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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Trouble with Cows 
I recently purchased a farm which has 
been rented for a number of years. The 
man who just left it kept a dairy of high 
grade cows, and within a very short time 
he lost three valuable cows. The veteri¬ 
narian called it catarrh of the stomach. 
I purchased a quantity of hay which he 
had in the barn, and since I have been 
feeding it to my cows they all seem to 
have developed a cough. They never had 
a sign of one before. The hay is full of 
sorrel grass. I have been wondering 
whether this would have a bad effect on 
the cows. All the rest of the hay is 
clover. C. J. s. 
New York. 
While dusty hay is likely to cause ani¬ 
mals to cough freely, it is hardly possible 
that this factor is entirely responsible 
for the disorders mentioned. If the hay 
in question has spoiled in the mow or 
contains poisonous weeds that would 
bring about forage poisoning, then it is 
reasonable to assume that it was at least 
a contributing cause to the death of the 
former owner’s animals. Much would de¬ 
pend upon how much of this foreign 
material is intermixed with the clover, 
but it is known that cows are not sus¬ 
ceptible to ill effects from eating coarse 
materials, and I am inclined to believe 
that you are unduly alarmed in this in¬ 
stance. You have failed to indicate what 
feeds you are using in conjunction with 
this poor hay, hence we are unable to 
determine whether your low production 
can be traced to improper feeding. Y T ou 
are mindful of the fact that continuous 
coughing is an indication of tuberculosis, 
hut I presume that your herd is tuberculin 
tested. 
Meat for Dogs 
It is becoming exceedingly difficult in 
this section to get any decent meat for 
dogs. There doesn’t seem to be any mid¬ 
dle ground between scraps that are pretty 
nearly putrid and buying regular cuts of 
meat, which are too expensive for a large 
number of dogs. Do you think any of the 
standard first-class brands of beef scrap 
would do for the meat ration for dogs? 
New Jersey. f. g. 
You are quite right; there is no com¬ 
mercial meat product that is available in 
local territory that is well suited for 
feeding dogs. If you have any number of 
them in your kennels, it would seem to 
me that the most satisfactory results 
would follow the purchase of worn-out 
horses and slaughtering them and thus 
provide meat essential for dog feeding. 
I know that this is the practice in sec¬ 
tions where fox hunting is popular and 
where large kennels are maintained. It 
frequently happens that horses of this 
character can be purchased at little or no 
cost, and they would provide inexpensive 
meat. I do not know of any packing¬ 
house product that is distributed, espe¬ 
cially suited for such*use, and any ar¬ 
rangements that one is usually able to 
make with a local butcher are unsatis¬ 
factory. 
Meat Scraps for Pigs 
I am running a meat market, and have 
considerable waste meat. Have a power 
bone grinder. Would it pay me to feed 
raw ground bone and chopped up fat, 
suet and meat scraps, and about how 
much could I feed to each pig? I am 
selling scraps for about one cent a pound 
now. Would it be best fed to young 
stock or used with corn for fattening 
hogs? Would it be better boiled or fed 
raw? Could I use raw ground bone for 
fertilizer? c. w. b. 
New York. 
Meat scraps, chopped up fat and suet 
can be successfully used in feeding pigs, 
but only as a supplement to such prod¬ 
ucts as corn, oats and hominy meal. By 
themselves they would be ill-suited for 
feeding purposes. They are highly con¬ 
centrated protein carriers, and should be 
used as balancers. Not more than 15 or 
20 per cent of the ration should be derived 
from this source. I should not incorpor¬ 
ate the ground bone with the meat 
scraps; rather I should mix it with salt 
and charcoal and place it in self-feeding 
hoppers or boxes and allow the animals 
to have free access to the mixture. Ma¬ 
terials of this character would improve 
rations for young animals and correct de¬ 
ficiencies in rations intended for mature 
animals. The only advantage gained by 
boiling the meat scraps would be to in¬ 
sure more uniformity in the daily ration 
from day to day. If they are fed fresh 
daily from the butcher shop they could be 
fed in their raw state. The raw ground 
bone could be us*xl in your fertilizer 
mixtures. 
Various Swine Questions 
1. I am feeding the following ration to 
a sow to farrow soon : 100 lbs. white mid¬ 
dlings, 100 lbs. cornmeal, 100 lbs. ground 
barley, 100 lbs. Alfalfa meal and 40 lbs. 
oilmeal mixed to a thick slop with warm 
water. She eats 10 quarts a day. but 
does not show 7 signs of overfeeding. She 
continues to grow and is always ready 
for the next feed, so has a good appe¬ 
tite. Exercises a lot and 'her hair and 
skin are in very good condition. Would 
you advise me to continue feeding as 
above? 2.—Is the O. I. C. a breed that 
grows and fattens more slowly than 
Chester White or Berkshire? o.—Does 
it pay to cross breedsAwhere the pigs are 
sold to be raised for pork? Would not 
it be better to keep to oue breed and 
try to raise a good type rather than to 
try to get that type by crossing? I 
have a boar pig of Schoolmaster breed¬ 
ing and propose to use sows that are 
all white, but may have a cross some¬ 
where in their family tree that is not 
known. Would these sows be as good 
to breed pigs to go into the pork barrel 
at eight months as a registered sow? 
Considering what the registered stock 
would cost would I not gain as much in 
the end by using these grades? 4.—Do 
you consider the semi-solid buttermilk 
an economical feed at 7% cents a lb. 
for a 130-lb. keg? I cannot get skim- 
milk. and have only mill feeds and rape 
to feed. I would use the buttermilk for 
small pigs, not for grown hogs. 
Massachusetts. c. L. g. 
1-—The ration that you are feeding to 
your sows ought to give satisfactory re¬ 
sults. I should prefer a mixture of 
tankage and corn oil meal to the straight 
linseed meal, chiefly because it would be 
less laxative. Bred sows should gain in 
weight during their entire gestatiou 
period and should be in relatively high 
flesh at. farrowing time. With this con¬ 
dition realized it is possible to force the 
mothers to yield more milk and this is 
essential for obtaining rapid and satis- 
faetoi-y gains with young pigs. I should 
reduce the amount of grain fed just, pre¬ 
vious to and following the farrowing 
period, but would increase the feed when 
the pigs are three weeks old. 
2. —There is little, if any difference be¬ 
tween the O. I. C. and the Chester White 
breed of swine. As a matter of fact they 
are both accepted for registration by the 
same registry association and both are of 
substantially the same origin. The term 
O. I. C. is frequently applied to animals 
developed within a certain district, but 
does not correctly identify a distinct 
breed of hogs. It is believed that repre¬ 
sentatives of the Chester White breed 
will reach maturity at an earlier age than 
do Berkshires and they are unusually 
good feeders and foragers. 
2.—By all means, stick to one breed. 
Crossbreeding will not get you anywhere. 
You are quite as apt to perpetuate the 
undesirable qualities of each breed as 
to realize the good points desired. Cross¬ 
breeding is permissible where it is desired 
to produce all market animals, and where 
it is possible to use for breeding purposes, 
animals representative of two distinct 
breeds. I should use a purebred boar on 
the grade sows that you have available 
and _ select the choicest gilts from thi > 
mating for use as brood sows during the 
coming year. I would continue the use 
of a purebred Chester White sire, but 
would avoid inbreeding or incestuous 
mating. The chances are that the bulk 
of the pigs will be white although a num¬ 
ber of them will be spotted or flecked. 
If there is a breeder of purebred Chester 
White hogs in your neighborhood that 
has made a success of swine breeding, it 
might be well to purchase a couple of 
sow pigs at weaning age and develop 
these for breeding purposes. In this 
way you could get into the purebred pig 
business at very little cost and would 
have foundation stock that would enable 
you to produce pork more efficiently. 
4. Dried or semi-dried milk does 
correct deficiencies and adds very mate¬ 
rially to the feeding qualities of a ration 
intended for growing or fattening pigs, 
but there is a difference of opinion as to 
its economy in yielding protein. I should 
use some of the product at the price 
quoted: nevertheless, I should turn to 
some of the more common corn balancers 
to provide the bulk of the protein and 
rely upon the dried or serai-dried milk 
to furnish the vitamines and mineral 
salts necessary as correctives. 
