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•Jhc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 2.">, 191!' 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
(Continued from page 142) 
a calf to the age of maturity if it is nec¬ 
essary to confine him to stables and yards 
throughout the growing period. The ma¬ 
ture animals can be taken care of very 
nicely during their lactation period, but 
here again there are many advantages 
that are in favor of pasturing a cow dur¬ 
ing her dry period. The exercise that is 
afforded her, the flesh that results from 
grass rations and the freedom from stable 
environments are all factors that increase 
her usefulness and add to her vigor. At 
Briareliff Farms the prevailing practice 
has been to stable tbe cow during the en¬ 
tire year. We have modified this system 
whereby it will be possible to pasture the 
dry cows and young stock during the 
Summer season, and we are confident that 
this will add materially to the economy 
and efficiency of our farm operations. 
I would rely on silage rather than 
forage crops. It is more economical and 
by all odds more desirable. It requires 
less labor during tbe busy season of tbe 
year ; the yield of actual digestible units 
per acre is greater, and it is possible to 
stabilize the production with silage, which 
is positively not the case with soiling 
crops. 
Having only a general knowledge of the 
farming areas in Westchester County, 
but knowing that the bulk of tbe farm 
land is rough and stony, long distance 
advice might not be practical. In Dutch¬ 
ess County we plow our sod, preferably 
in tbe Fall, preparatory to corn planting 
in tbe Spring. We cut this corn and put 
it into the silo, and, if opportunity af¬ 
fords. plow the corn stubble in tbe Fall 
preparatory to seeding oats in tbe early 
Spring. Tbe oats are drilled in in tbe 
Spring and at the same time the area is 
seeded with Timothy and clover mixed. 
In case rye is grown, it is drilled in in 
the' Fall, the Timothy and permanent 
grasses seeded at the same time, and the 
clover distributed before tbe frost is out 
of the ground in the Spring. As a short 
cut to get this area into clover or Alfalfa, 
you might plow the sod early in tbe 
Spring, drilling oats and C anada field 
peas as early as possible, utilizing this 
crop either as green forage or curing it 
as bay, or let it ripen preparatory for 
thrashing, then plow this area in July 
or August again and seed it during Au¬ 
gust or early September with tbe grass 
mixture, including clover, without any 
nurse crop. This will shorten your rota¬ 
tion and in many instances, especially in 
New Jersey, has proved a very efficient 
way to establish a meadow. 
Remember that the clover plant re¬ 
quires an abundance of lime. This ma¬ 
terial can be put on at any time, prefer¬ 
ably previous to the plowing for oats, 
which would mean that the neutral area 
would be brought to the surface when the 
grass seeding was done. 
Cottonseed Questions 
In a recent circular giving juices of 
feeds (cottonseed meal, etc.), I noted 
“cottonseed hull bran” quoted at fid DU 
per ton. No doubt the feeding value of 
this is very limited, but how about, its 
fertilizing value as compared with wheat 
bran and some other feeds? I also noted 
that the difference in price. per ton be- 
I tween the 3G per cent protein cottonseed 
; and the 41 per cent was only $4.50 per 
ton. which, it seemed to me, was getting 
(lie extra 5 per cent of protein much 
cheaper if the extra 5 per cent is properly 
utilized in feeding. w - c - B - 
Ohio. 
Cottonseed bulls are not valuable either 
as a feed for live stock nor do they supply 
an economical source of fertilizing con¬ 
stituents; 100 lbs. of cottonseed hulls 
contains only 0.3 lb. of digestible protein, 
33.3 lbs. of carbohydrates, 1.5 lbs. of fat, 
or a total of 37 lbs.; while 1.000 lbs. of 
the cottonseed hulls contain only 7.4 lbs. 
of nitrogen, 3.6 lbs. jihosphoric acid and 
12.8 lbs. potash. If the product you 
identify as cottonseed hull bran is what 
is commonly labeled as cottonseed feed, 
then its value is greater, since 100 lbs. 
contains 14.2 lbs. of crude protein, 30.7 
lbs. carbohydrates, 5.7 lbs. fat, or a total 
of 57.7 lbs. digestible units per 100 lbs.; 
1,000 lbs. of this feed would contain 39.2 
lbs. nitrogen, 14.7 lbs. phosphoric acid, 
14.7 lbs. potash. 
In any event this material would prove 
to be a very expensive source of either 
digestible nutrients for live stock or of 
fertilizing constituents. As compared 
with wheat bran, the analysis shows that 
100 lbs. of this material carries 12.5 lbs. 
protein, 41.6 lbs. carbohydrates, 3 lbs. 
fat, or a total of 60.9 lbs. of digestible nu¬ 
trients ; likewise 1.000 lbs. carries 25.6 
lbs. nitrogen, 29.5 lbs. phosphoric acid, 
16.2 lbs potash. It will be noted, also, 
that wheat bran is a very expensive 
source of both feed or fertilizer. 
You are right; there is a marked differ¬ 
ence in the feeding and fertilizing value 
between 36 per cent cottonseed meal and 
44 per cent; nevertheless, it is almost im¬ 
possible to buy anything but the 36 per 
cent meal at this time. If you can buy 
tbe higher quality cottonseed at a cost of 
only $4.50 more per ton it would be econ¬ 
omy and very good judgment. 
Dairy and Hogs 
I have a 35-acre farm one mile from 
Phoeuixville, Pa., population. 12,000; 
eight miles to Norristown, 30,000. I am 
erecting a silo this year. Land is all un¬ 
der cultivation and most of it is in sod. 
I am going to devote most of my attention 
to Berkshire hogs. I want to start a 
small herd of purebred cattle. What do 
you consider the best to combine with 
hogs, Ilolsteins or Guernseys? Will sepa¬ 
rate milk and feed skim-milk to hogs, in 
conjunction with self-feeders and forage 
crops. M - 15 
Pennsylvania. 
It is admittedly true that cream sepa¬ 
rated from Guernsey milk is more at¬ 
tractive than any other milk, since it ex¬ 
cels in both color, flavor and butterfat 
content as a commercial product. There 
is very little difference in the value of a 
pound of skim-milk, regardless of whether 
it is from a Guernsey or a Holstein cow, 
and owing to the increased quantity that 
is obtained from a Holstein, the by-jiro- 
duet would have a little greater value. 
Whether you should select Guernseys or 
Ilolsteins depends entirely upon your 
own preference. You can secure useful 
representatives of either breed, but make 
sure to base their value upon their abil¬ 
ity to produce milk and reproduce calves 
regularly, rather than to establish a price 
determined on any other basis. By in¬ 
stalling Guernseys you would handle less 
milk and have a more attractive product if 
you are catering to a high-class trade. 
The Guernsey breed is especially popular 
in your section of Pennsylvania, and you 
ought to he able to assemble a herd with¬ 
in your district at a relatively low cost. 
In conjunction with skim-milk and forage 
crops as a basis for carrying on your pro¬ 
ject in pork production, bear in mind that 
you must provide for some corn to supple¬ 
ment these two products if it is your wish 
to get a normal growth and finished pro¬ 
duct during the favorable season. I take 
it that you are going to put in purebred 
swine, and you should make sure that this 
project is going to pay a profit based en¬ 
tirely ujion its value as pork. 
The self-feeder will prove very useful 
with your market animals; nevertheless it 
will afford an extravagant agency for de¬ 
veloping tbe animals intended for breeding 
purposes, largely because they will eat ex¬ 
travagant amounts of food as against the 
necessary amount of forage crops that 
they will utilize in case their grain ration 
was limited. Profits in pork production 
depend upon three or four factors, name¬ 
ly, sanitation, prolificacy, early maturity 
and feeding qualities, so make sure at the 
very outset that you are familiar with 
the requirements determining each of 
these factors, for all of them must he 
combined if your enterprise is to be suc¬ 
cessful. 
Insist that tbe dairy carry itself rather 
than rely upon the profits from your pork 
products to carry along any deficit in 
your cream-making operations. True 
enough, they will help each other; never¬ 
theless, each one of them should carry its 
own burden. 
Clara : Who’s the box of chocolates 
from?” Ellen: “Don’t know. There is 
no card with it.” Clara: “I’ll bet Clar¬ 
ence sent ’em. He’s so forgetful.” Ellen : 
“Yes, but Clarence wouldn’t only forget 
to fiend a card ; lie’s tbe kind of young 
man who would forget to send the choc¬ 
olates !”—Melbourne Leader. 
