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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November. 1 , 1 f> 10 
Every bag of TI-O-GA Dairy Feed carries with it a 
practical, scientific service for the dairyman and each one 
contains the nutrients to form a balanced ration with 
available roughage grown on the farm with which it is in¬ 
tended to be used. 
The available nutrients in home grown roughage are as 
valuable as those purchased in the grain ration and the best 
profit in dairying is in the saving effected by their proper use. 
Freemartins 
We have a valuable registered Holsteiu 
cow which has given birth to twin calves, 
a bull and a heifer. Several persons have 
told us the heifer will not breed, and one 
dealer in registered stock says neither 
I calf is any good. Is this true? Is there 
any chance the heifer will ever breed? 
C. D. w. 
It is not uncommon for cows to produce 
I twin calves. Oftentimes both are fnales, 
or both may be females, or they may he 
as you Lave indicated, one male and one 
female. In the last case, the heifer is 
known as a freemartiu. It is unusual 
for a freemartiu heifer to mate regularly, 
if at all, and it has become a general 
practice of breeders to discard calves of 
$9 a ton. It must be admitted, however, 
that sugar beets are even more palatable 
than silae* 1 inasmuch as they contain 
only natural rather than fermented 
juices. It would seem, therefore, appro¬ 
priate to suggest that if silage is worth 
from $8 to $10 per ton in the silo, sugar 
beets should be worth from $0 to $8 a 
ton in the pit. 
The Cow and the Woman 
I bought a young Guernsey cow a year 
ago with her first calf. She is due to 
freshen again in December. She is a poor 
milker; she never gave more than nine 
quarts of milk a day when fresh. Do you 
think she will milk more when she fresh¬ 
ens this time? She is very wicked; ever 
since we had her I never could milk her, 
only with my husband standing at her 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
With Every 
Ba4 of Ti-o-ga Feed 
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high and others low in protein, it is impossible for any one 
feed to form a balanced ration with more than one class 
of roughage. 
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Milking Shorthorn Cow Red Rose 
such mating. Nevertheless, instances are 
frequently reported where twins, one of 
them being a heifer, have proved to be 
regular and responsible breeders. How¬ 
ever, you would be taking chances in rear¬ 
ing such a calf, and the preponderance of 
evidence justifies the suggestion that you 
would be wise in not raising this calf 
for mating purposes. As far as the bull 
is concerned, there appear to be no ir¬ 
regularities that would warrant his being 
discarded for breeding purposes, because 
he was born a twin. Where both of the 
calves are females, they can be maintained 
for breeding purposes, and usually they 
can be depended upon to produce calves. 
Winter Ration for Guernsey 
I was much interested in the ration for 
Guernseys on page 1390, and find it a 
satisfactory ration. I would like a ration 
for Winter with oats and one without 
oats. My hay is mostly clover and mixed 
grasses. A - w * c - 
New York. 
head. She would kill me if she could 
reach me. She is a lovely animal and I 
hate to sell her. Do you think she will 
get over her mad feeling towards me? 
She hates a woman : with men she is all 
right. I feel so bad : she is my first cow, 
and I am very disappointed. w. v. 
As a general thing a cow will give more 
milk with her second calf, and perhaps 
this may prove true with this cow. The 
chances are that she would give more milk 
if handled and milked by a mail. Her 
‘■meanness'’ when milked by a woman is 
evidently due to some nervous trouble or 
prejudice which she has acquired. We 
have seen cows which seem to be uneasy 
whenever a woman appeared around 
them, while in other cases the cows do 
much better when handled and milked by 
women. As a rule, it seldom pays to fuss 
or play with such an animal when it 
shows such a tendency to bad temper. 
This trouble is often hereditary, and can¬ 
not be cured when the cow has evidently 
made up her mind to be mean. As a rule 
such a cow is not desirable for breeding 
purposes, unless she is an exceptionally 
good one, or for other reasons a different 
cow cauuot be substituted. 
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Weaving and Tongue Lolling 
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roughages or feeds, other thau the clover 
and mixed coarse hay, and the only grain 
you mention is oats. It must be assumed, 
therefore, that you have neither silage 
nor mangel beets, and the following ration 
for Guernsey cows is submitted on that 
basis: Hominy meal, 200 lbs.; cornmeal, 
200 lbs.; gluten meal, 200 lbs.; cotton¬ 
seed meal, 100 lbs.; ground oats. 400 lbs. 
Without the oats. I would use the same 
combination, adding 100 lbs. wheat bran 
and 200 lbs. buckwheat middlings. No 
doubt your flow of milk would be in¬ 
creased if you had some moistened beet 
pulp, say 5 lbs. per day of the dry ma¬ 
terial. which would make 15 or 18 lbs. of 
the moistened material, for a. cow giving 
as much as 25 lbs. of milk. I should feed, 
in addition, all of the clover hay that the 
cows will clean up twice daily, and un¬ 
less the mixed hay was incorporated with 
the clover hay, I should feed this spar¬ 
ingly during the middle of the day. Corn 
fodder would perhaps be better thau the 
poorer grade of hay you mention. 
Feeding Value of Sugar Beets 
What price can a farmer afford to pay 
for sugar beets for cows? K. T. 
Shelburne. Yt. 
One ton of sugar beets carries 280 lbs. 
of digestible nutrients, as compared with 
354 lbs. for corn silage or 334 lbs. for 
wet brewers’ grains. Figuring corn silage 
at $10 a ton, 100 lbs. of digestible nutri¬ 
ents would cost $2.82. Figuring sugar 
beets at $8 a ton. 100 lbs. of digestible 
nutrients would cost $2.86, as compared 
with $2.69 for 100 lbs. of digestible nu¬ 
trients in wet brewers’ grains rated at 
I have two horses, four and five years 
old. that don’t seem right. They both 
often give a short cough while at work 
or in the stable. One of them does not 
stand work in warm weather and is in¬ 
clined to weave when standing. The other 
horse has a had habit of running his 
tongue out. or holding it out. and flapping 
his under lip. He also swings his head 
around and down a great deal. I would 
like to know the cause of this trouble and 
a remedy for it. F. B. H. 
Ohio. 
“Weaving” is considered a habit or vice 
and in incurable. It no doubt is due to 
idleness, or is contracted when the horse 
it too much confined to the stall, during 
which time he learns to pull the sinker 
or chain of the halter up and down in the 
staple or ring. The habit also may be 
learned by imitation. We regard it as 
an evidence of the “call of the wild” in 
horses, and it is just like the swinging 
back and forward of a caged bear or 
other wild animal. We suspect that your 
horses are cribbers and wind-suckers, and 
that would explain the noise you hear. 
Such horses usually are “hard keepers” 
and look thin and harsh in the coat. 
Worms cause similar emaciation and lack 
of thrift. If worms are seen in the feces 
medicine will have to be given for their 
destruction. In some cases a horse is a 
“tongue-sucker,” and that is but a form 
of wind-sucking, also called '‘stump-suck¬ 
ing.'' It is an incurable vice, hut tem¬ 
porarily may be prevented by buckling 
a wide strap fairly tight around the neck 
,i”st behind the throat-latch, and stabling 
the horse in a box stall containing nothing 
upon which the teeth could, he set or the 
eliiu rested for performance of the suckins 
act. Let the horses ruu out when v ^ ,t 
work. a. . 
