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C»c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 27, 1918 
IF COWS 
COULD TALK • 
-o“Goo(l morning, Mrs. Fawncoat. I hear that all the cows in the 
country are joining the *Win-the-War Club. 
“Yes, Mrs. Starface; Secretary of Agriculture Houston says we 
must increase the production of butter-fat, and we cows have all promised 
to do our ‘ bit.’ ’’ 
“There’s one thing I want to say right now,’’ spoke up Mrs. Black. 
“The farmers have got to back us up in this movement. I’m with the 
rest of you, heart and soul, but what chance have I got? ’’ 
“Why, Mrs. Black, what’s the matter? You have a fine warm 
barn and plenty to eat and drink. 
“Yes, I know; but what can I do as long as they use that old 
cream separator on the place? It never was any good, anyway, and 
now it wastes so much cream I’m just plain discouraged.’’ 
“Well, you’re not so badly off as some cows, where they haven’t 
any cream separator at all.” 
“I don’t know about that. There’s a lot of cream separators in 
this country that are only ‘excuses’—not much better than none at all. 
I tell you, Mrs. Fawncoat, with butter at present prices and the people at 
Washington begging every one to save fat, it’s almost a crime to waste 
butter-fat the way some of these farmers do. 
“That’s one thing I’m thankful for,’’ said Mrs. Fawncoat, “there’s 
no cream wasted on this farm. We have a De Laval Cream Separator 
and everybody knows that the De Laval is the closest skimming machine.” 
“Well,” said Mrs. Starface, “we never used a De Laval on our 
place until last fall and supposed one separator was about as good ^ as 
another; but, honest, the De Laval is the first cream separator we’ve 
ever had that gave us cows a square deal.” 
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“Keeping Qualities of Pasteurized Milk” 
II. L. J.’.s warning against the use of 
old pa.steurized milk for infant feeding 
(page 5?>4) may well be made even more 
forcible. It is true, be says, that pas¬ 
teurized milk will keep sweet longer than, 
nnpastenrized, but therein lies the dan¬ 
ger in its use; one danger, at least. The 
lactic acid bacteria found in milk serve 
two very tiseful purposes; they promptly 
turn it sour if it is kept warm, and so 
warn the user that, under the conditions 
in which it has been kept, other, and 
dangerous germs may have developed in 
it and rendered it unsuitable for food. 
They also tend to prevent the develop¬ 
ment of dangerous germs which cannot 
well live iu their presence. Unfortunate¬ 
ly. pasteurization kills these beneficent 
lactic acid bacteria and prevents their 
turning old milk sour. It thus removes 
the first and most noticeable of nature’s 
danger signals. Hut while it kills the 
lactic acid bacteria, it does not kill the 
more resistant ones which cause milk to 
putrefy, so that old pasteurized milk may 
would devour, and the self-feeder is only 
useful to the best advantage with animals 
on full feed. Red clover could replace the 
Alfalfa, but I should never .sanction the 
feeding of corn and cob meal to pigs. 
•The Alfalfa or clover will supply suffi¬ 
cient bulk ; enough corn should be added 
to insure the necessary gains and there is 
absolutely no place in a pig’s digestive 
system for corncobs. They waste his en¬ 
ergy, disturb his digestion and oau.se con¬ 
stipation. If a pig thought anything of 
corncobs he w'ould eat them by choice, yet 
one only sees them being devoured by a 
starved pig or one affected with parasites 
or lung worms. His digestive juices are 
too precious to waste moistening corn¬ 
cobs. — 
The self-feeder can be safely used with 
brood sows nursing pigs after the pigs 
are about 10 days or two weeks old. 
Should oue introduce the feeder earlier 
the sows would be apt to produce too 
much milk—more than the young pigs 
could take care of; hence there is a pe¬ 
riod incident to gestation and parturition 
when the free choice system should be de¬ 
nied sows in pig. However, all the Al¬ 
falfa or clover the.v might eat from racks 
should be freely given. 
Ill arriving at the proportion of I.*! 
to 1— i. e.. 100 lbs. of pork live weight 
should liring as much as 1-^ bu. of corn. 
A "Neiv York Girl and Tier Youvfj Pork Makeift 
be porfevtl.v sweet, but rotten. The older 
the milk before it is pasteurized, the 
greater the danger that it will become un¬ 
fit for food without giving evidence of it 
to the taste and smell. I’asteurized milk 
used in infant feeding .‘ihould undergo the 
pasteurization process as soon as jiossible 
after leaving the cow’s udder, and more 
pains should be taken to keep it at the 
lowest iiracticable temperature until used 
than would be necessary with natural 
milk. It goes without saying that a large 
quantity should not he prepared iu ad¬ 
vance unless precautions not available iu 
the ordinary household can be taken. 
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ing a substantial profit on the deal. The 
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Feeding Brood Sows 
Ill wintering brood sows on Alfalfa 
meal and ground corn in self-feeder, 
what proportions would .vou use'? Is the 
use of tankage necessary’? Can Red clover 
be substituted for Alfalfa? Would it be 
wise to use corn and cob meal, thus elim¬ 
inating one. handling of the corn? Can 
sows be handled entirely from a self- 
feeder, including farrowing, etc.; if so, 
how? That is. what feeds to use? Can 
you tell me all the factors the Govern¬ 
ment used in determining that the average 
cost of 100 lbs. of pork, on the hoof, was 
equivalent to the selling price of 12 
bushels of corn? When hogging down 
corn and Soy beans, should middlings and 
tankage be used as supplements? Wliat 
.supplementary feeds are needed for sliotes 
on a Soy bean pa.sture? I found last 
year the Sweet clover was crowded out 
and the rape only grew iu low, damp or 
very rich soil. F. L. I5. 
Howard Co., Md. 
Alfalfa meal and ground corn mixed in 
equal parts with 5 per cent of digester 
tankage added would make a useful mix¬ 
ture for feeding brood sows during the 
Winter ynontbs. This feed should not, 
however, be fed b.v means of the self- 
feeder. Bi-ood sows should not be per¬ 
mitted to have all of this mixture they 
no doubt tlie committee figured that 10 
bu. of corn. 5(i0 lbs., ought to prcxluct^ 
100 lbs. of live weight on a pig. and then 
contributed the three bushels to pay for 
the other mill feeds or forage usually fed. 
Perhaps tliey failed to appreciate the feed 
required for the brood sows and to in¬ 
clude the overhead charges that always 
obtain. 
It is difficult to determine where this 
standard is to be applied, yet this may 
have been determined by the food admin¬ 
istration. Supply and demand rather 
than lead pencil and theory are the only 
agencies whose findings are facts when it 
comes to the solution of economic prob¬ 
lems. The Canadian farmer objects to 
buying flour when he purchases his stand¬ 
ard feeds: the American farmer objects 
to purcha.sing standard mill feixls when 
he buys flour—and so it will always be 
when theorists meddle with facts and con¬ 
ditions that would adjust them.selves if 
left free and clear from departmental in¬ 
terference. Price-fixing is but another 
word for mui'der, •when it comes to con¬ 
trolling production of meats or agricul¬ 
tural lu'oducts. The problem iu Belgium 
was oue of distribution and conservation. 
Our problem is increased production. 
Surel.v we must be assured a maximum 
demand if we are i)rompted to a maxi¬ 
mum production. The only way to save 
bacon is to make it so high in cost that 
you and I cannot afford to buy it for our 
own use. Production then will be stimu¬ 
lated and a generous supply will be forth¬ 
coming. To stop the people who can af¬ 
ford to buy it h‘om eating it is a folly 
fickle even iu toyland. Why meddle and 
multiply the farmer’s problems? 
The only supplement requisite for feed¬ 
ing market hogs while they are hogging 
down corn is tankage. Middlings should 
not be used at all. The.v are too ex¬ 
pensive and entirely unnecessary. 
Corn or homin.v meal would best sup¬ 
plement forage on Soy bean pasture. If 
the beaus were allowed to ripeu they 
would supply all the protein necessary 
for growth or for fattening, and com 
would serve its best service as a .supple¬ 
ment. Corn is a great feed for pigs. It 
has everything else distanced. Rape cau 
be trusted to suppl.v forage under most 
any soil condition—even where other for¬ 
age crops have failed. A mixture of oats 
30 lbs., Canada field peas 30 lbs., rape 
five lbs.. Red clover five lbs., and Sweet 
clover seven lbs. is as good for average 
soil conditions as any one we know of. 
There is a great advantage iu a combina¬ 
tion mixture. F. C. M. 
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