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A dairyman at Worcester, N. V. fed each of 
his 18 cows a half bushel of Harder Silage each 
night. This wan in August when the pastures 
were dried out. At the end of the third day his 
milk production had gone 
up 100 pounds. When his 
silage gave out, lie fed 
green corn and down wont 
the milk 40 pounds a day. 
Lots of interest inn facts in the 
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Its three-wall construction gives 
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WHITl toil CIRCUIAH 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Inbrccdinn Swine 
I have two purebred Poland ('liiiut gills 
about eight months old. from which I wish 
to raise Fall litters. The only purebred 
sires available anywhere in f It in vicinity 
are their own father, which I own my¬ 
self. and I wo Ini I f hrol hers, which I raised 
from their mother in an earlier lifter, and 
sold to neighbors. I judge that their own 
sire would be considered a slightly heifer 
individual than either of the two brothers. 
T should be glad to know whieh of the 
two possible matings would in your judg- 
ment lie likely to produce the heller re 
suits. Also, could any special precau¬ 
tion's he taken to lessen the probability 
of any harm resulting from using the re¬ 
lated sires? Is there any fotindutlion for 
the idea that extra heavy protein feeding 
at the breeding time and for a short 
neriod after will produce targe litters? 
Their mother has always had from 12 to 
I I pi," W i ll 
< ikiahnma. 
Neither of the millings suggested is 
apt to give you satisfactory results In 
resinous breeding, the milling of father to 
daughter, is very apt l<> result in weak or 
imperfect offspring, and the pigs resulting 
from such mating arc up! |o lack con¬ 
stitutional vigor and gaining propensities, 
i recall an instance al the New Jersey 
station where we mated father to daugh¬ 
ter in the hopes of prrpctin:ting certain 
desirable qualities that were evidenced m 
this strain. It happened to lie with Po- 
Innd <'binn h. The sow farrowed six pigs 
in duo time. Three of them were blind 
in one eye, two of I hem were blind in 
both eyes, and all except one wiih de¬ 
formed in some manner. The one normial 
youngster developed into a wonderful sire, 
and was as propotenl an individual as 
one could wish. All of the others failed 
to reach maturity for one cause or other. 
II pon tracing the ancestry of those ani¬ 
mals. however. I found that incestuous 
breeding had been practiced rather ex¬ 
tensively. 
II I were to choose between the two 
evils that you have presented, I should 
prefer to use the father on Ids daughter 
rather than to use the half brother, lint 
in either case I should not resort to this 
method of mating unless both individuals 
were well grown and unless they evi¬ 
denced st rong const it ut ions and marked 
(individuality. The size of the litter pro¬ 
duced is very apt to lie decreased, the pigs 
are very apt to be weak, uneven in size 
and it is unlikely tlmt they will develop 
uniformly. There is nothing flint one eau 
do to insure vigor and vitality with ani¬ 
mals mated in (Ids way. It rood sows 
should lie-'thin id muling time, unit should 
gain regularly in weight during their en¬ 
tire gestation period. It is believed by 
many breeders Ilia) this practice insures 
stronger iiihI hardier pigs, hut there is no 
evidence suggesting that it does in any 
way influence the size of the litters pro¬ 
duced. Nat ii rally well - nourished dams 
produce hardier pigs than obtained from 
mothers that are underfed, but a surplus 
of protein would not bring about the con¬ 
ditions suggested. 
Lima Beans and Condensed Milk for 
Pigs; Worm Remedies 
1. What is the feeding value of Lima 
beans for hogs? I have bought 22 Ions of 
these beans at $20 per ton. 2. Alsu, what 
is the feeding value of sweetened con¬ 
densed milk in hulk? What value has it, 
com pa reel with semi solid buttermilk? .’!. 
t'au you give me a formula for some good 
worm remedy wherein I can employ Arecn 
nut and oil of American wormsaeil, of 
whieh I have plenty? (if course the oil of 
American wormsced is good b.v itself, but 
as 1 have over <>00 pigs to treat, il seems 
that it is too troublesome to treat each 
one by itself with I be needed dose of can 
tor oil in conjunction. 4. We do our own 
killing in Fall and Winter, and have in 
consequence blond and intestines, which I 
would like to utilize. What can lie done 
wil.li it? We will kill about 000 or 700 
hogs? What about the hair? <\ i. v. A. 
New York. 
1, Dried Limn hen ns compare favorably 
in analysis witli standard middlings, oat 
middlings and low grade gluten feed, as 
you will note from the following compari¬ 
son : 
J d ied 1 Jinn beans. ... 
Crude 
Protein 
18.1 
Kid. 
J .5 
Ourli. 
55.0 
Standard middlings. . 
17.4 
4.0 
50.8 
(>nt middlings. 
10.5 
0.8 
01.8 
Gluten feed (lowgd.) 
17.8 
5.7 
50.7 
I am assuming I hill the Lima beans are 
obtained from a seed house, anil that they 
are clean and free from mold and dirt. 
They would lie safe to use for feeding any 
classes of pigs, provided they were sup¬ 
plemented witli corn or hominy meal, like 
wise some digester tankage or corn oil 
meal carrying relatively high amounts of 
protein. A useful combination would he 
hominy meal. 500 lbs; dried lama beans, 
400 lbs.; digester tankage. UK) lbs., or 
equal parts of digester tankage and corn 
germ meal could he used to replace tlie 
tankage. For young pigs that is, for 
animals weighing Icsh than 75 lbs. I 
should add some red dog Hour or standard 
middlings to this combination for the sake 
of variety. You might also add, espe¬ 
cially for the young pigs, from 5 to 8 per 
cent of the condensed milk or I tie semi¬ 
solid buttermilk. It would correct de¬ 
ficiencies, but il is an expensive source of 
protein. 
2. With reference to comparative val¬ 
ues between sweetened condensed milk 
and semi-solid buttermilk, I would sim¬ 
ply say that their values may he propor¬ 
tioned to their relative moisture content. 
The following analyses are representa¬ 
tive : 
1 tried milk. . 
Mol*. 
dire 
. . 8.0 
Crude 
Protein 
30 0 
Fat 
4.2 
Piirlt. 
52.0 
(bind. milk.. 
15.0 
2.0 
15.0 
Tankage . ... 
.. 7.5 
58.0 
15.0 
2.0 
The semi-solid buttermilk usually car¬ 
ries t»<) per cent moisture, and condensed 
milk possibly a trille more. Outside of 
the question of moisture content, they 
contribute the same amount of digestible 
nut rients. 
The usual dosage of American worm- 
seed for pigs is 20 grains for each 100 lbs. 
live weight. If you will divide your pigs 
into Ints of 15 or 20. starve them for 12 
hours or more, and then feed a hatch of 
feed containing the proper amount of the 
American wormsced, you will he success¬ 
ful in eliminating internal parasites. Per¬ 
sonally 1 had splendid results from the 
usc of a pint of turpentine mixed with a 
barrel of swill. Il is necessary, of course, 
to deny the nig all feed for 24 hours pre¬ 
vious lo giving him this concoction, and 
furthermore, il is important that il lie 
well mixed, and Hint, it lie fed in some 
such vehicle as skim milk and that it he 
followed by a feed-mix!lire carrying about 
25 per cent, of oilmeal. Were it not for 
tile cost the following remedy could lie 
recommended: Santonin, 2 grains; 
Arecn nut, 1 drachm; calomel, 2 grains; 
sodium bicarbonate, 2 drachms. This is 
Kiillicicnt for 100 lbs. of live weight. After 
tin- feed has been placed in (lie trough this 
powder can he sprinkled along on the feed. 
4. As to the use of blood and intestines 
ami other offal, you realize of course that, 
they can be used in the feed, provided 
they can be absorbed by some such pro¬ 
duct as comment, bran or beet pulp. If 
you have facilities it would lie well for 
you to boil the blood down and reduce ils 
moisture content and then mix it with 
some absorbent. Again, it could lie stored 
in barrels after it has been delihrinated. 
11 could he used for daily feed, I assume, 
of course, that you do not have facilities 
for drying the blood, which would Is- the 
best way to handle it. 
Ration for Milking Cows 
Will you advise the mixture you would 
use for milking cows given (he following 
feeds : 
No. 1 
Alfalfa 
(lorn silage 
(lorn and cob men I 
<trpund oats 
(lot tonseed meal 
I .inseed men I 
No. 2 
Alfalfa 
(lorn and cob meal 
(J round oats 
('ottonseed meal 
Linseed meal 
Past lire or silage 
We can get. bran and middlings, but 
prefer not to buy them. c. a. p. 
1. I should allow the cows all of the 
Alfalfa hay that they would consume 
once or twice daily, and for cows weigh¬ 
ing 1.000 lbs. or above, it would he appro¬ 
priate to feed about 55 lbs. of silage per 
day, divided in two equal feeds, fed morn¬ 
ing and night. Il is a rule in feeding 
dairy cows that they should be given all 
of tin* roughage and succulence that they 
would clean up with relish. As for the 
grain ration, I should suggest tbe fol¬ 
lowing: (?orn-aml-eob meal, live put'ts ; 
ground oats, three parts; cottonseed 
meal, two parts; linseed meal, two parts. 
The addition of one part of bran would 
improve the ration, allhough it is not 
necessary since you have available Alfalfa 
hay. 
2. I'lven though the animals were on 
pasture or fed soiling crops, I should still 
give them some dry Alfalfa hay once a 
day and allow them all that they would 
clean up in nhoul hull' an hour. The 
ration that should accompany pasture 
should be as follows: Porn and cob meal, 
live parts; ground oats, two parts; cot¬ 
tonseed meal, three parts. I should not 
use any linseed meal in conjunction with 
pasture grass, and il is not necessary lo 
include iin.v bran or middlings. Tbe lin¬ 
seed nieal is up! to he laxative when 
accompanied willi grass or succulent soil¬ 
ing chips and corn mid cob meal, ground 
Olds and cottonseed meal in the propor¬ 
tions suggested will provide an ample 
supplement for pasture. 
A man who ran the elevator of a big 
building was talking to a passenger. 
“The judge certainly did soak him." lie 
said, "lit* sentenced him to three years 
and 10 days. Now I understand the 
three years all right, but wind was the 
10 days for, I’d like to know?” "That 
waH the war tax," said a quiet citizen 
who got aboard at the tenth Hour. New 
York (Jlobe. 
