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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 2, 1915. 
Live Stock Notes 
Will Butter Making Pay? 
Will it pay me to keep cows and make 
butter when I have to buy hay? I have 
oat straw and cornstalks, but very little 
hay. I can probably average 35 cents 
per pound for butter, and at present I 
have two cows, one Jersey and the other 
Jersey and Guernsey. These cows give 
very rich milk, and I get from 12 to Hi 
quarts per cow on pasture (pasture is 
rather, poor). Would it nay me to buy 
a few more cows and buy hay to feed 
them, and how many cows would it pay 
me to buy on the grain I have on my 
fa rid? I have a team of horses to feed 
and have at present ISO bushels of oats 
and /seven acres of fair corn. The stalks 
are middling high and the corn ought to 
average me 75 bushels to the acre. I 
also have eight acres of buckwheat in my 
peach orchard, most of which is very 
good. Can you give me any idea of what 
returns I might expect, provided you 
think it advisable to keep some cows? 
Orange County, N. Y. i„ k. r. 
I suppose that I might answer this 
question Yankee fashion, by asking an¬ 
other. If so, I would ask our correspond¬ 
ent how fast a horse can trot and how 
many oats it will take to make him trot 
that fast? lie would probably tell me that 
some horses will eat a half bushel of oats 
and trot a mile in less than two minutes, 
while other horses will eat more and 
that it will be almost impossible to 
make them trot at all. Of course, the 
first thing is a natural trotter, bred lo 
trot, and trained and handled in the most 
expert manner, while the other is a 
drafter, bred and developed to move a 
great load at a slow pace. It is so with 
this cow question. For a cow to be profit¬ 
able as a dairy proposition, she must first 
be a dairy cow, and then she must be 
handled in a reasonably scientific manner 
Some cows will not pay their keep under 
any conditions, and the best cow on 
earth will not return a profit unless she 
be intelligently fed and handled. 
Probably the greatest profit that L. 
E. P. will be able to realize by buying 
more cows will be in the fact that he 
will be able to turn otherwise waste prod¬ 
uct into a marketable commodity, and 
at the same time retain said waste prod¬ 
uct to enrich his farm. With two cows a 
silo is out of the question ; but if four or 
five cows were bought, one could put up 
a silo 12x24 and put this corn into it 
It might not be best to put in all the 
ears, but pick off the best and cut the 
poor corn in with the stalks; or, if im¬ 
practicable to build a silo, one might 
stack the husked fodder in small stacks 
and then cut or shred enough to last 
a few r days at a time, according to the 
weather. These cut stalks should bo 
moistened, and piled up to sweat, but not 
enough of them to last until they should 
meld or rot. 
With the ground corn and oats I 
would feed cottonseed meal to all cows 
in warm weather, to Holsteins all Win¬ 
ter, and I would add linseed meal to 
the ration in Winter for Jersey or 
Guernsey cows. This is because the cot¬ 
tonseed meal tends to make the butter 
hard or “tallowy,” which is what Hol¬ 
stein butter needs, but Jersey or Guern¬ 
sey does not. 
I would feed a bushel or thereabouts 
of the silage or cut stalks to each cow 
in the morning, with the grain ration 
fed on top of the fodder. Then, after 
the cow is watered, a light ration of hay. 
Another ration of fodder with grain at 
milking time, and then a good manger 
full of straw for her to chew on and re¬ 
flect over through the night. In the morn¬ 
ing clean out the left-over straw for 
bedding. 
I believe that it is a good plan to feed 
the buckwheat to the cows. Buckwheat 
middlings is a first rate protein feed where 
milk production alone is to be consid¬ 
ered, but it makes a very poor quality 
of butter, white and soft. As a grain 
ration I would suggest two pounds of 
crushed oats, two pounds of wheat bran, 
four pounds of cornmeal, two pounds of 
cottonseed meal and two pounds of ground 
oil cake; this to be divided into two 
feeds and fed on the cut corn fodder or 
silage at morning and evening. Twelve 
pounds of grain is a pretty good feed 
for Jersey or Guernsey cows in full flow 
of milk, but of course some heavy pro¬ 
ducers will profitably handle more. It 
is generally policy slowly to increase the 
cow’s ration so long as she responds by 
an increased flow of milk, at a ratio of 
about four pounds of milk to one pound 
of grain fed to a Holstein, and three 
to one for the richer milking breeds. We 
must remember that this is not a war 
munition proposition, and that we must 
utilize the by-products to make any kind 
of a dividend. The skim-milk can be 
best utilized by feeding it to a good pure¬ 
bred heifer calf. Not having the calf, 
feed it to hens or pigs, and the purebred 
hens or pigs will generally return a big¬ 
ger profit than the scrubs. 
On most farms the manure is worth 
a great deal, and probably the best way 
to save it is to keep tight cement gut¬ 
ters behind your cows, with the soiled 
bedding in the bottom to absorb the 
liquids. Then clean the stable at least 
once every day and haul the manure 
directly to the field where it is needed. 
This question of building up the farm by 
keeping a good herd of cows is a big thing 
in itself, but of course we don’t wish to 
keep cows just for the added fertility, 
i Every man has to work these things out 
for himself. A lot depends on the cow, 
and a lot more on the man. If you are 
inclined that way and have confidence in 
yourself, go to it, and the chances are 
that you will win out. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Garget. 
Can you give me a remedy for conta¬ 
gious garget, and what would you give 
a cow afflicted with it to keep her from 
going dry? c. n. M. 
New York. 
Make it a rule instantly to isolate and 
keep isolated until well, any cow that 
shows anything wrong with her udder, 
as such diseases are liable to prove con¬ 
tagious, and are spread by the milker’s 
hands, or contact, or pus or abnormal 
milk allowed to get onto the floors and 
gutters. Bathe the udder three times a 
day with hot water and then rub in a 
mixture of one part each of fluid extracts 
of belladonna leaves and poke root and 
six parts of warm melted lard or sweet 
oil, or apply a hot poultice of spent hops, 
or of oatmeal porridge. Milk three or 
four times a day. Give half an ounce 
each of saltpeter and powdered poke root 
twice daily in water until the attack 
subsides. Severe attacks commonly ruin 
the cow for dairying. Where boils form at 
the bases of the teats swab them once 
daily with tincture of iodine. When the 
lotion advised above does not seem effect¬ 
ive, substitute a mixture of one part of 
mercurial ointment and two parts of soft 
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