■Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Value of Peanut Meal 
Will you work out a ration for my 
cows? I have on hand plenty of eorn ; 
no silage. Can get wet brewers' grains 
and bran, middlings and other eoncen- 
trates. Is peanut meal suitable for feed¬ 
ing cows, and in what (juantity? a. .m .t. 
New .Jersey. 
IVanut meal is a good source of pro¬ 
tein for cows and it can be fed as one 
Avould feed cottonseed meal. The kind 
of hay you have would determine the 
feeds to be used in the grain mixture. 
Assuming this to be mixed hay. should 
make grain ratioU two parts of corn and 
cob meal, one part bran, two parts cot¬ 
tonseed-meal and one part peanut or lin¬ 
seed oilmeal. Feed a pound of this mix¬ 
ture to about four ixuinds of milk pro¬ 
duced daily, in addition to one-half bushel 
of wet brewers’ grains pi'r I'ow. ii. I'. .1. 
Dairy Ration 
Will you figure out a cow ration from 
the following data for fresh .lersey. giv¬ 
ing In quarts? 1 can buy oilmeal. .'sd.uO; 
cottonseed. ; wheat middlings. 
.$2.05; bran. .$2.40; cornmeal, .$8.00. 
lioughage is bright corn fodder and man¬ 
gel beets. A. P. S. 
Xew .lersey. 
Feed cows all corn fodder they will 
clean up and about 20 pounds of mangels 
]ier head per day. This roughage is of 
low i)rotein and low nutidtive nature, 
therefore, you will need to grain heavily 
on high protein feeds to ke(>p up the 
milk flow. If you Inive i)lenty of mangels 
you would do well to feed even to 80 to 
40 pounds per day. Make grain ration, 
using feeds you mention, three parts cot¬ 
tonseed meal, two parts oilmeal. four 
parts bran and two parts standard mid¬ 
dlings. Add one p(‘r cent salt in making 
up ration. Feed grai)i at rate of a p(aind 
to three pounds of milk produced daily. 
tr. F. .T. 
Ration with Clover or Alfalfa 
Assuming that as feia' for cows I had 
clover or Alfalfa hay. what amount of 
protein and fat would be necessary to 
make a balanced ration? Buying a pre¬ 
pared feed giving the re(|uired amount <if 
jtrotein and fat would be much simpler 
than using feeds that need mixing. What 
feeds would give the recpiired amount of 
fat and protein with Alfalfa hay. or clover 
hay; I mean bran, oilimml. cottonseed 
meal, and so forth? Is a feed testing 
25 per cent i)rotein and .S pm- cent fat. 
with not over 10 jx'r ct'nt fibei' a good 
feed? A. Ii. 
With clover or .Vlf.-ilfa hay as tin* sole 
roughage, you would 7ieed to fe('d about a 
pound of grain to three pounds of milk 
l)roduced (laily. Since clover and Al¬ 
falfa hay run high in protein, feeding all 
the cows would clean up would be supply¬ 
ing them with at lea.st half their protein 
re(piirement. The grain ration would 
need to be of rather low protein nature, 
analyzing about 12 per cent digestible or 
15 to 1(5 per cent crude protein. The 
ration you mention, containing 25 per 
cent crude i)rotein. i. c.. analysis on sack 
or tag. would i)robably run about 20 per 
cent digestible |)rotein. This is too high 
in protein for clover or Alfalfa hay. A 
prepared feed which would show about 
15 to 10 i)er cent protein on sack or tag 
would be nearer it. The following feeds 
would .iust about make it; One part 
gluten, three parts standard middlings, 
three ])arts bran, two jiarts cornmeal. 
one inirt dried bi’ewei's’ or distillers’ 
gi-ains. n. F. .T. 
Bloody Milk 
One of my cows, aged about_ seven 
years, calved la'cently and her milk has 
been blood.v ev('r since from all four teats. 
’I’he general condition of the cow is <'.xcel- 
lent barring this trouble, and 1 cannot 
iinderstand why her milk should be 
bloody. Fould you give a remedy? 
Connecticut. A. S. 
Such cases are very common, the blood 
being due to rujiture of minute blood ve.s- 
sels in the udder as a result of acute con¬ 
gestion. The condition usually passes off 
in a week ov two. (live the cow a dose 
of epsom salts and follow with a table- 
spoonful of saltpetre once daily in water. 
Feed sparingly and enforce daily exercise. 
Milk gently three times a day and at night 
bathe the udder with cold water and vine¬ 
gar. If the trouble persists sto)) the salt¬ 
petre and mix one teaspoonful of dried 
suli)hate of iron (coi)peras) and three of 
common salt in the feed twice daily. 
A. s. A. 
Indigestion 
I have a light mare (800 Ib.s.) about 
eight years old, that seems to have no life 
in h'er. The last few months she lost 
weight, and no matter how much I fed 
her she did not pick uj). A veterinarian 
prescribed for her. without results. She 
gets about three miles of rf)ad work a day. 
When in the stall she will lick on the floor 
or sides all day long and when outside 
she will keep on biting her bit. If given 
a chance she will eat all kinds of wood. 
The veterinarian tiled her teeth. I feed 
her live qnaids oats, threi* quarts corn and 
cob. ground, and oih' (piarl bran ; hay 
morning and night. u. Jf. 
Xew York. 
This is a plain case of indigestion, prob¬ 
ably caused by over-feeding and lack of 
exercise. Make the mare work every day. 
If thei-e is no work for her to do turn her 
out, feed hay. corn fodder and roots, but 
no grain. When at work feed one pound 
of whole oats for each hundred pounds of 
body weight as a day’s ration, divided in.to 
thre(‘ feeds. Feed a like amount of good 
hay. If the coat is long and sweating 
troubb'soim* clip the hair from the legs 
above knees ami ho^ks and from the belly 
to a line with the straps of a breast collar 
and breeching. Brain may be increased 
a little if very hard work has to be done. 
.\llow free access to rock .salt. Do not 
give medicine of any kind. a. .s. a. 
Barn Itch ; Thin Horse 
1. What is good for calves which have 
the barn itch? 2. I have a young horse 
which seems thin in flesh. lie eats well; 
teeth in good condition. I am feeding 
four quarts of feed three times daily: one 
part mixed feed, one part bran, one i)art 
ground oats. e. h. w. 
New Y'ork. 
1. “Barn itch” is a common t('rm for 
ringworm, which is caused b.v a vegetable 
parasite (tricophyton tonsurans), which 
also lives upon damii walls, woodwork, 
mangel's, hay rack.s, fences, etc. To get 
rid of the disease, which gives little 
trouble in Summer and which is most 
common in damp. dark. hot. badly ventila¬ 
ted ba.sernent stables, the latter' must be 
cleansed, disinfected, whitewashed, lighted 
and properly ventilated. Al.so treat man¬ 
gers. etc. Scrub each spot of affected 
skin free of scales and scabs. To accom¬ 
plish this it sometimes i.s necessar,v to 
saturate the parts with sweet oil for a 
few days. IVlnm they have been clean.sed 
and dried paint with tincture of iodine 
twice daily for three or four davs. and 
then once every other day until well. Be 
careful not to get any of the tincture into 
the e.yes. _ If upper eyelids are affected 
rub in iodoform powder once daily. 
— you sa,v that the teeth are in good 
coiKiition, ff^od "wholo oats, ono-ninth part 
of bran by weight and jilenty of mixed 
clover hay. Add ear corn in cold weather. 
If worms are found in the fmees give the 
Avorm iiowders often' prescribed here 
When a young horse is cutting teeth the 
milk tooth crowns or shells of the first 
three grinders (premolars) above and be¬ 
low on_ each .iaw sometimes lodge and 
<•au.se diflicult.v in mastication and conse¬ 
quent thin condition. You should h.ave 
them removed by a veterinarian if they 
liajipe.n to be causing ti'oubb'. .\. s. a. 
Bots 
I have a four-y<'ar-old gelding that I 
suspect has bots. lie has not thriven as 
he should the past Rummer. I would like 
to know of some renu'dy or medicine to try 
on him. I lost a valuable yearling colt 
the iiast Rummer which failed to shed in 
time, did not thrive, and fell dead in the 
lot where she was jiasturing. On exami¬ 
nation of stomach found over half of lining 
was destroyed, and stomach full of undi¬ 
gested grass and about a full jiint of 
hots. ^ 
Virginia. 
The condition of the stomach described 
was normal and it is not certain that the 
bots caused serious or fatal disturbance. 
In a f('w instanci's the.v have been known 
to block the exit (p.ylorus) of the stomach. 
Bots are found in (piantities in the 
stomach of every horse that has pastured 
grass, ami usuall.v cause no apiireciable 
disturbance. Prevention b.v singeing off 
the hot eggs (nits) to be se'en on the long 
hairs of the legs and breast of the pas¬ 
tured horse is of most importance. A five 
per cent soluticm of carbolic acid or coal 
tar dip also will kill the nits. Fajisules 
of bisulphid of carbon are given to drive 
out bots where that is thought necessary. 
Tonsult your veterinarian about this, o’n 
general principles it would be well to give 
the colt worm medicim* often iircxscribed 
here, and also have his teeth attended to 
by a veterinarian. a. s. a. 
Cough 
Cow r(“centl,v |)ui'<-hased has a cough. 
Rhe eats jind feids fine, gives a good mess 
of milk. Man I imrehased her from said 
he thought it was caused by her eating 
nPI»les. A. J. K. 
X’ew York. 
Apples do not cause cough, unless in a 
ca.se of choke. The strong probability is 
that the cow has tuberculosis, and she 
should be isolated and the tuberculin test 
applied by a veterinarian. Mtuinwhile do 
not use the milk. Dusty feed or irritating 
gases in a badly ventilated stable also 
may cause cough, and such causes should 
be prevented. Tli<‘ cow also should be fed 
meal or grain in addition to hay and corn¬ 
stalks if she i.s to milk profitably. 
A. s. A. 
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