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liar. Bran and middlings, while excellent 
feed for brood sows under certain condi¬ 
tions, are very apt to produce constipation 
luring the time that they are idle and 
»vhen they spend a good deal of their time 
in their nests. I like to use some oilmeal 
or digester tankage just previous to far¬ 
rowing, for this regulates the system and 
makes sure that the protein is in such 
form as is easily digested and easily 
transferred into fluid essential for milk 
production. 
Fence for Hog Pasture 
1. Will you furnish me with dimen¬ 
sions and form of construction of hurdles 
which may be list'd when pasturing hogs 
on rape, etc. ? 2. IIow small a fodder cutter 
is practical with two horses and one cow 
to feed? A TVj horsepower engine would 
be the motive power. .‘1. I find it is the 
custom here to top and strip fodder and 
then stack it. Stalks later cut for feed 
or cut and turned under. A few cut 
and shock their corn, but the first way 
makes easier feeding, though it multiplies 
the operations. Very few barns to stow 
fodder. If all your fodder ripens at once 
and you cannot get labor to top and strip, 
you lose the fodder. Would it not be 
best to shock it and then as you husk 
run the fodder through the cutter? I 
have no barn, but use brooder houses at 
that time of the year to store feed, etc. 
Virginia. a. r. 
1. The use of a 20-inch woven wire 
hog fence, even though only temporarily 
constructed, would give better results and 
would be less expensive than hurdles for 
confining pigs to an area of rape intended 
for pasture. It is almost impossible to 
build hurdles that can be moved conven¬ 
iently without making them so heavy that 
they can scarcely be handled, and when 
completed they are expensive and cum¬ 
bersome. The 26-inch woven wire fence 
can be stretched and supported by stakes 
and short posts and is much more practi- i 
cable than hurdles. 
2. In case you keep only two horses j 
and one cow it would not be necessary to ; 
install a very large fodder cutter. A ! 
hand machine could be attached to a half 
horsepower engine and the results would 
be satisfactory. I think, however, that 
with a band machine you could cut 
enough for three head of livestock with¬ 
out utilizing the motor power. 
3. In certain sections of the South it 
is the practice to strip the tops of corn¬ 
stalks and use them as fodder. It is 
claimed that this system makes it possible 
to secure clear, bright fodder, and opens 
up the field so that the standing corn 
ripens and hardens more quickly, and it. 
is claimed that husking is simplified where 
the tops of the stalks have been removed. 
I have no doubt that this practice is an 
expensive one and feel that, if a variety 
of corn is selected that will mature with¬ 
in the district, there are a number of ad¬ 
vantages in deferring the cutting until 
the entire stalks can be cut and placed 
in the shock. Your plan is a feasible 
one, and the husking can be deferred un¬ 
til the corn can complete its ripening in 
the shock, and the fodder will be quite 
as palatable and equally as useful in case 
it was run through the cutter as you 
state. 
Buckwheat for Swine and Cows 
Is buckwheat a desirable feed for grow¬ 
ing shotes and brood sows? I have a 
quantity on hand, with a small percentage 
of oats mixed in. which spods sale. Price 
is very low. and no ready market. I am 
feeding ground oats to shotes at present. 
Would buckwheat ground with the oats 
make good ration, and what proportions, 
or should other grain be added? Is whole 
buckwheat desirable in grain ration for 
cows? K. c. c. 
New York. 
Ground buckwheat is not as well adapt¬ 
ed to feeding swine as it is for feeding 
dairy cattle, for instances are not uncom- 
mon where the buckwheat hulls have ! 
caused more or less irritation in the iu- 
testines where the material has been fed 
in generous quantities. However, if you 
have this material on hand, and provided 
it could be ground fine enough, it could 
be used in feeding swine where it is mixed 
with oats, cornmeal and digester tankage. 
A useful combination for shotes would be: 
Cornmeal. 200 lbs.; ground buckwheat, 
100 lbs. ; ground oats. 75 lbs., and diges¬ 
ter tankage, 20 lbs. For brood sows the 
ration should be: Ground oats, 200 lbs.; 
grouifd buckwheat, 100 lbs.; cornmeal, 
100 lbs., and digester tankage. 25 lbs. 
Ground oats alone are not well adapted 
for feeding pigw, and even though it is not 
possible or practicable to buy the corn or 
hominy meal, a mixture of equal parts of 
buckwheat and oats, with 5 per cent of 
digester tankage added, could be used to 
advantage in feeding brood sows. 
Buckwheat will serve its best purpose 
in a ration for dairy cows, and I would 
use it generously in the mixture, for it is 
low in price and relatively high in feeding 
value. It could safely constitute as much 
as 30 per cent of a ration where oats, 
cornmeal and oilmeal were the other in¬ 
gredients. 
‘"You were blackballed, old fellow. Yet 
I didn’t think you had an enemy in the 
club ’’ ‘T have my suspicions,” said the 
blackballed one darkly. “My wife be¬ 
longs to that club. We have three chil¬ 
dren and somebody has got to stay home 
nights.”—Louisville Courier-Journal* 
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