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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2 s ?, J 020 
g Milking is a Boy’s Job g 
if when you have Hinman Milkers. They areso easy, jj 
so simple to operate that hundreds of boys and girls g 
§f 10 years old and up handle herds of 1(5, 20 and 30 
§§ cows all alone, from start to finish, twice a day. 
If you have 6 or more cows you can be positively g§ 
assured that Hinman Milkers will pay their.whole 
cost, in time and money saved, in the fi r st year. 
§f You will so enjoy using them that you will say you g 
f§ should have put them in long ago. H 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Young Calves 
Do yon know of a ration that could be 
successfully fed to young calves, say three 
or four days old. to be raised without 
the use of skim-milk? c. U. 
Dutchess Ci>.. X. Y. 
It is indeed difficult to suggest a combi* 
nation of feeding stuffs that would re¬ 
place uew milk for young calves. There 
are a number of brands of patented calf ; 
feeds on the market, and good results 
have been reported from tin- use of these j 
proprietary mixtures. If you will rake, 
however, equal parts of red dog flour, j 
sifted oats, hominy tneal. linseed meal and 
bloodmeal. you will find this combination 
quite satisfactory. Mix one lb. of this 
material with six lbs. of hot water, and 
after stirring for a few minutes let it eool 
down to Mood t emperature •before feediug. 
If is important that calves he fed from 
clean pails and that their stalls be kept 
clean and well bedded. The calves should 
have access to Alfalfa or clover hay. aud 
will commence nibbling away at this ma- 
terial at a surprisingly early age. 
Buckwheat in Cow Feed 
The farmers in this Mention are becom¬ 
ing more interested in dairying and better 
dairy feed. We contemplate putting up a 
dairy feed. We manufacture buckwheat 
flour and. therefore, have the buckwheat 
middlings which we would like to utilize 
in a dairy ration. it. .t. J\ 
New York. 
Buckwheat middlings are generally over¬ 
looked by the average farmer in combining 
his rations for dairy cows. When we 
realize that a ton of buckwheat middlings 
carries 1,532 11 is. of digestible material, as 
Compared with 1.588 for ground barley 
and 1.408 for ground oats, or 1.714 for 
dent corn, it is justifiable to give this 
product an important place in a mixture 
when it is available. Therefore, if buck¬ 
wheat middlings is one of your special¬ 
ties. you would be justified in including 
generous amounts of it in a ration in¬ 
tended for milch cows. I would suggest 
the following: Six hundred lbs. of buck¬ 
wheat middlings. 300 lbs. of corn or hom- 
iuy. 400 lbs. of gluten meal. 200 lbs. of 
ground oats, 200 lbs. of cottonseed. 300 
lbs. of bran. It is desirable to provide a 
ration carrying about 20 per cent of pro¬ 
tein. although it is important to consider 
the actual disgestihle materials in a ra¬ 
tion rather than rely exclusively upon the 
pr 'Tin content. 
Feeding Guernsey Herd 
We have 21 Guernsey cattle. The ration 
we Have been feeding has been condemned 
by people who. I believe, know what they 
are talking about; still. I have hesitated 
to substitute their ration on account of 
cutting out cornmeal. of which we have 
plenty, and using cottonseed meal that we 
must buy. Our old ration (No. 1) is 420 
lbs. ground oats. 500 lbs. wheat bran. 400 
lbs. gluten meal. 200 lbs. cornmeal. 200 
lbs. oilmeal. O. P.. 10 lbs. salt; feed'l lb. 
grain to 3 lbs. milk per day. The sug¬ 
gested rations is: 200 !hs. ground oats. 
400 lbs. wheat bran. 200 His. cottons' *d 
meal. 300 lbs. gluten meal. 300 lbs. oil- 
meal. O. P.. and 15 lbs. salt: feed 1 lb. to 
3 as above. We also feed 30 lbs. silage 
and all the mixed hay. containing a little 
clover, they will clean up. Please criticise 
the rations if they warrant it and give us 
your idea of a well-balanced feed. We 
have plenty of corn. oats, silage and hay. 
While cost is not the first consideration. I 
do want a ration that is economical and 
would give maximum production without 
unduly forcing the cows. Ration No. 1 
costs 3.43c per lb., while ration No. 2 
costs 421c per lb. T. p. c. 
Michigan. 
Of the two rations suggested No. 1 is 
clearly the most suitable one to feed, espe¬ 
cially since you have an abundance of 
corn and cobmeal. I would go still fur¬ 
ther than you have suggested in reference 
to utilizing the cornmeal and make the 
combination: 400 lbs. of ground oats. 
400 lbs. of wheat bran. 400 lbs. of gluten. 
400 lbs. of cornmeal. 200 lbs. of oilmeal. 
Your second ration carries an excessive 
amount of protein, inasmuch as you are 
feeding cottonseed mail, gluten meal and 
oilmeal in generous quantities, all of 
which are concentrates rich in protein. I 
never favor the feeding of a ration its 
narrow as your ration No. 2. and it. is dis¬ 
tinctly a forcing ration, one likely to lead 
you into many difficulties in case you fed 
it in a very generous quantity. 
If corn and cobmeal is properly supple 
meuted with oats, gluten and bran there 
is nothing more desirable for use in feed¬ 
ing dairy cows during the Winter, It is 
true that there are feeders who are iu- 
*•1 inod to believe that, on account of its 
high content of carbohydrate and fat, it 
is very apt to cause the animals to put 
on flesh excessively; however. I never 
shared this belief. There is a difference 
of opinion as to whether salt should be 
fed in combination with a grain ration or 
as a supplement. I always favor the 
practice of feeding salt by itself rather 
than in combination with the grain. Even 
though you have silage you would be dis¬ 
appointed if you eliminated your corn¬ 
meal and relied exclusively upon the prod¬ 
ucts named in ration No. 2 to supply all 
of your feed. 
A silo ought to laat 
aa long as the barn it 
is attached to. 
—A new theory to 
some, but not too ad¬ 
vanced to fit the Green 
Mountain standard of 
construction. 
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Tha new hip roof adds 
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The ladder is all-wood to prevent 
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••Fir^t, not a stalk of yuur corn goes to 
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‘‘Second, the Harder is built to last— 
Fve had BAKi'KU'S ’.’0 yrs. aud I know.” 
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tne story of Silas Low. Frae. 
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I W. H. Graham of Middleton, Mo., says in 
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from coast to coast say the same thing. 
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Is the title of a little booklet that tells all about 
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