The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
705 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
A Business Record Cow 
I am sending you a picture of my Jer¬ 
sey cow (see below), and thought the 
following record of her would be of inter¬ 
est. Before the war she was simply a 
family cow, but since then she has done 
her bit, and during her milking period 
last season eight families besides our own 
were supplied daily with milk, and there 
still being a surplus of milk for part of 
the milking period, the young chicks and 
pigs received this. The milk sold for 14 
cents a quart, delivered, and she showed 
a profit of .$240 over and above grain 
cost for the year. The milk consumed at 
home was not taken account of in money, 
but. was taken in pay for the labor of at¬ 
tending cow, and the manure to her credit 
was balanced by the hay she consumed. 
She freshened February 1, 1919, and is 
now. supplying nine families besides our 
own, and a small surplus to the milkman, 
and over 100 chicks also depend upon her 
for a quart of sour milk daily. This cow 
is in her eighth year, and from an imiiort- 
Tollman Sweets. Would the hogs do well 
enough on this acre without sowing a 
crop? I may have a few pigs also in it. 
but I do not plan to keep anything but 
the sows and my one pig for pork. ' 
New Jersey. i. b. m. 
I have never had any difficulty in get¬ 
ting hogs to eat rape. However, there 
are many advantages in seeding a variety 
of forage crops; for instance, oats, Dwarf 
Essex rape, and some of the clovers, 
simply because they are companion crops, 
and it appears that hogs prefer a variety 
of forage rather than any one type. In¬ 
stances are reported where white hogs 
blister rather severely when foraging in 
rape fields, especially when the pigs are 
turned into a field when the plants are 
wet following rain or a heavy dew. If 
the rape is seeded in rows 1G or 18 inches 
apart the yield, per acre, is substantially 
greater than where it is broadcast and 
it is probable that your seeding of rape 
was so heavy and the plants were so 
numerous that they failed to develop an 
A First-class Registered Family Coto 
ed dam ; of course she is registered, and 
my only regret is that I have received but 
one heifer calf from her. 
Connecticut, b. m. l. quackenbusii. 
Buckwheat and Corn for Fresh Cows 
Can I make any kind of a balanced 
ration for fresh cows out of buckwheat 
and corn oil the cob ground together, and 
what parts should I use of each? If not, 
what other feeds should I use with it? 
I raised buckwheat and corn on the cob. 
I can buy any other kind of feed I want. 
Are potatoes of any value for fresh cows? 
Pennsylvania. h. b. 
You can use ground buckwheat and 
ground corn-and-eob meal as a basis for 
a ration for fresh cows, and the mixture 
should lie as follows: GOO pounds of 
ground buckwheat, 400 pounds of corn- 
and-eob meal: 250 pounds of cottonseed 
or oilmeal. I would feed one pound of 
this mixture for each three pounds of 
milk per day, depending of course upon 
the condition of the cows and the amount 
of milk that they are producing. Potatoes 
will not replace silage in a ration, but 
they will supplement succulence, and 
should be rated as an appetizer rather 
than a real source of food nutrient. I 
would not feed over 15 pounds of potatoes 
per cow per day, and they should be 
pulped or cut. especially if they are small, 
to avoid choking. Give the cows all the 
roughage that they will clean up once 
or twice daily. Buckwheat is particularly 
well suited for feeding dairy cows, and in 
the combination suggested it will make a 
very satisfactory ration. 
Rape for Hogs 
I would like to ask a few questions 
about rape for hogs. I have put it in 
two years, but it has not done well, and 
my man is most opposed to sowing it 
again this year, saying the hogs will not 
eat it if they can get anything else. They 
did seem to prefer a little patch of grass 
at one end of the field to what rape there 
was in the enclosure. They were three 
brood sows, and had two good feeds of 
slop a day. There is no water in the 
field, hut several apple trees, and except 
for the lack of water it was an ideal 
field for hogs, there being plenty of shade 
and a breeze if one was Stirring any¬ 
where. It is a fact the hogs did not seem 
to care for the rape. They were always 
to be found over in the grass. The field 
is about an acre. Possibly they had too 
much forage. I had the rape sown broad¬ 
cast, after the field had been manured, 
but no fertilizer. I am thinking of mov¬ 
ing the pigs a little farther into the or¬ 
chard and putting this old rape field into 
corn. Would I need to sow any forage 
crop in the orchard? The pasture is 
poorer than for cows, but there are about 
a dozen apple trees in it—40-year-old 
attractive flavor owing to a scarcity of 
plant food in the soil. If you are in¬ 
terested in the combination seeding, six 
pounds of Dwarf Essex rape is sufficient 
in combination with a bushel of oats, and 
six pounds of clover. This will establish 
a useful seed bed. I am inclined to be¬ 
lieve that there would be many advan¬ 
tages in plowing between the ' rows of 
trees in your orchard and seeding some 
forage crop of this sort, as it will in¬ 
crease the yield and do no harm to the 
trees. 
It must be remembered that hogs hav¬ 
ing access to a self-feeder, or being gen¬ 
erously supplied with slop or feed, will 
naturally omit much foraging, for they 
prefer to eat their feed out of a trough 
rather than gather it from a field. The 
Dwarf Essex rape is the best suited for 
swine pastures, the ordinary bird seed 
type not being palatable or satisfying. 
If you do not care to put in the oats try 
a mixture made up of five pounds of 
Dwarf Essex rape, five pounds of Red 
clover and half a bushel of Soy beaus. 
It would be well to use some white bloom¬ 
ing sweet clover with the mixture to the 
extent of five or eight pounds and gen¬ 
erally much is to be gained by utilizing 
a variety of such seeds. 
Feeding Brood Sows 
I have three hogs that will farrow in 
a few days. What feed would be best 
for them to have to give milk and keep 
pigs in good condition? I can get ground 
oats, meal, bran middlings, mixed feed, 
bran, cottonseed, gluten, oilmeal. I 
usually feed about four quarts of grain 
per day to start with, and increase until 
they get nine quarts by the third week. 
\\ hitefield, Me n. c. B. 
A mixture of equal parts of brown 
middlings, ground oats and cornmeal, to 
which has been added about five per cent 
of either oilmeal or tankage, will satisfy 
brood sows nursing pigs and enable the 
youngsters to grow regularly and rapidly. 
It would be appropriate to limit the 
amount of feed that the brood sows might 
consume until the pigs were three or four 
weeks old, and at this age the sow’s ration 
should be increased until she is practically 
on lull feed, that is. until she is given all 
of the grain twice a day that she will 
clean up with relish. This system of 
feeding should be continued until the pigs 
are eight or nine weeks old and ready 
to wean, at which time the grain ration 
should be taken from the brood sow. and 
she should be dried up and preferably 
turned out to forage crop and flushed, 
preparatory to Fall mating. You could 
use a self-feeder after the pigs were three 
or four weeks old, and this has its ad¬ 
vantages. inasmuch as the pigs are en¬ 
couraged to eat some grain, and weaning 
is more easily accomplished if they are 
taking some solid food while weaning. 
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