 pounds. At the time of fresh¬ 
ening I was feeding two quarts of bran 
per cow daily. After freshening I grad¬ 
ually increased this to four quarts for 
two weeks, when I began feeding a ra¬ 
tion consisting of one part middlings and 
two parts union grain at the rate of one 
pound to three of milk. Late in Novem¬ 
ber I changed this ration for one consist¬ 
ing of one part of cottonseed to three of 
bran and middlings in equal parts. Soon 
after making this change there was a 
sharp drop in the yield of milk. After 
using up the supply of cottonseed 
which I had, I returned to the previous 
ration of union grain and bran. In a 
few days the flow of milk increased to 
nearly the former amount, but in about 
a week commenced to drop, and contin¬ 
ued to do so until at present the firsv 
three cows mentioned are only giving 
from 20 to 22 pounds of milk, and the 
fourth from 26 to 28 pounds. 
There has been no other change in the 
feeding than that which -has been stated. 
For roughage I have hay, oats on the 
straw and cornstalks. The cows are in 
.good order and eat well. The oats and 
cornstalks are in excellent condition. I 
have previously had excellent success 
with the union grain, but have not had 
much experience with cottonseed. Two of 
the cows I had last year, and in their 
first flow of milk this year they consid¬ 
erably exceeded the amount they gave the 
previous year. The other two cows I 
purchased this year while dry. There is 
absolutely nothing to which I can attri¬ 
bute this shrinkage. It took place dur¬ 
ing mild, pleasant weather. 
Connecticut. a. b. Roberts. 
Soy Beans and Corn Silage. 
R EFERRING to “Soy Beans and Corn 
Silage,” on page 1390, on three farms 
I grew Soy beans separately and 
siloed them with corn, sometimes in as 
great proportion as one part Soy beans to 
two of corn. In every case it made ex¬ 
cellent silage, very palatable and of high 
feeding value. Because the tonnage of 
Soy beans is so much less than corn I 
abandoned the practice for a year or two, 
but will resume next year as I am con¬ 
vinced that the superior quality of the 
silage pays. H. w. H. 
New York. 
F IFTEEN years ago many cows were 
sent from Union County annually and 
shipped to dairymen nearer the large 
cities. Since we have creameries, skim¬ 
ming stations, and a eondensery in the 
county all has changed, and now more 
cows are brought to our county and sold 
than are shipped out. Farmers are well 
supplied with roughage for the Winter, 
and so will keep about all the cows here 
for the present. Milk sells at $1.60 at 
the farm. There is quite a lot of farm 
dairy butter made in sections of our 
county. Grade Ilolsteins and Short¬ 
horns' are used principally for milk 
dairy; grade Jerseys and Short-horns for 
butter dairy. J- A. B. 
White Deer, Pa. 
We Cured A Kicking Cow. —When 
I was nine years old, and my brother 
three years younger, father had a two- 
year-old heifer that was fresh, you might 
say, and it kicked. It kicked when you 
went near it, kicked when anything 
dropped down beside it, kicked when 
father milked it. Brother and I tied 
string to two small stones and dropped 
them down from overhead so as to strike 
both hind legs, we did it just from mis¬ 
chief, we wanted to see the cow kick. 
After looking at the cow as long as we 
wanted to see it kick, we went away and 
left it; that was in the forenoon. When 
I went to feed the cow at noon. I saw 
the strings hanging there and took them 
down. When I went near the cow, it 
didn’t kick. When father went to milk 
the cow at night, it didn’t, and it never 
kicked again. Father wondered what 
cured the cow. I didn’t dare tell him 
then, and he did not hear until I was 
about 30 years old. C. P. K. 
Massachusetts. 
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