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bran. However, the composition of 
mixed feed as it is found on the market 
varies, and it should be purchased only 
on a guaranteed analysis. 
2. It would be better to make the 
scratch feed for your hens two parts 
cracked corn, two parts wheat and one 
part oats. Feed a little of this in the 
morning and a little at noon. Keep the 
hens hungry enough so they will consume 
as much of the dry mash daily as they 
do of the scratch grain. The make up of 
your dry mash is all right. H. F. j. 
Silage for Calves. 
How young may calves be fed silage? 
What do you think of the feeding value 
of the average marsh hay or salt hay? 
South Byfield, Mass. J. c. 
There is no experimental data pub¬ 
lished which shows definitely how young 
calves may be fed silage. It has been my 
experience that calves will take silage 
without harm when they are ordinarily 
changed from whole milk to skim milk, 
which is at about two weeks of age. 
Calves should eat silage readily when 
they begin to eat hay, which is when they 
are about three weeks old. There is a 
dilToronee in the appetite of young calves 
for silage. The only general rule to fol¬ 
low is to try the calves with silage, and 
if they take to it, they will do well on 
it. Give the calf what silage it will clean 
up readily. 
. ■ According to “Henry’s Feeds and Feed¬ 
ing” salt hay contains 3.6 per cent, diges¬ 
tible protein, 40 per cent, digestible car¬ 
bohydrates, and .7 per cent, digestible fat. 
This is a little better than Timothy and 
a little poorer than a good quality of 
mixed hay in nutritive value. Salt hay, 
however, like meadow or bog hay, is not 
very palatable, and cows do not take to it 
very readily except in cold weather, and 
then only after they have created an ap¬ 
petite for it. This fact, together with its 
low protein content, as compared with 
clover or Alfalfa hay, makes it rather 
a poor feed for milk production. It would 
better be used in a maintenance ration 
for heifers, steers or dry stock. h. f. j. 
Acorns for Stock Feeding. 
A writer in the Galveston News, Texas, 
describes the immense crop of acorns 
which he recently found in Eastland 
County of that State. He says he found 
a forest of nearly 75,(XX) acres, and each 
acre yielding at least 100 bushels of 
acorns of good sweet quality. lie thinks 
these ought to be worth at least 25 cents 
a bushel for feeding, and why are they 
not used for stock feed while the world is 
calling for food? Many a man before this 
one has asked the same question. Thou¬ 
sands of hogs are annually fattened on 
the acorn crop. Of course, the most eco¬ 
nomical way is to import the pigs and let 
them run in these forests to eat up the 
acorns. We recently told of what is 
being done in England and Germany in 
grinding the dried acorns into meal, and 
mixing with other grains for feeding. A 
fair idea of the value of the acorn as 
stock food will be obtained from the fol¬ 
lowing table, the figures showing the 
pounds of nutrients in 100 pounds: 
Carbo- 
Protein. hydrates. Fat. 
Entire acorn .... 
2.3 
36.2 
3.8 
Corn fodder . 
3 
47.3 
1.5 
Potatoes . 
1.1 
15.8 
0.1 
Green oats. 
2.3 
11.8 
0.8 
Unquestionably the time must come in 
the future when any substance containing 
2 per cent, or more of protein will be 
saved in some way and utilized for com¬ 
mercial feeding. 
Buffalo Markets. 
Potatoes and onions are 75 to 85 cents, 
both in fair demand. The retailer gets 
about $1 for them. Sweet potatoes are 
.$1 to $1.25 per hamper, but they mostly 
sell on a par with white ones. Apples are 
plenty and in fair demand, at former 
prices, but they are not keeping at. all 
well. Prices are $3 to $4.50 for best reds, 
with greens 50 cents lower. The market 
is well stocked with Western apples, at 
former prices, which are a little more 
than a cent apiece at retail. There are 
some pears, mostly Kieffers, which sell at 
$1 to $1.75 per barrel. A few Catawba 
grapes are left, selling at 14 to 15 cents 
per pony basket. Californias are plenty, 
retailing at 8c. to 10 cents a pound 
Peaches were to be had till Thanksgiving, 
a small, but very juicy sort holding out 
most acceptably till the supply ran out. 
They were not mealy as they commonly 
are in November. At 20 cents a third- 
bushel basket they served the consumer 
chiefly. 
Vegetables are low, but steady, with 
Brussels sprouts often wholesaling as low 
as 10 cents a quart. String beans are 
$3.50 to $4 per hamper; cabbage, $1.50 
to $2.50 per 100; cauliflower. $1 to $1.50 
per barrel; celery, 10 to 40 cents per 
bunch; yellow turnips, 75 to 80 cents per 
barrel; squash, $1 per hundred. Field 
beans are higher, being from $4.10 for 
medium to $4.50 for marrows and red 
kidney. The quality of cranberries im¬ 
proves. selling at $6.50 to $8.50 per bar¬ 
rel. The holiday did not advance the 
price. Butter is from 34 down to 30 
cents for dairy and 25 cents for process. 
No change is made in the 17-eent top 
price for domestic cheese. Poor cheese is 
quoted at 14 cents which seems a small 
difference. Eggs run from 46 cents for 
fancy to 25 for candled storage. A good 
grade can be had at retail for 30 to 32 
cents. Poultry is only steady at 25c. 
for dressed turkey, 16 cents for fowl, 17 
cents for chicken, IS cents for duck and 
13 cents for geese, with live poultry about 
three cents less. J. w. c. 
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