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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 23, 1020 
There’s Nothing So Dark as the 
Inside of a Cow Unless — 
it’s the inside of a bag of feed. 
Look at feeds—they all appear 
alike and you can’t tell any¬ 
thing about them. 
Analyses and names don’t 
deliver the goods. 
The only proof of a cow or 
a feed is in the milk pail. 
Unicorn has been proved by 
scores of Testing Association 
winners to be the greatest milk 
and largest profit producer. 
DAIRY RAT, 
guaranteed analysis 
PROTEIN 24% FAT 4 - 5 % 
CARBOHYDRATES 50% FIBRE 10% 
mpd. by 
CHAPIN & CO. 
HAMMOND, 
48 
Porter County, Indiana, Cow 
Testing Association reports 
Morgan Brothers led all herds 
for August, 1920. Their 19 cows 
averaged 40.3 lbs. fat and are 
fed Unicom Dairy Ration the 
year round. 
If it is profits you want, then 
feed Unicorn. 
Forget the price and look at 
the profits. 
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Chicago 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Yearlings 
1. I would like to know the best mix¬ 
tures of grains to feed yearling calves for 
the Winter. I have second crop for hav 
Timothy herd’s grass and witch grass 
-■ '' hat would be the best dry mash mix¬ 
ture for pullets all ready to start laving 1 ' 
New Hampshire. c. r. s 
1. A ratiou suitable for feeding year¬ 
ling calves could be made up as follows: 
200 lbs. of hominy meal, 200 lbs. of 
ground oats. 100 lbs. of wheat bran, 150 
lbs. of oilmeal. 
If corn or barley are accessible and 
at a more reasonable cost than hominy, 
cither might replace the hominy. Like¬ 
wise if gluten meal can be obtained at a 
lower cost per ton than oilmeal. it should 
serve as a source of protein. Under 
average conditions, however, we prefer 
oilmeal to either cottonseed meal or glu¬ 
ten meal for feeding young calves during 
the Winter. It is unfortunate that you 
do not have some legume hay available 
for feeding these young animals. Second 
cutting Timothy mixed with herd’s grass 
or witch, grass is preferable to the first 
cutting of a similar mixture, but does not 
provide as much as or mineral matter as 
do those roughages classified as legumes. 
2. The following dry mash is well suit¬ 
ed for poultry during the Winter: Wheat 
bran. 200 lbs.; wheat middlings. 200 lbs.; 
ground oats. 200 lbs.; cornmeal. 100 lbs.; 
gluten meal. 100 lbs.; meat scrap. 100 
lbs.; Alfalfa meal. 100 lbs. If it is not 
possible to get the Alfalfa meal. 10 lbs. 
of oilmeal should be added to the combi¬ 
nation. Iu addition to the dry mash n 
scratch feed consisting of whole wheat and 
clipped oats, or cracked corn and whole 
buckwheat, mixed in equal proportions, 
should be provided. 
Feeding Stunted Pig 
I have a runt pig given to me. and 
would like to know what and how to feed 
grow faster. He is 
old, weighs less than 
do in the same litter, 
taken from the litter 
cough, which I do not 
had before or not. I 
him to make him 
about five months 
half the other pigs 
Since the pig was 
lie seems to have a 
know whether he 
have plenty of corn, skim-milk and green 
fodder which I give him. e. a. j. 
New York. 
I doubt if it ever pays to bother with 
a runty pig. even though acquired as a 
gift. If the pig is five months old it 
ought to weigh 150 lbs., and the chances 
are from your description that it does not 
weigh 50 lbs. If he will not respond to 
the ration that you are feeding, viz., 
shelled corn, skim-milk and green fodder, 
he would not respond to any other com¬ 
bination that might be suggested. The 
persistent coughing may be due to an in¬ 
fection known as lung worm, or he may 
be tubercular. Make sure that he is not 
infested with external parasites, and if 
lice are annoying him saturate a brush 
or woolen cloth with crude oil and go 
over his body thoroughly. I am inclined 
to believe that you would be money ahead 
in case you either sold or butchered this 
pig. and fed your skim-milk and corn to 
a healthy, vigorous specimen. 
Tomatoes for Live Stock 
I am a reader of The It. N.-Y.. aud 
would like a little advice about feeding 
tomatoes to hogs and cows. As we have 
1*4 acres and no market for them, we 
thought of feeding them to our cows, 
which are grade Guernseys and due to 
calve in early Winter. We have two 
sows in pig to farrow this Fall. Would 
the tomatoes be injurious to them, and 
how large quantities could they be safely 
fed? A. L. H. 
Delaware. 
Tomatoes would yield very little feed¬ 
ing value for either cows or hogs on ac¬ 
count of their acidity aud high water 
content. They would not be very palat¬ 
able for cows and, as you know, their 
keeping qualities are very poor. 1 hey 
could he fed to your hogs without evil 
results, although 1 am doubtful of the 
amount of gain that would result Irmu 
their use. We have never fed tomatoes 
and can find no record of them having 
been fed; hence experience is the 
guide that will reveal the facts, 
them and report results. 
only 
Try 
Bakhkk (after cutting the customers 
hair): “How is this? Does it suit 
vou?" Absent -minded Professor: xoiive 
cut it too short! A little longer, please. 
—Boston Globs. 
