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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A^Lettet* from 
Bos^ 
If a cow "''iild speak sHe would talk 
about her health as people do—because 
cows suffer from ailments, little and big, 
the same as human beings. When a cow 
is sick, she needs medicine as much as a 
sick person does. 
_Mere rationing will not eliminate 
disease; medicinal treatment is neces¬ 
sary. The most common cow ail¬ 
ments, such as Abortion, Retained 
Afterbirth, Lost Appetite, Bunches, 
Scours, etc., result from a diseased 
condition of the digestive or genital 
organs. Any of these diseases and 
many others can be successfully 
December 2S, 1918 
treated or prevented by using Kow-Kure, the great cow medicine. 
Kow-Kure ecientifically prepared for the treatment of cow dis 
eases only. It puts the vital orgrans in condition to eliminata 
disease and function regmlarly. Prevent sickness by Occa¬ 
sionally using: Kow-Kure. Feed dealers and drug 
gists sell it—60c. and $1.20 packages. 
Free book, *‘THE HOME COW DOCTOR •* 
sent on request, * 
Dairy Association Co., 
Grow Two Hogs 
At The Cost Of One 
by adding to your grain ration ten per cent, of 
REICHARD’S DIGESTER TANKAGE 
This statement is based on information contained in Farmers’ Bulletin 411, U S Dent 
of Agriculture, which shows that DIGESTER TANKAGE when added to a grain 
ration SAVES 49% in food cost of growing hogs. 
Don’t fear low priced hogs and over production, because Great Britain has lost 2Sfo 
of her hogs, France 49%, July 12)^%, etc. America 
must make up this shortage. Hence high-priced pork 
will continue for some time. 
REICHARD’S DIGESTER TANKAGE is the best on the market. It 
IS made from selected materials, is uniformly sweet and brings results. 
Use It and you will surely REDUCE your COST of production and 
INCREASE your PROFITS. 
Demand II from uour dealer ly name—refute tubtlilule*. Write 
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ROBERT A. REICHARD 
W. Lawrence SL Allentown. Pa* 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Fattening Pigs 
I have two niKRfd pigs, with beautiful 
appetites, weighing about 100 pounds 
apiece, born in May. I do not care to 
carry them any longer than I can get 
them to di’ess, .says 175 pounds. They 
have had good feed as to grain, consider¬ 
able sweet corn while growing. I am 
now feeding hog feed. ould you sug¬ 
gest a feed that can boost them right 
along so that they can be butchered, say 
in February, to be good pork? j. c. 
Ma.ssachusetts. 
I am confident that none of the pre¬ 
pared so-called liog feeds will compare 
with tlie homemade mixtures. Usually 
these f«eds contain nndigestible materials 
that are neither palatable nor nourishing, 
and one is never able to differentiate the 
ones from the poor ones. For the 
100-Ib. pig with a vigorous appetite, I 
the following mixture: 
Jhs. of shelled corn or cornmeal, 30 
lb.s. of ground oats, 12 lbs. of either di¬ 
gester tankage or linseed meal. :Mix 
those in the form of a thick slop ap¬ 
proaching the consistency of buttermilk 
feed the pigs all they will clean up 
with^ roIiKli, twice daily, morning and 
evening. In the middle of the day, if 
actual disease in the neighborhood and 
positive evidence of infection in one’s own 
herd. In many instances where the dou¬ 
ble treatment is practiced breeding habits 
become irregular among the matrons and 
t nere it is used with young pig- they are 
v-i-ry apt to be stunted and the r natural 
growing propensities reduced. 
Boars for Meat 
I have a boar, 13 months old. in fair 
flesh, not thin and not fat. Also two 
young boar.s, six months old. If the.se 
three boars were fattened without alter¬ 
ing. would the meat be strong? If the 
meat would be strong, and altering were 
necessary to avoid the sjioiling of the 
meat, how long after altering before the 
meat would lose the strong flavor? 
F. w. \v. 
The meat from entire males is coarse 
and often evidences a strong distinctive 
taste, and I would recommend that the 
l.J-months-oId boar be altered and then 
fattened, in which event the meat will 
he palatable and much more desirable for 
home use. As far as the .voung boars are 
concerned, they could safely he fattened 
up and their carcasses used for home use. 
It IS not an easy matter to fatten an en- 
Motive Pottwr and Beef for the Farm 
you have any skim-milk or buttermilk, this 
will materially add to the value of this 
ration and it would be well to feed in 
addition, toward the middle of the day 
ear corn. I am sure you will find this 
ration more satisfactory than hog feed, 
and gains will be more profitable and 
Boarding a Colt 
M hat should I charge for keeping a 
three-year-old colt this Winter, fed hay 
twice daily, and straw at noon, or to ruii 
to straw stack for mid-day feetl? The 
owner of colt is to furnish oats. My hay 
IS sold at .^20 i)er ton, not yet baled. I 
would have to leave in mow enough for 
colt s iioikIs in addition to that reguired 
for own .stock. IIow much would sucli 
a colt eat iu five months? I am to 
charge for my shui-Q of hay (one-halfI 
only, as owner of farm has made some 
arrangement with owner of colt for his 
shari*, I to feed and care for colt. 
New York. j ^ j, 
A three-year-old draft colt if well grown 
ought to weigh at least 1..350 Ihs. Iu 
case the owner supplies all of the oats 
and one-half of the corn, it wonjd be 
appiopriate to assume that the manure 
voided^ would pay for the labor necessarv 
ill caiing for this animal, and the charge 
of maintenance should include only the 
cost of hay, 'with a small allowance for 
stable rental. If the colt in gue.stion 
veighs^ l..>;i0 pounds she will <’onsume 
approximately 13i^ pounds of hay per 
day, which is api)roximately 400 pounds 
per month, and if she was wintered for 
live months she would consume approxi- 
mately a ton of hay. If hay is worth 
^^20 per ton you are entitled to some 
profit on this roughage, and on this basis 
I would suggest that fair charge for keep¬ 
ing this colt would bo $8 per month. 
Immunizing Hogs 
I would like to immunize my hog.s to 
make them immune from cholera. Can 
I do this myself if I get the serum and 
the necessary instrument? For how long 
a period is one injection effective? 
Maryland. h. a. t. 
The injection of serum alone into a 
well hog prodnce.s immunity lasting from 
six to eight weeks. The indiscriminate 
use of hog cholera serum is not recom¬ 
mended, and if the best reeults are to be 
obtained, the serum should be adminis¬ 
tered _ by _ a competent veterinarian. 
Especially is this true where hog cholera 
has infected the herd. If it is desired to 
establish permanent immunity it is neces¬ 
sary to use both serum and virus, and it 
is required by the sanitary officials that 
a veterinarian handle this procedure in 
every instance. I would not recommend 
the use of a hog serum unles.s there is 
tire male. You will find that the car- 
palatable in case a period of at least 
eight weeks should obtain between the 
unsexiug operation and the slaughter. 
Cull Beans for Cattle 
An aifficle by A. E. Rittenhouse, refers 
to the danger of feeding Sov beans to 
breeding stock. I would like‘to know if 
there is danger of feeding cull beans to 
cows with cn f to grain feed ; also what 
l^ql V ''’I/'® Kroimd to 
meal? Are they a good feed with good 
earl.v-ciit mixed hay? What is the value 
of apple pomace? „ tt 
New York. . ' 
should not con.stitiite 
lended for breeding cattle. Being high in 
protein and containing certain toxic pro¬ 
perties often evidenced by a rather hitter 
nKliT >'’diice the palat- 
ahility of the ration if it is fed in large 
quantitie.s. It makes an excellent sup- 
plement for cornmeal. and I would nk 
hesitate to feed the cull beans when 
ground into a meal, provided some bulky 
food .such as wheat bran or ground oats 
were incorporated in the mixture. Annie 
pomace is of very little value as a food 
tor producing animals. Its moisture con¬ 
tent IS not very high, it is low iu digesti¬ 
ble nutrients, the material is very apt to 
decompose and sour under average con¬ 
ditions, and it has very little value as a 
food for live stock. It might be used iu 
small quantitie.s to increase the variety 
and possibly the palatability of a stand¬ 
ard ration, but it should not be relied 
upon to supply the base of any ration. 
Improving Ration for Pigs 
We have nine jiigs weighing abou' 7(1 
pounds each. AVe are feeding at present 
one bushel turniiis, one-half bushel man¬ 
gels, with three or four medium-.sized 
pumpkins mixed with them. This is then 
cooked until it is soft and pulpy. M4ien 
this mixture is cold about ten or twelve 
pouiuks of middlings is added to it, be¬ 
sides the garbage produced at the house, 
i he pigs do not seem to he making the 
gjun they should ; will you advise me in 
what way this ration is at fault? I have 
ordered some tankage, which I expect to 
add to the ration, be.sides one-half to 
three-fourths bushel ear corn daily 
New York. b. 
The ration you are feeding your pigs 
Weighing approximately 70 pounds each 
IS seriously at fault, inasmuch as it i.s 
too Inilky and does not contain digestible 
nutrients in sufficient quantities to .satisfy 
growing animals. Turuifis, mangels anil 
pumpkins are very \\ aterv; in fact 
analyses show that they contain as much 
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