884 
July 3, 1915, 
THE RURAL 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Dairy Ration 
Is four pounds of beet pulp and bran 
fed twice a day a good ration for a two- 
year-old cow giving 150 pounds of milk a 
week? She has all the Alfalfa she can 
clean up at night and is out on range all 
day. Her milk and cream production 
does not equal that of other cows of same 
age and class. It. B. L. 
Easton, Wash. 
The ability of a two-year-old cow to 
produce a good flow of milk on a grain 
ration of four pounds of beet pulp and 
bran depends to a large extent upon the 
quality of grass found on the range. If 
you have good sweet freshly-grown pas¬ 
ture grasses on your range, supplemented 
with Alfalfa hay, it is not advisable to 
feed grain heavily at this season of the 
year. If, however, the range grass is of 
poor quality and so unpalatable that the 
cow will not eat enough to furnish nearly 
a complete ration, it should be supple¬ 
mented with a good grain ration varying 
the amount as conditions may require. 
In addition to the beet pulp and bran 
you could use two pounds of hominy and 
two pounds gluten or cottonseed meal, 
which should produce very good results. 
C. 8. G. 
without milk and do as well? I feed 
about 12 per cent or less of tankage three 
times a day, and they get grass about 
every day. G. D. B. 
Connecticut. 
It is very easy to prevent young pigs 
from growing too fat and short before 
they weigh 100 pounds each. If you are 
located where it is possible, the best way 
is to give them a good-sized grass field to 
run in, and the exercise they will take 
helps to develop the muscles and bone, 
and has a tendency to prevent them from 
becoming excessively fat. The grain ra¬ 
tion which you are feeding is excellent, 
but further to help keep the pigs from 
becoming too fat I would suggest that 
you discontinue the use of cornmeal en¬ 
tirely until the pigs are about four 
months old, substituting either wheat 
bran or dried brewers’ grains and ground 
barley, equal parts by weight, and feed 
the same proportions of wheat middlings 
and tankage that you are using at the 
present time. Give plenty of green feed 
such as weeds, grass and vegetables and 
be very careful not to overfeed the little 
fellows. You know “pigs is pigs,” and it 
is sometimes necessary to limit their ra¬ 
tions, especially during the early stages of 
their growth. c. S. G. 
Ration for Pigs ; Tumor. 
1. Will you give a balanced ration from 
the following feeds for pigs 10 weeks old? 
Hominy, $1.65 per cwt.; middlings, 
$1.75; cornmeal, $1.75; gluten, $1.50; 
ground oats, $2.50; bran, $1.50; tankage, 
$2.50. 2. A sow about 2*4 years old 
has a swelling on the right side of her 
body fairly well toward the back, tlie size 
of a baseball, extending outward about 
half way. Is this a tumor, and should it be 
painted with tincture of iodine, or should 
it be lanced? C. K. 
Sergeantville, N. J. 
At the prices stated I would mix 100 
pounds of wheat middlings with 10 
pounds of hominy and 10 pounds of tank¬ 
age, making a thin slop with milk or wa¬ 
ter, and feeding as required. 
2. The bunch on the side of the sow 
may be a sort of wen. which does no dam¬ 
age' and should not be disturbed, or it may 
be full of pus, caused by a bruise, in 
which case it should be lanced. It is not 
possible for me to state which this is from 
your description, but if it appears to be 
loose so it will move with the skin and 
not fastened to the tissues underneath it 
will probably never cause any trouble. If. 
however, it seems to be solid and grad¬ 
ually softens in the center the chances are 
that pus has formed and should be re¬ 
moved by lancing and the wound washed 
with a weak solution of creolin. The best 
way would be to consult a veterinary if 
you have one near by. c. s. G. 
Ration for Cow. 
In what proportion should I give the 
following grain to a Jersey cow that gives 
between nine and 11 quarts of milk a 
day? Gluten feed, cornmeal, brewers’ 
grains, _oil meal, beet pulp, mixed wheat 
feed. Would it be all right to leave out 
the beet pulp during the Summer? 
Canonicut, It. I. G. M. 
The grains you mention will produce 
very good results if mixed in the follow¬ 
ing proportions and fed to good cows 
with plenty of pasturage: Two pounds 
gluten, one pound cornmeal, three pounds 
brewers’ dried grains, one pound oil meal, 
three pounds wheat feed. I have omittel 
the beet pulp, as it is not necessary dur¬ 
ing the flush season for grass, but as soon 
as the pastures begins to dry up, along in 
July or Aiigust, its use can be recom¬ 
mended very highly to take the place 
gradually of the failing pasture grasses. 
If you have plenty of good pasturage you 
could also omit the oil meal, as it is 
rather expensive and not specially re¬ 
quired at this time. 
A very common mistake is to delay in¬ 
creasing the ration until the hot weather, 
flies and drought have decreased the flow 
of milk to such an extent that it is im¬ 
possible to bring it back up to the normal 
quantity by increased feeding. This can 
be avoided to a great extent by starting 
to feed the beet pulp at just the right 
time near the beginning of the period of 
decreased production, which always 
comes during the Summer months. Dried 
beet pulp should always be soaked with 
all the water it will absorb for about 
eight hours previous to feeding, and 
mixed with the remainder of the ration at 
feeding time. c. S. G. 
Feeding Pigs for Growth. 
I want to know how to feed young pigs 
so that they will lengthen out instead of 
growing fat and short while under 100 
pounds in weight. I know milk will do 
this bone and muscle building, making 
long, rangy pigs, which will fatten up 
later on to 350 pounds and over by 
Christmas. I do not have the milk and 
cannot get it, so I am supplying the pro¬ 
tein by tankage. I feed three times a 
day wheat middlings, handful of salt and 
handful of fine charcoal, and twice a day 
a pint or more of corn to four pigs all 
mixed in a pail to a thin slop with water. 
I know that pigs from same boar and sow 
grow faster, longer and leaner on milk 
and a few ears of corn. Can you name 
any feed or system of feeding that will do 
Fattening Fall Pigs. 
We are growing four acres of barley as 
a help for Alfalfa. We sowed it with the 
Alfalfa and expect to harvest it and 
thrash it to feed to hogs, horses, poultry 
or cattle. For hogs we grind it and feed 
it as a slop, having ear corn as the re¬ 
mainder of the feed. The 24 hogs are 
September pigs, and are in good clover 
and are expected to be marketed in Au¬ 
tumn. What would be a good ration? 
Which has the greater amount of fat, 
barley, rye, or corn? Which has the more 
energy and protein, barley, wheat, rye, 
oats, or corn? Would it be all right to 
feed to horses instead of oats? J. E. 
Ohio. 
Barley and corn, equal parts, make an 
excellent fattening ration for your nine- 
months-old hogs, and with good clover you 
should have them fit for market about 
August. The quicker you can get hogs of 
this age to market as a rule, the greater 
will be your profits. Corn contains more 
fat than either barley or rye, but as an 
exclusive ration corn is not as satisfac¬ 
tory even for fattening purposes as when 
mixed with an equal amount of ground or 
soaked barley. In the Western States 
and in Canada barley is used largely as 
a hog feed with excellent results, but to 
get its full worth it must be either ground 
or soaked. In regard to the amount of 
protein in the grains you mention, wheat 
has the highest percentage with oats, rye, 
barley and corn following in the succes¬ 
sion named. Barley stands next to oats as 
a feed for horses, and may be fed either 
alone or mixed with other feeds like bran 
or oilmeal. For hard working horses a 
good ration may be made of equal parts 
whole oats and barley, or they may be 
ground together. A little wheat bran, 10 
or 15 quarts added to the mixture, would 
add variety and cheapen the ration with¬ 
out detracting from its value. c. s. g. 
Ailing Animals. 
Diabetes. 
Can you tell me what to do for my 
mare? She is a young mare five years 
old, is very thin, and urinates too fre¬ 
quently, sometimes eight or nine times a 
day; doesn’t seem to have much life about 
her. I gave her your treatment for 
worms, with good results, but she still 
"stays thin. I feed corn three times a day 
and good Timothy hay. J. A. 
Ohio. 
Mold in the hay or corn is to be sus¬ 
pected as the cause of diabetes in this 
case. Change the feed to whole oats and 
one-ninth part of wheat bran, and then 
add gradually a little flaxseed meal, until 
she may take a pint of it twice a day. 
Make the change to oats and bran grad¬ 
ually. See tliat the hay is perfectly free 
from molds. No medicine should be 
needed, but it would be well to have the 
teeth attended to by a veterinarian and 
also to have her clipped. a. s. a. 
Indigestion; Tumor. 
1. I bought a mare last Spring eight 
years old, sound except blind in one eye. 
Eaidy in Summer she lost the other eye. 
About that time she was taken with in¬ 
digestion and at times bowels have been 
very loose; has been fed well, a little 
bran, a little oilmeal and corn and oats; 
was on pasture a while. Please give 
remedy. 
2. Another horse has bunch on cords of 
neck higher by about four inches than 
usual. B. w. c. 
New York. 
1. Feed whole oats and hay, without 
the other feeds mentioned and keep her 
off grass. Give the drinking water before 
feeding. Feed the grain from a large box 
to prevent bolting. If looseness of the 
bowels persists mix a pint of browned 
wheat flour in the feed twice daily. 2. 
The tumor should be dissected out if it 
causes trouble; meanwhile paint it with 
tincture of iodine every other day. 
NEW-YORKER 
Ringbone. 
Will you tell me what is the trouble 
with my horse? lie is lame in his left 
hind leg. There seems to be a bunch 
growing just above the hoof. He is all 
right every other way. Can you tell me 
what to do to cure the leg? E. G. P. 
Massachusettss. 
The symptoms indicate a ringbone as 
the cause of lameness, and you should 
have the part puncture-fired and blistered 
by a qualified veterinarian, and then tie 
the horse up for a six weeks’ rest. 
Weak Eyes. 
I have a brindle bull pup about seven 
months old which has been troubled a 
great deal with his eyes. There is a dis¬ 
charge from his eyes all of the time, a 
sort of matter forms. I have bathed his 
eyes with boracic acid; does not seem to 
do any good. p. s. 
New Jersey. 
Bathe the eyes with a solution of 15 
grains of sulphate of zinc and 15 drops of 
fluid extract of belladonna leaves in a pint 
of soft water. If that does not suffice 
smear the eyelids once daily with a mix¬ 
ture of one part of yellow oxide of mer¬ 
cury ointment and two parts of lanoline. 
Boric acid solution usually proves reme¬ 
dial in such cases. A. s. A. 
Thriftless Horse. 
I have a horse, a good roadster, but I 
cannot get flesh on him ; he is hide-bound. 
I have tried oil meal, but did no good. I 
wish you could tell me what would be 
good for him. H. H. 
New Jersey. 
Clip the horse and have his teeth at¬ 
tended to by a qualified veterinarian; 
then feed plenty of sound, whole oats, 
wheat bran and mixed hay. Give worm 
powders, often prescribed here, if worms 
pass in the manure or you notice a fur 
of scaly substance around the anus. 
After the worm powders have been given 
the horse may have half an ounce of 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic twice daily 
if he does not gain condition quickly. 
Paralysis. 
I have a two-year-old heifer that has 
lost the use of her hind legs; eats well, 
chews cud some; laps boards and turns 
head to one side. She seems to crave 
something; can you prescribe so I can 
save her? j, c. 
Maine. 
She may have fractured her pelvis or a 
bone of the hind leg, or paralysis may 
have come from an injury, or pressure, 
or forage poisoning. If the local gradu¬ 
ate veterinarian thinks that treatment 
will help, after he has made a careful 
examination, he should be given charge of 
the case, but we are unable to give a con¬ 
fident opinion without making an exam¬ 
ination and home treatment would not be 
likely to succeed in such a case. A. 8. a. 
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