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Vte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 1319 
The Allegany County Ayrshire Club 
WILL HOLD AN 
Auction Sale of 
50 Head of 
AYRSHIRE CATTLE 
At HORNELL, N. Y. 
on Wednesday, October 29, 1919 j 
QUALITY WILL PREDOMINATE 
Every animal has been carefully selected by an expert from NATIONAL 
AYRSHIRE HEADQUARTERS at Brandon, Vermont. 
The Catalogue tells the entire story. Mailed only on request. 
Apply to MILTON W. DAVISON, 303 Fifth Aye., New York 
Sale Committee: 
I. D. KARR, Almond M. W. DAVISON, Oanisteo 
O. W. LEWIS. Alfred J. HENRY STEWART, Kanona 
= CLOSING-OUT SALE OF AYRSHIRES= 
Mrs. Roden S. Harrison will sell at 
RODENDALE FARM, So. BILLERICA, MASS. 
Tuesday, October 21 st, 1919 
her entire herd of eighty Ayrshires 
'l'he animals are of approved dairy type, fashionable color, and are bred from heavy 
milking strains. No A. It. records have been attempted but the herd has been kept entirely 
for dairy purposes, the ability to produce largo quantities of milk being the principal aim. 
The young stock are mostly sired by Biddy's Mint Master of Wendover 1K956, a son of 
Howie’s Mint. Master 13819 Imp. and Castlemain’s Biddy 2nd 30627 (A. K. 1702), 15,438 lbs. 
milk, 681.85 lbs. fat. 
Thirty Registered Berkshires. of exceptional 
quality and breeding will also be sold. 
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OVER BO HEAD IN HERD 
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of over 100 head, we sold the top priced bull, a ten- 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration for Freshening Heifer 
I have a registered Holstein heifer due 
to freshen (first calf) in two months. 
Heifer will then be two years and five 
months of age. She is now and has been 
night and day on fine pasture, without 
other feed. She looks fine every way. 
Should she he fed grain at present? 
What is tin* best method of handling her, 
as we wish her to do her best in milk 
production? H. S. R. 
New York. 
The best results with your heifer will 
obtain in case you supplement the abund¬ 
ant forage and pasture that she is now 
grazing upon with a grain ration consist¬ 
ing of equal parts of cornmeal, ground 
oats, wheat bran and oilmeal. The 
gluten can be substituted for the oilmeal, 
yet I doubt if there is any material that 
will supplement the other products with 
as good results as oilmeal for breeding 
animals just previous to their time of 
fre honing. Even though the heifer is 
carrying considerable flesh that has been 
put eu with pasture grass, it is better 
to make this flesh firm by means of the 
ration suggested, and you will find that 
she will carry through her lactation 
period with more persistence in case the. 
llesh has been placed there by some such 
grain mixture as 1 have indicated. 
So far as the amounts are concerned, 
1 would start in with 4 lbs. of grain a 
day and increase this gradually, a quarter 
of a pound a day, until she is eating 10 
lbs. a day. I would, hold her to this 
amount lip to within 10 days of calving, 
at which time I would take away the 
cornmeal and give her equal parts of 
oats, bran and oilmeal, gradually cutting 
her down in amount during this last 10 
days, until just previous to calving she 
would have three or four pounds of grain 
a day. During the three or four days 
just following calving I would feed lier 
largely on wheat bran and oats, using 
equal parts of these two grains, gradually 
adding the oilmeal and cornmeal. until 
at the end of two or three weeks sin* 
would be back on a full ration of grain. 
It is foolish indeed to try to bring a 
heifer to her full flow of milk until she 
has freshened at least three weeks, and 
there is nothing to bn gained in forcing 
her in her yield of milk immediately fol¬ 
lowing parturition. At the end of three 
or four weeks the ration could be modi¬ 
fied so it would contain a larger percent¬ 
age of protein, especially if the cow still 
maintains her flesh, adding to the above 
ration 100 lbs. of hominy and 100 lbs. of 
gluten. 
Ration for Young Pigs 
What is the best ration for two and 
three-months-old pigs? All feed must be 
purchased, except pasture in plenty. 
East Chatham, N. Y. r. A. 
A very useful ration for pig> three 
weeks old, if sill of the feed must be pur¬ 
chased, would consist of 100 lbs. corn¬ 
meal, 100 lbs. ground oats, 100 lbs. 
ground rye and 25 lbs. digester tankage. 
If they are running on forage crops they 
would require about 8 lbs. of feed for 
each 100 lbs.' of live weight per day. 
This amount should be continued until 
the pigs weigh 125 lbs., at. which time 
they should be placed on full feed and 
given all the ground rye, to which five 
per cent of digester tankage has been 
added, that they would clean up with 
relish. 
Close Pasturing on Low Lands 
I have a young cattle pasture, one-half 
of which consists of wet land, producing 
much feed, wild grasses, rushes, and 
White clover mixed. Would it be wise, 
do you think, to pasture this land so close¬ 
ly that the wild grasses would be fully 
eaten up, or would less severe pasturing 
be desirable? There is no doubt that much 
of this land is too wet, but it appears very 
productive. Where young cattle are at 
pasture (no grain being fed) would it be 
desirable to have, say a mixture of bone- 
meal, ashes and charcoal in front of them 
a good deal of the time for them to eat? 
My cattle are Holsteins, some purebred, 
and I wish them to grow well. y. p. w. 
East Berkshire, Vt. 
You have raised a very interesting ques¬ 
tion concerning your young cattle pasture. 
I very much doubt the wisdom of pastur¬ 
ing an area as short as it. would be neces¬ 
sary to destroy these grasses, and I am 
sure your cuttle would not do well if 
forced to graze vigorously over this area 
in order to secure enough succulence to 
carry them along in good flesh. I am in¬ 
clined to believe that better results would 
follow a practice where the grass was not 
pastured too severely, and where in the 
Spring you went in, even though the 
ground was wet, and distributed a mix¬ 
ture of permanent pasture grass, say a 
combination of Sweet clover, lied clover, 
Alsike clover, meadow fescue, Red-top 
and Blue grass, with tin* hope that the 
cattle would tramp this into the ground, 
that it would germinate and that even¬ 
tually these natural grasses would choke 
out some of the troublesome weeds that 
now prevail. Of course you could not ex¬ 
pect very good results from tin* area that 
is regularly flooded and is very low: but 
the other portion of the pasture ought to 
respond surprisingly to this sort of treat¬ 
ment. If it would be possible to apply 
some lime or acid phosphate to the higher 
areas, or if it would be convenient to dis¬ 
tribute some manure on this area, you 
would ho surprised at the response that 
the area would make. So far as your 
second question is concerned, there is 
nothing to be gained by keeping bouemeal, 
wood ashes and charcoal in front of the 
cattle. It does very well for swine, but 
it is not essential with other classes of 
live stock, especially if they are pasturing 
on areas that are fairly well supplied with 
mineral matter. 
Damaged Wheat for Pigs 
I have seen so many conflicting articles 
about- the feeding of damaged wheat to 
pigs that I wish to secure direct reports 
or evidence on the subject. I am feeding 
wheat of this class, and have done so once 
before, without loss of any kind, and, in 
fact, decided profit. Possibly my method 
of feeding may be different from others, 
for there are one or two points that T 
feel to be very important. I do not grihd 
the grain or feed it in slop of any sort. 
My pigs have a choice at all times of 
damaged wheat, either in sheaf or -elf- 
feeder, tankage, water and pasture of 
rape, Soy beans, Alfalfa or corn. The 
pigs have, as you see, a choice of feed to 
balance as they wish, and do not have an 
exclusive diet of damaged grain with no 
chance.of choice. T have never had trouble 
with pigs from forage poison. c. w. A. 
Langhorne, Pa. 
There is absolutely no danger from 
feeding damaged wheat to market pigs, 
provided the system you have suggested 
is followed. The only bad results that ful 
low the feeding of damaged corn to ani¬ 
mals invariably prevails with breeding 
matrons when they are fed rye or wheat 
or other moldy grains that contain ergot. 
Brood sows are very apt to give prema¬ 
ture birth to pigs when they are fed such 
"rain during gestation, but. I have never 
known a case of injury to market pigs 
where the material has been fed as out¬ 
lined. The variety that you are supply¬ 
ing would, in itself, prevent any trouble, 
for the pigs would choose rather carefully 
their own combination of materials, and 
pigs under the free choice system very 
seldom invite indigestion or forage poison¬ 
ing. 
Goat’s Milk Butter 
Could you tell me how to make butter 
from goat’s milk? I have a goat that 
gives about two quarts of milk a day, 
and a machine to make butter that has 
a glass bottom like a preserve jar; inside 
are two paddles. We put milk in and 
turned for 30 minutes, but got no butter. 
Philadelphia, Pa. n. M. 
From your letter I understand that 
you tried to churn the whole milk. Strain 
each milking separately, preferably iu a 
shallow pan. and let stand in a moderately 
warm place for from 24 to 48 hours, until 
the cream is quite heavy. Then skim and 
set away iu a cool place until you have 
sufficient to fill your churn about one- 
half. Butter can be made successfully 
from goat’s milk, but would advise you 
to make cheese, as it is not difficult, and 
is far superior to any other American 
cheese. minard g. smith. 
Shrink in Milk 
I have a cow, Jersey-Guernsey stock, 
8 1 /*.’ years old, whose milk yield has oc¬ 
casioned me some worry. When she 
freshened in Spring she yielded 17 to 18 
qts. a day. and kept this up until about 
a month ago; thou she dropped down to 
(5 and 4 qts. a day. She has not suffered 
anything that we know of. We are feed¬ 
ing her 8 qts. of wheat middlings with 
plenty of green fodder, and she has good 
pasture with muring water. Her health 
is good and her looks all that could be 
desired. What would you suggest to rem¬ 
edy this drop in milk production? 
New York. M. B. 
Make sure that she is not sucking her¬ 
self, or being sucked by calves or milked 
by “campers.” If there is no such cause 
keep her off grass and feed cut green stuff, 
silage or roots, a mixture of wheat bran, 
ground oats, barley and corn, and some 
oilmeal. When kept out of the sun and 
away from flies she may do better. Mas¬ 
sage the udder well three times a day be¬ 
fore milking. If she does not improve 
quickly in milk flow feed her mashes of 
meals made up with hot water and black¬ 
strap molasses. A. s. A. 
The Smiths were at dinner. The sec¬ 
ond course was brought <>m and there was 
a period of silence, broken only by the 
sound of fork an*’ knife Then Smith 
looked up. “Wlm • is this?” he asked, 
pointing to the joint. “The butcher said 
it was Spring lainb,’’ replied Mrs. Smith. 
“He is right.” grunted Smith “I’ve been 
chewing one of the springs for the last 
five minutes.”—Tit-Bits. 
