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tends to loosen the bowels. All feed 
must be sound and free from molds if 
it is to prove safe and suitable for horse 
feeding. Questions on such subjects will 
be cheerfully answered in this depart¬ 
ment. a. s. A. 
Widening a Ration 
I have a herd of grade Guernseys that 
either have freshened or are due to fresh¬ 
en soon. At present they are pasturing 
on young rye sown following tobacco; am 
feeding to those milking four quarts of 
the following mixture, 100 pounds gluten 
feed, 100 pounds bran, 100 pounds corn- 
meal. For Winter feed I have corn sil¬ 
age, corn stover, - clover rowen followed 
by mixed hay, also a lot of ear corn. 
With grain at the following prices will 
you give me a ration? Bran $25; brown 
middlings $26; gluten feed $32; cotton¬ 
seed and linseed meal at present $40; 
distillers’ grains $30; brewers’ grains $30. 
Warehouse Point, Conn. n. f. b. 
I have assumed the average live weight 
of your cows to be 1100 pounds, and the 
average test of the milk to be 4.5 per 
cent. Feed as follows: 30 pounds corn 
silage, five rowen, 10 corn stover, nine 
grain ration made up of 400 pounds dis¬ 
tillers’ grains, 300 gluten feed, 100 mid¬ 
dlings, 100 bran. When rowen and corn 
stover are gone feed 12 pounds of your 
mixed hay in their place. I note that 
you have some ear corn. Should you 
wish to grind some of this and feed it to 
your cows, use 200 pounds of same in 
place of the 300 pounds of bran in the 
above. This will widen your ration a 
little, hut not seriously. H. F. J. 
Feeding Roots to Swine 
Is there any objection to feeding hogs 
and pigs roots as follows, beets, carrots, 
turnips, mangels, potatoes, pumpkins and 
cabbages, and how to feed them? Is there 
any objection to pasturing sheep with 
cows? s- it. R. 
New York. 
In our own experience where any large 
number of roots were fed we found it 
most profitable to cook the roots and feed 
them while warm well mixed with the 
ground feed. Fed in this way the hogs 
will eat them readily. They enjoy warm 
food, and the ground grain mixed with 
the roots has always given us good re¬ 
sults. Where there are only a few roots 
to be fed we should feed them raw, let¬ 
ting the hogs gnaw them down at then- 
leisure. With this kind of feed you must 
be careful not to give too many of the 
roots at once, as otherwise they freeze 
and then of course they are not satis¬ 
factory. 
The great objection to pasturing sheep 
with cows is the fact that tin? sheep 
nibble the grass so close that the cows 
cannot get a bite. This would not be 
very troublesome if there was plenty of 
grass and the pastures were abundant. 
In dry weather where pastures are thin 
and over-stocked tin? sheep would nearly 
starve the cattle out, and prevent their 
getting a fair share of the grass. 
A French “ Balanced Ration ” 
IT. S. Consul Cram at Marseilles, 
France, tells how the cows supplying 
that city with dairy products are fed. We 
understand these cows are very large ani¬ 
mals, somewhat like the Brown Swiss. 
Anyway, our foreign consuls are not usu¬ 
ally “strong” on practical farming and 
we do not advise our readers to follow 
this plan: 
"In this region the daily ration of 
milch cows, which costs about $0.50, is 
usually composed of the following ele¬ 
ments: Hay, 37.63 to 26.45 pounds; 
bran, 13.22 to 22.04 pounds; and copra 
oil cake, 6.61 to 8.82 pounds. In Jan¬ 
uary and February, when the olive trees 
are*trimmed, the cuttings replace hay to 
a certain extent, in the proportion of 
two pounds of foliage for three pounds of 
hay. Practical experience has shown 
that these leaves, which are readily ac¬ 
cepted by the cows, tend to increase the 
yield of milk. Marseilles and Aix receive 
annually about 800 tons. In Winter, the 
outer shell of the almond is occasionally 
utilized, and is said to communicate to 
the milk an agreeable flavor.” 
An Expensive Ration 
I am feeding my dairy, Holstein cows, 
corn silage all they can clean up, and also 
cob chop and cottonseed meal, mixed 
clover and Timothy hay, and I do not 
believe it is paying to feed this ration, as 
cottonseed meal is $39 a ton and cob 
chop is about the same. I tried to cut 
down on the grain and the cows shrunk 
in milk. I have lots of silage and mixed 
hay. What would you advise me to feed 
with those in order to make a good bal¬ 
anced ration and also cheaper, if possi¬ 
ble? D. J. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
If you put good money into cob chop 
at nearly $39 per ton for the purpose of 
feeding dairy cows you will stand a very 
poor chance of ever seeing it again. At 
this price cottonseed meal is certainly 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
high, but as it is one of our best feeding 
stuffs, a small amount will certainly pro¬ 
duce very satisfactory results. If you 
can get gluten feed at a reasonable price 
you will find that it will produce a good 
flow of milk at a reasonable cost. You 
could use about two pounds of gluten 
feed and one pound of cottonseed meal 
in each ration, or you could dispense 
with the cottonseed entirely and feed 
about three pounds of gluten. Your grain 
ration would then be about as follows: 
Four pounds dried brewers’ or distillers’ 
grains; three pounds gluten feed; two 
pounds cornmeal. You could feed this 
ration at the rate of one pound of grain 
to 3^4 or four pounds of milk produced. 
The cornmeal should not cost you more 
than about $34 per ton, and should be 
ground fairly fine without any cob in it. 
Feed all the silage your cows will eat 
night and morning, with a good feed of 
hay at noon. c. s. G. 
A Ration for the North Country 
Can you tell me what I can feed my 
cows for a balanced ration when I have 
good clover hay that is about one-third 
Alfalfa? I have dry cornstalks enough 
to feed once a day all Winter, also 
enough silage for one good feed each day. 
The dry corn and silage was a large 
growth, but there are not any ears on 
it. I have fed as a Summer ration 300 
pounds each of cornmeal, middlings. Win¬ 
ter wheat bran, oil meal and cottonseed 
meal. __ J. B. Y. 
Watertown, N. Y. 
I would suggest if an effort was made 
to grow a variety of corn that would 
nearly mature by Sept. 20 a better grade 
of silage would result. Silage without 
ears is not a good feed for dairy cows. 
In case J. B. Y. does not have available 
oats or oats and barley to include as a 
part of his grain ration I would suggest 
the following: 
300 pounds of dried distillers’ grains; 
300 pounds of gluten feed; 300 pounds 
of wheat bran; 300 pounds of hominy 
feed. 
This gives a ration of variety, and one 
made up of easily digested materials. Fed 
at the rate of eight pounds per day, as 
the average ration, with 20 pounds of 
corn silage, 30 pounds of clover hay and 
about 35 pounds of corn fodder, it will 
provide a ration with 2.50 pounds of di¬ 
gestible protein and 33 to 14 pounds of 
digestible carbohydrates or starchy 
foods. These grain feeds can usually be 
bought at most any feed store or may be 
ordered in carload lots from wholesale 
dealers. Cottonseed and linseed meals 
are relatively high, at the present time, 
and many of the smaller dealers in this 
part of the State do not carry them. The 
best way to feed the grain ration is ac¬ 
cording to the milk flow. By weighing 
what is required to fill a four quart 
measure level, one can easily regulate the 
weight by the quarts fed. It is well to 
feed daily, by measure, what would equal 
one pound of grain to every four pounds 
of milk. This does not need to be fol¬ 
lowed closely, but if the amount fed one 
week is based on the average daily milk 
flow of the preceding week it will be 
close enough. c. s. p. 
Ration for Milch Cows 
I have mixed clover and Timothy hay, 
silage, oats, and buckwheat. What else 
is needed and what proportions of each 
to make a balanced ration for milch cows? 
WesleyviUe, Pa. J. e. 
A well-balanced grain ration to be fed 
in connection with your home-grown 
roughage may well be composed of equal 
parts by weight of ground oats, mixed 
wheat feed, and buckwheat middlings. 
The buckwheat middlings may usually be 
obtained in exchange for the whole grain, 
and the exchange at the respective mar¬ 
ket values is a desirable one, since the 
middlings, weight for weight, contain a 
greater proportion of milk-producing ele¬ 
ments than the whole grain. Instead oi 
ground oats alone in this ration, equal 
parts of ground oats and cornmeal, or 
cornmeal alone may he used, and instead 
of wheat feed, wheat bran or wheat mid¬ 
dlings. If a greater weight of gluten 
feed than of buckwheat middlings can be 
obtained in exchange for the buckwheat 
grain, gluten feed may replace the buck¬ 
wheat middlings without detriment to the 
ration. These things should he consid¬ 
ered from the standpoint of relative mar¬ 
ket prices in order to obtain as econom¬ 
ical ration as possible. M. B. D. 
Apple Butter for Pigs 
I received an offer to buy apple butter 
in cans at one cent a can in carloads 
every month. Do you consider it a safe 
feed for pigs? H. B. 
East Killingly, Conn. 
The price of this seems almost too 
cheap for suitable food, and we should 
be careful about buying large quantities 
of it or feeding it without knowing just 
what it contains and its character. In 
such a case as this our advice is invari¬ 
ably to have fair samples of the material 
analyzed or examined by some competent 
authority and then be guided in buying 
and feeding by the result of such analy¬ 
sis. The same thing applies to the pur¬ 
chase of waste material for fertilizing 
purposes, and the best plan is to obtain 
an analysis of the product, and know just 
exactly what you are doing when you use 
it. 
Farm Notes 
The weather unusually fine for the 
time of year; corn husking the order of 
the day, with about one-half crop, and 
mostly cribbed. Lots of good pastures, 
clover and Alfalfa looking good. Horse 
and mule market good, good cattle selling 
high, plenty hogs with the market dull. 
Lots of farmers having their hogs vaccin¬ 
ated, and cholera is in some parts of the 
county. Local markets are as follows: 
Wheat $3.06, corn selling out of the car 
at 65c. Hay $30 and $32; straw $4 to 
$6; potatoes 60; apples 60c to $3 ; fowls 
9 to 30c; ducks 9; geese 9; eggs 28 to 
30; butter 36 to 25; turkeys 15. A great 
many public sales this Fall, which is a 
good indication of the times, health gen¬ 
erally good. Farmers’ institutes are be¬ 
ing held in our county more than ever 
before, and seem to be doing a sight of 
good. R. s. K. 
Warrick Co., Ind. 
Discussing prices with five prominent 
dairymen of this section, three of them 
ship their milk to dealers in the nearby 
towns, two of them get 5c per qt., and 
pay the express one month and the deal¬ 
er pays the next; the other one gets 4*4c 
per qt. and the dealer pays the hauling, 
while two sell direct to the consumer and 
get 8c per qt. Fresh homemade country 
roll butter 38c per lb., prints 40c. Fresh 
eggs direct to consumer 48 and 50c per 
doz.; to stores 42 and 45c. Live poultry 
in good condition 38c per lb., dressed 22c 
per lb. Good Winter apples 25c per 
peck. Potatoes 80 and 85c per bn. Cab¬ 
bage 3 to 5c per head. Ilay of good 
quality, Timothy, $23; Timothy and 
clover mixed $22; clover $39 and $20; 
corn stover $7 per two-horse load. Straw 
none being sold. As to beef, there is not 
much sold here with the exception of old 
cows or those with a poor flow of milk, 
which bring from $25 to $30; good cows 
are scarce, and those that do change 
hands bring from $75 to $300. As to 
gardening, there is very little done here, 
and what is done does not amount to 
much, as the season is too short, and 
late, which brings crops in when the 
markets are glutted with the southern 
crops. Tomatoes sold as low as 35c per 
one-lialf bushel basket this season ; early 
cabbage 25c per barrel; nice Summer 
radish two bunches for 5c, from 7 to 30 
in a bunch; red beets, 6 and 7 to the 
bunch, 2c. Scallions, 6 to the bunch, 
3c; nice cucumbers, 5c per doz.. and go¬ 
ing slow at that. Early peas sell well at 
30 and 32c per quarter peck. Beans 
come too late to get the best price. I 
sold at 10 and 32c per peck this season 
as we were very late. d. s. ic. 
Mahanoy City, Pa. 
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