February 15, 1919 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
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Insure your com crop against frost,drought and deterioration. 
Get 25% bigger return on your silo investment by refilling 
after the first ensilage settles. Do all 3 by buying the 
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Investigate the Safety Yoke, which, protects the operator and the 
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steel-angle base of the straight, easily sharpened knives 
which cut clean with no “wedging”. And no trouble to 
throw and blow silage into the tallest silo with the 
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Preparing Cow for Test 
I have a three-year-old registered Hol¬ 
stein cow which came fresh December 22, 
1917. having been milked about 13 
months, She is giving about 12 lbs. of 
milk daily now and is due to freshen 
April 20. I wish to prepare her for test. 
I would like information as to how to 
care and prepare her for it. We have 
good clover hay. Soy bean and corn 
silage; will be willing to buy any feed 
you may suggest. W. H. A. 
A heifer that is to be prepared for the 
A. R. O. record and due to freshen April 
20 should be dried off at the earliest pos¬ 
sible moment. She should be denied all 
grain for a few days, and fed either on 
oat straw or Timothy hay until the flow 
of milk has been controlled and dried up ; 
then gradually her grain ration should be 
increased, and the more flesh that can 
be placed upon her frame during this dry 
period the better it will be. In this con¬ 
nection I would not recommend the use 
of more than 15 or 20 lbs. of silage per 
day. This is a bulky feed, and is very 
satisfying and a cow on a full feed of 
silage will not consume as much grain as 
she would otherwise. Give her all the 
clover hay she will eat with relish, and a 
satisfying grain ration could be made up 
of a mixture in the following propor¬ 
tions : Soy bean meal, 25 lbs.; cornmeal, 
50 lbs.; ground oats, 50 lbs.; flaxseed 
meal or old process linseed meal, 40 lbs.; 
buckwheat middlings, 25 lbs. After the 
milk flow has ceased and you are posi¬ 
tive that she is dry, give her 5 lbs. of feed 
and increase this 1 lb. per day until the 
heifer is eating as much as 12 or 15 lbs. 
of grain. Put on all the flesh you pos¬ 
sibly can during this period, but slack 
down on the grain rations as gestation 
progresses, confining her rations largely 
to oats and bran during the last week or 
10 days of her period. Flesh is very es¬ 
sential, and our best A. R. O. records 
have been made by cows in a very high 
condition of flesh. 
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Makes the Milking Easy 
If the teats and udder are healthy and comfortable the milking 
is easy for both cow and milker. No need to pumsh the cow 
and put up with reduced milk flow through sore or diseased 
conditions that can be so easily removed by using this great 
healing ointment. ^ _ 
Besides its wonderful soothing and healing effect on 
wounds, chaps, scratches, etc., Bag Balm has no equal in treat¬ 
ing Caked Bag—so common at the calving period. It penetrates 
immediately and quickly brings about a normal, healthy condi¬ 
tion of both teats and udder. Very useful in treating Bunches 
or any external hurt. 
Druggists and Feed Dealers sell Bag Balm, in liberal 
60c packages t Be sure to have it on hand always 
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3. Lice can be eliminated from hog* 
through the use of crude oil. Saturate a 
piece of waste or woolen cloth with crude 
oil and coat the pig thoroughly with this 
product. If you have a number of pigs 
to treat, fill a barrel two-thirds full of. 
water, put a coating of' about one-half 
inch of crude oil on the top and dip the 
pigs into this material and the pests will 
be eradicated. As far as cattle are con¬ 
cerned, a good soap hath with carbolic 
soap or water containing live per cent 
creolin solution will serve the purpose. 
Wash the cattle thoroughly with soap and 
water and then apply the disinfectant. 
Place the cattle in a warm stable and the 
worst will be over. Gasoline has also 
been used with good results. 
4. To eliminate lice from an old chicken 
house I would use a spray of five per 
cent carbolic acid; follow this with a 
thorough whitewashing, and, if care is ex¬ 
ercised to remove all of the loose boards 
and to make sure that all of the surface 
is well covered, the pests will be con¬ 
trolled. 
5. As for systems of stabling, cattle 
running loose in the barnyard or stable 
will work over a larger percentage of the 
straw into manure, and if the animals are 
dishorned they will not annoy each other. 
Of course they are more easily cared for 
in stanchions, but they will do quite as 
well if allowed to run loose in the stable. 
There is a growiug tendency to use the 
covered barnyard much more extensively, 
it being claimed that this system provides 
a more healthful atmosphere for the ani¬ 
mals. 
Feeding Buckwheat; Destroying Lice and 
Mites 
1 . May buckwheat be safely fed to 
cows, cattle, horses, liogs or chickens in 
sheaf or straw, ground or in the whole 
grain? 2. What is the best method for 
feeding silage and hay to yearling heifers? 
Should thev have any other food mate¬ 
rial > 3 . IIow are lice most successfully 
destroyed on cattle and hogs? 4. What 
would you recommend for freeing an old 
building of chicken lice? 5. Does it pay 
better to let cattle run loose in a well- 
bedded barn, or stand in stanchions l 
O. B. B. 
1. Buckwheat, either iu the form of 
middlings or the whole grain ground to¬ 
gether. can be safely used in feeding cat¬ 
tle and hogs. Its feeding value is greater 
than that of wheat bran or ground oats, 
and it should be more generally used in 
sections where it is available. It is most 
useful, however, in the feeding of dairy 
cows, and in combination with cornmeal, 
ground oats and cottonseed meal, mixed 
iu equal proportions, it provides a splen¬ 
did ration. It is somewhat heavy for 
horses, although, the mixture of three 
parts of outs and two parts of buckwheat 
middlings or ground buckwheat could he 
used. Some irritation of the intestines has 
been reported where ground buckwheat 
feed has been fed to pigs; therefore it is 
more desirable to use the buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings rather than the ground buckwheat 
in feeding swine. For poultry it can be 
used as a scratch feed, and the whole 
grains should be mixed with some cracked 
corn and wheat The chickens would also 
pick over the sheaves of barley, and the 
exercise would he very beneficial to them. 
2. Silage can he fed in special feeding 
troughs constructed for the purpose, or 
the youngsters can be placed in stanch¬ 
ions and the material supplied the same 
as would obtain with dairy cows. If .vou 
have an abundance of silage it would be 
appropriate to make two feedings daily, 
and the roughage should be supplied in 
the middle of the day. I would give them 
in addition to the silage and hay a grain 
ration which could be composed of five 
parts of corn and two parts of cottonseed 
meal. Assuming that the yearling heifers 
weigh about 700 lbs. apiece, a reasonable 
ration would he 4 lbs. apiece daily. 
Price for Wintering Horses 
I have pastured or roughed out my 
horses (two) for the Winter; grass and 
water in abundance, a stock of inferior 
hay and weeds to munch at, at leisure; 
also a good shed to come and go as they 
wish. Owner of pasture gives them no 
grain or care whatever. I would like to 
know what would be a fair price for him 
to charge me a month period. Summer 
pasture is $2 and .$2.50 per month a head. 
We both wish to do the right thing by 
one another. A. E. K. 
Girard, O. 
A fair price for wintering the two 
horses, provided no grain is supplied by 
the caretaker, would be $8 per month. It 
is assumed that they have access to in¬ 
ferior hay, which would be worth about 
as much as oat straw. 
Peavines for Silage 
Would you recommend using water 
when filling a silo with green Alaska pea- 
vines, and to what extent? Do you think 
Alaska pea-vines make good silage. If 
not, why? J. s. I. 
Milford, Del. 
I would not recommend the use of 
water iu filling a silo with green Alaska 
peas, unless the vines themselves were 
very dry and would uot pack properly in. 
the silo. If they are partially cured and 
brittle, then it is-absolutely necessary, in 
order to bring about fermentation, that 
water be run into the blow pipe and a 
generous amount should be used. On the 
other hand, if the pea-vines are green, it 
would be advantageous to run in some 
cut straw with the material. In ensiling 
green Alfalfa or oats and pens or other 
forage crops rich in nitrogen, the fer¬ 
mentation is so acute that many of the 
proteids are rendered indigestible, and 
for this reason it has been found satisfac¬ 
tory to run in some dry material to halt 
bacterial action. 
In the vicinity of certain canneries the 
residual vines are distributed among the 
patrons, and are fed to cows in this form. 
Very good results (have been reported, but 
there appears to he great variation in the 
condition of the material from day to day, 
hence making it impossible to feed the 
fermented material in large quantities 
without causing more or less disorders of 
the digestive system. 
“Is your wife fond of moving pic¬ 
tures?” “I should say she is. Scarcely 
a week goes by she doesn t make me get 
on the stepladder and change ’em all 
about.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
