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. A. .s. A. 
Ration for Cows and Pigs 
1. I wi.sh to food for hntter fat. Will 
you give me a coiroct ration for W'inter? 
I have good mixed clover and Tiinotli.v 
hay, corn fwlder, ground oats and corn, 
some mangels, turnips and can get ail 
kinds of mill feed. I would like to buy 
little mill feed. I have mixed ha.v and 
ei’oen coni fodder. Would you give a 
heifer now any grain? It is a niei' ani¬ 
mal, 15 months old. All I give them is 
mornings one quart of hran. 2. I pur¬ 
chases! foui- pigs two months old and wish 
to have fliem hy Christmas fat enough 
to kill for own use, 125 to 150 ]»ounds 
weight. T have skim-milk, middlings and 
corn, whole or ground; no pasture. What 
kind of mill fee<l .should I give beside mid¬ 
dlings? Would you give some tankage? 
How should I feed them, and how mucli. 
twice or three times a day? c. li. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. For a Winter ration feed all the 
mixed hay the cows will clean up at least 
twice a day, together with a feeding of 
corn fodder. The amount of turnips and 
mangels to feed daily dejiends on the 
amount on hand. It would be better to 
fce<l a small amount every da.v than to 
feed them all up at once. Fifteen pounds 
per 'head to a feed is about the right 
amount to feed. The tuimips should al¬ 
ways be fed ju.st after milking, and never 
iust before. Make the grain ration two 
jiarts gi-ound oats, one part cornineal. one 
part cottonseed meal, and one part oil- 
meal. Add a pound of salt to each 100 
]>ounds of feed. I'eed cows same grain ra¬ 
tion now as for M'inter,* except feed a 
jiound of grain to each four or live jiounds 
of milk produced dail.v now. and in Win¬ 
ter increase this to a pound to 51,4 to 
four pounds of milk. If heifer is on good 
liasture it is not necessar.v to grain her 
now. In fact, she will need little or no 
grain until .just before she calves, when 
she should be given two quarts a day of a 
ration made up of equal parts bran, corn- 
meal and oilmcal. 
2. Feed the pigs a thin sloji of skim- 
milk and a mixture of HOjiarts cnrnmeal, 
55 Jiarts middlings and 15 jiarts tankage. 
As pigs reach maturity, and you wish to 
fatten tluan, say in November, corn on 
ear or shelled should be fed along with a 
small amount of a thick slop of skim- 
milk and middlings. It is hard to pre¬ 
scribe a given amount of feed for hogs, 
'liie best rule is to feed what they will 
keep cleaned ujt. tt. K. .r. 
much jirotein and not enough .sugar to 
cause the proper fermentation that jire- 
serves corn silage so nicely. We once 
tried putting some of our first cutting Al¬ 
falfa into the silo along with some Winter 
rye, and while this was more su(;cessful 
than the Alfalfa alone, we felt that it was 
better to cure the Alf.alfa. When the rye 
i.s used, about every fourth load jiut in 
should be r.ve. If you have weather that 
you can make the Alfalfa into hay 
I should advise doing .so. H. F. .i. 
Fits 
Will \ou advise me if anything can he 
done for a valuable hoi'se tliat is subject 
to (its? .T. R. M. 
North Carolina. 
Epilepsy is incurable, but the attacks 
will fie somewhat le.ss liable to occur if 
you «-an work the horse in a breast collar, 
allow him a roomy box stall when in the 
stable, give no liulky feed at noon, do not 
woik him .soon after a meal and never 
let him stand for a single day without 
work or exercise. a. s. a. 
with a table-spoon fill in each feed of a 
mixture of two part.® of prepared clialk 
and one part each of subnitrate of bis¬ 
muth, powdered ginger root and bicarbon¬ 
ate of soda. Foiled milk is useful in such 
cases. .\.void damaged feed. A. s. a. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Brain Trouble 
I have a pig five months old. a runt. 
After I bad him aliout a w«i-k (he was 
then five we(‘ks <dd) he began running in 
a circle. His pen is about eight b.v 10 
feet and I do not think he ever stojis. 
except to eat. He is about two-thirds 
tin-' size of his mate. J. K. 
I’ennsylvania. 
An injury to the luaid might cause 
such .symjitoins of brain trouble. 'J'liei’c 
is jiressurc upon the brain, or (lie cause 
is a tape worm cyst (hydatid) in the 
brain. Such cases are not uncoinmon 
Ringworm ; Scours 
1. I iiavo a heifer that has a gra.v, 
roiigli, dirty, crusty patch an inch and a 
half wide all around one eye. Another 
has three or four patches the size of a 
•lunrter on her neck, 2. I also have a 
cow that has been scouring for over a 
week. I tried several remedie.s, but none 
has done any good. What help can you 
give me? c. ir. 
New York. 
1. The disease is ringworm. Saturate 
till' spots with oil for a few days, then 
jiaint with tincture of iodine twice daily. 
Rub iodoform powder into the spot uixm 
the upper eyelid. 2. Give the cow a jiiut 
of raw linseed oil and in six hours follow 
Discharging Sores 
For some time a hor.se of mine has had 
a gathering on his left hind leg at the 
hock, cause unknown. It has been treat¬ 
ed by a veterinary with little snocess. 
I'he discharge of pus is frequent and co¬ 
pious. At first the sore was disinfected 
and pus removed until wound healed, but 
it continues to break out in other places 
on the leg. Horse has a good appetite 
and hobbles around on three legs, but 
suffers much pain. Do you think there is 
any chance of curing it, or would you ad¬ 
vise having the animal killed? I have 
n.sel poultices as well as liniments. Doc¬ 
tor’s treatment, was cleansing wound of 
pus and disinfecting. E. 0. B. 
New Jersey. 
One should bo careful in such a case, 
as farcy, the skin form of glaudeixs. pos¬ 
sibly is present, and the disease is com¬ 
municable and fatal to man as well as 
contagious and incurable in horses. Have 
a graduate veterinai-ian make an examin¬ 
ation, and, if necessary, appl.v the mallein 
tost. It may be a case of cellulitis or 
suppurative arthritis, in cither case iiu- 
jiroinising, but we cannot give a confident 
ojiinion without making an examination. 
A. s. A. 
Ration for Milch Cows 
... 
Why the cost of producing cattle 
does not determine their 
selling price 
T O produce a steer for meat 
purposes requires, as you 
Not only do the receipts of ani¬ 
mals vary from week to week but 
Will vou give me a good ration for five 
milking' cows? I have bran, eonimeal. 
oilmeal, cottonseed meal, gluten feed and 
middlings, in addition to corn that we 
cut every day for them, green. I w.ant a 
balanced ration for Summer and AYiliter. 
We have mangels to feed in Winter. Shall 
I feed salt to them, besides the rock salt 
in the barn? F. a. o. 
New York. 
The ration you will need to feed with 
gri'cn corn fodder should not differ from 
the, one you use with mangels in Winter. 
TT.sing all the feeds you inentioii. make the 
ration two parts hran. one part cnrnme.al, 
two parts cottonseed meal, one part oil- 
meal, one part gluten fei'd and one part 
middlings. The best way to feed salt to a 
cow is to add one pound to the hundred 
when making up the ration. H. F. .T. 
Effect of Oilmeal on Butter 
Can vou tell me why our butter is .soft, 
even when kept under cold spring water? 
S\'c are having more trouble witli soft but¬ 
ter than onr neighbors, whose water .sup¬ 
ply is not as goud as ours. Y'e are feed¬ 
ing a grain ration containing oiliueal. 
lias this anything to do with it? What 
feeds, if anv. affect the quality of the but¬ 
ter (I meaii hardness)? Does rye in the 
ration make the butter hard, and how 
much difference do thesi- fef'ds make? 
New York, A. L. w. 
Oilmeal has a very decided influence o_u 
tlie body of buftor, tending to make it 
soft. Dry roughage, sueh as Timothy or 
mixed hav, tend to make a firm hntter, as 
does the coucontrate cottonseed meal. 
Succulent feeds, such as grass, silage and 
roots, ti'iid to make a .soft butter, as do 
the c*onceutrate.s oilmeal and gluten feed. 
Rye is not a good cow feed, and should 
be used only in small annuints. mixed 
with other foods, f’ows do not relish it 
very well. As to its efi'ect n|ion the body 
of butter 1 am not certain, but my im¬ 
pression is that it tends to causi* a soft 
hotter rather than a hard butter, ii. f. .f. 
Alfalfa for Silage 
know, a period of from one to 
three years. 
The prices the producer has to 
pay for feed, labor and other items 
during this period, together with 
weather conditions, determine 
what it costs to produce the steer. 
But the price the producer re¬ 
ceives for the steer depends on 
conditions existing at the time it 
is sent to market. 
If the supply of cattle coming on 
the market at this time is greater 
than the consumer demand for 
dressed meat, the prices of meat 
and live stock go down. 
On the other hand, if the num¬ 
ber of cattle coming to market is 
less than enough to supply the 
consumer demand for meat, the 
prices of meat and live stock 
go up. 
the consumer demand for meat 
also fluctuates. 
The rise and fall of prices results 
from an economic law that oper¬ 
ates in every business. It is the 
packer’s task to turn live stock 
into dressed meat and by-prod¬ 
ucts, and distribute them to the 
consumer under control of this law. 
Market conditions and compe¬ 
tition establish the prices the pro¬ 
ducer gets for his cattle. When 
meat prices go up or down, so do 
cattle prices. 
The packer can’t pay out more 
money for animals than he takes 
in from the sale of meat and by¬ 
products. 
Swift & Company will gladly 
co-operate in the carrying out of 
any national policy that will tend 
to steady the prices of live stock 
and meat. 
Swift & Company, U. S. A. 
l have omitted raising eorii this Siiai- 
iiier because of the scarcit.v of farm labor, 
and as I have two large, silos I wish to 
place my Alfalfa in them. C-ould it be 
put in green? W. it. 1’. 
Dneida Co.. N. Y. 
It cannot be said to be good practice to L 
put Alfalfa in the .silo except in case of 
emergency, such as iuabilitj’ to make it | 
into hay, due to rainy weather. Alfalfa i 
alone makes r.ather poor silagiv, and some¬ 
times spoils entirely. Tt contains too ■ 
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