The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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all the water she wants two or three 
times a day. It is the practice on many 
farms to provide drinking cups that per¬ 
mit the dairy cow to have water when¬ 
ever she wants it during the day or night. 
Of course such a practice is not possible 
where only one cow is maintained. 
So far as the hay is concerned, one 
safe rule, to guide you in determining the 
kind or amount of roughage that a dairy 
cow should have would be to allow her all 
the roughage that she would clean up 
with relish. In the absence of silage, or 
where succulent feeds are not available, 
it would be quite as well to give some 
hay following the grain given in the 
morning, and let her have all of the hav 
that she would clean up during the mid¬ 
dle of the day, then give some additional 
hay at night following the feeding of the 
grain. Alfalfa or clover hay would of 
course give better results than in case 
Timothy or even mixed hay were supplied. 
There is a wide variation in the amount 
of hay that' dairy cows will consume. It 
will vary from 15 to 25 lbs. per day. In 
case 1 lb. of grain consisting of equal 
parts of corn, oats, bran and oilmeal is 
fed for each 3% or 4 lbs. of milk pro¬ 
duced per day, it would be practical to 
allow her in addition all of the hay that 
she will clean up without waste. Make 
sure that she gets all of the water that 
she wants- to. drink following the feed¬ 
ing of the grain and hay in the morning; 
let her have some more at noon if she 
wants it. and then see to it that she gets 
still another opportunity to drink when 
she wants after the hay and grain is 
cleaned up at night. 
The uneasiness that you speak of is 
probably due to the fact tthat she is 
lonesome, or it may be due to the failure 
on the part of the caretaker to give her 
enough roughage. 
Feeding Farm Horses 
I have two teams, and do not know the 
right way to feed them. Some tell me to 
keep hay before them at all times, and 
feed three or four quarts of grain; others 
say for a 1.500-lb. horse 20 lbs. of hay 
and 5 qts. of grain three times per day; 
others 24 lbs. of hay and 4 qts. of oats 
three times a day; another 15 or 16 lbs. 
of hay a day and 3 qts. of gi'ain three 
times a day was all they could stand. He 
fed that every day for the year, no matter 
what he was doing. I am also told 1 lb. 
of hay, 1 lb. of grain for each 100 lbs. of 
horse. I wish to know the amount of 
hay a 1.500-lb. horse would need for the 
year and the amount of grain to keep him 
ever ready for business. Horses are in 
poor flesh at present. How long would 
it take to put them in shape? At pres¬ 
ent I am feeding 1 lb. of hay to each 100 
lbs. of horse in two feeds, as in the Sum¬ 
mer it saves time at noon, and am feed¬ 
ing 1 lb. of oats, 3 lbs. carrots, three times 
a day, and all the wheat straw in their 
bedding that they care to eat, which 
varies according to what they do during 
the day, which is drawing the manure and 
about five miles going to town. Do you 
think oats for grain the best, or mixed 
with corn on the ear? What do you 
think of barley, oilmeal, also middlings 
and the amount of each during Summer or 
Winter months? I feed plenty of salt. 
When I work, give water whenever I 
think they will drink; when it is very 
warm, take water to field in milk cans 
covered with woolen blanket. C. H. w. 
Michigan. 
Allow an average of 1 lb> each of grain 
or grain and bran and hay for each hun¬ 
dred pounds of body weight as a day’s 
ration in three feeds for a work horse. 
Increase grain slightly when horse is 
working hard, and only feed a pound or 
so of hay at noon while horse cools off 
before being allowed grain. At all times 
allow most of the bay at night and some 
of it the first thing in the morning. Pre¬ 
fer mixed clover and Timothy hay. Do 
not keep hay before the horses at all 
times. Wet hay, if at all dusty. Allow 
free access to rock salt. Two or three 
large carrots a day usually will suffice, 
but give enough to keep the bowels reg¬ 
ular and the skin in good order. Add 
one-sixth part of wheat bran to the whole 
oats and dampen it at feeding time. A 
few ears of corn may be allowed at night 
in addition to the allowance of oats. 
Have the teeth of each horse put in or¬ 
der by a veterinarian. Never let a horse 
stand for a single day without work or 
outdoor . exercise. Decrease grain and 
slightly increase hay when horses are idle 
and some oat straw and bright corn straw 
may be allowed during idleness in Winter. 
Horses that are working hard should not 
lie allowed to eat their bedding. Do not 
teed barley, oilmeal or middlings when 
°k ti n ant ^ 00111 are available. Drugs 
snomd not be used unless horses are sick 
or infected with worms. Groom the 
very thoroughly once a day and 
rub them well with straw or hav wisps 
each night. They should soon get into 
vmnli? 0IU 1 - tl0n 1 ^. so During very hot 
? 1 *^ e drinking water often 
K-twme daily add a little oatmeal. 
^f 1 horso needs special attention for ap¬ 
petite, and temperament varies. 
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howlinw ! ns . glasses on a baby as it. lay 
the kim^J 4 r moth f r ’ s anns - “B«t it’s 
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