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burger. Eggs are fair for high grades, 
firm for storage, at 01c to 65c for hen¬ 
nery, SOc for State candled and 50e for 
storage. 
Poultry is firm, -with some sorts of live 
miming up to dressed, but generally 
about .‘?c lower. Dressed is 34c to .3Sc 
for turkey. 27c to .32c for fowl. 28c to 
.32c for chicken. 24c to 25c for old roost¬ 
ers. 20c to .31c for ducks and 24c to 27c 
for gee.se. Ttabbits are 05c to 70c for 
cotton tails and .$1 to .81.50 for jacks, per 
pair. 33ie weather keeps hay high at 
,$20 to .$.30 for the various grades of Tim- 
f)th.v on track. J. w. c. 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Feeding Chicory; Soy Beans 
1. I am going to raise 100 pigs. I 
have about 300 chicory or French endive 
roots. AVould you advise me to feed it 
to pigs? How Avould you feed, raw or 
cooked? 2. AA’hen is the best time to 
raise Soy beans for green manure? M^ould 
you adHse me to put lime on the same 
ground? When shall I put it on the 
ground? It was in cow pasture for 10 
years. I plowed it twice and had fodder 
corn on it. Are Soy beans good for hay? 
E. V. 
1. The roots you speak of had best be 
fed cooked to pigs. 
2. Undoubtedly the land you mention 
otU be better adapted to the growing of 
Soy beans if land is limed. The lime can 
be applied any time after snow goes. A 
good time to apply it is in the Fall. In 
using Soy beans for green manure, they 
should be planted so an entire season will 
not be lost. If planted early in Spi’ing 
they can be turned under and Winter rye 
sown in Fall, for example, as an early 
crop of hay or oats and peas can be 
taken off land and beans planted and 
plowed under before frost. IT. L. J. 
Ration for Guernseys 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
my grade Gueimseys? For roughage I 
<an feed corn fodder, mixed clover and 
Timothy hay, and Alfalfa, each once a 
day. 1 have oats and can buy wheat 
bran for .$1.40 per cw^t. Middlings. $1.80 
))er cwt.. and oilmeal for $.3 per cwt. 
Other feeds are too high. .7. w. B. 
N-w York. 
h'eed all the roughage cows will clean 
up and make grain ration two parts 
g'- .1 oats, one part bran, one part 
. iiings and two parts oil meal. It will 
^ necessary to feed that much oil nieal 
to get the proper amount of protein into 
the ration. Add 1 per cent salt to mix¬ 
ture in making it up. Feed a pound of 
the mixture to .3’/^ to 4 pounds of milk 
j)roduced daily. H. F- >7. 
Ground Buckwheat for Cows 
What is the value ground buckw’heat 
as a feed for cows giving milk? How can 
I improve this feed ration? One part 
ground buckwheat, .$,3.40 cwt.; two parts 
ground oats. $2.70 cwt.; three parts cot¬ 
tonseed meal, $2.05 cwt. The above parts 
are used by measure not by weight. 
Itough'age consists of good silage, also 
gf)od clover hay. I have 14 dairy cows. 
(leauga County, O. E. I.. Y. 
Ground buckwheat is a good feed for 
cows when mixed with other feeds to 
form proi)er ration. The grain ration as 
you are feediiig it is well balanced to suit 
your roughage. If you can get gluten feed 
as cheap as cottonseed. I would drop out 
oue part cottonseed and add one part 
gluten feed. Oats are a good feed to give 
variety and bulk to ration, but cows fre- 
fpiently tire of them and they are not a 
])articularly strong feed for milk produc¬ 
tion. 33ie addition of the gluten^ feed 
should strengthen the ration in this re¬ 
spect. IT. F. .7. 
Feeding Questions 
1. Can fresh blood be feed to poultry 
with good result instead of beef scrajis? 
2. I can buy very reasonably, a house 125 
by 10, with plenty windows on one side 
on this ho.ise, if that will be good for a 
])oultry hou.se, and how many chickens I 
can keep in? 3. How big chicken park 
sliould be built to the size of building men- 
tioiH'd above? 4. I have four cows and 
two horses. I ligure to keej) them all 
year covered in bjirn (because $500 an 
acre land seems to me is too expensive to 
imt in pas'ttirel. How big silo should I 
liave to build? Cows weight is 1.000 
l)ounds; horses 1.400 pounds. 5. What 
will be th(* best ration to feed the cows 
and horses, combined with silage, man¬ 
gels, carrots? 0. AVhat is the best feed 
for cows in Summer when they are kept 
in the barn? F. p. 
Alich. 
1. Fresh blood made into a mash by 
juixing with wheat bran is a good substi¬ 
tute for beef scrap. It is usually a good 
plan to allow three to four square feet of 
space per bird. 33iis being the case you 
could house 500 birds in a house 125 by 10 
feet. A range at least twice the size of 
house should be provided. 
2. Figuring 30 pounds per head for 300 
days you would need a silo that would 
hold 25 to .30 tons of silage. I have fig¬ 
ured that cows would be taken off silage 
in .Tune and put on oats and peas. This 
makes an excellent soiling croji. Silgge 
feeding could then be resumed until corn 
fodder is ready, when they could be fed 
for a month on green fodder, or you could 
use some clover and have a piece of mil¬ 
let coming on after oats and peas were 
gone, and not feed .silage until after corn 
fodder is gone in Fall. Cows may also be 
fed silage the year round with good suc- 
ce.s.s, thus avoiding soiling crops. Some 
hay_ would be fed as in Winter, whether 
soiling crops wei-e used or not. 
.3. For the horses, feed two or three 
pounds of carrots a day and 12 to 15 
ixunids of good Timothy or mixed hay. 
Alake gi'ain ration equal parts corn and 
oats. 
4. Feed cows 20 to ,30 pounds of silage 
per head daily and 10 to 15 pounds <man- 
gels. with what hay they will clean up. The 
grain depends upon the kind of hay fed. 
but a.ssumiug you will have clover or Al¬ 
falfa. hay, a grain ration of one paid corn- 
meal. three parts bran, one part gluten 
and one and one-half parts cottonseed or 
oil meal will fill the bill. Grain should 
be fed at rate of a pound to .37/4 to 4 
pounds of milk produced daily, and one 
per cent salt should be added to grain 
mixture in making it up.' ii. F, J. 
Dairy Ration 
I have 20 head of Holstein cattle. I 
am feeding corn and cob meal, gluten and 
oil meal. Can you tell me of a ration 
better for milk and flesh? They are j>ist 
starting to get fresh. av. t. jV. 
Pennsylvania. 
Alake grain ration tlu’ee parts corn and 
cob meal, one part gluten feed, one iiart 
bran and two parts oil meal. This should 
stimulate milk flow and keep cows in good 
condition. ir. F. j. 
Scalded Grain 
Which is the better way to feed grain 
to cows, dry or scalded? I feed scalded 
wheat middlings, about one quart to 
every two quarts of milk. Do you think 
cottonseed meal and middlings would 
pi’oduce more cream? I make butter and 
use the skim-milk for the poultry and 
pigs. I have several calves six months 
old. I give them one-half quart, scalded 
middlings in a pail of warm water, morn¬ 
ing ami night. They are growing well 
and look fine. Is there a better ration for 
young stock? ir, w. M. 
Connecticut. 
It is a waste of time to scald grain for 
dairy cows. It can be fed dry. A better 
ration would be two parts bran, one part 
middlings and two parts cottonseed meal. 
Add one part gluuten feed if you can 
get it. There are a number of different 
rations that can be used for calf_ feeding ; 
if you are succeeding in keeping your 
calves in good growing condition I should 
not change. ir. F. ,7. 
Founder 
I have a horse that has been foundered 
in his two front feet. He Avas out oh 
l>asture for tAvo months, but is still very 
lame; have had his shoes off. Is there 
any chance of his getting better? He is 
only eight years old. and I Avould like to 
knoAV AA'hat treatment to give him, if any. 
XcAv Y'ork. R. G. ir. 
It is probable that the soles have 
“dropped” from alteration of the pedal 
bone Avithin the horny box of the hoof. 
If so, you Avill find the .soles bulging doAvn- 
Avai’d at the ppint of the frog and tliis part 
is very sensitive Avhen lightly struck Avith 
a hammer. Have the horseshoer put Avide 
webbed, flat. loAV-heeled bar shoes on the 
fore feet. They are to rest only upon the 
Avails or edges of the sole and frog.s. Do 
not alloAV the smith to cut aivay any of- 
the .sole in fitting the sheets, and they are 
to be put on over a dres.sing of pine tar 
and oakum covered Avith a thick pad of 
sole leather. After shoeing clip the hair 
from the hoof-lieads of both fore feet and 
blister them tAvo or three times, one at a 
time, at intervals of .tAvo Aveeks, Avith a 
mixture of tAvo drams each of biniodide 
of mercury and poAvdered cantharides and 
three ounces of lard. Pub the blister in 
for 15 minutes, a little at a time, and have 
some of it smeared upon the surface, 
33ieji tie the horse up short so that he Avill 
be unable to lick or bite the part. Have 
the shoes res<‘t once a month. A. .s. A. 
“Here’s a sailor says he raisf'd chick¬ 
ens on the A'oyage. .Where do you sup 
pose he did it?” “In the hateliAvay, ol 
course.”—Baltimore American. 
Prosecution of Dairymen’s League 
(Gontinued from page 201) 
provisions. The amendment is Ix'tter than 
the present hiAV. On that ground Ave ap- 
proA'e it, but the amendment does not go 
far enough. What farmers need is not 
an exception to a general law restricting 
joint stock corporations, but a imMiiber- 
ship laAV under Avhich they can incor¬ 
porate, and do any business that capi¬ 
talists may do through the stock comi)any. 
vSuch a member.ship corimration can be 
used by any class of citizens in the State. 
No exceptions are necessary, but Avhen 
operated for the benefit of their OAVn mem¬ 
bership they should be made cleai-ly ex¬ 
empt in the act from any charge or sus- 
))icion of conspiracy or violation of anti¬ 
trust hlAA-S. 
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