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supply more protein, taking equal parts 
of oilmeal and gluten with your ground 
oats and bran mixture. 
3. It should not be necessary for you 
to buy corn stover, especially if you have 
clover hay that is home-grown, as you 
state. It might well be omitted from 
your next years’ purchases, although if 
it is produced in your garden it would be 
well worth feeding. 
4. I should feed the grain and roughage 
suggested in my answer to your first 
question. 
5. On general principles I would ques¬ 
tion the advisability of buying ready- 
mixed scratch feed, or ready-mixed 
mashes for poultry. Either the experi¬ 
ment station at New Brunswick, N. J.. 
or the Poultry Department at Cornell 
University at Ithaca, would be glad to 
supply you formulas for feeding chickens 
consisting of home-mixed feeds that would 
in all probability be more economical and 
more desirable. As a matter of fact, the 
best feeds for poultry, as well as the best 
feeds for live stock, center around the 
use of corn, oats, bran, all of which are 
to be supplemented with some protein, 
such as oilmeal and meatmeal, for poul¬ 
try. Ordinarily the scratch feeds consist 
of buckwheat. Kaffir corn, cracked corn, 
cull wheat and barley. I would not, 
under any circumstances, buy patent stock 
feeds, for you scarcely ever get good value 
for your money. 
6. No doubt you have based your sched¬ 
ule for the production of small fruits and 
orchard products upon the results ob¬ 
tained on your own farm. It would ap¬ 
pear that this would well balance your 
labor load, which is a very important 
item in the management of even a small 
farm. With the high cost of living and 
the increasing prices which obtain every¬ 
where for everything, it is indeed a dif¬ 
ficult matter to determine what amount 
ought to be exacted as a reasonable in¬ 
come ior a man with a small family. The 
producing of as much garden, poultry, 
orchard and dairy products as you have 
outlined ought to provide you generously 
with home-grown product for your own 
table. If you could dispose of a thousand 
dollars' worth of products in addition to 
the amount consumed at home, it would 
appear that this would be quite an un¬ 
usual income from a three-acre area. 
7. It is well to remember that intensive 
crop production necessitates the generous 
application of what we have come to 
know as complete fertilizers. The void- 
mgs from the chicken roost are largely 
nitrogenous. Even though the flock of 
birds may be relatively large, the total 
yield in pounds per year would be rela¬ 
tively small. . I doubt very much the 
wisdom of omitting the use of commercial 
fertilizers, particularly acid phosphate. It 
is well to use the rock phosphate to sup¬ 
plement the manure; but there is a dif¬ 
ference of opinion as to whether phos¬ 
phoric acid applied in this form is readily 
available. There is nothing any better 
than barnyard manure for the production 
of vegetables, and for use in the orchard 
generally, and unless you have made it 
a practice to plant leguminous cover 
crops and plow them under to provide 
the necessary nitrogen, I would not aban¬ 
don the use of commercial fertilizers un¬ 
til I was sure that my ground was pro¬ 
ductive and yielded sufficient plant food 
to meet every reasonable demand of the 
growing plants. 
Improving a Faulty Ration 
I keep a small dairy—10 cows—which 
are off their feed once in a while. They 
do not seem to relish it the way they 
should; those I am feeding heavily. May¬ 
be I feed too much, but I think it may 
be the mixture. I ground 5 bbls. corn 
on cob, 2 bbls. barley and oats, 2 bbls. 
rye and mixed 300 lbs. bran. 100 lbs. 
cottonseed meal, 100 lbs, gluten. 5 lbs. 
salt. Should I mix oilmeal with it? 
Sometimes I can get buckwheat bran 
feed- w . s . Av . 
New York. 
The mixture that you are feeding is 
faulty, since it provides a surplus of en 
ergizing or heat* and energy-making food 
and does not contain enough protein. Th< 
coni, rye and barley all contribute earbo 
hydrates, and the amount of these that 
you have included in the mixture coulc 
V/wv k® balanced by the mere addition ol 
1(H) lbs. of cottonseed and 100 lbs. ol 
gluten. It is possible, too, that the ryt 
is musty and contains impurities thaf 
detract from the palatabilit.v of the mix- 
ture. A more desirable combiuatior 
would be as follows: 300 lbs. corn-and 
meal, 200 lbs. barley, ICO lbs. rye 
*.00 lbs. gluten. 100 lbs. cottonseed. IOC 
lbs oilmeal, 100 lbs. bran. You coulc 
replace the 100 lbs. of gluten with IOC 
ns of oilmeal, and you could substitute 
buckwheat brau for the rye and get ever 
better results. 
Clubfoot 
I have a colt two years old that has 
f^ T* r . st !’ a,ght foot and walks on hi 
If. 18 hls front right foot. It la 
came this way during iiis first year. I 
‘« e ??^knig I can do to save the foot 
North Carolina. G . it. r. 
lour meagre description does not giv 
Put a ( * a r 1( V‘ a °f f be condition present 
over 'll the colt is knuckle 
t vei at the fetlock joint so that the heel 
of the foot do not touch the ground. I 
or>ero«T.t ter i n * arian s bould perform tli 
operation of tenotomy, or servering of tli 
flexor tendons, and instruct you as to ai 
propriate after treatment. a. s. a. 
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