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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December S, 1917 
Where Disease Shows First 
Just watch the milk yield for the first sign of weakening in the cow’s 
system. If your cow is not giving the quantity or quality of milk you expect, 
it is time to give her medical attention. 
For twenty-five years thousands of the most progressive daiiymen have 
used Kow-Kure as their “first aid” when a cow shows signs of “falling off” 
or coming down with disease. Particularly before and after the calving 
period, the use of Kow-Kure is valuable. It is a sure preventive of Milk 
Fever and Retained Afterbirth, and will enable the organs to resist the 
diseases which frequently originate at this time. 
Kow-Kure has a positive action on the genital and digestive or¬ 
gans, toning them up, making them perform properly and helping the 
system to function as nature intended. Kow-Kure has proven a 
prompt remedy for Abortion, Barrenness, Scouring, Lost Appe¬ 
tite, Bunches and other common ills. 
A small investment will prove the worth of Kow-Kure in 
your dairy. Put it to a severe test; try it on your poorest 
milker and watch results. Druaerista and feed dealers 
sell it; 55c and $1.10 packaires. 
BETTER CATTLE 
Get full service from your 
cattle. Lameness, scouring, 
sore udders and kindred ail¬ 
ments reduce their usefulness 
and fruitfulness. 
Use Sloan’s^ Liniment; easily 
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You will find many uses for this 
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The 18 oz. $1.00 bottle contains 
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Various Feeding Problems 
Raising Calves on Oatmeal 
Will you give a formula for raising 
calves on oatmeal (rolled oats) ? 
Connecticut. w. E. s. 
There is no satisfactory formula for 
raising calves on oatmeal. Oatmeal may 
■well be used as a part of the ration. The 
calf should have whole milk for 10 days 
and then it may gradually be changed 
to skim-milk or diluted milk. In thr 
weeks to a month a gruel can be made of 
oatmeal. If possible, a little skim-milk 
should be used in making the gruel; if 
not possible, use water and rolled oats. 
The calf should have three feeds a day of 
this gruel. In addition, a grain ration of 
equal parts cornmeal, bran and linseed 
oil meal should be made up and fed dry 
to the calf, feeding what the calf will 
clean up readily and never leave any in 
the feed box. At three weeks of age the 
calf should also begin to eat hay. This 
method is simply using an oatmeal gruel 
in place of a prepared calf meal. H. r. J. 
Feeding for Butter Fat 
I have clover and Timothy hay, no 
silage or roots. What would be the bt t 
grain ration to feed to produce cream for 
butter? B. E. B. 
Maine. 
Necessarily, most of the feeds which 
you purchase must be high in protein to 
offset what is lacking in your roughage. 
While linseed oil meal is high in price, 
its physiological effect in a ration contain¬ 
ing no succulence is excellent. I have 
therefore included 50 lbs. in the following 
ration: 200 lbs, cottonseed meal, 50 lbs. 
oilmeal, 150 lbs, dried distillers’ or dried 
brewers’ grains. If you cannot get the 
latter, use wheat bran or ground oats, 
whichever is cheapest with you. Add one 
per cent salt to the mixture in making it 
up. ii. F. j. 
Potatoes for Pigs 
What is the relative value of feed for 
pigs weighing about 100 lbs. of middlings 
at $4.20 per cwt., or potatoes at $4.50 
per bbl.? I have quite a lot of potatoes I 
can sell at that price, but have to buy the 
feed. I have 20 pigs. E. M, b. 
New York. 
You cannot afford to feed potatoes to 
pigs when you can get .$4.50 per barrel 
for them. If a barrel contains 2^ bush¬ 
els, or 150 pounds of potatoes, there 
would be contained therein 25.05 pounds 
digestible nutrients. In 100 pounds of 
middlings there are 78.2 pounds of digest¬ 
ible nutrients. If you have some cull po¬ 
tatoes, they could be very profitably 
cooked and fed in a slop with grain to 
the pigs; $4.20 per 100 for middlings is a 
much higher price than I have heard of 
in these parts. ii.F. J. 
Fattening Rations for Pigs and Bulls 
1, What is the best ration for young 
pigs to bring them up to 100 lbs., dressed 
weight, in the shortest time, without 
skim-milk and without corn, $90 a 
ton is too high? Tankage I am willing 
to buy. 2. What is a fairly good ration 
to put bulls in good condition for mar¬ 
ket? They are eating apple pomace and 
common hay, not clover, without corn, 
but with cottonseed. Is apple pomace 
delievered in barn at $3 a ton worth the 
money? 
New York. 
1. For the young i>igs make ration 50 
parts middlings, 20 parts tankage and 30 
parts ground barley, or hominy if you 
can get it cheaper than corn. If not, run 
in 15 of oilmeal and 15 of ground oats. 
2. For bulls, make a ration of one part 
bran, two parts middlings and two parts 
cottonseed meal. Apple pomace is equal 
iu feeding value to silage, according to 
experimental data at hand. It contains 
about a pound more of digestible nutrients 
in 100 lbs., and I should say was a good 
buy at $3 a ton delivered at barn. 
H. F. J. 
Dishorning; Grain Ration 
1, We have a herd of 10 Holstein cows 
which we bought some time ago from 
Ohio, all hornless. I would like to raise 
a few calves from same and should like 
to have them also without horns. What 
is the best thing to use and how is 
plied? At what age is it used on a calf:' 
2 Do you consider the following a good 
ration? 200 lbs. bran, 200 lbs. mid¬ 
dlings, 100 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs. glu¬ 
ten, 100 lbs. hominy, 100 lbs. cottonseed 
meal. Cows are out in meadows nearly 
all day. I have no silo; am going to cut 
up cornstalks and am trying to get wet 
brewers’ grains this Winter. H. P. 
New York, 
1, When the calf is three to five days 
of age, the hair around the horn buttons 
is cut away so that the horns can be seen 
or felt. A stick of caustic potash or 
caustic soda is moistened slightly and 
rubbed on the horn button, care being 
taken that none of the caustic gets on 
other parts of the skin or on the hands of 
the operator. The caustic destroys the 
horn, leaving but slight depression. If the 
first application does not prove effective, 
another application may be made in three 
or four days. 
2. The grain ration which you are us¬ 
ing .seems well adapted to your purpose, 
and it will be sati.sfactory to use it with 
wet brewers' grains. Of course, if you 
use wet brewers’ grains you can feed dry 
grain less heavily, probably about a pound 
of grain to 5 or 6 lbs. of milk produced 
daily. Either the hominy or the oats, if 
prices soar too high, could be dropped 
out of the ration and it would still be a 
good ration. n. F. j. 
Analysis of Hominy Feed 
I have Farmers’ Bulletin No. 743, 
which says hominy meal, feed or chop, 
contains of digestible nutrients, protein, 
7 per cent; carbohydrates and fat, 77.6 
per cent. I have bought a bag of it at a 
local grain store, and on that bag it says 
it contains, protein, 10 per cent; fat, 6 
per centfibre, 6 per cent. Can you tell 
me who is right and who is wrong? I 
do not understand it. h, o. 
Rhode Island. 
The analysis of the hominy feed on the 
bag jou purchased is the crude analysis 
of tl i feed; that is, the analysis which the 
chemist gets when he analyzes it in the 
laboratorj’. When the cow eats the hom¬ 
iny, she is not able to digest all the nu¬ 
trients present and some passes off in the 
manure. For example, the crude protein 
is 10 per cent, meaning there are 10 lbs. 
of crude protein in every 100 lbs. of 
hominy. Now, when this is fed to the 
cow, she can digest but 70 per cent of it, 
or seven lbs. in 100. Hence, the hominy 
contains 7 per cent of digestible protein, 
which is as per the figures you saw in 
the bulletin referred to. You cannot cal¬ 
culate carbohydrate and fat content from 
the analysis given on the bag, since only 
the fibre, which is a part of the carbo¬ 
hydrate material, is given. This is quite 
the common way of stating the analysis 
on the bag, simply to show the buyer 
whether the feed runs high or low iu 
fibre, this constituent being of little feed¬ 
ing value. H. F. J. 
LIVE STOCK NOTES 
Feeding Roots to Swine 
On page 1277 L. W. v-ishes to know 
whether he can fatten hogs on boiled tur¬ 
nips, etc. He certainly can. In the 
North of Ireland, when I was young, we 
fattened the hogs every Winter on boiled 
turnips, with some “meal seeds.” the ref¬ 
use from oatmeal, mixed in. Beets, car¬ 
rots or potatoes would be still better, but 
boil them. I don’t think raw roots are 
half so good to fatten anything. 
Delaware. WM. J. bentoui.. 
Pigs on the Installment Plan 
Perhaps a plan I am working out might 
help some others to make their “bit” in 
food production larger than it is, and will 
give you an outline of it: I could not 
take 30 or 40 pigs and feed the lot to 
killing age in a bunch. The investment 
would be more than I could well under¬ 
take, but I can buy pigs at fair prices at 
about two months old, and am buying 
four per month to kill off at six to seven 
months of age, which will give me funds 
as needed for maintenance. Though I 
have only made one killing yet, and can¬ 
not say just how it will work out finan¬ 
cially, I am confident at present prices it 
will be profitable. c. m. e. 
Alfalfa for Hogs 
On page 1.302 Y. T. B. says he tried to 
feed his hogs Alfalfa hay and they would 
not eat it. I bought four pigs the fore 
part of January. We do not have Alfalfa 
in hay form here, so I bought Alfalfa 
meal the same as they feed to chickens, 
and feed them that. I give about one- 
third niore of the meal than I do of the 
ground feed. I soak it all together, feed 
and meal, from one feeding to the other. 
I do not use a swill barrel, but in cold 
weather I scald the feed and meal for 
them and feed about like new milk. I 
have fed about 1,400 pounds to my four 
hogs and they weigh about 300 pounds 
apiece, I would judge from their looks. 
I have been feeding ground corn and 
oats, wheat and rye, middlings and Al¬ 
falfa meal, but am feeding cornmeal now 
for a few weeks before killing, w. r. h. 
Pennsylvania. 
