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FEEDING POTATOES TO FARM ANIMALS Variations In Animals.—W e are up 
R ATION FOR MILCH COWS. —Un- a £ ains * a little different potato proposi- 
der the present market conditions, ^ion y par than ever before, as we 
and considering the future from the crop ^ad quite a proportion of the crop that 
reports and the apparent demand for po- was refused when taken to market be¬ 
ta toes. this crop will probably run low in 
price through the season. It might be 
well then for the farmer to consider their 
feeding value and the best animals to con¬ 
sume them. During all the years that po¬ 
tatoes have been raised at “The Pines*' 
there have many years, when similar con¬ 
ditions have existed, and we have fed 
lots of them to all kinds of farm stock 
with excellent results. We remember 
about 18 years ago we were overstocked, 
and there was no market. We were 
then feeding our full number of cows 
for butter-making and. expert testimony 
to the contrary, we resolved to try them 
to take a part of the grain ration. The 
feeding was begun with much care and 
the quantity gradually increased until 
each cow was getting about 40 pounds 
a day. the ration of eornmeal having 
been decreased accordingly. To our sur¬ 
prise, the yield of milk held up well and 
the quantity of butterfat didn’t decrease. 
After the second churning the butter was 
subjected to an expert and was pro¬ 
nounced of hue flavor and given a high 
score. I have an idea the cows were 
not getting quite as much feed with the 
potato diet as they were with eornmeal, 
hut because of the effect of the succu- 
canse they were too large. We are there¬ 
fore feeding these with the other culls 
and still without cutting. I watched a 
cow master one of the largest this morn¬ 
ing and she did it without trouble and 
with great satisfaction. The individual¬ 
ity of the animal as to taste and general 
characteristics has much to do with the 
effect of food upon the system and this 
should be studied by the feeder in every 
instance. One of the fattest animals we 
ever killed was a cow that was fattened 
wholly on raw potatoes. 
Feeding Combinations. —As to the 
best combinations of feeds to be given 
with potatoes it may be said that for the 
dairy cow the grain ration should be of 
the heavy concentrates; for the growing 
heifer or steer, if no silage is fed and 
there are potatoes enough, they will suffice 
alone, even if some low-ground hay or 
straw is fed; if silage is fed, the pota¬ 
toes should be supplemented with a small 
ration of bran; for horses and colts, oats 
should be the supplemental ration. To 
some, an article of this kind may not 
seem complete without an attempt to tell 
the exact value per bushel for feeding, 
but this can hardly be done as the kinds 
of food at hand, the kind of animal, the 
lenee in the potatoes on the digestibility judgment of the feeder, are, really, the 
of the other foods, the condition of the controlling factors in determining the 
animals improved and they took on the value of any feed or combination of feeds, 
appearance of pasture fed animals. It may, however, be of interest to com- 
Cookino Not Required For Cows. — pare the feeding value of potatoes with 
At that time we learned that there was other root crops on which we have con- 
no value in a boiled potato for a cow or siderable literature and with which many 
a young animal there was not in a raw farmers are comparatively familiar. Re- 
one, and that they would eat as many of ferring to Farmers’ Bulletin No. 22 we 
the uncooked as they would of the cooked find the following: “It will be remem- 
ones. Another thing that came to us bered that one of the primary functions 
was the knowledge that it was not ne- of food is to produce heat for the body 
eessary to cut or pulp them in order to and energy for work. The value of food 
feed them with safety, that it was be- for this purpose is measured in heat units 
cause an animal was disturbed when eat- or calories and is calculated from the 
ing that it got choked, and the practice nutrients digested.” Then follows a ta- 
■ >f feeding (hem whole has been contin- ble from which we learn that the potato 
lied to this day without loss from choking, has 31,360 calories and is followed by the 
Nutritive Value. —In nutritive ratio roots in the following order: beets, 1S,- 
the potato does not differ particularly 004; carrots, 16,009; ruta-bagas, 16,- 
from corn meal; that of the former being 407; turnips, 13,086; mangel-wurzels, 12- 
1 :11.5 and the latter 1 :11.0. It there- 888. It will be seen that the potato has 
fore follows that they can be made to nearly twice as much feeding value as its 
take the place of eornmeal better than nearest competitor, the beet, and nearly 
any other grain ration. If the farmer three times as much as the poorest, the 
is not feeding silage the potato can be mangel-wurzel. n. walker mo keen. 
fed to most excellent advantage to take Maine, 
its place, furnishing succulence and food 
value at the same time. When fed to 
take the place of silage it may be given 
in the proportion of five pounds of pota¬ 
toes to six pounds of silage; 25 pounds 
O 
of silage. Potatoes are of equal value 
as feed for horses and colts as for cows 
ind young cattle, supplying food, keep¬ 
ing the bowels open and improving the 
general appearance of the animal. A feed 
How to Feed Potatoes. 
P OTATOES that have been stored in 
Livingston County since last Fall 
awaiting a better market have now been 
f potatoes taking the place of 30 pounds found available for farm use in a way 
that promises a substantial profit on the 
crop. All the present market offers is 30 
cents per bushel in any quantity, and this 
ridiculous figure the farmers were not 
disposed to accept. A way has boon 
"f four quarts twice a week may be given found to prepare the tubers with but lit- 
flie horse at hard work, while the idle tie trouble so that the sheep can be in- 
horse or the growing colt will be bene- dueed to eat them. A bushel of raw po- 
fited by a feed of that amount every day. tatoes is dumped on the barn floor and 
Boiling Lor Swine. For swine the each potato is stamped upon once. Then 
potato must be boiled for best results, as five pounds of ground feed is sprinkled 
not enough of the raw potatoes will be over the potatoes and the whole mixture 
eaten to keep them thriving. Let them 
he boiled and mixed with eornmeal while 
still hot, for fattening swine and for 
the growing pig they may be mixed with 
wheat middlings or ground oats in the 
•same way. Store hogs may be wintered 
almost entirely on raw potatoes if they 
is placed back in the bushel measure. 
The time required for the mixing is 
scarcely three minutes, and the mixture 
is eaten readily by sheep that have al¬ 
ways refused whole potatoes. 
It is computed that the food equivalent 
of a bushel of potatoes so prepared is 
have warm quarters and the run of the 50 cents worth of coarse fodder or 70 
horse manure with the corn that would cents worth of grain. The farmers 
fie thrown on it to keep them working, around Geneseo who are putting the 
omparing the actual feeding value of method in practice declare that they are 
the potato with eornmeal we find that it easily getting 50 cents return per bushel 
takes, practically, five pounds of the po- on their potatoes when it is considered 
tato to equal one pound of the eornmeal; that they do not have to haul the tubers 
comparing them with wheat bran we find to market or haul feed home for the 
that 3% pounds will suffice, while with sheep. Potatoes make the only crop this 
it will take four pounds. The above season that the farmers did not win out 
is computed from Henry’s “Feeds and on. When wheat reached the high figure 
1' ceding' but every chemist, as well as of $1.65 many of the farmers began sell- 
••very farmer, knows that it is not quite ing their crop. Others are holding for 
fair to compare a succulent, palatable a $2 market. Beans have reached $3 50 
.ood with a dry one simply on its analy- per bushel and the crop in this county 
•us, as the balance is always in favor of was good this year. a . h p 
the former. Sodus, N. Y. 
FARM NEWS. 
Western farmers suffer damage from 
soil blowing, and the most practical 
method, Kansas advises, is to list one or 
two furrows at intervals of two or three 
rods at right angles to the wind. A num¬ 
ber of fields of wheat were saved in this 
way in 1014. Straw spread thinly over 
the ground will usually do to prevent 
blowing if it is partly pressed into the 
soil by a sub surface packer or a dull disk 
set straight. 
The glass silo is the latest, aud 48 
milk bottles have been used for this pur¬ 
pose by Prof. C. O. Swanson of Kan¬ 
sas. . They have been used to test out 
certain theories regarding silage, and 
Prof. Swanson believes that Alfalfa finely 
cut. tightly packed, will make good silage. 
Kansas is the greatest sorghum State 
in United States, and out of the 105 
counties of the State in 05 sorghum is a 
more profitable crop than corn. The pro¬ 
tein in sorghum is in its leaves, and Kan¬ 
sas Orange cane is the best variety for 
Eastern or Central Kansas. Sumac sor¬ 
ghum does best in the region south of the 
Arkansas River, and Freed in the extreme 
west part of the State. 
The directors of the Percheron Society 
of America have resolved that when it 
becomes necessary for the Government to 
destroy Percherons, the sentiment of the 
organization is that breeders should be 
reimbursed on the basis of a fair valua¬ 
tion of such animals destroyed. 
F. L. Allen of Ohio contends that there 
is necessity of an organization among 
maple sugar producers with view to 
standardizing the product, and putting it 
on the market under trade names that 
would he a guarantee of its purity and 
grade. He says that cooperation, organ¬ 
ization and standardization would do for 
the Eastern sugar maker what they have 
done for the Western fruit grower. 
^ The extension department of Purdue 
University reached over a million people 
in 1014, and more than 25,000 boys and 
girls were enrolled in the home project 
club work. 
. The Department of Agriculture has de¬ 
vised a new plan for destroying the in¬ 
sects in imported seed. Briefly stated 
the seed is placed in a chamber where a 
partial vacuum has been created. Into 
this vacuum is driven a quantity of hy¬ 
drocyanic acid gas. Another gas which 
has been used is bisulphide of carbon. It 
has been found that the use of a vacuum 
gives a very rapid treatment; only a 
short time being required to kill all in¬ 
sects without any injury to the seed. A 
bulletin upon the subject has been issued 
by the Department of Agriculture, Wash¬ 
ington, and will be sent on application. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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editorial page. 
Do you want to protect your seed from 
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Then, simply moisten your seed with CORBIN. At a 
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should use Corbin on corn, wheat, rye, barley, buck¬ 
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COR DIN is a preventative of stinking smut. Experi¬ 
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Corbin. 300 burnt heads in 120 sq. ft. On plot of 120 
sq. ft. treated with Corbin the wheat was free from smut. 
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