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January 10, 1U20 
Make Your Milkers Pay 
Good Health—Good Appetite—and Good Digestion are the essentials of a good milker. 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic promotes health—makes cows hungry. Remember, it takes a 
healthy, hungry cow to convert a big mess into pails of milk day after day. 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic produces appetite, aids digestion, conditions a cow to stand the 
stuffing, cramming process necessary for heavy milking. Dr. Hess Stock Tonic contains 
the salts of Iron that supply rich red blood so necessary to cows in milk. It contains 
Laxatives and Diuretics that assist the kidneys and bowels to throw off and carry off 
the poisonous waste materials that so often clog up the system during heavy feeding. 
Ever notice a cow slack up on her milk—not quite so keen for her mess—apparently not sick? Her 
system is clogged. This never occurs where Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is fed. Start right—by con¬ 
ditioning your cows for calving with a course of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic before freshing. 
There is not a day during lactation that Dr. Hess Stock Tonic cannot be fed to cows at a profit. This 
is especially true where heavy feeding is the practice. Dr. Hess Stock Tonic is good alike for cattle, 
horses, hogs and sheep. It makes the ailing animals healthy, the whole herd thrifty. It expels worms. 
IMPORTANT: Always buy Dr. Hess Stock Tonic according to the size of 
your herd—five pounds for each cow to start with. Get it from the responsible 
dealer in your town. Feed as directed and note the results in the milk pail. 
25-lb. Pail, $2.25; 100-lb. Drum, $7.50 
Except in the far West, South and Canada. 
Smaller packages in proportion . 
DR. HESS & CLARK, Ashland, Olrio 
Makes your live stock produce better. 
Cooked food is more palatable—more 
bulky —more nourishing. Animals 
digest it better and thrive. 
Want surprising results In the 
milk pail? Give the cows warm 
water once a day. Hors eat more 
when Riven warm food; It digests 
easier. resultinR in more ranid 
RTqwtn.larRe frames covered with 
solid meat. And poultry MUST 
have warm food If you want them 
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THE HENYARD 
Dry Mash; Value of Wheat 
1. How mix the following ground grains 
with bran (i. e., what proportions, by 
weight), to make a dry mash containing 
10 per cent meat scrap for laying hens 
(White Leghorns) 'l Wheat, corn, oats? 
2. Clive the analysis of ground w’heat; 
that is, per cent of starch, fat, protein, 
ash, water, carbohydrates, etc. Is ground 
wheat just as good for dry mash as mid¬ 
dlings? If not, why not? A. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. Corn, wheat and oats alone would 
not make a well-balanced mash, mixed in 
any proportion, for the reason that they 
are all of very similar character, so far as 
food values are concerned, and all lack in 
one of the most essential constituents of a 
good mash, protein. They are carbo¬ 
hydrate, rather than protein foods, and 
need added protein to balance them up. 
This protein may be added in such high 
protein products as gluten feed, oilmeal, 
wheat bran and middlings, beef scrap 
and skim-milk. The corn, wheat and oats 
may be mixed and fed as scratch grain 
and they may also be fed ground in some 
such mixture as the following: Equal 
parts, by weight, of cornmeal, ground 
nats, gluten feed, wheat bran, wheat mid¬ 
dlings and beef scrap. The wheat bran 
and middlings are superior to ground 
wheat in the mash for the reason that 
they are relatively higher in protein, much 
of the carbohydrate content of the wheat 
having been removed in the flour milled 
from it when the bran and middlings were 
produced. 
2. The analysis of wheat, which, of 
course, is not changed by grinding, if 
nothing is removed, is as follows: Dry 
matter, S9.S per cent; digestible protein, 
9.2; carbohydrates. 67.5; fat, 1.5. Its 
proportion of protein to carbohydrates, 
or nutritive ratio, is 1 to 7.7; too 
“wide,” or containing too large a propor¬ 
tion of carbohydrates, to be a balanced 
ration in itself. m. b. i>. 
Crossed Bills 
I have a flock of young chickens that 
are almost fully matured. When about 
half grown two of them developed crossed 
bills, and I now notice four more that 
have begun to develop the same affliction. 
The under bill grows to an abnormal size, 
but otherwise the chickens appear heal¬ 
thy. What causes this, and is there a 
cure for those just showing these symp¬ 
toms? . E. T. 8. 
North East, Pa. 
I do not know the cause of such de¬ 
formities, though they are not infrequent¬ 
ly found in flocks of young chicks that 
have been fed and reared in the ordinary 
way. You should see to it that your 
growing chicks have sufficient mineral 
matter, supplied by wheat brnu in their 
food, and crushed oyster shells and grit, 
accessible to them. If these chicks have 
been too exclusively corn fed, without the 
above mentioned sources of mineral mat¬ 
ter or beef scrap containing bone, the 
trouble may be accounted for and should 
be remedied by correcting the deficiencies 
in the ration. M. B. D. 
Lighting Henhouse 
What amount of light is required per 
square foot of floor space to light poultry 
house successfully for increased laying in 
Fall and Winter? My pens run from 
10x12 to 15x17. Should I use 20-watt 
lights, more or less? Ceilings are about 
seven feet. ir. P. s. 
Vermont. 
The amount of light generally used in 
henhouses varies tremendously. I have 
seen a 25-watt electric light used in a 
20x20 house with fairly good results. One 
40 or 50-watt light in this same 20x20 
unit gave better results, and one 100-watt 
light or two 40-watt were better yet. 
There are two or three advantages of 
using two 40-watt lights iu one house 
20x20. One is that you can begin the 
lights and have the birds go to roost by 
turning off one of the lights and letting 
the other run. The other is, that it 
breaks up shadows in the house which 
would be created by a 90 or 100-watt 
light in the center of the house. Although 
this seems to bo a small advantage, quite 
a number who have used these lights be* 
lieve it is important. 
Aioug the line of the amount of light 
that is necessary, I have seen an instance 
of a farmer who hangs an ordinary kero¬ 
sene barn lantern up iu one end of his 
poultry house iu the morning when he 
goes out to milk his cows, and over 300 
birds, or practically all in the house, go 
down off the roost and attempt to scratch 
around and feed by the dim light of this 
lantern. This, I believe, will give you 
an idea as to how little light is necessary 
in the morning actually to get the birds 
working. A 90 or 100-watt or two 40’s 
or 50’s in a house 20x20. or the equivalent 
of this amount in a smaller house, will 
give you a whole lot better results, as it 
makes it easier for the birds to feed. It 
is not necessary to drop the lights as 
ceiling lights or reflectors do just as 
well. victor c. aitbry. 
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