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zr/te RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 21, IftlS 
ANNOUNCEMENT 
ARMERS and feeders who have been 
feeding the well known and popular 
Arcady (R K D) Feeds, will be 
pleased to know that the Company 
are supplying their trade in their 
usual prompt and careful manner in spite of their 
recent fire loss. 
Regardless of modern fire extinguisher protec¬ 
tion, three hours served to send up in smoke one 
of the most modern and up-to-date equipped feed 
mills in America. The Poultry Feed plant, we 
are glad to announce, remains in full operation 
for the immediate shipment of orders. 
Plans are already under way for the quick and 
immediate rebuilding of the plant on even better 
plans than heretofore. 
Meanwhile, orders for R K D Dairy, Hog and 
Stock Feeds will be shipped from associated plants 
with the same painstaking care as before. 
May we, therefore, ask you your continued 
patronage and support, which we shall do our 
best to merit and satisfy. 
Yours very truly, 
Arcady farms Millinq Company 
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I have plowed 8 
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Bakery Waste for Hogs 
r have charge of a farm which is owned 
by a man who runs a big bakery, so I 
have to make use of the bakery waste, 
wliich consists of flour sweepings, roast¬ 
ed cornmeal and dough scraps. I am 
feeding this stuff to hogs in the following 
proportions: Two parts cornmeal, two 
parts flour sweepings, three parts wheat 
bran, one part 00 per cent tankage, all by 
measure, mixed with water to a stiff slop. 
Dough scrap I feed just a little bit at 
noon. This is fed for brood sows, grow¬ 
ing pigs and fattening pigs alike, only 
give to the fattening pigs much more than 
to the re.st of the stock. They get all 
they will clean up twice a day. I have 
a considerable amount of the dough scrap 
left aud_ don’t know what to do with it; 
am afraid to feed much of it because it is 
very sour; so are the flour sweepings. 
Hoes do well on above ration, only brood 
sows get too fat in Winter, and there is 
some trouble with constipation. I also 
fed some of the stuff to chickens, but it 
does not seem to be any good for them ; 
they get diarrhma even if I only feed a 
little of it once in a while, so I cut it out 
altogether. Is it all right to feed the 
mixture that way, or can I better it by 
changing the quantities of the different 
kinds? T. w. ir. 
Pennsylvania. 
The ration you are feeding your hogs 
seems well made up, considering the feeds 
you have to work with. If the brood 
sows get too fat on it, you might try 
dropijing out one part of the cornmeal. If 
the time comes when you find it difficult 
to get the bran, it could b(* cut down even 
to one part in the ration. ’ n. F. j. 
Salt in Feed ; Value of Milk 
1. I saw in your milk ration for oow.s 
that you add one per cent salt. As I do 
not understand what it means, please ex¬ 
plain how much salt it needs to KK) lbs. 
of feed. 2. What is the real value of 
wliole milk as it comes from the cow per 
i 100 lbs. for food .stuff? o. F. f. 
New York. 
1. In .speaking of one per cent salt 
! being used in a ration, we mean a pound 
' of .salt to eardi 100 lbs. of feed. 2. Milk 
! i)os.sesses certain properties ns a food 
I which make it particularly valuable es- 
! pecially for children. It is because of 
tliis fact that it is difficult to compare the. 
value of milk with other foods. Milk is 
|)articularl.v valuable : 
1. It is a food already prepared by 
nature. ■ ^ 
2. There is no waste such as' is 
found in other foods. 
.*1. It is easily digested. 
4. It i.s relished by most peoj)l<*. 
.5. It contains food nutrients in 
just the right proportion to make it 
a balanced food for children. 
The fat of milk contains a newly 
discovered growth-promoting substance, 
which animal fats do not contain. This 
makes another strong point in favor of 
the use of milk for children. About the 
only way to compare milk with other 
foods is to make the comparison on the 
basis of the total digestible matter in the 
various foods. When this is done it is 
found that milk as now sold is a very 
cheap food. For example, at present aver¬ 
age meat i)rices, milk should be selling at 
.‘iO to 25 cents a quart. It must he re¬ 
membered. however, that what milk is 
worth ami what it will bring are two 
dillerent things. The ])rice of milk is 
controlled b.v supply and demand the same 
as the price of other commodities. The 
real value of milk makes an excellent ad¬ 
vertising i)oint in endeavoring to increase 
the demand for milk. ir. F. 
Buckwheat for Pigs 
Can buckwheat he used with safely as 
a considerable part of the ration' for 
growing pigs? I have a lot of buckwheat 
which I have been planning to u.se as pig 
feed, hut I am told that it cannot he fed 
to pigs at all, as it will cause a bad rash, 
as it sometimes does in peeople, and will 
eventually kill them. j. s. r. 
! Connecticut. 
There i.s a more or less widespread be¬ 
lief that buckwheat i.s not a good food 
for pigs, hut I do not know what founda¬ 
tion in fact this belief has. Ei'roneous 
ideas with regard to cattle foods often 
gain currency and become popular because 
no one takes the trouble to disprove them. 
Corn silage was for a long time believed 
to destroy the stomachs and ruin the teeth 
of cattle, even in the regions where silos 
were most used, and gluten feed was like¬ 
wise vigorously condemned by many dairy¬ 
men who have since learned that it is one 
of the best of milk-producing foods. Hen¬ 
ry & Morrison, in “Feeds and Feeding,” 
speak of several experiments conducted to 
ascertain the value of ground buckwheat 
as a food for growing pigs. In these ex¬ 
periments it was found somewhat inferior 
to either corn or wheat middlings, and it 
was also found to make an inferior qual¬ 
ity of bacon. Nothing is said, however, 
as to any evil results from its use. Pei’- 
soually, I should not hesitate to feed 
ground buckwheat to j)igs if I could not 
exchange it to advantage for corn or 
wheat products. As this can always he 
done in my locality, there is no occasion 
for feeding buckwheat to pigs, and I do 
not know of buckwheat being so used by 
our farmers. Buckwheat is always a 
ca.sh crop here and is raised for sale rath¬ 
er than for home use. save for such part 
as is reserved for the table or for poul¬ 
try. M. B. I). 
Ration to Improve Milk Flow 
My cow is on fair pasture and I feed 
her three quarts of dairy feed per day 
and have plenty of salt for her. She 
-seems to scour badly; i.s thin and does 
not give as much milk as she did la.st 
Summer. She only gives about five quarts 
at a milking. .She is seven years old, a 
Ouern.sey. Last Summer she gave eight 
quarts at a milking, but the grass always 
made her bowels loose. What should I 
feed her with the grass? Would cf)tton- 
seed meal be good for her? o. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
Make up a grain ration of two part.s 
of the feed named and one part of cotton¬ 
seed meal. Use a pound of salt to each 
100 pounds of feed. Mix this in with the 
grain when making up the ration. If you 
can get some blood meal it would be well 
to add five pounds per 100 pounds of food. 
Give the cow a little hay if she will take 
it. Increase the grain to four quarts a 
day. If she does not do better I should 
dispose of her, since a fre.sh cow of her 
age that gives only 10 quarts a day i.s 
hardly an economical producer, ii. f. .t. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Wool Eating 
sliecp pull their 
K. -Af. 
Gan yiui toll me wliy 
wool? 'riiey eat it. 
New York. 
Irritation from ticks or lice <‘ause .slieei> 
to bit(^ and juill wool, and the salty taste 
of Wool .soiled with urine and feces causes 
them to eat it. Lambs are most likely to 
do this, with the result that avooI halls 
form iu the stomach and often cau.se death 
from stoppage. €lear the udder of wool 
before lambs are allowed to suck at hirtlu 
Remove cau.se of wool pulling. Flip away 
soiled wool. a. s. a. 
Garget in Ewe 
I have a sheep whose udder is swollen 
very badly and caked on one side. What 
milk comes from this side seems to be all 
right, but the udder is three times normal 
size and seems to pain her. She has two 
nice Iambs, but not much milk. Gan voii 
■suggest a treatment that will relieve her? 
It. A. At. 
Motlu'r the lambs on another ewe, or 
raise them by hand. Do not breed the 
ewe again. Once daily give her udder a 
thorougli rubbing with mercurial oint¬ 
ment. Stop for a few days when the skin 
.show.s_ vesicles or blistering. Strip away 
the milk or other fluid twice daily. 
X. s. A. 
Cancerous Growth 
I have a cow tlpit has a growth on her 
left eye, in the lower corner. It rc.spni- 
bles proud flesh and keeps running. 
I’enn.sylvania. E. I,, ii. 
The growth no doubt is a cancer known 
as fungus hematoides, and you should at 
once have it carefully dissected out by a 
trained surgeon, who will also raiuterlze 
the wound. The growth probably will 
recur; still, the operation is worth try¬ 
ing. unless the cow is in good flesh aiid 
you prefer to .sell her to the butcher. 
The growth in time will be likely to in¬ 
volve the bones of the orbit and cause the 
cow to become .so emaciated that she will 
have to be destroyed. The disiaise ii nut 
contagious. a. s a. 
Bitter Milk 
What is the cause of a cow giving hit¬ 
ter, h.ad-smelling milk? Has good water, 
clover, grass and corn fodder. ARer tin* 
milk stands in the cellar over night it is 
not fit to iLse. . Ai. J. u. 
Ohio. 
Bacteria in the milk utensils may cause 
such a condition of the milk, so, on gen¬ 
eral principles, you would do well to 
cleanse and disinfect the utensils with a 
solution of hj-pochlorite of soda and see 
that they are well .siin-dried. Avoid set¬ 
ting the milk in a damp, badly ventilated 
place, and be sure that the washing Avater 
is pure and clean. Set a sample of milk 
from each (juarter of the udder in a .sepa¬ 
rate ve.ssel to determine if all <iuarters 
give the same quality of milk. Some¬ 
times one quarter, or more, affected by 
mammitis, gives abnormal milk whicli 
may taint all milk with which it is mixed. 
A cow that has been giving milk for a 
long time and is nearing calving some¬ 
times gives strong milk and should he 
“dried off.” Strong tasting feed may .sim¬ 
ilarly affect milk, and it is a well-known 
fact that warm milk may absorb had 
odors. A. s. .V. 
