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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 15, 1919 
Manufacturing 
Balanced Rations 
To obtain the exclusive services of an expert is impossible 
for each individual farmer; local supplies of necessary 
feed ingredients are uncertain; hand mixing is imperfect; 
and the labor cost is excessive. 
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tioning of ingredients to maintain the required standards of 
nutrition, palatability and mechanical condition are under 
the personal supervision of the best feed expert obtainable. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Protection of Purebred Live Stock 
It is not generally known that New 
York has the following law regarding 
stray breeding stock: 
“It shall be unlawful for any person or 
persons owning or in the possession of 
any bull of the age of more than nine 
months, any stallion of the age of more 
than eighteen months, or buck or boar 
over five months of age, to suffer or per¬ 
mit such animal or animals to go, or 
range, or run at large on any lauds or 
premises without the consent of the per¬ 
son entitled to the possession of such 
lands or premises. Any person who 
knowingly violates the provision of this 
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and, upon con fiction, shall be punished 
membering the day, I answered, “No. you 
don’t; who is April Fool this time?” It 
took a few minutes to assure me that 
there really was a kid in the barn. So 
as the day was chilly, I went armed with 
a blanket to keep the newcomer warm. 
While I was fussing with a dainty white 
kid a second white one appeared on the 
scene, and before she was made fairly 
comfortable a long-legged brown fellow 
came to keep them company. In a few 
hours Nannie, large-eyed and happy, was 
watching her three kids—all does— 
struggling to acquaint themselves with 
the proper use of their legs. The youngest 
one’s long legs twisted so curiously as 
she tried to make them support her little 
body that my husband was for putting 
them in splints. Needless to say, she was 
not long in showing that splints were not 
necessary. 
Nannie fed her kids for six weeks, and 
during that time their growth was the 
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Red Brand TI-O-GA Dairy Feed to be fed with ensilage, pasturage, 
green fodder or low protein roughage. 
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dry roughage. 
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roughage. ' 
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satisfactory when fed as intended. 
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Colonel’s Ration (Full feed for 
Horses). 
A Happy Family of Goats 
by a fine of ten dollars, or by imprison¬ 
ment for not more than ten days, for the 
first violation, and upon conviction of any 
subsequent violation, by a fine of twenty- 
five dollars or by imprisonment for not 
more than twenty-five days. (As added 
by Chapter 114 of the Laws of 191S.) 
Low Protein Feeds 
1. I have a cow that was fresh July 
15 last. When shall I breed her in order 
to have her come in fresh Sept. 1 next? 
2. I have the following feeds: Millet, 
sweet corn fodder, shorts, bran, barley, 
chops, corn chop. Will you make up a 
ration from these materials? v. w. B. 
Nebraska. 
1. The period of gestation for the cow 
is about 272 days. You should, therefore, 
breed her during the heat period nearest 
Dec. 1 in order to have her freshen about 
Sept. 1. 1920. 
2. It is impossible to make up a good 
milk-producing ration using the feeds you 
have on hand only, as all are very low in 
protein. Give tin* cow what she will 
clean up of corn fodder and millet. I 
should give her two small feeds of millet 
and the same number of corn fodder daily. 
Make up a mixture of two parts by 
weight of bran and one part each of the 
other feeds, such as cottonseed meal, oil- 
meal. Soy bean meal or peanut meal, and 
cut the other feeds other than the bran 
down to one-half part, then put in 1% 
to two parts of the protein feeds. Add 
1 lb. coarse fine salt to each 100 lbs. feed 
when mixing it up. Feed 1 lb. grain to 
each 3 to 3 J /> lbs. milk produced daily. 
II. F. J. 
A Family of Kids 
Here is a picture of one of my families, 
taken when the apple was in blossom. It 
pleases my friends very much, and per¬ 
haps the story of it may interest some 
of your readers. We live where it is 
difficult to get good milk, so when one 
day we heard of a milch goat for sale, 
we quickly went to make inquiries. We 
found she was going dry. and for that 
reason her owners did not wish to keep 
her through the Winter. However, we 
took a fancy to Nannie, in spite of her 
eight years, and so brought her home. 
That was in October, 191N. When April 
1 came round my husband came into the 
house in great excitement, begging me to 
“come out and see Nannie’s kid.” Ile- 
surprise of the neighborhood. When I 
took them away from her they did not 
grow quite so quickly, but now at six 
months old they are the admiration of 
everyone. They have been no trouble at 
all to rear, and often it has been as good 
as a circus to watch their pretty antics 
as they played with one another. 
Thanks to Nannie’s generosity we hope 
soon to have sufficient milk for the family 
and some butter, too, for by freshening 
the old goat in the Spring and the young 
ones in the Fall, we shall manage to have 
an ample supply the year ’round. If more 
people knew how good goat's milk is, so 
much richer than that given by the cow, 
and how easily the animals are cared for, 
I think the demand for goats would not 
easily be met. MRS. wm, I. BLACICADDEB. 
New Jersey. 
Tuberculosis Infection 
Could tuberculosis germs remain in 
the pasture or barn where ailing cattle 
have been housed, or would it require a 
new stable to prevent spreading the dis¬ 
ease? E. L. B. 
New York. 
If tuberculous cattle have beep kept 
in the stable of the farm in question it 
will be absolutely necessary to most thor¬ 
oughly cleanse, disinfect and whitewash 
the building, under direction of a quali¬ 
fied veterinarian. He will also instruct 
you on how to deal with the yards, feed¬ 
ing troughs and racks, and the watering 
places. Unless these things are done 
there will be great danger of new cattle 
contracting the disease. Even when the 
work has been done the new cattle should 
be tested with tuberculin twice a year 
until known to be sound, and then once 
a year. a. s. a. 
Feeding a Calf 
T am raising a registered Holstein bull 
calf. I am feeding ground oats and white 
middlings in slop, also have a box for dry 
feed, but he will not touch it. A while 
ago he had the scours badly ; is all over 
it now, but he will not eat well and is 
very thin. Will you tell me what to do? 
New York. l, w. g. 
Give the calf new milk three times a 
day, or sweet skim-milk, if new milk can¬ 
not be had. Let him drink it slowly and 
do not mix meals in the milk. Allow the 
calf to help himself to whole oats, wheat 
bran and oilmeal, in addition to good 
grass or clover or Alfalfa hay. Improper 
feed has caused stunting and it will be 
difficult to get him to thrive now. One 
never should try to raise a calf without 
milk. If the bowels are not normal give 
him a dose of castor oil in milk. 
A. S. A. 
