^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
257. 
Live Stock Feeding Problenis 
Feeding Growing Pigs 
I have five pigs weighing about 75 lbs. 
each and am feeding them an 8 to 10 qt. 
pail full of beets, carrots and potatoes, 
and about two quarts middlings, six to 
eight quarts buttermilk. I can buy mid¬ 
dlings for $42 per ton. and buttermilk 
for Ic. per gal., and the beets, carrots, 
and potatoes are home-grown. Woiild 
this mixture be a good one to grow pigs 
on? c. F. G. 
Caledonia. Mich. 
Growing pigs require concentrated feed 
rather than bulky foods such as beets, 
carrots and potatoes. As an appetizer 
such succulent feeds do very well, never¬ 
theless gains will be slow in appearing. 
Such products will do very well for ma¬ 
ture animals, provided they are supple¬ 
mented with grain, but young pigs require 
more grain. 
The buttermilk at Ic. per gallon is 
mighty cheap feed, unless it is diluted 
excessively with water. In fact, it is 
superior to skim-milk when fed at the 
rate of 5 lbs. of buttermilk and 1 lb. of 
grain. The middlings alone will be dis¬ 
appointing. Mix 10 lbs. corn, 10 lbs. rye, 
5 lbs. middlings and 1 lb. tankage or 
2 lbs. of oil meal in a thick slop, 
and feed this to market pigs 
twice daily in such quantities as 
they will eat and clean up with relish. 
Feed the buttermilk separately, and do 
not mix the milk and grain together. The 
amount of both consumed will be greater 
and the gains more satisfactory. Most of 
the middlings available during recent 
times are nothing but ground bran, and ] 
bran is clearly not an economical source 
of food for pigs. In fact, only brood 
.sows during their last stages of gestation 
should be permitted to have any bran. 
It is by far too expensive, and in many 
other ways undesirable for use in rations 
How much would be a fair feed three 
times a day? c. ii. ii. 
Delaware. 
Your ration would be improved by 
dropping out 100 pounds of corn and 
adding 100 pounds of linseed meal. Feed 
all hay and corn fodder cow will clean up 
three times a day. Feed grain at rate of 
a pound to three pounds of milk ; that is, 
about eight pounds for 24 pounds of 
milk. H. F. J. 
A Pound of Feed 
Will a pound of well-balanced feed 
make four pounds of milk? l. av. 
The answer to this must always be 
yes, and no. In other words, it must 
always depend upon the cow and the man 
who feeds her. Both men and cows differ 
widely in ability to make economical use 
of feed. Almost any cow worthy the 
name will make four pounds of milk for 
the first few pounds of feed. On the 
other hand, some cows quickly get to the 
point where they will not return two 
pounds of milk for a pound of feed con¬ 
sumed. The balancing of the ration is 
all-important, because production is al¬ 
ways limited by the essential element 
present in smallest amount. However, 
there is still much misleading informa¬ 
tion about balanced rations. If one 
"ould listen to many of the feed agents, 
tne problem is very simple. They prac¬ 
tically all have a feed that makes a per¬ 
fectly balanced ration, no matter what it 
is fed with. This, of cour.se, on the face 
of it is ridiculous, because what Avould 
balance with Alfalfa, or good clover, and 
silage, would hardly balance with dry 
corn stoA'er, and oat straw, or Timothy 
hay. Thus you see we get right back 
again to the cow, and the man. I put 
the cow fir.st. because no man Avill be 
very .successful feeding poor cows. Then 
the man. taking into consideration the 
roughage, feeding with it a good mixture 
that will balance wdth roughage, and if 
erring at all. always on the .side of having 
ration a little narrow. Each cow should 
be started on Avhat any cow milking 
ought to have, namely, 4 to (1 lbs., know¬ 
ing what each cow consumes, and what 
she returns, and feed increased gradually 
so long as increase in milk is in proper 
ratio. The answer then Avould be that 
a cow ought to return four pounds of 
milk for each pound of well-balanced 
feed fed. If that is where one has set 
his stakes, which may not always be wise, 
because any time you can get 10 cents 
worth of milk, for even five cents’ worth 
of feed it is good business, regardles.s how 
high feed may be. In our market a 
pound of milk will buy a pound of good 
grain. av.m:. 110TAI.ING. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Feeding Calf 
2. What is the analysis of wheat 
bran? 2. Would there be the same amount 
of nutrients in skim-milk that is run 
through the separator as there Avould be 
in the common skim-milk? As I under¬ 
stand it the .separator takes out only the 
fat. Yet they tell me you cannot grow' 
a calf on separator milk. T. L. c. 
New York. 
1. In 100 pounds Avheat bran there are 
12.5 pounds digestible protein, equivalent 
to two pounds of nitrogen. 2. Separated 
skim-milk differs essentially from gravity 
skim-milk in that it contains slightly less 
fat. In other words, the separator skims 
cleaner than can be done by gravity 
methods. One hundred pounds of skim- 
milk contains three to four per cent pro¬ 
tein. Whole milk is a balanced ration 
for the calf; that is, it contains protein 
to make lean meat, etc., fat and sugar to 
make fat. and keei) body warm, and ash 
to build bone. Skim-milk is the same 
except fat is missing and must be sup¬ 
plied in grain, stich as corn or oil meal. 
Separator skim-milk is an excellent calf 
feed. II. F. . 1 . 
Stomach Worms 
iVIy .sheep have been infested with 
stomach worms. If I plow up the old 
sheep pasture and sow oats and rape 
and let the sheep and lambs pasture on 
it, will the lambs become infested with 
worms? I am planning to use the manure 
from the infested sheep on the oat 
ground and seed it down for sheep 
pasture. After harvesting I w'ant 
to let the lambs pasture there. I 
also want to lime it. Will there be any 
danger of lambs becoming infested Avith 
stomach worms? If I give my old sheep 
pasture a top-dressing of ground lime¬ 
stone will this help the trouble? 
NeAV York. g. F. S. 
The plan suggested is not the best one 
possible. The old pasture should be 
planted to corn or potatoes after manur¬ 
ing and plowing. Then take a grain crop, 
to be see<led doAvn Avith grasses and clover 
for hay, after A\hich sheep may be pas¬ 
tured thereon. It Avould be all right to 
allow sheep to jiasture rape on rye or 
turnips -seeded Avhen laying the corn by. 
Crushed rock salt is far better than lime 
as a top-dressing, used Avith the hop<* of 
killing out Avorms. Lime, hoAvever, 
Avould be excellent on a sour old .sod 
field apart from the problem of Avorins. 
Treat the CAves Avith gasoline for destruc¬ 
tion of AA'orm.s before they are turned on 
grass Avith their lambs. A. s. A. 
Tiik enthusiastic angler Avas telling 
some friends about a proposed fishing trip 
to a lake in Colorado Avhich he had in con¬ 
templation. “Are there any trout out 
there?’’ asked one friend. “Thousands of 
’em,” replied the angler. “Will they bite 
easily?” a.skcd another friend. “Will 
they? Why, they’re absolutely vicious. 
A man has to hide behind a tree to bait 
a hook.”—Credit I.ost. 
Shipping space to Europe is so scarce that thousands of tons 
of urgently needed war supplies are held on American docks 
awaiting transportation. Even though willing to pay double 
or treble rates, shippers cannot get their goods through. 
for groAving pigs. 
Clover or Alfalfa bay should play a 
more important part in SAvine feeding 
operations. Oat and pea hay is A’ery use¬ 
ful for brood soavs or groAving pigs during 
this season of the A’ear. They Avill <4 i('aa' 
aAvay at such roughage and consume a 
surprisingly large quantity. Eventually 
Ave shall develop a type of hog that Avill 
utilize to a greater advantage our forage 
and roughage. We must get aAva.v from 
the prevailing practice of feeding hogs on 
mill feeds entirely. GroAV their frames on 
forage crops and fatten them on by¬ 
products or certain grains that are avail¬ 
able for such usages. The farmer and 
his money and his hogs Avill soon part if 
he relies entirely on the miller to furnish 
him Avith all of his pig feed. 
f. c. aiinkler. 
Ration with Poor Roughage 
I would like some advice as to a ration 
for Holsteins for quantity of milk I can | 
get at the local feed store: Distillers’ 
grains, cottonseed meal, hominy, oil meal, 
gluten, cornmeal, Avheat, bran, ground 
oats, beet pulp. 
I have been feeding the following: 
TAvelve lbs. mixed hay, .80 lbs. silage, SOO 
lbs. distillers’ grains, 100 ground oats, 
200 cottonseed meal. 200 hominy, 100 
gluten, 100 Avheat bran. 
I have fed the above only a feAV days, 
but coAvs are doAvn from tAvo to three 
pounds per day. 
I am feeding noAV per day 2 bushel.s 
corn silage, 2 bushels pea, AA’hole; o lbs. 
hay, 15 lb.s. grain. c. f. s. 
NeAV York. 
Bran contains only 00.0 per cent of 
digestible nutrients and dried distillers’ 
grains 88.9 per cent. Bran runs 12.5 
per cent protein and dried distiller.s’ 
grains 22.4 per cent. They are therefore 
considerably ahead of bran in feeding 
value. I believe you are feeding too 
much silage and too little hay. Four 
bushels is a tremendous amount and 
makes the coavs work too hard for the 
nutriment they get out of it. Forty 
pounds of silage per day Avith all hay 
COAVS will clean up Avould be better. The 
grain ration that has been given you is 
good, but would be a little better if the 
bran or ground oats, Avhichever most ex¬ 
pensive, Avas dropped out. The extreme 
cold weather is having a very decided ef¬ 
fect on milk production these days. 
H. F. J. 
Improving Ration 
' I haA’e a Jersey coav 7 years old; 
Aveighs about 900. that is giving 24 quarts 
milk per day. Am feeding pea hay and 
corn fodder; cornmeal, .800 pounds; 
bran, 400 pounds; cottonseed, 100 mixed. 
Separators Given Priority 
Over War Materials 
A FEW weeks ago, under 
authority of the French 
government, a shipment of five 
hundred Sharpies Suction-feed Sepa¬ 
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here to France. The very next week 
another order for five hundred Sharp¬ 
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conditions. 
Both shipments were given preced¬ 
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Even food products might wait. But this 
machine that saves butter fat wasted by 
every other separator or method, was placed, 
in the very vanguard of life’s necessities. 
It has been said that not munitions, not 
even money will win the war—but fats. 
The English Government recognizes this. 
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our agents there have ever given us. 
Immediate shipping 
space was provided 
by the English Gov¬ 
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