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February 22, 1919 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minklei 
My Calf 
My name is Florence Smith. I am 12 
years old. I joined the Junior Food 
Army and raised a calf as my part in 
winning the war. We 'are all readers of 
The R; N.-Y., so I thought perhaps other 
readers would be interested to hear about 
my calf. 
“Peggy” was born April 1. 191S. By 
the picture you can see she is a grade 
Holstein. I began feeding her milk, then 
calf meal, and followed by wheat mid¬ 
dlings and water. All summer she had 
good clover pasture. She drank ISO 
pounds of milk, worth $3.7S. The grain 
was worth $13.S0. The price of milk 
was figured at cost during April and May. 
The calf cost me $7. She weighed 75 
pounds when started and 300 pounds on 
November 1st. She gained a pound a 
day. 
“Peggy” was appraised Nov. 1, 1918, 
for $30. Therefore I made $5.42. I 
age I have mostly shredded corn fodder, 
a little clover hay; no silage.- I intend 
to sow more beans in the Spring. Would 
it be better to cut for hay than to allow 
to ripen and thrash out as I did last 
year? C. A. F. 
Pennsylvania. 
You can substitute Soy bean meal for 
cottonseed meal in any ration for dairy 
cows, for it will analyze quite as much 
protein, running 39 per cent, nearly as 
much carbohydrates, and double as much 
fat. A mixture of 250 lbs. corn and cob 
meal, 100 lbs. oats, 100 lbs. Soy beans, 
would make a very useful mixture, al¬ 
though the addition of some ground oats 
or buckwheat middlings would increase 
its usefulness. It would not be feasible to 
grind very many of the Soy beans and at¬ 
tempt to store the meal in bulk, because 
the free oil that is present readily be¬ 
comes rancid and would make the entire 
mixture bitter and unpalatable. Whether 
or not Soy beans should be cut and used 
the Junior Food Army Calf 
Peggy; 
received a second prize of Thrift Stamps 
at our exhibit. My calf Was one of 15 
exhibited. I am sure she will grow up 
to be a fine cow. Florence smith. 
Connecticut. 
Homemade Calf Meal 
Is one bushel of wheat and one-half 
bushel of oats a better calf feed than you 
can buy? A friend of ours says it is too 
rich. Is this so. and how can I make a 
good feed at home? This is fed with 
warm separator milk twice a day. E. w. 
Conneautville, Pa. 
You omit to state the age of the calf 
that you were arguing about, and do not 
indicate whether you wish information 
relative to a supplement for skim-milk or 
new milk, or whether the calf had passed 
the milk stage. In either case your mix¬ 
ture would be faulty. Ground wheat is 
not well suited for feeding young calves. 
A more useful combination would be three 
parts cornmeal, three parts ground oats 
tsifted), three parts wheat middlings 
(white), one part oilmeal. This would 
be best suited for feeding the calf that 
was about three months old. It would be 
feasible to substitute wheat bran for 
wheat middlings, and for younger calves 
being fed on skim-milk I would use 
ground oats, wheat middlings and oilmeal, 
mixed in about equal proportions. Leafy 
clover or Alfalfa hay should be available 
at all times, and the feeding boxes or pails 
should be kept very clean, invariably. 
Sour troughs and dirty pails, coupled with 
over-feeding, can usually be blamed for 
most calf troubles. 
Soy Beans, Corn and Oats 
I thrashed about 35 bushels of So.v 
beans last season and recently ground 
some with corn on the cob and oats, with 
a view to feeding to milch cows instead 
of the dairy feed 1 have been feeding. I 
ground together four bushels of corn ears, 
two bushels of oats and one and one-half 
bushels Soy beans. Would I need to add 
anything else to it in the way of cotton¬ 
seed or linseed meal to make it a satis¬ 
factory ration for milch cows? For vough- 
as hay or ripened and thrashed, is an 
open question. Personally, I prefer the 
Soy bean hay and do not believe that it 
pays to ripen and thrash the beans. It 
is a dirty and dusty job, anyway, and one 
requires bean harvesting and bean thrash¬ 
ing machinery if one is going to grow 
them in any quantity. 
Succulent Feeds in Silo 
Will grass cut with a common lawn 
mower keep in a silo if tamped in the 
same way as silo corn and there is enough 
of it? If it will not keep, is there any 
way it can be preserved for Winter use? 
It is almost impossible to cure it in the 
form of hay when there is a great quan¬ 
tity F. s. 
New York. 
It would not be practical to undertake 
to put grass cut by menus of a linwi mow¬ 
er into the silo. The fermentation would 
be intense, and successive cuttings of the 
grass would have to be added to the silo 
from time to time, and the material would 
spoil in any event. It has not been prac¬ 
tical even to use oats and peas cut green 
for silage purposes, as the decomposition 
is almost sure to render the material un¬ 
fit for use. In case succulent feeds of 
this sort are ensiled, it is necessary to put 
some dry cut straw with them, but this is 
neither practical or feasible, and there 
would not be enough of the material to be 
worth while. If you want to use your 
lawn grass for feeding live stock, the only 
way I could suggest would be to let it 
grow up and mature and cure the product 
as hay. The old saying is that “you can't 
cat your cake and have it,” which might 
equally apply to the suggestion that you 
can't have regularly mown lawns and at 
the same time expect such areas to pro¬ 
duce forage or succulence for use in feed¬ 
ing at a later time. It is possible to use 
the freshly cut grass in feeding live stock, 
but always at this season of the year the 
pastures are in their best condition and it 
scarcely pays to use the mown grass un¬ 
der such conditions. 
SHEEP 
A. H. S. A. 16643 
FOR SALE 
Registered Hampshire Sheep 
Rams and Ewes 
APPLY 
Ophir Farm - - Purchase, N. Y. 
:0R SALE —Six repristered Shropshire Ewes nnd four Ewe 
Lambs for $350. Elevens Iiros.« Wilson, N, Y. 
GOATS 
SWISS GOATS SVS5 $40 up 
None milking to sell. Only letters enclosing stamp 
answered. S. J. Sharpies, R. D. 5. Norristown, Pi. 
L - 
HORSES 
sale A Kentucky-Bred Mammoth Jack l^weli 
developed. I,ow price for quick sale. Inquire 
EXCELSIOR 0AIRY AND STOCK FARM. West Warren, Mass. 
Kentucky Jacks and Horses 
Big bone, Kentucky, Mammoth jacks, Percheron 
mares, mules, easy riding saddle horses. Liberty 
bonds taken. We guarantee safe delivery. 
The Cook Farms, - Dexingrton, Ky. 
PERCHERON STALLION MftiS®: 
W-inner in France and America, including the Chi¬ 
cago Int'l and many state fairs and ready to repeat. 
Dapple coal black: weight,(2,050; twelve inch bone; sure 
breeder. Harness, Saddlejand pasture broke. Kind disposi¬ 
tion; age, 12. Priced to sell. CLARENCE STOWE, R. 4, Jellenon, Ohi. 
f £,^5 Percheron Stallion 
foaled 1998; weight, 1,800. Also registered Perche¬ 
ron mare, in foal; weight. 1,600. both black. 
D. J. PHILLIPS, East Greenbush, N. Y. 
Shetland Poniesi. H S 
herd in biggest Shetland Producing County in U S. 
F OIt SALE—THREE Keg. PERCHEICON MAKES 
in foal. One imported front France. Color, black. 
For particulars write CHAS. KETKENBURG, Olar.nc. On tor, N.Y. 
cn HpoH Shetland ANI> iakejer ponies aii 
UU ncdU OllclIallU ages nnd colors. Send stamp for 
new price list. THE SHENANG0 PONY FARMS, Dept. 0, Espyville, Pa. 
SWINE 
REGISTFJIED DUROO JERSEYS 
A quality herd estab 
lished to fill the needs 
of most critical buyers 
Send for descriptive 
prices and catalog. 
Write for our 
VALUABLE BOOK 
on hog management 
••The Red Hog" Postage prepaid,25c. 
Life Immune Fall Boar and Sow Digs, capable of Regis¬ 
tration, $20. Also: Registered Bred Sows and 
Service Boars at Reasonable Prices. 
ENFIELD FARMS, Enfield, Conn. 
Auction Sale oi 
Grand Champion Stock 
Reg. Duroc-Jersey Hogs 
Finest Blood in amekica. 
Bred sows and gilts. Service boars and boar pics. 
Washington’s Birthday, Feb. 22, 19 1 9, 12.30 P. M. 
to be held on the farm. 
SWEET BRIAR FARMS. Inc., Somerville, N. 1 
35 miles*west N. Y. City on C. R. R. of N. J. 
For Sale-Excellent Purebred Red Duroc Boar 
18 mos.; 19 cents per lb. up station, and few young 
Hogs with 9-10 pigs, 2-3 wks. old; 11 pigs b> yr. All 
excellent condition. Sale out. For the Boar bis 
mother was paid $400 by Fairbanks Stock Farm 
at New. Market. V. Fabock, R. D Flemington. N. J. 
Kinderhook Registered DUROCS 
Pork is 24c but we offer breeders of the best blood lines 
selected and well-fed, on a basis < f 30c. Order a sow of 
the Chief Invincible line and she will grow to a WHALE. 
KI.MiKKIiOOK UUItOC-JEKSKI ASS’N, Box 111 KlmierliooL.N.T. 
riurnn .lorcovo 3 Spring Boars. $50 each. October 
UUruC-UBlScjS F5 oh1 - Pigs, $15 while they last. 
Spring Gllts(Bred). 2ehoiee Sows2 yrs. old in Mar. 
$l‘,45eaeh. All registered.F. B. Crawford.North East,Pa. 
ClinnvciHp liliraPG RREIf SPlil NG GlLTSand SKK* 
Sllimysiaeuurots VICK BOARS. Full pigs of our 
September Litters. JAS. 1 van AI.STYNK, Kludcrliook, N.Y. 
P__ T"\¥ ID r r 'k/"' , C! July open gilts and Sep- 
L-E U IvV-f V—O temher sow pigs. Bred 
right, grown right. LAtTHK.NCK HOWARD, kindorlmok, N.T. 
TAMWORffland HAMPShFrE SWINE 
write or visit REYNOLDS-LYDROOK FARMS COMPANY 
Successor to Wostviow Stock L'urrn 
1$. 1 \VliiNton-Sulem, N. ©• 
ForSale Reg.BigType Poland China Pigs 
Best Western blood. Shipped anywhere by Express. 
I Write for prices and let me toll you ;ihont my pigs. 
G. S. MAI.L, . Funmlule, Ohio 
Big Western Type Poland-Ghina "iTi"<u.°Duroc Swine 
Offer Bred Sows. Gilts, Service Hoars and Pigs. 
FAIKHOPE FARMS, - Berkshire, N. Y. 
“HAMPSHIRE S”fE; 
They grow over a pound a day if fed Intel ' A 
ligentlv Free circular. Guernsey Bulls, jww .flMti- 
L.OOU8T LAWN F A KM 
Box R - Bird-In Hand, Pa. ftr . ^S«Si 
JUDGING FARM ANIMALS, by C. S. 
Plumb; $2.25. A Practical Manual on this 
subject. For kale by Rural New*Yorker 
