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September 8, 1917 
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Silage for Pigs 
AVhat do you think of corn silage that 
was well eared and in good condition as 
feed for fattening hogs, brood sows and 
weaned pigs? Can they be fed all they 
will eat of this? What other grains and 
roughage should be u.sed with it? Is 
Alfalfa hay of any advantage to be n.scd 
when feeding silage? Will hogs fatten 
on this alone? Is it safe for brood sows? 
Can young pigs digest it? Velvet beau 
meal is about the cheapest thing for 
hogs at present here, but that lias to be 
u.sed with other grain, as hogs do not 
like it alone. Please suggest what will 
be cheapest and best. I shall have more 
silage than I shall need for cattle, and 
as it is drilled in, it will not make as 
good ear crop, so expect to put in all 
in silo. It is well eared. Will not 
have any milk for them. mbs. c. k. 
Virginia. 
Coi'u silage, while a perfectly safe 
feed for swine, is not well adapted for 
such use, since it is too bulky and not 
concentrated enough to permit them to 
consume a .sufficient amount of it to 
meet the demands of their systems. This 
is especially true with young pigs and 
those intended for market puri>o.ses. It is 
requisite in the development of such 
animals that they be fed concentrated 
feeds such as corn, tankage, middlings or 
combinations of tlii'se products in order 
that they may gain the traditional 
pound or pound and a half per day. 
Silage would do very well in a main¬ 
tenance ration, that is if one should 
wish to keep brood sows from one season 
to another. 
I rather question the use of silage for 
sows in pig. It may be used during the 
early stages of gestation, but as it ad¬ 
vances towards farrowing time, I .should 
advise Alfalfa bay or some other pro¬ 
tein feed that does not go through such 
variable stages of fermentation. It is 
my belief that shelled corn or hominy 
meal would make the best supplement to 
the velvet bean meal that you have ou 
hand and desire to feed to your pigs. 
Since you have an abundance of silage, 
it might be worth while to try it on 
some of the mature animals, but surely 
it should not become a portion of the 
ration for young pigs intended for mar¬ 
ket purposes. F. C. M. 
Selling Cream Profitably 
T have to dispose of about 200 quarts 
daily of heavy cream, testing about 45 to 
50 per cent, butter fat. How can I 
most profitably do this? The plant is in 
the neighborhood of Elmira. N. Y. Con- 
.sidering wholesale pidces and all. what is 
the worth of skim-milk and buttermilk? 
Connecticut. T. w. T. 
Your letter does not make quite clear 
to me just what your jiroblem is. There 
would doubtless be more money in selling 
the cream as sweet u'Pani, and for such 
au amount as you have I should get in 
touch with an ice cream manufacturer 
or wholesale dealer in sweet cream. If 
you can got as much per pound of butter 
fat for the cream as you can get per 
pound of butter it would pay you as 
well to sell the cream since the .sur¬ 
plus or overrun would not more than pay 
for making and marketing the butter. The 
weight of a quart of the heavy cream 
is practically two pounds. 
According to Gurler skim-milk land 
l)uttermilk is worth per 100 pounds half 
as much as the value of a bushel of 
corn. This is when fed to hogs with 
jtroper grain allowance. This moans that 
at present you can figure skim-inilk at 
75 cents per cwt. u. F. j. 
Keeping Cream Sweet 
ITow do the wholesalers keep their 
cream sweet indefinitely and produce 
such thick cream? We have so much 
trouble to keep ours sweet. A. L. 
Massachusetts. 
Cold is the necessary factor in keep¬ 
ing cream sweet. The wliolesaler is 
usually better equipped with refrigera¬ 
tion than the farmer. However, separ¬ 
ator cream quickly cooled and kept in 
cans in ice water should keep sweet for 
a week at least. Many of the dealers 
also iiastourize their cream and then by 
keeping it cold can keep it almos't in¬ 
definitely as you say. Cream is pasteur¬ 
ized by heating it to 140 to 145 degrees 
F. and holding it there for 30 minutes. 
It Ls then cooled and kept cold until 
used. In the small way pasteurization 
is accomplished by setting a can of 
cream in a tank or sink of hot water. 
The cream should be stirred frequently 
during the process. Pasteurized cream 
does not whip well until it has stood for 
about 24 hour.s at a low temperature. 
II. F. J. 
Law Regarding Registered Milk Cans 
I have just been told that a law has 
been passed to fine everyone .$100 who 
has any milk can in his possession bear¬ 
ing any creamery company’s name or 
stamp. I have some that have been ex¬ 
changed for my cans with my name on 
them and the ones I have have different 
creamery names. It does not seem as 
though I ought to be fined for having 
them in my possession. What is the law 
regai-ding this? j. c. 
Corning, N. Y. 
Tile agricultural law provides that 
anyone n.sing a considerable number of 
milk containers may affix to them a spe¬ 
cial mark or design and have this de¬ 
sign registered with the Commissioner of 
Agriculture; it then becomes a violation 
of the law, punishable by a fine of not 
loss than .$50 or more than .$100, for 
anyone not owning the.se containers to 
have them in his pos.session for his own 
use without the consent of the owner. 
This law took effect April 1st, 1010. It 
is evidently designed to prevent the theft 
of milk cans and bottles from milk com¬ 
panies. and I should judge it unlikely, 
from the circumstances that you mention 
that you are violating the law in the 
use of the milk cans that yon have, 
though, technically, you might be doing 
so if any of them happened to have a reg¬ 
istered mark and you did not have the 
permission of the lawful owner for their 
use. jr. B. D. 
Silage Without Grain 
The owner of the farm, which we are 
working on shai^es, claims that at the 
present high price of boughten gi-ains 
it will not pay to buy anything to feed 
to dairy cattle. He expects to feed only 
hay and silage, which are of a fair qual¬ 
ity. f’an one expect to make milk on 
such a ration? How wfill the cows come 
out in the Spring? Will they be in good 
flesh or otherwise? c. ii. B. 
New York. 
With gr-ains at the present prices it 
is certain that the usual amount fial 
must be cut down even if milk produc¬ 
tion and fineness of condition have to be 
sacrificed a little. It is more profitable 
to feed a cow so she will produce 6000 
lbs. of milk a year rather than 7000 lbs. 
if tlie feed required to produce the extra 
1000 lbs. costs more than can be recehmd 
for the milk. The extent to which the 
grain ration can be diminished and still 
maintain fair milk production and fle.sdi 
depends upon the kind and quality of 
the silage and hay available. One who 
has legume hay, such as clover or Al¬ 
falfa, and well-eared corn silage with 
some Soy beans in it, has a mighty 
good milk-producing ration. If this is 
the case with you, or even if you have 
no Soy beans in the silage, I should 
feed little if any grain. Ilowever, if 
your hay is of the mixed variety you 
will find the feeding of some grain to 
be an advantage probably not more than 
a half to two-third.s of what is ordinarily 
fed. II. F. J. 
Garget 
I bought a Jer.sey cow almost two years 
ago, and when she had a calf last year 
her left front teat and that section of 
her udder caked and hardened. She will 
be fresh again the last week of next 
month and I would like to know if there 
is any treatment during the time she is 
dry to help or prevent the same thing 
again. She is about 14 years old and I 
think she had the same trouble before. 
New York. w. w. It. 
This is a chronic case and treatment 
while she is dry will do no good, nor is 
there any certain remedy after calving. 
Indeed, it usually proves best to dry off 
all secretion in the affected quarter, rub¬ 
bing in twice daily a mixture of equal 
parts of camphorated oil and fluid ex¬ 
tract of belladonna to prevent inflamma- 
mation and help dry off the milk flow. 
It would be wise to have this old cow 
tes'ted with tuberculin, as there always 
is a possibility of tuberculosis in such 
cases, and if that disease proves pre.sent 
the cow shuld be destroyed. If sue is free 
from this disea.se and you do not care to 
gi\’te the treatment suggested here it 
would be best to let her calf suck. 
A. s. A. 
