ing roughage where such a succulent 
grain ration were fed, and for .practical 
purposes it might well supplement this 
feed, a« it would not be as laxative Al¬ 
falfa or clover. 
2. The same criticism as to the abuse 
of residue products applies to stale bread, 
cracker dust and mill by-products of this 
nature. It is not a question as to what 
their feeding value may be, but rather 
one of their comparative cost per ton, that 
guides many of the purchasers in select¬ 
ing their rations. Any or all of these 
products, in themselves, do not constitute 
a well-balanced or satisfactory ration. 
They should be supplemented by the staple 
grains, such as corn or oats, and. in addi¬ 
tion. their protein should be brought up 
to standard through the use of cottonseed 
or oilmeal. 
As a means of determining the amount 
of grain that should supplement the wet 
grains, I would mix cornmeal and cotton¬ 
seed in the proportion of four to two, and 
increase this amount only to such a quan¬ 
tity as will provide an increase in the 
production of milk. A great deal depends 
upon the amount of flesh that your cows 
are now carrying. If they are in high 
condition and) their coats are sleek and 
responsive, then you would not need as 
much cornmeal as I have suggested : but 
if they are thin and more or less ema¬ 
ciated, the addition of more hydrocarbon¬ 
ates to the ration would put them in bet¬ 
ter physical condition, and they would 
yield milk more abundantly. 
Scours in Calves 
I have a large number of calves which 
I am vealing; the past few days they have 
gone back on account of scours, is this 
due to feeding corn fodder to the cows 
which was a little moldy? It does not j 
seem to affect the COWS. * What can I do | 
for the calves? s. E. R. 
Pennsylvania. 
It would scarcely be possible to trace 
the condition of scours in your calves to 
the fact that the cows producing the milk 
were being fed upon moldy corn fodder. 
Usually dirty pails or excessive amounts 
of milk are responsible for scours in 
calves. Possibly you fed sweet milk at 
one feeding, and permitted the milk to 
sour or become stale before the next feed¬ 
ing. As a remedy for this condition, re¬ 
duce the amount of milk that you are 
feeding and use a tablespoonful of blood 
meal twice daily, which should be mixed 
in the milk. If you do not have the blood 
meal, give the calves a purge, using cas¬ 
tor >il, regulating the amount according 
to the size of the calf, and following this 
with the usual feeding procedure. Clean 
and whitewash the stalls, wash the soiled 
parts, tails and hindquarters with a five 
per cent solution of some coal-tar product. 
Keep the calves hungry until their system 
approaches a normal condition. 
Improving Dairy Ration 
I produce quite a lot of milk during 
the Winter. I am feeding the following 
ration: 15 bu.' oats, 2 bu. rye, ground to¬ 
gether; then I mix 800 lbs. cornmeal, 800 
lbs. bran, 400 lbs. gluten. 200 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed. My cows are looking fine, but I 
do not think they give the milk they ought 
to. For roughage I have corn silage. Al- 
sike clover hay and Timothy hay. Would 
you suggest a ration for me? B. E. s. 
Cambridge Springs, Pa. 
I see no reason why your cows should 
not milk generously on the ration you 
are feeding. It is well balanced, and. if 
you are feeding a sufficient amount of this 
mixture, they ought to respond. Make 
sure that the rye has not heated in the 
bin. and that it is not decreasing the pal- 
atability of the mixture. By giving the 
cows all the silage and Aleike clover hay 
that they will clean up, and 1 lb. of grain 
for each 4 lbs. of milk produced, they 
ought to give you good results. If you 
could replace half of the gluten meal with 
buckwheat middlings the ration would be 
slightly improved, and. unless the cattle 
were eating this mixture with evident rel¬ 
ish, I would omit the rye, at least inter¬ 
mittently. 
Sergeant : ‘Don’t you know your right 
foot from left?” Green Recruit: “Oh, 
yes, sergeant.” “Well, you started to 
march with your right foot.” “Yes. ser¬ 
geant.” “Well, didn’t you hear me say 
‘left foot, right foot’?” “Yes. sergeant. I 
heard you say it, but I didn’t get started 
till you said right foot.”—Yonkers States¬ 
man. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
579 
A Few of the Dairies Where Boys 
and Girls Operate 
HINMAN MILKERS 
Herbert Cleveland. Sugar Grove, III., 
11 -yr. boy 
Fred Galshy, Bridgewater. Conn.. 13- 
yr. girl 
Fred Heim, Wooster. Ohio, 12-yr. boy 
S. P. Hoover.Waterloo. Iowa. 13-yr. boy 
F. C. Jackson, Clayton. Ind., 16-yr. boy 
Jos. Lamb & Sons. Jamestown, Ind., 
10-yr. boy 
W. H Miner. Howell, Mich.. 12-yr. boy 
Clyde Pickworth. Eaton Rapids.Mich., 
10-yr. boy 
A. O. Reitzel,Waldo. Kansas. 11 -yr. boy 
H. E. Salsberry. Wauseon. Ohio. 12-yr. 
boy 
J. H. Simon, Eagle Bend. Minn., 12-yr. 
girl 
Geo. R. Sinclair, Fenwick. Mich.. 14- 
yr. boy 
Frank H. Taylor. Morrisville. N. Y., 
12-yr. girl 
R. S. Walters, Homerville. Ohio, boy 
P. W. Windle, Mt. Morris. III., 8 and 
7-yr. boy and girl 
Charles Beal, Morenci. Mich., 12-yr. girl 
M. W. Buzby, Woodstown. N. J., II- 
yr. boy 
L. G. Daniels, Glencoe, Ohio, 8-yr. boy 
P. E. Donnell. Waco, Mo., two girls 
J. Faust, Jr.. Hubbard, Iowa, I l-yr. boy 
Stella Haberkamp, Gamer, Iowa, 12- 
yr. girl 
G. A. Hogg.Thamesford. Ont.. 10-yr. boy 
L. Z. Hurt, Okolana, Miss., 16-yr. boy 
Ruth Jenkins, Tulare. Cal., 1 l-yr. girl 
W. F. Kingsbury, Fenwich. Mich. 8-yr. 
boy 
G. Lake, Owosso, Mich. 15-yr. boy 
G. Moser, Castalia. Ohio, girl 
Manning Ogden, Chattanooga, Tenn., 
10-yr. boy 
W. A. Plastridge, Eaton Rapids. Mich., 
boy 
H. Polmatur, Belmond, Iowa, two girls 
C. Rohrer, Seville, Ohio, 12-yr. girl 
A. J. Scarlett, West Boylson, M ass.. 
16-yr. boy 
J. EL Sharpe. Hudson, Mich., 10 and 
12-yr. boys 
EL L. Stone, Oklahoma City, Okla., 
two girls 
M. Sorenson,Williston, N. D., 10-yr. boy 
H. F. Thomas,Waverly, Iowa, 9-yr. boy 
F. C. Throof, Lansing, Mich., 12-yr. boy 
A. F. Wallace. Los Molinos. CaL. 12- 
yr. boy 
W. A. Wilkenson, Tama, Iowa, boy 
John Wittioar. Louisville. Ky., 8-yr. boy 
John Bruhn. Miles, Iowa, 13-yr. boy 
Hagbarth Bue, Northfield, Minn., 17- 
yr. boy 
EL H. Cook. Saline. Mich., 12-yr. boy 
E. M. Fadden, Lyndon. III.. 10-yr. boy 
F. EL Fox, Perrysburg, Ohio. 12-yr. boy 
A. D. Gilson. Hebron. Ind., I l-yr. boy 
Geo. G. Goetsch, Cylinder. Iowa, 9-yr. 
boy 
H. S. Hale. Grover Hill, Ohio. 14-yr. boy 
R. L. Hixson, Cedarville, Ohio 
W. EL Johnson, Owen Sound, Ont., 14- 
yr. boy 
Joe Keddle. Howell. Mich., 10-yr. boy 
Alfred Leroux. Somers, Conn., 15-yr. 
boy 
Fred Manke, Owatonna. Minn., 11 and 
12- yT. girls 
Alfred H. Monke, Dundee. Mich.. 9 and 
13- yr. boys 
Quinlan Bros., Pickering, Ont., 12-yr. 
boy 
I. M. Taylor, Kemptville, Ont., I l-yr. 
boy 
Paul Topal. Postville, Iowa, I l-yr. boy 
F. B. Vensel. Eden Prairie. Minn., 12- 
yr. boy 
Derby R. Wallace. Oakland, Cal., boy 
This is not unusual. There are 
many boys and girls who are doing 
the milking all alone with Hinman 
Milkers. A few of their names are 
shown at the left. From all reports, 
without exception, they now like to 
milk the cows, because of the ease 
and speed with which the Hinman 
helps them. 
The father of the little girl above 
writes this: 
There is absolutely no complex 
mechanism to the Hinman. Every¬ 
thing works automatically. The in¬ 
dividual pump, that applies its vac¬ 
uum to the teats gradually, soothingly, 
the very simple valve-chamber in 
the pail and the teat cups, correctly 
shaped to support the teats and 
made in different sizes to properly 
fit cows with different sized teats— 
that’s all there is to the Hinman 
besides the power! 
The Hinman will save you a great 
deal of valuable time. Its simplicity 
makes it absolutely dependable —you 
can count on it working right day 
after day, year after year, for a good, 
long period. It will produce cleaner 
milk. It will improve the cows. It 
often increases the milk flow. It will 
milk all sorts of cows—the nervous, 
the gentle, the hard, the easy, and 
cows with uneven udders, etc. 
Marshfield, Wis. 
Gentlemen: 
We are using the Hinman Milker 
operated by Electric Light Motor 
and like it very much. 
My daughter, Gladys Fredericksen, 
who is twelve years old, milks the 
cows in about twenty-five minutes, 
using two units. Without any assist¬ 
ance she starts the outfit and stops 
it when through milking. 
Some of my cows had caked ud¬ 
ders, but the Hinman soon brought 
them around all right. The cows 
seem to like the machine better 
than hand milking. 
I think the Hinman Milker beats 
them all — anyway I know it beats 
hand milking. 
James Fredericksen. 
Why be without an equipment that 
offers you so many proven advan¬ 
tages? The price of the simple Hin¬ 
man is not high. If ever an expend¬ 
iture on the farm were justified, it’s 
for putting in Hinman Milker equip¬ 
ment! You need it twice a day, every 
day —and it will pay for itself in a 
short time! 
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Think of the difference! Where it 
used to take a man an hour to milk 
8 to 10 cows, a little girl can milk 12 
in less than half that time! And, 
because the Hinman is so easy on 
the cows and milks so uniformly, the 
little girl’s way is better for them than 
hand milking. 
The reason so many boys and 
girls are successfully operating Hin¬ 
man Milkers is because they are so 
very simple —so easy to understand. 
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