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Jhc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 8, 1919 
; DISCING WITH A HUBER LIGHT FOUR; 
Powerful, Yet l ight in Weight 
T HERE is a nice balance between weight and 
power in the Huber Light Four—great traction 
power with light tractor weight. It’s powerful— 
pulls three plows and turns an acre an hour. It’s light 
—works on plowed ground without packing the soil. 
Lightness means fuel economy. Less power con¬ 
sumed in moving the tractor gives more power to the 
draw-bar. The third plow permits 50% more work 
every hour you run. This means economy of time 
when minutes are dollars. It also gives you 50% more 
service every mile you travel. This means economy 
of up-keep and long life to the tractor. 
After the field work is done, it pays for its keep by 
doing all your heavy belt work. It not only runs the 
feed mill and buzz saw but it has plenty of power 
for the ensilage cutter, the clover huller, the corn 
shredder or the small grain thresher. It sets new 
standards all along the line—Econo¬ 
my, Simplicity, Durability. 
Weighs about 6,000 
pounds. 12 h. p. at 
draw-bar; 25 li. p. at 
belt. Four - cylinder 
Waukesha motor. 
Hyatt Roller Bear¬ 
ings. Perfex Radia¬ 
tor. Short turn. Self¬ 
steering i n the furrow. 
Center draft. Burns 
gasoline, kerosene or 
distillate. Road 
speed 2 3^ and 4 miles 
per hour. 
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and Booklet “Doing the Impossible. 
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624 Center Street MARION, OHIO 
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Developing a Dairy Heifer 
Would .7. Grant Morse or some other 
good dairyman write an article on raising 
and caring for a dairy heifer, developing 
her milking qualities and caring for and 
feeding her at each freshening period 
afterward? I would like to learn more 
about dairy rows. J. if. M. 
Conncllsville, Pa. 
Someone has said that the time to be¬ 
gin to educate a child is 100 years be¬ 
fore the child is born, and I will say that 
the time to develop a dairy heifer is just 
about the time that the education of the 
child should begin. In other words, don’t 
expect to develop a first-class cow from 
scrub parents. With the present condi¬ 
tions prevailing, I think it very unwise 
to start raising anything but the most 
promising heifer calves. Most of us havq, 
read the arguments urging us to retain 
all the cows on the farms, and to raise 
every one of the heifer calves, because 
there is a shortage of dairy products, and 
that there may he a greater shortage in 
the future. Prof. Savage has worked out 
the formula showing the cost of milk, and 
the Dairymen’s League has made tin's 
formula the basis upon which the price of 
milk has been fixed. Rather let us make 
beef of our poor cows while beef is high, 
and veal of her offspring. In this way 
we shall cut down the milk supply and 
force up the price, and at the same time 
we will make milk cheaper, because we 
Will be making it from more profitable 
cows. 
The cow that gives but 3,000 or 4.000 
lbs. of milk in a year makes that milk at 
a loss. Also, all of the cows in the coun¬ 
try of that class combined give a great 
many thousand pounds of milk, so anyone 
can readily see that if all of these poor 
cows went to the butcher the total milk- 
supply would be greatly cut down, and 
the milk from the good cows would bring 
more, and the profit in keeping them 
would he correspondingly large. 
So we will start out with a new-born 
calf from a good cow and a purebred sire 
of undoubted worth. The calf, upon com¬ 
ing into the world, will find herself in a 
nice clean pen with plenty of* bedding. 
By no chance should she spend the first 
few hours of her life in a filthy gutter 
behind the cows. As soon as the calf is 
found, her navel should be carefully dis¬ 
infected with iodine or some other good 
disinfectant. This is to kill the germs 
(if there should he any) that cause 
white scours. A calf that has had an 
attack of white scours may live and be¬ 
come a cow, but I firmly believe that she 
will never make so good a cow as she 
would have done if she had not had the 
attack. Iler constitution will be weak¬ 
ened, and she will be more apt to contract 
tuberculosis, or abort her calves, or fall 
a prey to any of the many things that 
spoil good cows. 
I would not leave the calf with the cow 
more than the first day, but would begin 
feeding lier her mother’s milk from a 
clean pail. It is best to feed the calf 
three times a day. T can’t say how much. 
That depends on the breed, size and gen¬ 
eral condition of the calf. Here is where 
the feeder must use some judgment. One 
can’t make an expert dairyman by writing 
a newspaper article. If the calf bleats 
and is generally uneasy, it is a sign that 
she is not getting enough to eat. On the 
other hand, if she does not meet you at 
the pen door eager for her feed, the 
chances are that she is being overfed. It 
is worse to overfeed than to feed too lit¬ 
tle; but, if she gets too little, she is apt 
to begin eating bay or even her bedding 
before her stomach is strong enough for 
roughage, and indigestion and scours will 
result. Just enough feed is best, and the 
man who can see things is the one that 
gets the best results. 
When she is two or three weeks old 
you can begin to add just a little well- 
scalded oilmeal or some of the patent 
calf food in gruel. Begin carefully at 
first and keep up her ration of milk. 
Don’t believe the statement that the pat¬ 
ent food will take the place of milk. It 
simply can’t and it won’t. As the calf 
grows, keep adding the gruel to the two 
or three quarts of new milk (this is 
written especially for the mau who sells 
milk. If one has skim-milk, that is an¬ 
other proposition) until tin.* calf is three 
months old, when the milk can be elim¬ 
inated. The calf should have access to 
plenty of nice hay, which she will begin 
to eat when she ought t<>. if other things 
are right! Also place a box in a conve¬ 
nient place with some ground oats, bran 
and a little eornineal or hominy. 
There is a water bucket in each of my 
calf pens, so that they can help them¬ 
selves. I feed the little heifers to develop 
a good deep body, so they can hold plenty 
of roughage in after life. Of course, we 
don’t want them to look like walking bal¬ 
loons, but just like little cows. If the 
calf i.s born in the Spring, she should be 
fed until grass time tlx- following year, 
when she can go to pasture and take care 
of herself. If it be a Fall calf, she can go 
to pasture the following Spring; hut she 
ought to come to the barn every day and 
receive a grain ration. One of the argu¬ 
ments in favor of raising the Fall calf is 
that she can take cure of herself the fol¬ 
lowing Spring. It is true that she will 
generally live, but it is just, as true that 
she will not make a satisfactory growth, 
and, if you withhold the grain at that 
time, you will have to feed more later on. 
If the heifer is bred during the Sum¬ 
mer after she is a year old, she should be 
brought from the pustule certainly by the 
first of October, and fed either green feed 
or grain. Never let the heifers in calf 
run in the back lot until snow comes, for 
they will run down in flesh at that time. 
If they have plenty of good coarse fodder, 
about 5 lbs. of good grain like bran and 
hominy, with a little oilmeal, will do. 
Ground oats or barley are excellent to mix- 
in if you have them. 
When the heifer begins to make bag i.s 
the time to increase her grain ration. 
Feed all she will eat up clean, if you can 
afford to. As the udder grows, begin to 
massage it. You will be surprised at the 
difference in the size of udder that a 
heifer will make up if it gets lots of hand 
rubbing while she is springing. 
At the time of calving be sure that her 
bowels keep open, and, if her udder gets 
too hard in spite of plenty of hand rub¬ 
bing, her grain ration should be reduced 
accordingly. After calving, milk her at 
least three times a day, and four will 
produce more milk, but few care to get 
up in the middle of the night to go after 
it. When you again increase her graiu 
ration after calving, substitute some good 
protein food like gluten feed for the hom¬ 
iny. She may be gradually brought back 
to all she will eat with relish. To be a* 
good cow feeder, one must be able to no¬ 
tice things, and one should watch his cow 
and let up a little on the feed if she 
shows signs of getting too much. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Feeding Buckwheat and Rye Bran 
Can you tell me what milk productive 
value is there in buckwheat and rye bran? 
Would it be better to feed to pigs? 
Loug Eddy, N. Y. u. n. 
Buckwheat middlings and rye bran 
alone would not constitute a useful mix¬ 
ture for feeding dairy cows, nor is it saft 
to feed to cows in calf. The buckwheat 
middlings alone are too heavy for the 
best results. It will be much tn your ad¬ 
vantage to use your ground rye for feed¬ 
ing sbotes. A useful mixture for feeding 
dairy cows contains buckwheat and some 
rye bran, and would be as follows: Hom¬ 
iny meal, 300 lbs.; buckwheat middlings, 
200 lbs.; dry beet pul]), 100 lbs.; ground 
oats, 100 lbs.; oilmen). 100 lbs.; rye bran, 
100 lbs 
I would much prefer corn meal to buck¬ 
wheat middlings for feeding pigs, and 1 
would use the following mixture in my 
swine-feeding operations: Ground rye, 
200 lbs.; eornineal, 200 lbs.; wheat mid¬ 
dlings, 100 lbs.; digester tankage, -10 lbs. 
With present day milling requirements, 
rye bran is coarse, and at best not very 
palatable or nourishing. The buckwheat 
middlings make very good and relatively 
cheap feed and very useful in rations for 
dairy cows. The buckwheat bran is also 
superior to rye bran or corn bran. 
F. O. M. 
