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Iht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 1, 1921 
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Oat Hay for Horses 
Will you advise me how to feed oat 
hay to a horse? I cut oats while in milk. 
My horse ate the oats well for several 
days, when he stopped ea'ting them. He 
is not doing well, is losing flesh, and he 
has humors on skin, with itching sensa¬ 
tion. I am feeding equal parts cracked 
corn and bran with what little oats he 
will eat for hay. B. h. 
New Jersey. 
Oat hay is a roughage and not a con¬ 
centrate, and you should not undertake 
to feed it as a grain in a mixture in¬ 
tended for work horses. It might pro¬ 
perly constitute the bulk of the evening 
meal, but a horse that is losing flesh 
should be fed generously of a grain mix¬ 
ture during the other two feedings. I 
take it that you were not successful in 
harvesting your oat hay after having it 
get wet and possibly badly cured, and as 
a result it is probably musty and un¬ 
palatable. If by any chance it has fer¬ 
mented to such an extent that mold or 
must is present it cannot safely be fed 
to your horse. A grain ration consisting 
of five parts of cracked corn, four parts 
of bran and one part of oilmeal should 
be fed in combination with the oat hay. 
If the horse does not take kindly to 
the oat hay, then mix with it some mixed 
or Alfalfa hay until he is accustomed to 
eating the oat hay. Unless it is badly 
cured it is very palatable for horses, and 
is a bulky and satisfactory roughage to 
use during the Winter months. Salt 
should be available at all times. 
Alfalfa or Oats and Peas 
1. Which would be the most profitable 
to buy—Alfalfa hay, first cutting, which 
is very coarse, at $25 per ton. or grow oats 
and peas for hay, and buy a grain ration 
to make up the portion for the produc¬ 
tion of milk at the present time? 2. Can 
you tell me how many bushels per day a 
person would need to use off a 16-foot 
silo to keep it sweet until freezing time? 
Watkins, N. Y. t. p. m. 
1. It would be more profitable for you 
to produce oats and Canada field peas as 
a source of roughage rather than to buy 
first cutting Alfalfa bay that would be 
coarse and woody at $25 a ton. If the 
oats and Canada field peas are seeded 
early in the Spring they will yield, if 
planted on good soil, about three or four 
tons of hay to the acre, and can be fol¬ 
lowed by some such crop as Soy beans 
or millet, that would add substantially to 
your available roughage. While it is true 
that Alfalfa carries considerably more 
protein than the oat and pea hay, the 
difference is not sufficient to make up the 
differential in cost. Y'ou would of course 
have to feed a grain ration carrying con¬ 
siderably more protein in case the rough- 
age used was oat and pea hay rather than 
Alfalfa hay. With present freight rates 
and high distribution costs there is every 
advantage in favor of operations that 
enable the farmer to produce the bulk of 
the roughage on liis own farm rather 
than to purchase it in the open market. 
2. As to the amount of silage necessary 
to be removed daily in order to prevent 
spoilage, it would be difficult to suggest 
the amount in bushels; but if you are 
careful in removing two or three inches 
from the surface of the entire silo no 
spoilage will be experienced. We are 
assuming that you find it necessary to 
open your silo immediately before the 
Fall feeding season begins, otherwise you 
are advised not to remove any of the 
decomposed material until you are ready 
for regular daily feeding. After the silo 
is filled in the Fall there is an advantage 
in sprinkling the top surface with oats in 
order that they may sprout and form a 
mat which will prevent unnecessary and 
common spoilage. If this practice is re¬ 
sorted to be sure to use oats generously 
in order that a thick mat of green growth 
may appear. 
3» - 
Cow Poisoned by Parsnips 
A number of months ago I noticed an 
article in The R. N.-Y. in regard to par¬ 
snips as poison, and it seems strange to 
me that some time afterward I should 
lose a cow, the best one I had, just fresh 
about five weeks, from eating the stems of 
parsnips having seed heads and flowers 
on them. It was just four days after the 
cow had eaten it that she was dead, and 
what strikes me that it could have been 
the parsnips is the fact that the cow 
died without a kick or any pain; was 
just feeling unwell, and laid over and died 
while we watched her. I examined the 
cow’s intestines, and found everything in 
perfect condition except the fact that not 
a drop of blood was left, except a little 
in the liver; all the rest was a reddish- 
tinted water. Can you give me any more 
information on the poison of parsnips? 
Egg Harbor, N. J. f. s. 
I am inclined to believe that it was the 
condition of decay rather than any poi¬ 
sonous product that the parsnip tops 
themselves might have contained that was 
responsible for death in this instance. I 
have known instances where parsnip tops 
have been picked over by dairy cows, but 
this is the first case of poisoning that 
has been called to my attention. 
Red Hogs as Fighters 
“Here is a recommendation for red 
hogs sent by an expert: ‘They do not 
frighten readily and are better' fighters, 
pound for pound, than any other colors.’ 
Is that any advantage?” 
I note, in The R. N.-Y. the above item. 
I would say that any male hog that is 
lively and a good male, is of necessity 
full of energy. I have grown them, 
white, black and red males, and I always 
make it a point to treat well and make 
tame. Yes, tame as a dog. A male hog 
that is. worth the name, and the better the 
male is, the more likely he will be to 
get cross and ugly if not handled as they 
should be. A man who is afraid of a 
hog, should not. in my judgment, keep 
one, as the hog knows this fully as well 
as the man, yes, better. A full-grown 
male hog. weighing 500 lbs. or more is 
very near in intelligence to a dog. 
I have one now, a pure Duroc-Jersey, 
500 lbs. or more, tame as a dog. knows 
his name, will come at call, anywhere at 
all times. Is now past three years. I 
have five young daughters of his. that 
farrowed at one year old or less 61 live 
strong pigs. 
I have had, as I said, white, red and 
black, but for genuine value as prolific 
hogs give me the red. ones every time 
and the fact still remains that of all hogs 
going to market over one-half of them 
are either red or a strong percentage of 
red. And the best hog to grow is the 
best-bred one. If gamy or intelligent, if 
not properly cared for, and they once 
get cross by improper management, look 
out! They know how to look out for 
No. 1, but so do the black and white 
ones too. This is equally true of the 
sows. They can also be made very tame 
or otherwise. F. M. P. & SON. 
New Y'ork. 
Harvesting and Feeding Sunflowers 
As usual at this season we have a good 
many questions asking how to handle 
sunflowers so as to hold the seeds for 
feeding. In this climate it is difficult to 
save the seeds properly. They contain 
considerable oil and quickly mold or de¬ 
cay when they are left damp. Our own 
plan for harvesting a small quantity of 
seed is to drive through the field with a 
wagon just before the seeds are ready to 
drop out of the head. We cut the heads 
off with a sharp knife or sickle, leaving 
a foot or a little more of the stem to 
serve as a handle. These heads are 
tossed gently into a wagon and the load 
is hauled to the barn or shed, where there 
is a good circulation of air, and where 
the heads can be kept dry. If there are 
only a few of the heads they can be 
spread out on the floor or on top of the 
haymow. One good plan is to build a 
set of racks or bins up at one side of the 
shed or barn. It is better to make the 
sides and bottoms of these bins out of 
chicken wire, so as to give a full circu¬ 
lation. of air around the heads. Kept in 
these bins for a week or two the heads 
will dry out. The seeds can be beaten 
out by putting them on a firm floor and 
striking them with a heavy stick or flail, 
or when there is a large number they can 
he run through a thrashing machine. 
Some people run them through a fodder 
cutter. We know of cases where sun¬ 
flowers and ear corn are run through the 
cutter together, and the mixture then fed 
to chickens. The hens are able to do the 
rest of the shelling. In fact, one good 
way to save labor is to throw the sun¬ 
flower heads and the ear corn, too, right 
into the chicken yard and let the hens 
help themselves. They will get all the 
feed in this way, the trouble being that 
you never can tell exactly how much you 
are feeding. 
