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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 23, 1919 
What would two extra quarts of milk per day 
from every cow mean to you in dollars and cents at the 
end of the year? No matter what the size of your herd, this 
would run into big money. And you can get these extra profits 
by feeding your cows International Special Dairy Feed. Two 
extra quarts of milk per day isn’t unusual — hundreds of dairy¬ 
men say it is a common occurrence for them. 
Does It Pay to Feed High-priced Fee-fs? 
While stopping in the feed store in the 
city to get my usual order of poultry feed, 
the feed man remarked: “You seem to 
get results from feeding even if the prices 
are high. It always seems strange to me 
that, as soon as prices of feed go up, a 
lot of farmers begin to cut down on the. 
amount used, and some even quit en¬ 
tirely and let the hens scratch and pick 
for a living.” 
“Yes,” I remarked, “and their hens lay 
just about in proportion to the way they 
are fed.” 
“That reminds me,” said the feed man, 
“of a little experience I had a few days 
ago with one of the big farmers. lie came 
in to inquire about feeds, and remarked 
that he had about 100 hens, and they were 
giving him only an average of five or six 
eggs daily. I told him what I had in the 
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best prices. Then he thought a minute 
and ejaculated. ‘No, I won’t feed them at 
those prices. I’ll let them pick their liv¬ 
ing first.’ ” 
This little incident set me to thinking. 
“Why don’t farmers’ flocks generally pay 
in midsummer?” The conditions on the 
farm are all favorable for a Y>t’ofitable egg 
yield unless it is the one of liberal feed¬ 
ing. The farmer just referred to, who 
wouldn’t use high-priced feeds, had one 
of the best markets in the State. A Sum¬ 
mer resort town, that always pays a little 
above the market price in other nearby 
cities, offered a good market for more 
strictly fresh* eggs than the surrounding 
farms afforded. 
I at once thought, “I wonder if my 
high-priced feeds are returning a profit 
through the hen channel,” and I began 
to nse the pencil right vigorously. I found 
that my mash mixture was costing me 
$3.62 per cwt.. and that 500 lbs. lasted 
just about 20 days for monthly average of 
150 hens. This made an expense of 
$27.10 per month for dry mash. In ad¬ 
dition I found I was feeding the laying 
flock eight bushels of oats per month, 
which were costing 93c, or $7.64, and 200 
lbs. of scratch grains, costing $9.50. Be¬ 
sides the regular feeds there was 100 lbs. 
of shell a month, costing $1.25. This 
made the total $45.29 for a full month. 
Now, what about July eggs? At the 
; present rate of production (now July 21) 
the flock will average better than six 
dozen per day, although six or eight have 
I been or will be “potted” because they 
don’t know enough to wait till cold weath¬ 
er before shedding their outer garments. 
If my yield holds up to just six dozen per 
day it will mean 186 dozen for the month. 
Our selling price since July 10 has been 
60c per dozen wholesale, and they are 
sure to go to 65c before August 1. The 
average price for July will therefore not 
be under 60c. This will give us total re¬ 
ceipts of $111.60, leaving a net income 
of $66.31 to cover care and interest on in¬ 
vestment. 
But someone may say, “You are only 
estimating ou the basis of a part of a 
month.” On looking over my accounts I 
find our actual sales (less eggs used by 
the family) are $73.27 for the first 20 
days of July. The better price fi r the 
last part of the mouth will surely keep 
the average income up to that of the first 
20 days. Based on these actual sales for 
the first 20 days of July, I find a daily 
average of $3.66, which for 31 days would 
give $112.40, This will leave net receipts 
of $67.11 for the month—even better than 
the first estimate. c. s. piielps. 
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Feeding for Better Cream 
Will you give me a dairy ration for 
grade Jerseys and Guernseys? I am feed¬ 
ing them three parts bran, three parts 
crushed oats, three parts cornmeal, two* 
parts gluten; have salt available at all 
times. I am feeding them all the green 
oats they will clean up morning and night, 
but will change to green fodder corn 
(Southern Horsetooth). Our pasture is 
poor. The cream is thin; how can I im¬ 
prove it? N. P. P. 
Great Neck, N. Y, 
Your ration would he improved by mak¬ 
ing it 200 lbs. bran, 150 lbs. crushed oats, 
300 lbs. cornmeal, 200 lbs. gluten feed and 
100 lbs. cottonseed meal. If pasture is 
poor you will ueed to grain cows about 
same as in Winter. I note you mention 
that the cream is thiu. You cannot make 
it any thicker by changing the feed. If 
you are using a gravity method of skim¬ 
ming, one of the reason why you note 
that the cream is thinner than in the 
Winter or Spring is that the milk does 
not reach as low a temperature while the 
cream is rising as it does in cold weather. 
Then again, milk naturally tests some¬ 
what lower in butterfat at this season of 
the year. If you happen to be using a 
separator you can, of course, set the 
cream or skim-milk screw, to give you 
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Is fresh buttermilk, churned from sour 
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1 Fresh buttermilk, from either sweet 
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