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May 11, 1018 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Damaged Corn for Feeding 
We have about 300 bushels of corn 
which is moldy, some very bad, some bad, 
and some but slightly touched. I have 
had all kinds of conflicting advice as to 
what can be done with it. We have a 
horse, cows, and could get pigs if this 
corn could be fed. We also have 1,500 
pullets, but am convinced that we should 
not feed the corn to the pullets. I am 
told that the best use for this corn would 
he in feeding cows, by having it ground 
into meal. (Jan we feed this corn, and 
in what form, to either or all of the stock 
mentioned—horses, cows and pigs ? L. F. 
Good Ground, N. Y. 
Of course there is no safety in advis¬ 
ing about this corn without knowing just 
how bad it is. In many parts of the 
country farmers are throwing much of 
their soft and moldy corn away. Here, 
for example, is a letter from one of our 
readers in Ohio: 
Some of my neighbors have hauled out 
loads of poor corn to the dump heap, but 
I believe I have found a little better use 
for it I am feeding some pretty poor 
corn to my hogs (it is about all we have), 
but the very worst of it I sort out and dry 
in the sun a few days and burn it now in 
the cook stove for fuel. When thoroughly 
dry it burns well and makes good heat, 
and saves just that much coal. Some 
farmers have hauled out enough corn to 
last them a month as fuel. I believe it 
could even he burned in a furnace. 
Years ago, in 1889, the corn crop was 
so big in Kansas and so low in price that 
the farmers burned the best of it as fuel. 
It is cheai)er to burn the corn thau to 
haul it away to market, sell it and buy 
coal. sam’i. heymann. 
Huron Go., O. 
Most feeders use judgment in handling 
such grain, and when the corn is very bad 
they prefer not to use it for feed. Prob¬ 
ably your classification is reasonably fair. 
We should take the corn which you call 
“very bad’’ and burn it or throw it away. 
The corn which you class as “bad” can he 
boiled or steamed and fed to hogs, while 
the remainder, which you say is only 
' “slightly touched,” can be ground into 
meal for the cows or fed to chickens. 
That is jirobably the safest way to handle 
the corn. No one likes to throw feed 
away at this season, but it is a mistake to 
feed rotten or moldy corn to stock. You 
will have to use your judgment in a case 
of this sort. 
Diluted Milk for Calves 
.Tohn A. Keuhling, of the ('ouuecticut 
Agricultural College, reports two experi¬ 
ments in calf feeding. Two points were 
brought out: 
1. The feeding of silage; this, if satis¬ 
factory with very young calves, could be 
used to replace more expensive grain and 
hay. 
2. The diluting of whole milk with 
water before feeding; this, if practical, 
would reduce the amount of whole milk 
necessary to be fed in sections where 
skim-milk is not available; the lowei’ed 
food value of the diluted milk was 
brought up by proper grain mixtures. 
Ten groups of calves were used in the 
experiments, each group including two 
to four calves. The groups were all fed 
as similarly as possible, except for varia- 
tious called for by the experimeut. The 
calves were started as soon after birth as 
I)ossible. Whole milk Avas fed to two 
weeks of age and theu skim or diluted 
milk was gradually substituted. Four¬ 
teen pounds of warm liquid was the limit 
fed. Grain hay and silage when given 
were started at two or three weeks of 
age. The order of feeding was liquid, 
grain, silage and hay, weighed amounts 
of each being given. The costs of the 
food eaten could thus be calculated, using 
the same ])rices for all groups. The calves 
were fed to six months of age. The gen¬ 
eral care, as Avell as the feeding, was 
similar for all groups. All were kept in 
the same barn and similar pens. 
It was found in the feeding of these 
similar groups that silage could be fed to 
calves, even when they are very young. 
The calves would begin eating it w'hen 
only a few weeks of age, and soon de¬ 
veloped quite a liking for it. The ex¬ 
perimental groups showed that while 
silage could not entirely replace the 
grain and hay it could replace quite a bit 
of it; with one group, silage replaced one- 
third of the grain and two-thirds of the 
ha.v. However, silage should be fed with 
caution during the first two or three 
mouths; after that time, it will seldom 
give trouble. The following limits can he 
given as a guide to the amount to be fed 
at different ages: 
1 to 2 pounds up to two months. 
2 to 3 pounds during the third month. 
3 to 5 pounds during the fourth month. 
5 to 7 pounds during the fifth month. 
7 to 9 pounds during the sixth month. 
The diluting of milk also proved satis¬ 
factory after a proper supplementary 
grain mixture was found to go with it. 
Milk was diluted as much as one part 
milk to three parts water and fed with 
a grain mixture consisting of: 
parts hominy. 
1% parts ground oats. 
V 2 parts red dog flour. 
% parts blood meal. 
These, along with hay, gave very satis¬ 
factory results when fed to the calves. 
When silage also was added to this ration, 
even better gains were made and at a 
less cost. The food value lost by diluting 
the milk with water was thus made up in 
the dry grain eaten it was even found 
that it was undesirable to mix any of the 
grain in the diluted milk. If it is not 
possible to get the red dog flour men¬ 
tioned above, standard or flour middlings 
might be tried. One other point should 
be brought but here; the milk used in 
these dilution experiments was from Jer¬ 
sey cows and hence had a high test; if 
low'-testing milk was used, the above ra¬ 
tion would perhaps need some modifica¬ 
tion. This method of feeding calves was 
not as desirable as that where the skim- 
milk_ was used, for it was much more ex¬ 
pensive and did not give quite the gains 
and healthy condition attained with skim- 
milk feeding; but it gives a suggestion 
for men in market milk sections whereb.v 
they can raise some of their calves, using 
only 600 or 700 pounds of milk per calf. 
Feed for Young Pigs 
I have been anticipating raising pigs 
this year, hut I find now that we are not 
^ get any more wheat middlings or 6hip.s. 
Can you tell me what we can get that 
will make a good safe substitute for feed- 
mg young pigs after being weaned? Our 
feed dealer says they are to make barley 
middlings and other substitutes. Yoii 
recommend tankage, which is not used 
around here, but I would like to try it if 
It gives results. Does directions for feed- 
mg come with it? We expect to sow rape 
for the pigs. I have a heifer which 
freshened about two months ago. While 
out on pasture last Summer I heard her 
cough once in a while, and she has 
coughed all Winter. Is in good flesh and 
very hearty; eats fast, and I hate to turn 
her off without giving her a chance. It 
may be in her throat. What could I give 
F. H.E. 
With mandates to purchase rye, barley 
or cornmeal with wheat flour, quite nat¬ 
urally the prices of the first named are 
now clearly more costly than wheat bv- 
products. Unfortunately, wheat is not 
moving at the price fixed by the govern¬ 
ment, unless it is being used to adulterate 
barley or rye! Neither are the mills of¬ 
fering to the Eastern trade any wheat by¬ 
products. If the price is established for 
wheat, why not for flour, bran, middlings 
and the consequent residue products? 
Both ends of the bag must be kept open 
if the supply running through is to re¬ 
main constant. Production must be stim¬ 
ulated as well as distribution, and use 
curtailed. 
P. II. E. will have to be content with 
slower gains and must make the most use 
of rape that is posssible. It will be neces¬ 
sary to grow sweet corn, field corn, and 
no doubt turn to oat and barley by-pro¬ 
ducts. Tankage will supply the necessary 
protein, yet its use must not be extensive 
or exclusive. Not more than eight per 
cent is required for young growing stock 
on a cornmeal base, or more than five per 
cent for market or fattening animals. 
Corn and tankage just now afford the 
best ration for swine. Hominy may re¬ 
place 50 per cent of the corn, and sieved 
oat or barley meal may be included in 
the ration for pigs of weaning age. If 
P. II. E; has some skim-milk or butter¬ 
milk, less tankage would be required. 
As for the cow, my first step would be 
to ask the local veterinarian or the State 
Department of Animal Industry to sub¬ 
ject her to the tuberculin test. She may 
be suffering from this disease. Surely it 
is unsafe to use milk from a cow evi¬ 
dencing this disease in any form unless 
the product is boiled or pasteurized. A 
healthy animal is the first requisite for 
clean, wholesome milk, and the test is the 
best agency we have to detect tubercu¬ 
losis. _ F. c. M. 
We had an unusual spell of very hot 
weather at the end of March, followed by 
thunder showers. The snow is all gone 
and the roads are good for the tim(> of 
year, with the exception of the State 
road, where heavy army trucks have 
been using it. Stock is not looking good 
as a general thing. Corn has been no 
good as a food, and other grain is very 
high. Oats at auction brought over $1 
per bu. Milch cows have sold very high. 
There have been a good many auctions. 
Very little maple sugar made here. Red 
beaus are a drug in the market. Wheat, 
$2.10; barley, .$2; clover seed very high. 
Veal, 15i/4c per lb.; lambs, 17V^e. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. E. T. B. 
