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7ht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 8, 1919 
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THE MOORE BROS. OF ALBANY 
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Here’s an inexpensive machine that has solved the 
problems of ditching and soil washing for thou¬ 
sands of farmers, and will solve them for you, too. 
Farm Ditcher, Terracer, Road Grader, Dike Builder 
Model No. 20 
Adjustable 
Reversible 
The Martin cuts a 
“V” shaped ditch down 
to four feet deep 
Each year many acres of grain 
are lost to the individual and to the nation 
by water standing on the fields be¬ 
cause of improper drainage. 
Isn’t it high time this frightful 
waste be stopped and that the 
farmer be insured of bigger 
crops and better returns for his 
labor? We must raise more 
food than ever in America this 
year to help feed the starving 
peoples of Europe. This is the 
farmers’ opportunity. Prices of 
all food products will remain 
high for some time to come. 
Many a farmer thinks he 
has no need of the MARTIN, but 
that’s where he is dead wrong. 
This machine is needed on every 
farm, and was needed there before 
the plow. Even on well tiled land there 
are many places where it can be used to 
good advantage, and will quickly pay for 
itself. Stop a minute and study closely the 
many uses of this handy little implement. 
Here’s Just a Few of 
the Things It Does— 
and Does Well 
Cuts a mile of 3-ft. V-shaped 
ditch, for tiling, open surface 
drains or irrigation, in a day. 
Goes down 4 feet. Solves the 
labor problem so far as ditching 
and dirt moving work are con¬ 
cerned. Cuts down the high 
cost of tiling; backfills; cleans 
out old ditches; builds farm ter¬ 
races to stop soil washing and 
to conserve moisture; reclaims 
old abandoned hillsides and 
swampy land and converts des¬ 
ert areas into cultivatable lands; 
makes roads from ditch to crown; 
tears down dredge ditch banks and 
old levees; fine for throwing up rice 
levees; cleans barnyards; moves snow 
and does a host of other things.. There’s 
always something for the MARTIN to do. 
Can be used every week in the year. Easy 
to operate. Works in any soil. Saves your- 
crops and soil. Saves labor, time and 
money. Does work of 100 men. 2, 4, 6 
horse or tractor sizes. 
DAYS 
FREE 
Try the MARTIN 10 days free. 
Give it a good, fair trial on your 
farm, where you can be both 
judge and jury. If it doesn’t prove 
all that we claim and more, ship it 
right back to us at our expense and 
we will refund every cent of your 
money, including freight charges. 
Catalog is free—send for it today. 
Owensboro Ditcher & 
Grader Company, Inc. 
Box 934 Owensboro, Ky. 
As a road maker and keeper, 
the Martin has any grader you 
ever saw beat to a stand-still. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
(Continued from page 232) 
proaches. Avoid the use of corn, hominy 
or wheat middlings, rather relying upon 
the bulky feeds I have suggested. 
Silage for Sheep and Horses 
What can you tell me about feeding 
silage to sheep? I have about 85 in all, 
and at present am feeding plenty of oat 
straw in the morning, about 75 lbs. of 
silage, or four bushel baskets well packed, 
at noon, and good second-cutting Alfalfa 
at noon.- I have plenty of oat straw, some 
extra good second-cutting Alfalfa, lots of 
silage and a few oats. I expect them to 
begin lambing about the middle of Febru¬ 
ary. The sheep do not take to their 
silage as well as they ought to. Can I 
make a good ration out of my feeds? 
How is silage for horses? A. D. A. 
Marcellus, N. Y. 
I would not under any circumstances 
feed silage to horses. Instances arc com¬ 
mon where this practice has resulted iu 
poisoning of the animals, and in any 
event a horse does not require a succulent 
feed of this nature. 
With sheep it is possible to feed as 
much as two or three pounds of the silage 
per day, to a mature ewe, with excellent 
results. While it is not especially pal¬ 
atable, as the sheep are very apt to pick 
it over rather closely, this objection is 
overcome by means of sprinkling some 
grain over the silage. Equal parts of 
cornmeal, oats and bran, with about 10 
per cent of oilmeal added, makes a very 
useful ration for the ewe, and it is not 
necessary to feed more than one-fourth 
pound per day of this grain mixture 
where silage and clover hay or oat straw 
are available. Alfalfa hay is more pal¬ 
atable than the silage, and if you are giv¬ 
ing them all they will clean up of the 
Alfalfa hay at noon, this is probably the 
reason why they are not taking kindly to 
the silage. Oats make a more satisfactory 
feed for sheep, and if you have an abun¬ 
dance of this, it would not be necessary, 
since you have Alfalfa hay, to include any 
wheat bran in the mixture. Let them 
have all the oat straw that they will clean 
up with relish. 
Rations for Cows and Pigs 
1. How docs ground buckwheat com¬ 
pare with cottonseed meal? I am now 
using 300 lbs. bran, 300 lbs. cornmeal 
(cob included in meal), 100 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed meal, as a balanced ration for milk¬ 
ing cows. Is this correct? I have a 
quantity of buckwheat I would like to 
make use of in place of cottonseed meal. 
What amount should I use? How do 
ground oats compare with wheat bran? 
Will you give u balanced ration for milk¬ 
ing cows with ground oats as a substitute 
for wheat bran? 3. Can buckwheat be 
used with this ration? If so. how much? 
4. I am feeding wheat bran and cornmeal 
(cob included) to my yearlings and two- 
year-olds, mixed equal parts. Is this suf¬ 
ficient, or should anything else be add¬ 
ed? Other feeds are so expensive that I 
hate to buy them. 5. What amount of 
cornmeal. with cob included, should he 
mixed with middlings to feed to four- 
month-old pigs? Is it really necessary to 
add any other feeds? A. J. C. 
Wauregan, Conn. 
1. Based upon analysis, cottonseed meal 
and buckwheat middlings compare as fol¬ 
lows : 
Water. 
Ash . 
Buck¬ 
wheat 
middlings 
Per cent 
32.0 
4.S 
Cotton¬ 
seed 
meal 
Per cent 
7.9 
6.4 
Crude protein .... 
28.3 
37.6 
Ca rbohyd rates— 
Fiber. 
4 8 
31.5 
Free extract ... 
42 7 
28.4 
Fat. 
S.2 
It will be noted that the cottonseed 
meal carries nine per cent more protein, 
seven per cent more fiber, and that the 
buckwheat middlings are much higher in 
carbohydrates and nearly equal in fat. 
One ton of ground bockwheat contains 
1,208 lbs. of digestible nutrients, as 
against 1,490 lbs. for 30 per cent, cotton¬ 
seed meal; therefore in substituting buck¬ 
wheat middlings for cottonseed meal. 125 
lbs. of the buckwheat middlings would 
approximately replace 100 lbs. of the cot¬ 
tonseed meal. It would be prudent to add 
a little oilmeal with your corn and cob 
meal and buckwheat middlings if the cot¬ 
tonseed meal was eliminated. 
2. One ton of ground oats contains 
1,408 lbs. of digestible nutrients, as 
against 1,218 for wheat bran. Oats con¬ 
tain 3% per cent ash, 12.4 crude protein, 
59.6 carbohydrates, while wheat bran an¬ 
alyzes 6.3 ash, 16 crude protein and 53.7 
carbohydrates, while 70.4 per cent of the 
oats are digestible, as compared with 60.9 
per cent for the wheat bran. On this 
basis, 120 lbs. of oats would he equivalent 
in feeding value to 150 lbs. of bran. 
3. If you desire to substitute buckwheat 
middlings for wheat bran, 320 lbs. of the 
•buckwheat middlings will replace 170 lbs. 
of the wheat bran. 
4. If I had an abundance of buckwheat 
middlings I would not feed any wheat 
bran to the yearlings and the two-year- 
olds, but would rather use a ration made 
up of 500 lbs. corn and cob meal, 300 lbs. 
buckwheat middlings, 50 lbs. oilmeal. If 
you have Alfalfa or clover bay it would 
not be necessary to include any oilmeal 
in the mixture. 
5. I would not use corn and cob meal 
under any circumstances iu feeding young 
pigs. A pig has to be very hungry indeed 
before he will eat corncobs after the corn 
has been picked off, and if there was any 
value or nourishment whatsoever in a 
corncob he would surely discover it of his 
own accord. Corncobs are indigestible. 
They do not contain any nutriment what- 
sover, and by all means do not insist on 
feeding them. For pigs four months old I 
would feed them a ration containing 100 
lbs. shelled corn or cornmeal, 20 lbs. 
middlings, S lbs. digester tankage or 12 
lbs. oilmeal. Make sure that they are 
Supplied with some mineral matter, such 
as charcoal, ground bone or air-slaked 
lime in combination. The sweepings from 
the barn, from clover bay or Alfalfa hay, 
could he added to this combination to good 
advantage. 
Feeding Calf and Dry Cows 
1. T am feeding a purebred Holstein 
calf Timothy and clover hay and about 
one and one-half quarts of equal parts 
bran and ground oats three times daily. 
Is this enough to keep him growing? 2. 
What grain ration should I feed cows 
milking about 12 lbs. daily now, but due 
to freshen iu late March? I want them 
to milk as long as best, but to be in good 
condition to freshen. S. F. w. 
Bloomingdale, N. Y. 
1. A ration made of equal parts of bran 
and ground oats makes a very good mix¬ 
ture for a young growing calf, but I 
should prefer the addition of an equal 
portion of cornmeal and 10 per cent of 
linseed meal. 
2. A dairy cow yielding 12 lbs. of milk 
per day and due to freshen in late March 
should be dried off promptly in order that 
she might have at least six weeks of a 
rest period. If it is desired to dry her off. 
deny her all grain and give her nothing 
but Timothy hay, straw and water until 
the flow of milk ceases. She should be 
milked out once a day for a period ap¬ 
proximating a week, and if this is done 
irregularly no difficulty will he experi¬ 
enced in drying her off. It must he re¬ 
membered, however, that a persistent 
milker cannot be dried off unless all the 
grain is taken from the ration. As soon 
as it is evident that the flow of milk 1ms 
ceased, gradually iucrease her ration, 
using a mixture of equal parts of oats, 
bran, oilmeal and cornmeal, and pro¬ 
viding her also with clover or Alfalfa 
hay. Continue this rather heavy feeding 
until she is within 10 days of calving. 
The condition of apparent surplus flesh is 
a distinct advantage, as it invigorates 
her system and she will yield all the more 
milk when she freshens. It is very im¬ 
portant, however, that she be given a rest 
period, and even though she might milk 
up closer to the date of calving, it is not 
safe to follow this practice, for the milk 
is very apt to get stringy, and usually the 
following lactation period is substantially 
shortened. 
Henry’s mother had cautioned him 
about eating too much when he was in¬ 
vited out. One day the little boy was 
visiting a rather cross aunt aud after he 
had asked three times for more dessert 
she exclaimed: “My goodness, child, you 
do certainly eat an awful lot for such a 
email boy!” “Well. Aunt Grace.” re¬ 
plied Henry, somewhat conscience-strick¬ 
en, “maybe I’m not so little as I look 
from the outside.”—Toronto Sun. 
