1836 
1ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 13, 1919 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. M inkier 
There’s a 
Lambertville 
for Every Purpose 
S NOW and sleet and 
the mud of winter 
are upon us. Lambert¬ 
ville Rubber Footwear 
will keep you comfort¬ 
able. A pair of 4-Buckle 
Arctics will keep out the 
wet and cold, and protect 
your leather shoes. On 
cold mornings they are 
easy to pull on as they 
always remain soft and 
pliable even in bitter 
weather. 
They are pure, new rub¬ 
ber, properly cured. Worn 
with leather shoes, Lambert¬ 
ville 4-Buckle Arctics will 
keep out the snow, water and 
cold. They will save shoe 
expense and insure comfort. 
Other Lambertville Rub¬ 
ber Footwear are:—short 
boots, hip boots, buckled 
arctics of varying heights, 
laced boots or moccasins, and 
heavy work overshoes—more 
than thirty styles, all told. 
The best dealer in town 
sells Lambertvilles. Look for 
the green label\ 
P® 
Hi 
A Green Label on Every 
Pair of Lambertvilles. 
SNAG-PROOF 
7 layers of pure rubber friction 
lined. Thick and wear resisting 
yet light in -weight. 
L-QUALITY 
Duck vamp where 'the wear 
comes. Pure rubber properly 
cured. 
REDSKIN 
Red rubber with friction or 
felt lining. Tough and long 
wearing. 
LAMCO 
Pure gum, ribbed, or with 
heavy thick vamp. 
WHITESKIN 
'White rubber full duck lined. 
Made by an entirely new proce 
ess. Extraordinaiy value. 
LAMBERTVILLE RUBBER CO. 
Lambertville, N. J. 
Ration for Freshening Heifer 
On page 150S, “Ration for Freshening 
Heifers” gives equal parts of cornmeal. 
ground oats, wheat bran and oilmoal, at 
the end of three weeks add 100 lbs. each 
of gluten and hominy. Will yon advise 
me to what quantity of the first ration am 
I to add the 100 lbs. each gluten and 
hominy, or in other words give me just 
the best possible proportion of such feeds 
as will get the best results and develop the 
heifer. I have a fine quality of hay, con¬ 
sisting of about three-quarters Timothy 
and the other quarter, Alsike and Alfalfa. 
New York. L. a. m. 
By referring to the issue of October 11, 
.vou will be reminded that the mixture 
suggested for heifers approaching halving 
time was as follows: 30 lbs. cornmeal, 
30 lbs. ground oats, 30 lbs. wheat bran. 
10 lbs. oilmeal. After the heifers freshen 
and it is desired to increase the flow of 
milk the following combination, including 
gluten and hominy, would give you good 
results: 200 lbs. cornmeal, 200 lbs. 
ground oats, 100 lbs. wheat bran, 100 lbs. 
oilmeal, 100 lbs. hominy, 200 lbs. gluten. 
This combination should be fed in pro¬ 
portion to the amount of milk produced, 
and will vary from seven to 10 lbs. per 
animal per day. It is necessary to feed 
heifers cautiously until all of the in¬ 
flammation is out of the udder, and one 
should not expect them to reach their 
maximum production of milk until three 
or four weeks after freshening. It would 
be appropriate to feed the heifers all the 
roughage they would clean up with relish, 
and nothing is superior to clover or Al¬ 
falfa hay. 
Ration without Silage 
T have seven dairy cows for which I 
wish a balanced ration. I have been feed¬ 
ing mixed dairy rations and others, and 
did not have as good results as when I 
mixed the feed myself. The cows will 
be fed all the medium grade hay and dry 
cornstalks they can eat. no silage. They 
are grade ITolstein, medium-sized cows, 
all young. They are for milk production 
only and will freshen at intervals the 
entire year. i. k. b. 
New York. 
It is unfortunate that you do not have 
some form of succulence, such as silage, 
mangel beets, or beet pulp, to form a 
basis of your ration intended for dairy 
coyvs during the Winter months. I take 
it that your hay is Timothy, and that you 
do not have any of the home-grown feeds 
other than the cornstalks. If these are 
the conditions I would use the following 
mixture of concentrates : 300 lbs. of beet- 
pulp feed ; 300 lbs. of hominy; 200 lbs. 
of ground oats; 100 lbs. of buckwheat 
middlings; 200 lbs. of gluten. 
The mixed feed suggested contains 
about 25 per cent of beet pulp, and this 
is offered to supply the succulence that is 
usually furnished by the silage or mangel 
beets. You will note that the bulk of 
these products is produced on the farm, 
and you ought to be able to secure them 
locally at a fairly reasonable cost. If 
you are unable to secure the hominy or 
cornmeal, the eoru-aud-cob meal may be 
substituted, and. if there is a scarcity of 
buckwheat middlings in your section, 
wheat bran may be stfnstltuted. Feed the 
cows all the roughage that they will 
clean up with relish, and in addition, pro¬ 
vide approximately one pound of this 
grain mixture for each three or four 
pounds of milk produced per day. One 
seldom gets the best results from feeding 
any of the ready-mixed rations ex¬ 
clusively. 
as much as 100 lbs. of the cocoanut meal 
in this combination, yet It' is doubtful if 
it would add materially to its feeding 
value. Feed the cows all of the silage 
that they will clean up with relish, and 
supply them with roughage such as Al¬ 
falfa or clover hay in such amounts as 
they will eat once or t\vice daily. 
Improving Milk Flow 
We have 10 Jersey registered coyvs and 
are feeding a mixture of 250 lbs. corn, 150 
lbs. gluten. 150 lbs. ground oats, 50 lbs. 
oilmeal. We feed about 50 lbs., together 
with one bushel cut beets, moistened with 
one pint molasses in a pail of water at 
each feeding, together with corn stover 
and Alfalfa hay. We get plenty of cream 
but the amount of milk has dropped. We 
wish to increase milk supply. Cows are 
turned into pasture about eight hours, 
when it is fair. c. A. w. 
The ration you are feeding ought to 
give good results. More of the cut beets 
would increase the flow as the pasture 
subsides, while the addition of 150 lbs. of 
buckwheat middlings would improve the 
grain mixture; 50 lbs. per day of grain 
for 10 cows is not enough grain, and you 
could easily give them this amount both 
morning and evening. I \\ r ould give the 
Alfalfa hay very freely, twice daily whore 
there was no silage, and would give the 
stover or fodder in the middle of the day. 
If the cows are thin in flesh more corn or 
hominy might be added. If such a ration 
made with care as to variety and palata- 
bility does not give results, the trouble 
must .he with your cows. If you do not 
have enough beets to go through the Win¬ 
ter. beet pulp saturated with molasses 
water would suffice. It is quite natural 
for cows that have been milking through 
the Rummer to slacken their flow as cold 
weather approaches, yet generous feeding 
of the mixture you are using ought to tide 
them through in good order. 
Cocoanut and Peanut Meal 
Are cocoanut. and peanut meal desirable 
dairy feeds, and how should they be mixed 
Yvith other grains? B. B. 
Maryland. 
Cocoanut meal is not palatable and, 
while it does contain 20 per cent of pro¬ 
tein, it could not be used to any extent 
in combination with the other feeds men¬ 
tioned. Peanut meal will analyze about 
44 per cent protein and, since it is high 
in protein and carries an unusual amount 
of free oil, experiments sIioyv that it soon 
becomes rancid and is not especially 
popular as a dairy feed. I would suggest 
the following mixture: 200 lbs. beet 
pulp; 200 lbs. peanut meal; 200 lbs. 
ground oats; 200 lbs. gluten; 100 lbs. 
brewery grains; 100 lbs. buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings or wheat bran. You could include 
Weight of Small Pigs 
1. IIow much should little pigs weigh 
when they are born and each week after? 
I have some that look smaller to me than 
the ones we used to raise at home when 
I was a boy. If I remember right we 
had one sow that had 14 little ones, and 
at four weeks old one weighed 22 lbs. 
The old one weighed 480 ’bs. dressed. 
2. Is it better to keep an old sow to raise 
little ones, rather than a gilt? W. B. 
Connecticut. 
New-born pigs weigh from 1.3 to 3 0 
lbs., according to investigations conducted 
by Henry of ,the Wisconsin Station. He 
likewise endeavored to determine the rate 
of gain of young pigs before and after 
weaning. As a typical illustration he 
cites a case of where a pig weighed 3 2 
lbs. at birth, 0.4 at the end of one week, 
0.4 the second, 13.5 the third. 17.8 the 
fourth, 23.1 the fifth. 30.5 the sixth. 32.5 
the seventh. 43.5 the eighth, 51.0 the 
ninth, 00.5 the tenth. Hence it will be 
seen that the pig had gained 57.3 lbs. in 
10 weeks. The rate of gain after weigh¬ 
ing increased approximately in the same 
proportion until at the end of the 16th 
week the pig weighed 114 lbs., making a 
gain of 53.5 lbs. in six weeks after wean¬ 
ing. It is further noted that the average 
gain of the entire litter of sucking pigs 
ranged from 21.8 to 57.3 lbs. at 10 weeks, 
between farrowing and weaning, .and, for 
the seven weeks succeeding weaning, the 
individual gains ranged from 31 to 54 lbs. 
It is generally concluded that a pig should 
weigh 70 lbs when 70 days old. and that 
its daily gain from this age on should ex¬ 
ceed a pound a day. 
2. As to whether it is more profitable 
to maintain aged sows for breeding pur¬ 
poses rather than gibs, there is a differ¬ 
ence of opinion. Usually old sows, if 
they carry considerable flesh, become 
clumsy and are inattentive mothers, and, 
as a consequence, raise a smaller per¬ 
centage of the pigs they produce. On the 
other hand, gilts are usually more atten¬ 
tive mothers and, while they do not yield 
as much milk as older sows, there are 
many farmers who maintain nothing but 
young sows for breeding purposes. If a 
soyv is a poor milker and her pigs on 
previous occasions have not grown rapid¬ 
ly, or evidenced thrift or vigor as a result 
of her suckling qualities, I should by all 
means discard her for a younger sow. 
Experiments have demonstrated time and 
again that the most economical way to 
feed young pigs is through the agency of 
their dam. You will be disappointed if 
vou wean your pigs when they are four 
weeks old, for it is absolutely impossible 
to grow pigs economically, even if new 
milk is at hand, where they are taken 
from their dam at such an early age. I 
prefer to wean the pigs when they are 
eight weeks old, and often we make it a 
practice to let the pigs nurse two weeks 
longer, provided the dam is not nursed 
down thin and the pigs are making uni¬ 
form gains. Much depends upon the way 
the brood sow and her litter are fed. 
If the pigs have access to a self-feeder, or 
are given ekim-milk in addition to that 
obtained from their dam. they will wean 
much easier and naturally can be taken 
from the sow at au earlier age. 
