<She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Various Feeding Problems 
Feeding Pigs on Slaughterhouse Waste 
I fan get tlx- offal from hoof cattlo, 
oows and calvos as thoy aro killod evory 
day from a slaughtorhonso noarby. 1 am 
told it is a gof)d fo(‘d for hogs. I have 
a lot of pigs about 12 wooks old and as 
food is so high would like if I could to food 
it to thorn, eithor raw or cooked, f’an got 
(he hones after the me.at is eiit off for 
,$1 j)er 100 i)oiinds. AVonld it pay to 
f(‘ed them either raw or cooked? I have 
to buy all my feed hut know where I can 
get about 100 bushels potatoes that 
liave been iu cellar of a warehous<‘ that 
burned down. They were hiully steamed 
and I exi)ect have bc^en frozen by now. 
Would you advist* getting them .-md cook¬ 
ing them up with meal and bran for pig 
feed? .7. c. it. 
Rhode Island. 
There is considerable danger in feeil- 
ing raw offal that is collected from local 
slaughter houses in view of the fact that 
the animals -are not killed under inspec¬ 
tion, and there is danger of the animals 
slaughtered being infected with tubercu¬ 
losis. If swine are killed there is dan¬ 
ger from hog cholera. It is seldom that 
the average farmer who would gatlier 
thes(> ])roducts has facilities that would 
after it has cooh-d. It would not he ad¬ 
visable to cook rhf corn as it would make 
it less digestible. Wheat l)riin at the 
present jn-ice is too exiiensivc for swimf 
feeding, furthermore it is constipating, 
and might better be replaced with Al¬ 
falfa hay. It may he advisable to feed 
brood sows jirevious to farrowing small 
amounts of bran, but it should not con¬ 
stitute a portion of ji jdg's ration during 
any other stage of its life. F. c. m. 
Cattle Relish Sweet Clover 
“Cattle will m»t eat Sweet clover,” is 
.1 statement m.ade by many farmers 
throughout the Country at the present 
time. Yet, while tlifse are sure that 
stock will not cat it. there are others 
whose live .stock relish it. Ten ye.ira 
ago Sweet clover wiis looked uihui as a 
nuisance. \ few still regard it as sue!;. 
So much has been said with reference 
to the palatahility of Sweet clover that 
it led to a recent cxi)erlment by the Iowa 
station to determine Avlietlnu’ cattle which 
were used to feeding on Sweet clover and 
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O.W. Inaersoll, 246 Plymouth St., Brooklyn. N.Y. 
W. P. Hartman it Co., of 
Clarksville, Tcnn., write: 
‘We have been in the con¬ 
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years, and have never seen 
anytbine that etiuals these 
screcnin:,8 for concrete pur¬ 
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dust and fine rock together 
praticaliy do away with the 
use of sand, and malses a 
much smoother finish as well 
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just finished a reinforced 
concrete wall and pavement, 
using the screenings and 
t -i- make every 
^ material needed for con- 
- Crete— except the cement, out of lime- 
Etone ledges. Use pulverized limestone instead 
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Makes dormant plant foods available—increases 
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FINE or 
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Young Stock in Sweet Clover Pasture 
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make it possible for liijii to st<Tiliz(“ these 
materials thorougbiy Jiiid prep.-ire them 
for feed, and agiiin he would be very 
likely to overlook tin* b.-irrels iind uten¬ 
sils used in the collection, 
j Tlx; dige.ster ttinkage that is supplied 
■ from large abattoirs eon.si.sts largely of 
i the blood and refu.se meat .scraps which 
are thoroughly cooked under .steam jires- 
.snre and then dried artitieially, which 
mak<‘S the itroduct a jierfectly safe ma¬ 
terial to feed. Tlx> raw offal that is 
giithered lociilly generally iix'lndes the 
contents of the stomachs of the various 
animals, Yvhicli material is low in feed¬ 
ing value. Dige.ster tankage should not 
supply more than 10 per Cf'iit. of the 
r.ation, .and if yon incre.as(» this .amount 
in iin endeavor to final liberally you wanild 
supply an abniulance of in-otidn and it 
would he neci-ssary to buy siuiie addi¬ 
tional feed to .sii]iplement this appetiz¬ 
ing matiaaal. Undi'r ordinary circum¬ 
stances special products of this sort serve 
their best purpose in increasing the pala¬ 
tahility of ii ration, or in other woials 
edging the appetite.s of the pigs. If they 
were permitted to eat exclusively of such 
matenals they would not gain rapidly nor 
regularly, and they would evideix-e ah- 
uorinal tippetites. A pig does not re¬ 
quire a great deal of mineral matter. It 
would not be economical to buy green 
hone at .$1 per lOO iiouixls for tlx> pigs. 
It might be economical to use this mate¬ 
rial for poultry as a source of mineral 
matter or grit. 
Regarding the potatoes here again the 
same condition maintains. I‘otato(>s 
should he fed to pigs more as an appe¬ 
tizer than as a source of feed, as they 
contain an excess of water and do not 
siijiiily food nutrients in economical form. 
If it is desired to feed iiotatoes to swine 
they should preferably In; cookc'd. and 
after they have been softened from such 
fooking the water should he poured off 
and the pulp mixed with grain, prefer¬ 
ably corumeal and tankage in the pro¬ 
portion of 200 pounds of potato pulp to 
100 iionnds of corn and 10 pounds of di¬ 
gester tankage mixed. As a feeding val¬ 
ue it would not he advisable to pay more 
than 50 or 60 cents per 100 pounds for* 
the (lotatoes. as corn at •'i!2 jier 100 
pounds would he far more economical. 
The potatoes should b(‘ cooked seiiarato- 
ly, and the corn mixed with the pulp 
Alfalfa would show any pref<‘r<‘nce for 
one forage over the other. Six jaeirling 
heifers, all about the same size, wore f< li 
SO pounds of Sweet clover hay and S(| 
pounds of Alfalfa hay in the same rack 
at the same time. Forty pounds of eacli 
I'.ay were jdaced alternately in the rack, 
so that the animals would have eiiual ac- 
ce.ss to both. After the heifers had eaten 
until tljoy would eat no more the hays 
were taken out and weighed. Tlx’re 
W(>re .‘>4 ixainds of Sweed clover left and 
4S pounds of Al.falfa, thus showing that 
the animals had eaten II pounds more 
Sweet clover than Alfalfa, or 2..”> nxire 
jiounds per head. 
In grazing the.se same animals on 
Alfalfa and Sweet clover pasture, side 
by side, no preference was shown for tlx' 
Alfiilfa. Tlx‘ Sweet clover was eaten as 
readily, although it was five to six feet 
tall, jind, therefore, very coar.se. Yet 
.some i>eoi)le insist that cattle will not oat 
Sweet clover at all. Give them :i chance. 
Sheep will show a gre.ater in-cference for 
Sweet clover than will cattle, and horses 
thrive well on it. even wlien the forage 
is very coarse and woody. It is tnx' 
that Sweet clover is not jialat.ahle to 
some animals at first. Thi.s is due, po.s- 
sihly, to the cumarin content of the plant, 
which causes its liitterness. The ma¬ 
jority of animals, howc'vor. show special 
Iireference for Sweet clover from the be¬ 
ginning. All animals sooner or later de¬ 
velop a k(‘en appetite for it. and. after 
acquiring a taste, most of them prefer it 
to any other pasture plant. 
iMany cases can he cited where stock 
refused to eat other valuable forage crojis 
when first offered to them. Shippers of 
cattle from the arid sections of the West, 
where corn is unkixiwn, often expi'rienci' 
difficulty in inducing the animals to eat 
corn fodder or even thrashed grain wlx ii 
first offered to them. When the cow pea 
was tried in portions of this country dif¬ 
ficulty was had at first to get stock to 
eat it. Further developments have proved 
that this crop has great possibilities even 
in the sections where ditficnlty was at 
first experienced in inducing stock to eat 
it. The same holds true with Sweet 
clover. Generally it develops that ani¬ 
mals which at first refu.se to eat the plant, 
if managed properly, quickly learu to like 
it. " W. E. eOWEUS. 
Mrginia. 
