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The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Give Cows More Freedom 
Theyil Give You More Milk 
Long ago shrewd farmers and dairymen found out that cows cannot 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Handling Ugly Bull 
I have a bull that I want to load on 
the ear. As be has never been handled 
any, running in yard, and showing ugly 
disposition., could you suggest a safe plan, 
so that he could be led? He has no ring 
in his nose. G. t. s. 
You could probably handle the bull in 
question by leading a cow or two into the 
car and permitting the bull to follow. 
Usually if he has been confined and has 
been used regularly for breeding purposes 
he will be attracted by the cow and will 
not annoy anyone. Turn him out into the 
yard and let him have an abundance of 
exercise previous to starting the journey. 
It is indeed difficult to rope a hull in such 
a way as to control him, and, if he has 
never been led by the staff, it would not 
he good judgment to put a ring in his 
nose at this late day. After he is once 
in the car it would be a simple matter to 
partition off one end of the car, and then 
a rope around the bull’s neck, fastened 
securely to the sides of the car, would 
make it possible to ship him to his destin¬ 
ation without a great deal of difficulty. I 
recall an instance when one of our bulls 
became unmanageable, broke out of his 
yard and undertook to disturb the peace. 
We immediately turned out two or three 
cows, which attracted him, and he fol¬ 
lowed them hack into the barn and made 
it possible for us to get him into his own 
stall without any difficulty whatsoever. 
It is worth a trial in any event. Strang¬ 
ers are very apt 'to annoy bulls, and often 
one man on horseback can accomplish 
much in controlling them. 
Poor Dairy Ration 
I have Holsteius and I am feeding 1 lh. 
of grain to 3 lbs. milk, of the following 
grain ration : 100 lbs. Buffalo gluten, 100 
lbs. barley middlings, with good Timothy 
hay, three, times a day. I have no silo, 
but have bought one for this year. What 
should I mix with the grain I am feeding, 
as I don't seem to get the milk I think I 
should. Would dried beet pulp be any 
benefit to the cows, and how is it fed? 
Greig. N. Y. n. c. B. 
The ration that you are feeding is not 
well suited to milk production. Equal parts 
of Buffalo gluten and barley middlings, 
first of all, would make a ration too con¬ 
centrated. and this, supplementing Tim¬ 
othy hay, would not satisfy, nor nourish, 
even, a modern milking animal. I would 
suggest the following: 200 lbs. corumeal 
or hominy, 100 lbs. of barley mid¬ 
dlings, 100 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs. glu¬ 
ten and 50 lbs. of oil meal. If you wish 
to use some beet pulp, 4 or 5 lbs. of water 
will saturate 1. lb. of beet pulp, and 20 
lbs. of this moistened material would in¬ 
crease very materially the amount of milk 
that your cows would produce. It would 
he a distinct advantage in supplementing 
the ration that I have suggested, and if 
you will feed your animals in addition all 
the roughage that they will clean up 
with relish. I have every reason to believe 
that your production would be materially 
increased. 
Permanent Pasture Mixture 
We would like to get a little informa¬ 
tion about seeding a lot, now growing to 
rye, with a permanent pasture mixture. 
The soil is light and gravelly, and one- 
half was limed before the rye was sown. 
We would like to sow the mixture this 
Spring. If practicable, what variety of 
grasses are best suited to this kind of 
soil? How much is required to cover 
about nine acres? D. B. 
Niverville, X. Y. 
I very much doubt the wisdom of at¬ 
tempting to establish a permanent mead¬ 
ow iu an area now seeded with Winter 
rye, unless you plowed under the rye as 
a cover crop early in the Spring, when 
it is eight or nine inches high, and then 
seeded the area with oats and the grass 
mixture. In this event I would use 2 
bushels of oats per acre, and would also 
seed 24 lbs. of a mixture, per acre, made 
up of 12 lbs. Timothy, 0 lbs. Alsike. 3 lbs. 
Red clover, 2 lbs. Alfalfa. 1 lb. White 
clover. I have included Alsike clover be¬ 
cause this is less expensive than Red 
Clover, and I thoroughly believe that a 
mixture of grass seeds lias many advan¬ 
tages over any single variety. By multi¬ 
plying the above amounts by nine you can 
easily determine the amount of seed to 
purchase for seeding the nine acres. 
Fattening Pigs for Home Use 
I am getting two young pigs, which 
have been properly weaned, that I should 
like to raise solely for the purpose of 
killing next Fall, and about the raising 
of which I know nothing. I have been 
advised to use the self-feeder, containing 
whole corn, middlings and tankage in 
separate compartments and allowing the 
animals to choose for themselves. Of 
course I would prefer feeding in this way 
as it would be less trouble. Will you 
advise me if y u think well of this, which 
of course is a steady diet of these three 
things from weaning time to that of kill¬ 
ing? Should pigs he given water to 
drink, especially if they have dry food 
like the above-mentioned? Perhaps you 
can suggest what in your estimation is 
a better manner of feeding, one that will 
produce a large rangy growth and then 
a fattening one. In other words, will 
you tell me a simple method of how and 
wliat to feed, from eight weeks to killing 
time? I will be unable to provide any 
garbage, and while I have a wire en¬ 
closure for pigs to run in. it is of cinders, 
and will not grow a forage crop, but will 
he able to supply some green food in the 
line of grass, a little clover and a small 
amount of what I believe to be a wild 
Alfalfa, but in all principally grass; no 
skim-milk. c. F. ir. 
New Jersey. 
Pigs intended for home consumption 
can he reared iu the way you suggest, 
and the self-feeder would, no doubt, 
economize iu labor and would insure a 
short fattening period. There are many 
advantages in keeping a pig growing and 
gaining from the time of its birth. Al¬ 
though the use of the self-feeder is very 
apt to yield a carcass possessing more 
fat and lard than would obtain in case 
the animal had access to forage crops 
and it was possible to develop more size 
and stretch during his growing period, 
nevertheless the meat would he more de¬ 
sirable in case the flesh were rapidly 
formed, and you would gain in time more 
than enough to make up for the decreased 
size. By all means pigs having access to 
the self-feeder should be generously sup¬ 
plied with fresh water. If they are con¬ 
fined in small yards any of the self¬ 
watering devices that operate with a float 
may be used, preferably attached to a 
barrel, and the barrel should he kept full 
of fresh water. 
Do not mix the corn, middlings and 
tankage that are to be placed in the 
feeding hopper. Rather put the tankage 
in one compartment, the middlings in 
another, and the corn in still another. 
In addition to the concentrates let them 
have free access to what is generally 
termed a mineral mixture, resulting from 
the mixing in equal parts of salt, char¬ 
coal, ground limestone and hone meal, 
and placing this mixture in still another 
compartment of the hopper. Keep the 
hopper supplied with the concentrates at 
all times, thus permitting the pig to 
choose his own quantity and his own com¬ 
bination of the materials used. 
After the pigs reach a weight of 100 
pounds the middlings can be taken from 
the hopper, and the pig will thereafter 
fatten on corn and tankage. It is not 
necessary to use any garbage or kitchen 
refuse of any sort, and you will find that 
normal pigs under these conditions will 
gain at least a pound a day after they 
reach a weight of 40 pounds, and after 
they reach 100 pounds they will gain 
considerably more than a pound a day. 
They should be slaughtered when they 
reach a weight of 250 or 300 pounds, 
although it must he remembered that the 
final 100 pounds, even under these con¬ 
ditions, is quite as expensive as the first 
200 pounds. 
Keep the pen dry, offer the pigs pro¬ 
tection from the direct rays of the sun. 
make sure that they do not become in¬ 
fested with external parasites by brush¬ 
ing over their coats occasionally with 
crude oil applied by means of a rice-root 
brush. The clippings from the lawn, to¬ 
gether with refuse material from the gar¬ 
den. would he welcome, as it would add 
variety and succulence. Plans outlining 
the construction of a useful self-feeder 
can he obtained by addressing the Bulle¬ 
tin Department of the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion at New Brunswick, N. J. 
