1b* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1899 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Pomace for Hogs 
What is ^ the food value of apple 
pomace? What would be necessary to 
mix with it to make a balanced ration 
for brood sows to keep them in a good 
thrifty condition? F. E. 
New York. 
One hundred pounds of apple pomace 
would be equal in feeding value to 12 
lbs. of grain. Where the material is fed 
directly from the cider press one pound 
of the material would practically equal 
one pound of silage for feeding dairy 
cows. Brood sows, however, do not re¬ 
quire succulent feed and, as the material 
is so bulky and the amount that a pig 
would eat is rather limited, one must not 
expect to secure much actual feeding 
value from this substance. In any event 
the material would soon become sour and 
rancid. For a brood sow weighing 400 
lbs. the following daily ration is sug¬ 
gested : 10 lbs. of apple pomace, 3 lbs. 
of ground oats, 1 lb. of cornmeal, % lb. 
of digester tankage. 
Thriftless Pigs 
Will you give me a growing ration for 
pigs about 12 weeks old, weighing about 
30 lbs.? I am feeding corn, this year’s 
crop, and slop. They have no range or 
pasture. They are not doing well, and 
I think they have the mange. Will you 
tell me what to do for it? _ They are 
white in color, but their skin is dark and 
dirty looking, especially on the neck be¬ 
hind the ears. J. e. p. 
New Jersey. 
A useful mixture for pigs 12 weeks old 
would be the following grains: 30 lbs. 
of shelled corn, 50 lbs. of ground oats, 15 
lbs. of middlings, 5 lbs. of digester tank¬ 
age or oilmeal. In addition you could 
feed some new corn, in which event it 
would be well to increase the digester 
tankage to 10 per ceut of the amount of 
corn used. A 12-weeks-old pig should 
weigh more than 30 lbs. In fact, a pig 
70 days old should weigh 70 lbs. It is 
evident that your pigs have been stunted, 
and you will probably have some diffi¬ 
culty in restoring them to normal develop¬ 
ment. For the skin trouble you refer to 
they should be dipped or washed with a 
five per cent solution of creolin, after 
which they should be thoroughly rubbed 
with sweet oil or raw linseed oil. Give 
them, in addition to the ration suggested, 
free access to a mineral mixture contain¬ 
ing equal parts of charcoal, sulphur, bone 
meal and salt. 
Handling Two Cows 
I wish advice about two cows. One is 
a Holstein-Jersey cross, fresh last March 
and due to freshen again March 15. She 
gives only six quarts daily. The other 
is a grade Guernsey, seven years old. 
fresh two weeks ago. but does not give 
over eight quarts a day. The calf died 
soon after birth. I have a barrel of 
molasses on hand ; it costs $14 for fil gal¬ 
lons. Gluten is $3.70 per cwt.; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $4.30: linseed meal. $4 80; 
ground oats, $3 25; bran, $2.55; corn- 
meal, $3.25; middlings, $3.75. We have 
corn fodder enough to feed for one month ; 
after that I shall have to buy hay, usually 
clover and Timothy mixed. We can buy 
beet pulp feed at $4.30 per cwt. M. n. 
New Jersey. 
It would seem that the production from 
the two' cows is relatively low, as the 
Guernsey cow should give at least 15 
quarts of milk per day during her flush 
flow. Production, however, is a quality 
that is inherited, and it may be that it 
will be impossible for you to increase the 
flow of milk. Limiting the feeding stuffs 
to the materials mentioned, I would sug¬ 
gest the following: 100 lbs. of beet 
pulp, 100 lbs. of gluten, 200 lbs. of 
ground oats. 100 lbs. of bran, 200 lbs. of 
cornmeal. Feed one pound of this mix¬ 
ture daily for each three pounds of milk 
produced per cow per day. If you desire 
to use the molasses dilute one pound of 
the molasses with five pounds of water 
and saturate the grain ration just before 
feeding. You could feed as much as two 
or three pounds of the molasses per cow 
per day. If you could get clover or 
Alfalfa hay it would be preferable to the 
mixed hay, as Timothy does not serve a 
useful purpose in supplying even roughage 
to milch cows. 
Where the number of cows maintained 
is limited to two or three, and where one 
does not have either silage or succulence 
of any sort, the following mixture is 
recommended: 25 lbs. of cornmeal, 25 
lbs. of oats, 25 lbs. of wheat bran, 25 lbs. 
of gluten or oilmeal. This, together with 
clover or Alfalfa hay, is well suited for 
feeding milch cows. I should feed the 
grain twice a day, equal parts, morning 
and evening. I would also feed the hay 
twice a day, and give the corn fodder in 
the middle of the day. Unless you are 
selling your milk on a butterfat. content 
you would gain very little by installing 
a Babcock tester. It would pay you to 
weigh the milk at each milking in order 
to determine just how much grain you 
should feed. A small handful of salt 
every other day would suffice; yet there 
is no danger of giving excessive amounts 
of salt if it is not mixed with the grain, 
but rather placed in a little box w’here 
the cows can have access to the salt at 
all times. 
What’s the milk price?’* 
Costs More — 
Makes You More 
Cheap Feeding— 
Not Cheap Feeds 
E VERYWHERE, these days, dairymen 
are striving to lower the cost of pro¬ 
ducing milk by lower-cost feeding. 
But lower-cost feeding cannot be secured by 
cheap, low-quality feeds. 
When a feed sells for less than Unicorn 
Dairy Ration it must be because it contains 
lower-priced, lower-quality ingredients. 
It isn’t the price you pay for a feed that 
counts—it is the profit you can make by 
feeding it. 
The following extract from a letter, just 
received from Captain A. Henry Higginson, 
owner of Nancy Whitehall, world’s record. 
Junior four-year-old Ayrshire, shows what 
one breeder thinks of Unicorn Dairy 
Ration: 
* T m glad to tell you that, in my opinion. 
Unicorn is the greatest milk producing 
feed in the world today, and not only 
produces milk, but keeps the animals well 
and healthy while they are producing and 
leaves no bad after effects.” 
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IT HAS NO EQUAL 
C A|i — It is pene- 
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Backache 
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by us express prepaid. Write for Booklet K. 
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Get Clean Milk 
In winter, when the cows are stabled and it Is 
hard 1 to keep the udders clean, clip the flanks 
and udders every few weeks—a few minutes will 
do it If you use a Stewart No. I Machine—then 
the parts can be wiped in a jiffy and the milk 
will he clean and free from dirt. Clips horses 
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This liberal 60o package of soothing, 
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tions that make milking unpleasant and 
reduce the milk yield. 
Bag Balm Is known, and used wherever 
cows are raised. It is perfect Insurance 
against lossoa resulting from Caked Bag, 
Cow Pox, Chapping, Inflammation, Chafing, 
etc. It penetrates and heals quickly, re¬ 
storing the injured tissues. Cows give milk 
freely and la full quantity from healthy 
udders. 
Druggists, feed dealers and general stores 
■ell Bag Balm. Free booklet, “Dairy 
Wrinkles.** sent on request. 
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