1688 
Te RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October SO, 1020 
WATER. BOWLS 
Save All the Labor 
Increase Milk Yield 25% 
WM. LOUDEN 
Over 53 years inventor of 
Modern Ham Equipment 
P ART of the slump in milk production during winter is caused 
by cows not drinking enough water. A cow needs 4% gal¬ 
lons of water for each gallon of milk produced. No cow drinks 
enough when watered only once or twice a day. 
With Louden Automatic Water Bowls, cows drink frequently 
— get all they want, day or night. The result is a tig increase in milk yield that more 
than pays for the water bowls in a single season. Any farmer can install them in any 
barn. They are easily cleaned. Cannot get out of order. 
Frank W. Morrison, prominent Massachusetts dairyman, writes us that 
his cows gave 40% more milk after Louden Water Bowls had been installed. 
Louden Bowls save all the labor of watering — give cows water of right temperature 
•—eliminate expense and trouble of heating water in winter. 
Write for 224-Page Catalog 
Tells all about Louden Water Bowls and 
other labor-saving, profit-making barn equip¬ 
ment— stalls and stanchions, animal pens, 
litter and feed carriers; manger divisions, 
barn and garage door hangers, hay unloading 
tools, power hoists, cupolas, ventilators — 
“Everything for the Barn.” 
If you expect to build or remodel a barn write for 
Louden Barn Plans, a I 12-pape book devoted entirely to 
barn building. Our barn building experts will give you 
plans and suggestions to meet your needs. No charge 
or obligation. 
The Louden Machinery Co. 
2643 Court Street Fairfield, Iowa 
THE LOUDEN MACHINERY CO. 
2643 Court Street, Fairfield, Iowa 
Please send, postpaid, without charge or 
obligation, the books checked below: 
.Louden Barn Plans 
_Louden Illustrated Catalog 
I expect to build (remodel) a barn about 
(date).for_cows_horses. 
Am interested in:_Stalls.Stan¬ 
chions.Carriers.Water Bowls. 
..Animal Pens.Hay Tools. 
Name . ......__-.-... 
Post Office State--- 
MINERALS 
HEAVER 
COMPOUND 
Booklet 
Free 
NEGLECT 
Will Ruin v 
Your Horse 
Sold on 
Its Merits 
• END TODAY 
AGENTS 
WANTED 
HINEBAL HEAVE REMEDY CO., 481 Fourth Ave.. Pittsburg, Pa. 
THICK, SWOLLEN GLANDS 
that make a horse Wheeze, 
Roar, have Thick Wind 
or Choke-down, can be 
reduced with 
RBINE 
also other Bunches or Swellings. Noblister, 
no hair gone, and horse kept at work. Eco¬ 
nomical-only a few drops required at an appli¬ 
cation. $2.50 per bottle delivered. Book 3 R freo. 
ABSORBING JR., the antiseptic liniment for man¬ 
kind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swollen 
Veins and Ulcers. $1.25 a bottle at dealers or 
delivered. Book“Evidence” free. 
W. F. YOUNG. INC.. 88 Temple St.. Springfield. Man. 
BURS BIST 
t Mo 
r Backache 
Weigh* 
only 45 
DC lbs* 
SAW YOUR WOOD 
Batts 
down 
TEKH3 
With ft FOLDING SAWING WACIIIKE. SOORDS by ONK SIAN In 
10 hours. Send for Free catalog No. E68 showing low price 
and latest improvements. First order Becures agency. 
Folding Sawing Mach. Co., 161 W■ Harrison St., Chicago, 111, 
! DIGESTER TANKAGE I 
FOR HOGS 
Write for prices, feed¬ 
ing directions, etc. 
IDEAL RENDERING CO. 
NORTH WALES, PA 
.MiMiiiiiiiiiMmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 
UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIM 
1WAS FED ON RE1CHARDS; 
. DIGESTER TANKAGE 
Reichard’s Meat and Bone Tankage 
is absolutely indispensable to Growing Hogs, because it furnishes 25% Bone 
Phosphate in addition to large amounts of animal Protein and Fat, which 
Nature demands in building up Frame Work and Muscular Tissue. 
Made of selected materials and sold at a reasonable price. For descriptive 
literature, prices and other information, address, 
ROBERT A. REICHARD 
19th & W. LAWRENCE STS. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Heifers 
TTmv should T feed Holstein and Jersey 
heifers from six to 12 months old on good 
pasture, and also when kept in barn? 
Some people say if you feed them well 
they will be of a beef type instead of a 
good milk type. Is this true? I have 
raised quite a number, and some were 
good milkers and some were not. Do 
Ilolsteins need more grain than Jerseys? 
How much grain should be fed to a milk 
cow when she gets good clover hay morn¬ 
ing and night, fodder at noon and mangels 
twice a day? W. D. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is the practice of successful breeders 
and dairymen to feed their heifers gener¬ 
ously of grain and roughage previous to 
calving time, and particularly through the 
period when they are from six to 12 
months of age. I do not share the belief 
that one may modify the milking tenden¬ 
cies of a heifer by limiting or increasing 
the grain ration, however, during this in¬ 
terval. The object, in fact, is to obtain 
the maximum growth and establish the 
greatest vigor in young animals during 
this stage. 
Milking tendencies are inherited rather 
than acquired, and if one is careful to see 
that the calves are well grown and that 
the. yearlings and two-year-olds carry a 
generous amount of flesh, I am satisfied 
that lie cannot modify milk-making ten¬ 
dencies in animals that are bred for this 
purpose. I should say that from 4 to <5 
ihs. of grain per day would be a fair 
allowance for heifers of this. age. 
A.; to whether Ilolsteins require more 
feed than Jerseys, this would depend upon 
their size and weight. Ilolsteins are 
larger and will consume a greater amount 
of coarse feeds, and feeding standards are 
generally based upon weight, and are not 
substantially modified for representatives 
of the various breeds. The fact that you 
produced some heifer calves that were 
milkers and others that had beef tenden¬ 
cies suggests that the foundation stock 
might have been dual-purpose and not 
strictly of the dairy type. Dairy heifers 
that show a tendency'to put on a generous 
amount of flesh during their growing sea¬ 
son usually develop into the best milkers, 
for the flesh-making characteristic is an 
evidence of inherited feeding qualities 
that parallel profitable milk production. 
The important thing is to determine 
whether animals of your herd can be 
traced in their ancestry to animals that 
have dairy characteristics and milk-mak¬ 
ing functions definitely established from 
breeding and selection. In other words, 
where heifers with milk-making inclina¬ 
tions can be fed a generous amount of 
grain during their early growing stage, 
this will result in their growing an abund¬ 
ance of flesh without injuring their milk¬ 
making tendencies. , 
Usually the amount of grain fed to a 
cow in milk, provided that she lias all of 
the roughage that she will clean up, to¬ 
gether with some succulence, such as 
mangel beets, is determined by allowing 
one pound of grain daily for each 3*4 or 
4 lbs. of milk nroduced per day provided 
they are plentiful. 
Feeding Canning Factory Waste 
At a farm near a canning factory the 
owner is feeding his cows fresh husks 
and cobs from green corn canned at the 
factory, lie did the same last year, and 
both times it has resulted in drying lip 
the cows. Can you tell me what should 
cause this? a. v. s. 
New York. 
The only reason that I could suggest ns 
causing cows, fed residue products from 
a canning factory where corn is canned, 
to dry up would he that the owner might 
have fed them exclusively on this pro¬ 
duct and. the material being relatively 
coarse and correspondingly low in feed¬ 
ing value, they were unable to maintain 
their production, of milk. If reasonable 
amounts of this feed were supplied, pro¬ 
vided it was fresh and sweet and supple¬ 
mented with a grain ration, it ought to 
give quite satisfactory results. Usually 
material of this sort decomposes rapidly 
if not hauled regularly each day, and 
consequently fermentation sets in. with 
the result that the material, while rel¬ 
ished by the animals, does not provide in 
itself a maintenance or production ration. 
We should be glad to hear comments from 
feeders who may have used this material 
with better results. 
Improving Dairy Ration 
T would like to know just what is lack¬ 
ing in the feed T am feeding niy dairy? 
My farm is small, and I raise soiling 
crops. Have just finished feeding oats, 
peas and buckwheat. The grain I gave 
them was corn chop. Now oats and peas 
are gone. I have started on a field of 
millet and buckwheat; millet not yet. 
headed. Am giving cows two quarts of 
gluten a day. and as much of the green 
feed as they can possibly eat twice a day. 
Since changing my cows have lowered so 
much I would like to find out what is 
lacking in the ration. W. J. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
I am inclined to believe that the ad¬ 
dition of some cornmeal t,o your grain ra¬ 
tion would be beneficial, for the soiliug 
crops that you are- feeding are not es¬ 
pecially palatable, and the feeding of glu- 
ten alone would not give the best results. 
You are aware that oats and Canada field 
peas make one of the best soiling crops 
that the farmer can produce. Oats and 
Canada peas rotate over a comparatively 
long period, and even though the oats 
may head out and the peas come into pod, 
the cows will cat them with considerable 
relish. 
From still another standpoint if would 
he to your advantage to feed some com¬ 
bination of grain, such as corn, gluten and 
oilmeal. as it will provide more variety 
and make sure that they are not fed ex¬ 
cessively on succulent feed's that are 
washy and that do not supply digestible 
nutrients. Furthermore, since your cows 
are due to freshen in December, it is well 
that they he fed some carbohydrate feed, 
such a* will enable them to put on some 
flesh, and corn or hominy with oilmeal 
will do this more generously than any 
other combination that. I know of. 
Feeding Cow and Heifer 
1. Would you advise a proper grain 
ration for a Jersey cow that has just 
freshened? I have mixed liay. 2. I wish 
a ration for a Jersey heifer six weeks 
old. At present I am feeding a meal 
mixed in milk twice a day and oaks once 
a day. a. g. 
New York. 
1. Your Jersey family cow just fresh 
would respond to a grain ration consist¬ 
ing of 00 lbs. of hominy, 20 lbs. of bran, 
50 lbs. of gluten. 40 lbs. of ground oats, 
30 lbs. of oilmeal. This provides a mix¬ 
ture of 200 Ihs., or it can be mixed in 
like proportions in any quantity desired. 
Inasmuch as you do not have any succu- 
lence it. might be well to provide some 
beet pulp and saturate this with water 
and feed it in addition to the grain 
ration suggested. Feed 1 lb. of grain for 
each 314 lbs. of milk produced per day. 
Allow her 4 or fi lbs. of the dry beet 
pulp, which will be about 20 lbs. of the 
moistened pulp. In addition let her have 
all of the mixed hay that she will eat 
twice daily. 
2. The proprietary calf feed that you 
are feeding is as good as any on the mar¬ 
ket, and if fed according to directions will 
give good results. If you desire to make 
up your own calf meal to supplement 
skim-milk you will find this a good ra¬ 
tion. 40 lbs. of hominy or cornmeal, 30 
lbs. of wheat bran. 25 lbs. of oilmeal. 20 
lbs. of wheat middlings. Let. the calf 
have all of this mixture that it will con¬ 
sume, and it would be well to leave a 
small portion of the meal before the calf 
at all times. It is important to keep 
young calves growing and gaining each 
day. and care should be exercised that 
they should he given their milk from clean 
pails and that they should be generously 
supplied with dry bedding. Sanitation is 
a very important item in successful calf¬ 
raising. 
Ration with Shredded Fodder 
Will you give me a ration for Holstein 
cows to use with shredded fodder, wet 
brewers’ grains and clover hay? Am at 
present using wheat bran and corn glu¬ 
ten. but do not think I am getting good 
results. w. H. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
Excellent results have been obtained 
from the use of wet brewery grains in a 
dairy ration intended for Holstein cows 
in milk where the wet grains have been 
used with cornmeal and gluten meal. Tt is 
not necessary to include very much wheat 
bran in such a combination, especially 
where you have clover hay that will pro¬ 
vide the bulk and supply tin* ash and 
mineral matter. I should use equal 
parts of cornmeal and gluten meal, plac¬ 
ing this on the mess of wet brewery 
grains. Recent modifications in the pro¬ 
cesses of brewing have changed substan¬ 
tially the quality of wet grains available 
for use in feeding live stock. We used 
to get excellent results from supplement¬ 
ing the wet brewery grains with corn¬ 
meal. but I am confident that gluten meal 
addl'd to the grain ration would increase 
its usefulness, due to the low fiber con¬ 
tent. of the gluten and its high digesti¬ 
bility. 
You must feed the animals in propor¬ 
tion to their production, and if wet brew¬ 
ery grains are the most economical source 
of nutrients you would feed extensively 
of this product, giving in addition enough 
of the corn and gluten meal mixture to 
get the maximum results. I should make 
it a point to give the cows all of the 
shredded corn fodder that they would eat 
once a day anil all of the clover hay that 
they would clean up morning and eve¬ 
ning. It would be best to give the 
shredded corn fodder during the middle of 
the day. 
Springer was having an afternoon off, 
so he thought he would take the children 
for a little outing. “My dear." he said, 
approaching his wife, “suppose we take 
the children to the zoo today. 
Will, you promised to take them to moth¬ 
er's.” ‘ she protested. “All right, he 
agreed amicably. “If it’s all the same to 
the children.”—New York Globe. 
