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Cottonseed Meal for Cows 
In most of the food rations given I no¬ 
tice cottonseed meal is included on ac¬ 
count of its high protein content. When 
this was included in the feed of the cows 
which furnished milk for our table there 
was a distinct disagreeable flavor impart¬ 
ed to the milk, is there not some equally 
good substitute for this cottonseed meal, 
or to what proportion of the whole ration 
must this be reduced to avoid the flavor? 
Pennsylvania. n. C. b. 
It is doubtful whether the cottonseed 
meal could be blamed entirely for the 
flavor in the milk as suggested. If it 
does not constitute more than 20 per 
cent of the ration no difficulty will be 
experienced, and the chances are that 
there were one or more cows in your 
herd that were just going dry whose milk 
was unsavory and tainted the entire pro¬ 
duct. Oilmeal or gluten meal can be sub¬ 
stituted for the cottonseed meal with 
good results, and it ought to be possible 
for you to secure some buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings or buckwheat bran that would also 
cheapen your mixture. 
The following ration, including cotton¬ 
seed meal and buckwheat middlings, will 
not taint the milk: 
400 lbs. buckwheat middlings, 
400 lbs. cornmeal or hominy, 
300 lbs. ground oats, 
200 lbs. cottonseed meal, 
100 lbs. oilmeal or gluten. 
In addition to this grain ration, feed 
silage and either Alfalfa or clover hay, 
basing the amount of grain fed on the 
amount of milk produced. Use 1 lb. of 
the grain mixture for each 3 or 4 lbs. of 
milk produced daily. Feed the grain after 
milking, and make sure that the milking 
utensils are clean and well sterilized; 
also that there is not one cow in the herd 
that for one reason or another is yield¬ 
ing ropy or unclean milk. Take a sample 
of milk from each cow and put in a corked 
bottle, let it stand overnight, then note 
the odor, if any. in the morning. Bottle 
the sample warm and direct from the cow. 
Molasses for Pigs 
The prices of all kinds of grain are 
higher here than ever. Would it be good 
economy to feed molasses to my pigs? 
What proportion of it should be fed, if it 
is advisable to feed it? W. H. B. 
Massachusetts. 
Blackstrap or cane molasses, which is 
used for feeding live stock, is almost ex¬ 
clusively a carbohydrate carrier, with 
only one per cent of crude protein, 5S per 
cent of carbohydrates, and no fat what¬ 
ever. One hundred pounds of blackstrap 
molasses undiluted carries about 75 lbs. 
of dry matter, while a ton of the molasses 
will yield j 384 lbs. of digestible nutrients, 
as compared with 3.714 for corn, 1.692 for 
hominy, 1,590 for the ground sorghum and 
1,218 for wheat bran. Before the war it 
could be purchased from six to eight cents 
per gallon. Owing to the extensive use 
that was made of molasses in the manu¬ 
facture of alcohol, the price advanced to 
20 or 25 cents, which promptly withdrew 
this material from economical use as a 
feed. Two 'nets stand out rather con¬ 
spicuously when feeding molasses to pigs. 
The material is very laxative and very' 
palatable, and the pigs must be accus¬ 
tomed to its use gradually. Its best use 
is reported when ground rye, ground oats 
and cornmeal are used as a base of the 
ration, and in case 10 per cent of digester 
tankage is included, it would be safe to 
use as much as 20 per cent of the molas¬ 
ses after the pigs have become accus¬ 
tomed to its use. At present prices, how¬ 
ever, molasses is rather expensive and 
should be used chiefly as an appetizer 
rather than ae a material source of food 
nutrients. It should be purchased in bar¬ 
rels rather than in bags, as the mixed 
feeds made up with molasses include weed 
seeds and trash of every kind and descrip¬ 
tion, and chemists find qualities in them 
that pigs and cows cannot. The molassee 
rations must be fed promptly after being 
mixed, else they will sour and scour the 
animals very profusely. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Feb. 18-21—Shorthorn Congress Show 
and Sale, Chicago, Ill.; F. W. Harding, 
manager. 
March 7—W. C. MeGavocli, Duroc- 
.Terseys. Mt. Pulaski, Hi. 
March 11—Iowa Shorthorn Breeders’ 
Association. Des Moines, Iowa. 
April 1-12—Holsteins, Purebred T.ive 
Stock Sales Co.. Brattleboro. Vt. 
April 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris, Ill. 
April 37—John II. Fitch, Angus, Lake 
City, Iowa. 
Scene at National Tractor Demonstration, Showing Tractors 
Working With Oliver Plows 
Every year—at the National Tractor Demon¬ 
stration—tractors and tractor implements have a 
public opportunity to prove their merits. 
Prospective buyers from all parts of the country 
are in attendance. 
Tractor manufacturers are especially anxious 
that their products show maximum efficiency. 
They realize that their success depends upon 
the quality of the plowing and seed bed prepara¬ 
tion—that the performance of the tractor is often 
gauged entirely by these facts. 
Naturally they select the tractor implements 
that will work with their tractor to the best 
possible advantage. 
Actual test has proved to them that these imple¬ 
ments are—Oliver. 
This increasing recognition of Oliver by tractor 
manufacturers is best evidenced by the records of 
successive tractor demonstrations. 
At the National Tractor Demonstration in 1913 
there was but one tractor that pulled an Oliver 
implement. On the strength of that single showing, 
and the Oliver organization’s unequalled equipment 
for the task in hand—keeping pace with the great 
tractor industry—the popularity of the Oliver line 
has steadily risen. 
Dominance was reached in 1918 when 85% of 
the tractors at the National Tractor Demonstration 
at Salina, Kansas, pulled Oliver tractor implements. 
Endorsement so unanimous and authoritative 
can admit of only one verdict: Oliver Plows are 
the most advantageous for use with tractors—and 
the best seed bed preparation is secured through 
the use of Oliver tractor implements. 
Oliver Chilled Plow Works 
South Bend, Indiana 
Chart showing number of tractors 
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Lump Jaw 
The farmer’s old reliable treat 
ment for Lump Jaw in cattle. 
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You wouldn’t allow 15% of any crop to go un¬ 
harvested. So why stick to old-time methods of 
sheep and goat shearing? Shear the modern 
way, with a Stewart Machine. There are hand 
operated models for small flocks and eugine 
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