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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Family Cow 
As I am not a very experienced farmer¬ 
ette, I do not know always whether the 
methods used by the men I have had at 
different times to care for my one cow, 
pigs and chickens are the best. Several 
of these men claim that the proper way 
to feed the mash to the cow at night and 
morning is dry, spread out on the floor 
in front of the stanchion. That when the 
cow is tethered outdoors, on grass, she 
does not need water through the day, ar¬ 
guing that when water is given through 
the day the cow will not drink at night 
when she should do so on account of the 
feed being dry. On hot days it does seem 
to me that the cow should be watered, 
even if the feed has to be made sloppy. 
When the cow has to be tethered, should 
she be left out, or put out when it is 
raining hard, or should she be left in 
barnyard where there is an open shed she 
can go into. The cow’s mash is composed 
of the following, of which she gets 6 qts. 
night and morning. Is this all right for 
a foui*-year-old Guernsey? 100 lbs. mid¬ 
dlings, 100 lbs. bran. 100 lbs. oilmeal, 
100 lbs. gluten. 50 lbs. corn. 50 lbs. 
crushed oats. 50 lbs. Alfalfa meal. 
New Jersey. E. G. a. 
The grain ration that your man is feed¬ 
ing to your family cow is a very good one, 
es it possesses both variety and a suf¬ 
ficient amount of digestible matex-ial. It 
could be simplified, however, to three or 
four ingredients, which would give you 
quite as satisfactory results. A mixture 
consisting of equal parts of bran, ground 
oats, oilmeal and cornmeal would do very 
nicely, although the addition of the Al¬ 
falfa meal and the gluten meal during the 
season when she is in her flush flow 
would, no doubt, increase her production. 
This ration should be fed dry rather than 
moistened, for experiments have cleai’ly 
demonstrated that there is nothing to be 
gained by feeding cows sloppy feed. Par¬ 
ticularly is this true of the materials you 
have mentioned, but it would not apply in 
case of beet pulp, or malt sprouts, or feeds 
of a succulent nature. During the Win¬ 
ter months there is everything to be 
gained by feeding moistened beet pulp as 
a substitute for silage; but where the 
cow is tethered and has access to succu¬ 
lent feed there is no necessity for feeding 
additional succulent feed. However, fam¬ 
ily cows are creatures of habit, and the 
one aim of the caretaker should be to 
provide feed in the form most relished 
by the individual cow. If the mere moist¬ 
ening of the feed makes it more palatable 
there is no objection to its being moist¬ 
ened. 
Concerning the matter of supplying 
drinking water, the only safe rule to fol¬ 
low is to let the cow have all the water 
that she will drink two or three times 
daily, and it matters very little just when 
this water is supplied. If she is watered 
in the morning and again in the middle of 
the day, and again after her feeding at 
night, the arrangement would be quite 
satisfactory. You would find it advan¬ 
tageous, no doubt, to keep this cow in the 
barn during the heat of the day through¬ 
out the Summer months, and let her have 
access to the grass by meaus of tethering 
lier during the cool of the morning or 
later in the afternoon or evening. There 
is nothing to be gained by having this 
cow out in the yard fighting flies during 
hot weather, and you would find a sub¬ 
stantial increase in the flow of milk if 
she wei-e kept in the bgrn during the day 
and pastured during the late afternoon or 
evening. The mere fact that she does 
not eat her feed with relish, provided she 
is watered during the middle of the day, 
should not alarm you, as it is probably 
a matter of habit with her. She should 
be giveli her grain in equal quantities 
morning and evening, and if the grass is 
not particularly palatable, she should be 
given some roughage in addition. 
As to whether she should be tethered 
during rain storms, there could be no 
possible advantage in tethering this cow 
during severe rain storms. It would be 
much better if she had access to a barn, 
although the mere getting wet would not 
be injurious during the Summer months. 
In fact, cows out to pasture withstand 
storms without any protection, and there 
are many advantages in having the coat 
thoroughly washed and cleansed at fre¬ 
quent intervals. It is much more im¬ 
portant to provide her with a cool retreat 
during the heat of the day, when the flies 
are pestering. Usually the caretaker of 
the family cow makes a pet of her, and 
kindness always brings its reward under 
such circumstances. Make sure that she 
gets all the water that she wants to drink 
during the day, provide a cool retreat 
during the heat of the day, let her have 
access to the grass and grain at regular 
intervals. Make sure that she is fed a 
ration that she relishes, and increase this 
amount as her flow of milk increases. 
She should be kept in good condition if 
the best results are to be expected. 
The Truth About Clogs or Bog Shoes 
If C. O. O., page 8S9, would take a 
trip to Connecticut, start in just outside 
of New Haven, going east, he will find 
hundreds of acres of salt meadows where 
every year after the upland hay is in the 
farmers start to harvest their black grass 
and salt hay. There he will find the so- 
called clog shoe in common use, and it 
has been clearly demonstrated that horses 
can go with these shoes where they could 
not possibly go without them. They 
work well on a mowing machine or haul¬ 
ing off small loads of hay to hard ground, 
where it is thrown off. and then go back 
for another until one has enough for a load 
to take home. One way is to haul small 
loads to stacks on the meadow, and in 
the Winter, when the meadows are frozen 
hard, drive out to the stack and put on 
full load. Of course, a horse will act a 
little clumsy with these shoes at first, 
and the driver, is supposed to use a little 
care in turning in at the ends, as the 
horses will step on each other’s shoes, 
but I never knew of any trouble worth 
speaking of in the use of these shoes. I 
don’t, know whether the Connecticut 
farmer is any wiser than other farmers, 
but I do know that he does not expect a 
horse to cross a lake or spring-hole, and 
he has too much sense to expect a team 
to draw as much on soft ground with these 
shoes as they would on a hard road. If 
any farmer has land that is not a regular 
spring-hole, and is fit to be mowed, where 
his common sense tells him a horse could 
go. I know he would be pleased with a 
set of these shoes. A. E. H. 
The advice of C. O. O. to B. T., on 
page 889, is quite different from our ob¬ 
servation of the use of bog shoes. About 
40 years ago the writer's grandfather, 
uncle and father drained a large but not 
very deep pond used for water power, 
with the idea of making additional hay 
land for their adjoining farms. For a 
number of years this drained land was 
very soft, and all the haying had to be 
done by hand, but after a good sod had 
formed and the ground became more set¬ 
tled bog shoes were used on the horses for 
mowing with a one-horse machine and 
carting off the hay, making a great saving 
of labor. Some care and judgment had to 
be used in not driving the horse over too 
soft places. These shoes were made prac¬ 
tically the same as C. O. O. describes, 
except that they were nearly round, and 
most horses would wear them with no 
trouble, although I think there was one 
horse we could not use them on. I do 
not remember of any horse being injured 
while wearing these shoes, but have 
known several to be lamed or spavined 
by being mired while getting hay without 
them. E. E. E. 
On page 592 you ask for notes on bog 
shoes for horses. On the Skoharie marsh, 
in Illinois, the haymakers use a wooden 
disk about 10 inches in diameter, of one- 
inch sound oak or maple. The horse is 
first shod with square calks. Holes are 
countersunk in the disk to receive calks 
and a strap of iron is bolted across front 
of hoof; it is shaped to fit and is put on 
high up. The hoof should be fitted tio 
disk slightly off center, to reduce the in¬ 
side width (between feet). It is essen¬ 
tial to use a quiet, phlegmatic horse, as 
the first attempt! to use disconcerts him. 
He soon learns to open his stride to avoid 
interference, and can cross very thin bogs 
when the turf is thick. 
Maryland. o. w. ingersoll. 
On page 592 B. T. asks if bog shoes 
for horses are practical on wet meadows. 
They certainly are, and that is what they 
are made for. The writer has used them 
on soft salt marshes, and they are in 
common use here. We have made them 
ourselves similar to the “lawn boots” 
used when mowing lawns with horses. 
For hauling, one on the right or left 
forefoot and on opposite hind foot will 
hold the horse up and give a foothold 
where with all four feet shod he would 
slip. Most farm implement dealers have 
them. WALTER B. SAVABY. 
Plymouth Co., Mass. 
A clergyman who advertised for an 
organist received this reply : “Dear Sir— 
I notice that you have a vacancy for an 
organist and music teacher, either lady 
or gentleman. Having been both for sev¬ 
eral years I beg to apply for the posi¬ 
tion.”—Everybody’s. 
August 7, 1920 
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