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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Double Your Hog Profits 
With Two Litters a Year 
October 22, 1921 
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A Case of Garget 
Would you advise me what to do for 
my cow? She has been milking for about 
four months. Two weeks ago the milk 
suddenly became thick. First oue quarter 
would be affected, then it would leave 
that, until it has been in every teat. 
There is no blood in it, unless I strip it 
dry, but it is thick and yellow, and some¬ 
times it is very hard to get out. The 
i c °w has a line appetite and does not seem 
j Jo feel any pain while being milked. 
| Early this Summer two other cows 
i seemed to have the same thing, but I 
] dried them right up. Let me know how 
garget affects them. h. a. 
Pennsylvania. 
j From the description it is evident that 
: your cow is suffering from garget. The 
only thing to do is to deny her all grain 
for two or three days. Purge her system 
thoroughly by the use of a pound of Ep- 
; som salts dissolved in a pint of molasses 
and mixed with a quart of warm water. 
Feed her on bran mashes and, after the 
| third day, you can feed her 2 or 3 lbs. 
of a mixture consisting of wheat bran 
J and moistened beet pulp. Bathe the ud- 
! der three or four times a day with hot 
j salt water as hot as you can bear your 
| hand in. Feed the cow on Alfalfa or 
clover hay during this treatment, and the 
hay will best serve as roughage. If you 
have an abundance of the mangel beets 
you will find them useful in providing 
succulence for your laying hens during the 
Winter. 
Ration for Butter Production 
I have six scrub cows, and am making 
butter. I have good mixed hay. dry corn¬ 
stalks cut with a cutter, no silo. I have 
corn I can shell and grind into meal. Will 
you give me a balanced ration of grain 
for Winter feeding? Give the amount by 
measure instead of weight. w. j. n. 
Connecticut. 
It is unfortunate that you are trying 
to make butter from what you have iden¬ 
tified as “scrub” cows. Ordinarily the 
term “scrub” is applied to animals of un¬ 
known breeding, individuals that fail to 
yield a satisfactory amount of product to 
pay cost of production. If you have 
used the word “scrub” meaning “grade” 
cows, the eti.se is more hopeful, for it is 
an uphill proposition to try to make any 
money in producing dairy products from 
inferior or scrub cows. 
If you have mixed hay and cornstalks 
it would, no doubt, pay you to cut or 
shred the cornstalks, for the refuse ma- 
Icrial will make excellent bedding, and 
the cows will cat the stalks much better 
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| chances are that the trouble will disap- 
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Ration with Mangel Beets 
I 1 have one cow. and calf, purebred and 
! registered Jerseys, so would like to feed 
them th(> best I can. I have raised a field 
of sugar beets to feed this Winter. They 
j tell me around here I will have to pull 
them before the frost hits them or they 
will be strong and make the milk taste. 
Is that so? 1 have coni, corn fodder and 
sugar beets to feed, and will have 'o buv 
the rest. Will you make a ration using 
these feeds as much as vou can ? p. p. ji. 
New York. 
Sugar beets intended for feeding dairy 
cows should he harvested before frost and 
carefully stored in appropriate root cel¬ 
lars, or they may be buried in pits. Se¬ 
lect a clear dry day for pulling the beets, 
and allow them to dry out fully on the 
outside before they are gathered and 
hauled to the pit for storage. The tops 
should be cut off either in the field or 
before the mangel beets are placed in the 
pit. T nder ordinary circumstances il is 
well to dig a pit about 4 ft. wide and as 
long as necessary to take care of the 
crop. Tt would be well to dig Ibis about 
3 ft. deep. The pit should be Jined with 
straw, and then the beets should be as¬ 
sembled and built up in tiers. As the top 
of the pit is approached you should round 
over the top of the pile, cover the beets 
with straw or hay. which in turn can be 
covered with dirt in sufficient quantity 
to prevent the beets from freezing. Ad¬ 
ditional dirt should he added as cold 
weather approaches. The beets can be 
removed by opening one end of the pit 
and removing enough for a day's use. The 
straw should t lion be packed hack into 
the hole, and this again re-covered with 
the dirt. They will keep under these 
conditions indefinitely. You are fortu¬ 
nate to have such succulence available for 
use in feeding your dairy cow. 
It will be necessary to feed your cow 
from •> to 0 lbs. of a suitable grain mix¬ 
ture and. in addition, she should have ac¬ 
cess to all of the roughage that she will 
clean up with relish. Alfalfa or clover 
if they are shredded. Without silage I 
would suggest that you use some beet 
pulp, either moistened and fed as a sub¬ 
stitute succulence, or it can be included 
in a shovel mixture that is appended, or 
. it can be incorporated in the regular grain 
ration. 1 would suggest yellow hominy 
meal, 250 lbs.: wheat bran, 150 lbs.; 
buckwheat middlings. 1.)0 lbs,; cottonseed 
meal, 200 lbs.: gluten feed, 100 lbs.; 
corn germ meal. 75 lbs.; dry beet pulp. 
125 lbs. ;• salt. 15 lbs. 
Ordinarily in a grain mixture of this 
character 1 lb. will equal a quart, and it 
would be appropriate to feed one quart 
daily for each lbs. of milk produced 
per cow per day. On this basis a cow 
yielding from 30 to 35 lbs. of milk per 
day should lie given about 10 quarts of 
feed in two equal portions, morning and 
night and. in addition, should be given 
all of the roughage, that is, mixed hay or 
corn fodder, that she will consume with 
relish. 1 sually there is an advantage in 
feeding the corn fodder or roughage dur¬ 
ing the middle of the day, for it is be¬ 
lieved that digestion is aided by this pro¬ 
cess. 
Long-toothed Rabbit 
I have a rabbit that has teeth which 
grow three-fourths of an inch long. I 
havo had them cut off three times. It 
lias to eat by pulling food in with its 
tongue. T would like to know the cause 
and remedy. w. ir. M. 
Cortez, Pa. 
I eeth sometimes grow to an abnormal 
length, which causes difficulty in eating. 
The only remedy is to reduce the length 
by means of a file or a pair of wire cut¬ 
ting pliers. Give the rabbit as much hard 
food to gnaw as possible, such as cabbage 
stumps and clover hay and straw in place 
of meadow hay. and provide the animal 
with ash branches. The gnawing of this 
hard stuff will retard the growth of the 
teeth. f. i). g. 
‘Bertie.” said his mother, “when you 
divided those five caramels with your 
sister, did you give her three?” “No, 
ma. 1 knew they wouldn’t come out even, 
so I ate one ’fore I began to divide.”— 
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