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JV RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 5, 1921 
Off Summer Pastures 
Your animals are coming off summer pastures 
and going on dry feed. It’s a big change. Out in 
the succulent pastures, Nature supplies the tonics 
and laxatives to keep animals in condition. 
—But unless you supply these tonics and laxa¬ 
tives to your stock on dry feed, you are not going 
to get full returns from your hay, grain and fodder. 
Besides, your animals are apt to get “off feed” and 
out of fix. 
Dr. Hess Stock Tonic 
Supplies the Tonics—Laxatives—Diuretics 
It keeps animals free from worms. 
It keeps their bowels open and regular. 
It keeps the appetite and digestion good. 
It conditions cows for calving. 
It helps to keep up the milk flow. 
It keeps feeding cattle right up on their appetite. 
It keeps hogs healthy, thrifty, free from worms. 
It means health and thrift for all animals. 
Always buy Dr. Hess Stock Tonic according to the size 
©f your herd. Tell your dealer how many animals you 
bave. He has a package to suit. Good results guaranteed. 
PRICES REDUCED —25 lb. Pail now $2.25. 100 lb. Dram now 
$8.00. 60c. Package now 50c. $1.25 Package now $1.00. 
Except in the Ear West, South, and Canada. 
WHY PAY THE PEDDLER TWICE MY PRICE? 
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Authorities agree that more bulk and succulence are needed in 90% 
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A part of your dairy ration 
Dried Beet Pulp is a bulky, succulent, vegetable feed—remarkable 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Potato Flour 
value of 
Feeding 
What is the feeding value of potato 
flour for dairy cows? f. j. b. 
Potato flour is a concentrated carbo¬ 
hydrate carrier and yields only 1.4 pro¬ 
tein and a total of 76.2 lbs. of digestible 
nutrients per 100 lbs. Rye flour carries 
about six times as much protein and 
about the same amount of carbohydrates. 
Blackstrap molasses yields approximately 
the same amount of crude protein, but 
less carbohydrates and less total digestible 
nutrients. 
Potato flour is not extensively used in 
this country as a food for live stock. A 
considerable quantity is used by the bak¬ 
eries, but it would seem that the process 
of converting the potato into flour is not 
as well known or as efficiently practiced 
in Ibis country as it is in Germany. 
Furthermore, potato flour is not especially 
palatable when incorporated in rations 
for live stock. During the war an effort 
was made to utilize potato flour in both 
human and animal nutrition, but with the 
relatively low price of coin and other 
starch products as compared with the 
potato, the practice was discontinued after 
the war. 
In determining the value of potato 
flour it should be compared with the 
products mentioned above. One hundred 
pounds of wheat shorts will yield 67 lbs. 
of digestible nutrients, and it must be re¬ 
membered that the wheat shorts yield 
about 12 times as much protein as the 
potato flour. I do not believe that potato 
flour under present conditions and valu¬ 
ations can be profitably incorporated in 
rations intended for live stock. I do be¬ 
lieve, however, that in certain sections of 
Maine, Michigan and other areas where 
potatoes are extensively produced, that 
much can be gained and conserved if 
machinery could be installed making it 
possible to save the hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of bushels of potatoes that annually 
go to waste on account of congested mar¬ 
kets or low valuations during the harvest 
and selling season. As potatoes cannot 
be carried over from one season to the 
next, effort should be made to utilize that 
portion of the crop that growers are un¬ 
able to market advantageously. 
the so-called auti-kicking devices. Fre¬ 
quently heifers can be corrected of this 
vice by tying a half-inch rope tight 
around the body just in front of the udder 
and angling between the hip joints and 
drawing this very tight. It is almost im¬ 
possible for a heifer to kick when thus 
harnessed and. after it has been used a 
few times the habit is very apt to disap¬ 
pear. 
Can 
which 
lowing 
Feed 
Mixing a Dairy 
you suggest for me a dairy feed 
I can mix myself, having the fol- 
il.vsis: Protein. 19 per cent; 
fat, 5 per cent.; fiber, 8.50 per cent; car¬ 
bohydrates. 50 per cent? I want this for 
Holstein cows. I have no pasture at 
present, but plenty of cornstalks. 
New York. n. w. v. 
. If your cows arc high producing indi¬ 
viduals it is my belief that a ration carry¬ 
ing as low a protein content as you have 
suggested would not give you the most 
satisfactory or economical results. How¬ 
ever, if you feed a ration of this charac¬ 
ter in conjunction with Alfalfa or clover 
hay it might ser ,- o you advantageously. 
I have not calculated the exact nutri¬ 
tive ration of the combination that fol¬ 
lows, hut I do know that it is a mixture 
that can bo safely fed to average dairy 
cows. It is largely a question of price or 
the actual amount of digestible nutrients 
that a given amount of feed contributes. 
Naturally it is what a given amount of 
feed will do. rather than what it is that 
determines its value, and for this reason 
it. would be well for you to compare re¬ 
sults from trying the several combina¬ 
tions. A useful combination of the pro¬ 
ducts mentioned would be as follows: 
Cornmeal. 250 lbs.; wheat bran, 200 lbs.; 
cottonseed meal, 43 per cent, 150 lbs.; 
gluten feed. 100 lbs.; oilmeal. 100 lbs.; 
ground oats, 100 lbs.; beet pulp. 100 lbs. 
Feed all the roughage the cows will con¬ 
sume. 
Dairy Ration; Kicking Cows 
1. I shall be glad to have criticisms of 
the following ration for grade Guernsey 
and Holstein cows. This feed is supple¬ 
mentary to clover. Alfalfa and Blue grass 
pasture in Summer, and corn stover and 
Alfalfa and Soy bean hay in Winter; no 
silage or beet pulp possible. I make but¬ 
ter for private trade, averaging 50 lbs. 
weekly from eight cows the year round. 
About six weeks’ feed is as follows: 
1,050 lbs. corn and cob meal, 600 lbs. 
whole wheat meal. 400 lbs. wheat bran, 
200 lbs. cottonseed meal. 200 lbs. O. P. 
linseed meal. 100 lbs. grain meal, 43 per 
cent protein, 50 lbs. salt. 
2. I)o you believe whipping a kicking 
cow (heifer) effective? Usually I have 
no trouble with heifers learning to be 
milked, hut I have two exception at pres¬ 
ent. My cows will come running when I 
call in pasture to have heads rubbed and 
scratched, but I sometimes wonder wheth¬ 
er less friendly relations and gentleness 
would not be better. I was taught early 
that a cow was so highly organized ner¬ 
vously that absolute gentleness was es¬ 
sential, hut certainly a sharp command 
seems effective on occasion, and I am be¬ 
ginning to wonder whether whipping is 
advisable when deserved. 
Maryland. eastern SHORE. 
1. If you consider the prevailing prices 
for coarse grains and wheat, I think you 
will agree that economy would not prompt 
you to include 600 lbs. of whole wheat in 
a ration for your dairy cows. In addition 
to being expensive as a source of digesti¬ 
ble nutrients, ground wheat is ill suited 
for use in a grain ration. Wheat bran, 
properly supplemented with cornmeal and 
oilmeal. makes a much better combina¬ 
tion. The following combination would 
be adapted to your purposes : 500 lbs. corn 
and cob meal, 300 lbs. bran. 200 lbs. cot¬ 
tonseed meal. 150 lbs. oilmeal, 150 lbs. 
germ meal. 100 lbs. ground oats. 100 lbs. 
gluten feed. Feed this in proportion to 
the daily production of milk. 
2. Concerning your second question, I 
am inclined to believe that whipping or 
pounding seldom improves the disposition 
of a kicking heifer. Kindness possibly 
can he overdone; but firmness and judg¬ 
ment can always be depended upon to 
control vices of this character. It is not 
an easy matter to maintain one's temper 
while attempting to milk a cow that per¬ 
sists in kicking or moving from place to 
place: but ordinarily it is a habit that is 
more firmly fixed by unkind treatment. 
It is true that the nervous system of a 
high-producing dairy cow is highly devel¬ 
oped ; but we do not refer to this nervous 
temperament in the same relationship 
when applying it to dairy cows as pre¬ 
vails when it is applied to our own ner¬ 
vous system. In my judgment, there is 
only one place for a kicking cow, espe¬ 
cially one that persists in this habit and 
fails to respond to such treatment as you 
have suggested. This particular place is 
in the butcher shop. I have no faith in 
Oat Hulls for Stock 
Gan oat hulls he used economically in 
either a dairy or poultry ration? The 
product I refer to is evidently a by¬ 
product in the manufacture of rolled or 
hulled oats. It can be bought, here for 
$16.50 per ton. and contains 4 per cent 
protein, 1)4 per cent fat and 30 per cent 
fiber. G. H. v. 
No, you cannot possibly afford to pay 
$16.50 per ton for oat hulls or for any 
other by-product feed that contains, as 
you note, 4 per cent of protein. 1% per 
cent fat and 30 per cent of fiber. Neither 
can you afford to buy at any price foods 
which contain any of this product when 
you stop to consider what they actually 
contribute to the ration. At $16.50 per 
ton you would be paying 27 cents per 
bushel of 32 lbs. of straight oats, and you 
well know the difference between oat hulls 
and straight oats. In many instances 
oat hulls are being burned in the fur¬ 
naces. and rightly so, 
for at present prices 
irse grains oat hulls 
of bran, corn and coi 
are not worth the cost of handling, bag¬ 
ging and transportation. Any dairyman 
or poultryman who might be prevailed 
upon to buy such roughage at the price 
quoted would not only fool himself, but 
he would make a hoarder out of every 
cow and every hen to which he attempted 
to feed the coarse stuff. Oat straw would 
serve quite as well as oat hulls, and you 
surely would not feel justified in cutting 
up and grinding out straw for use as a 
grain supplement for your cows or your 
chickens. Just because oat hulls may he 
ground fine and made to resemble useful 
feed is no reason why one should he de¬ 
ceived into believing that he could justify 
their use at present valuations. 
Cornmeal and Skim-milk 
A year or two ago 
relative feeding value 
milk. In other words. 
worth, per quart, 
100 lbs.? 
you published the 
of corn and skim- 
what is skim-milk 
when corn is $1.75 per 
F. J. F. 
If you are paying $1.75 per 100 lbs. 
for cornmeal your distributor is not fol¬ 
lowing prevailing market values on this 
concentrate. Usually the value of 100 lbs. 
of skim-milk, when fed in conjunction 
with corn to fattening hogs, is half the 
market value of corn per bushel. Where 
corn is worth 50c a bushel, skim-milk 
would be worth approximately 25c per 
100 lbs., or about )4c a quart. To ob¬ 
tain 100 lbs. of cornmeal would require 
approximately 2)4 bu. of corn. If 100 
lbs. cost you $1.75 it is safe to assume 
that the corn would cost you about 70c 
a bushel, in which case 100 lbs. of skim- 
milk would be worth 35c. or a little less 
than l)4e a quart. 
In feeding market hogs the best results 
obtain where I lb. of corn is fed with 4 
or 5 lbs. of milk. This combination in¬ 
creases both the value of the corn and 
skim-milk and provides a complete ration 
that will result in rapid and economical 
gains. Looking at it from another angle, 
100 lbs. of corn will yield 85.7 lbs. of di¬ 
gestible nutrients; 100 lbs. of skim-milk 
will yield 9.1 lbs. On this basis, pound 
for pound, corn would be worth 10 times 
as much as skim-milk for swine. 
