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BARKER’S 
LINIMENT 
Nerve 
and 
Bone 
For 
Man or 
Beast ___ 
Keep it in the house; never be without it. 
A splendid, unfailing remedy for sprains, 
bruises, rheumatism, chilblains, stiff and 
weak joints, chafes or galls, cuts, wounds, 
Ac. A friend in need for man or beast, 
goes direct to the spot and does its work 
surely and effectively. 
Get a Bottle Today and Cents 
Keep It Handy. 
BARKER’S ANIMAL TONIC 
Not a food, but a very real, guaranteed 
medicine. Mix it with your feed and make 
your feed medicinal. Not an ordinary 
stock product, but a high-class remedy that must do what we 
say it will do, or your money back. Comes in 6-lb. cartons, 
12 and 25-lb. pails, 12, 25, 50 and 100-lb. bags. 
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Has 19 different ingredients—a tonic, appetizer and stimulator 
that when mixed with the feed will make the droopiest 
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Just the season for this very wonderful Barker remedy—and like every 
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PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
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“Dandelion Butter Color” Gives That 
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Before cl' ning add one-half teaspoon¬ 
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Water Bowl. Animal 
moves lever, opening 
water valve, when it starts 
to drink. Lever swings back, 
closing valve, when animal 
stops drinking. 
15% More Milk 
Milk is 87% water, and cows 
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Libbey Automatic Water Bowls 
are the most sanitary and successful ever invented. Each 
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cow, and may be put at different heights, or in any stall 
or pen. No float tank required. Cannot overflow; can¬ 
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become stagnant. They save labor and feed and increase 
milk. Prevent spread of contagious diseases, as each 
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280 Marion Street Oshkosh, Wisconsin 
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Write for 
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on 
DRIED 
BEET 
PULP 
Don't let shortage of hay or com silage worry you. Experi¬ 
ment stations and wide investigation have found a wonderful 
substitute. 
Use DRIED BEET PULP 
Instead of hay or corn silage 
In tests, 6 pounds of dried beet pulp have replaced 10 pounds 
o ixed hay. It costs no more and increases milk yield 2 to 
6 pounds a day. In other tests, I pound of Dried Beet Pulp replaced 6 
pounds of corn silage. It produced 10% more milk and improved health 
of cows. Feed Dried Beet Pulp. It is. the Sugar Beet, dried, after 
the extraction of the sugar. It is a succulent, palatable and whole¬ 
some vegetable feed and means bigger profits. Write for free book 
and name of nearest dealer. Address Dept. El. 
THE LARROWE MILLING CO. • Detroit, Mich. 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Grade Holsteins 
I wish the best and most economical ra¬ 
tion for my herd of 20 grade Holsteins. 
My roughage consists of cornstalks and 
Timothy hay. The clover all froze out 
last Spring, and I can-iot obtain any 
clover hay. I would like to make my ra¬ 
tion about one-fifth corn. The [trice of 
bran is $1.25 per cwt. ; gluten. $1.90; oil- 
meal, $2.50; cottonseed meal. $2.25. How 
many quarts of this ration should I give 
a cow milking IS to 20 qts.? a. w. e. 
Pennsylvania. 
Cornstalks and Tim'bthy hay are an 
unsatisfactory roughage for cows yielding 
as much as IS to 20 qts. of milk per day. 
As a matter of fact, concentrates today 
are cheaper than leafy roughages. Corn 
and bran are especially low in cost, and 
in compouLding a ration under existing 
conditions, one is fully justified in using 
generous amounts of these two products. 
In a great many cases roughage is a limit¬ 
ing factor in economical milk production. 
It has been pointed out repeatedly by in¬ 
vestigators that the mineral factor is best 
controlled where animals are supplied all 
of the clover or Alfalfa hay that they will 
consume with relish. 
In this case it might be well for you 
to saturate a portion of the roughage, 
especially if the stalks are shredded, or, 
in fact, some of the Timothy hay. more 
particularly if it is cut, with molasses 
water. This practice might justify the 
use of molasses under existing conditions 
and prices; but I am sure that with corn 
at its present low* value one can do with¬ 
out molasses as a carbohydrate carrier. 
If you are anxious to increase the con¬ 
sumption of roughage you would do well 
to use some molasses to increase the con¬ 
sumption of the Timothy hay and corn 
fodder. 
For a ration based upon the prices you 
have quoted T would suggest the follow¬ 
ing : Cornmeal, 400 lbs.; wheat bran, 
200 lbs.; gluten feed, 200 lbs.; oilmeal, 
100 lbs. 
Feed 1 lb. of this mixture for each 3% 
lbs. of milk produced per cow per day. 
together with all of the roughage, as indi¬ 
cated, that she will consume. A cow 
yielding 20 qts., or approximately 40 lbs., 
of milk per day should’ be fed approxi¬ 
mately 12 lbs. of this mixture, and from 
10 to 15 lbs. of roughage. 
Several Cow Questions 
1. ITow long does it take a cow to con¬ 
vert food into milk? 2. Will proper food 
increase the quality, or only the quantity 
of milk? 3. What is the value of carrot 
and mangel tops for milk cows? The R. 
N.A . and myself came into existence the 
same year. My father took it when I 
was a boy. We lived in the woods in 
St. Glair County, and he was the only 
subscriber in the neighborhood. At that 
time we had but few neighbors, but they 
all came to consult The Rural. 
Michigan. w. b. n. 
1. This would depend upon the particu¬ 
lar constituents or ingredients employed 
in building the ration. Certain products 
are more easily digested than others, and 
naturally are assimilated with greater 
! promptness. Usually from 24 to 36 hours 
are necessary for complete .digestion and 
satisfactory metabolism. * 
2. It is possible to increase the quan¬ 
tity of milk, but scarcely possible to im¬ 
prove the quality or increase the butter- 
fat content of milk. While it is possible 
temporarily to modify the ratio existing 
between the fats and solids not fat, it is 
absolutely impossible to modify the but- 
terfat content of milk over any given 
length of time. The ability to produce 
milk high or low in butterfat depends upon 
qualities that are inherited. Hence it is 
possible to improve the quality of milk 
through careful selection and mating. 
Representative breeds of dairy cattle 
vary materially in the quality of milk 
produced. Jerseys will produce milk test¬ 
ing upwards of 5 per cent, while the milk 
obtained from Holsteins varies from 3 to 
3i/j per cent. Guernsey milk is similar to 
Jersey milk, though more highly colored. 
That produced by Ayrshires or Milking 
Shorthorns tests about 4 per cent of but¬ 
terfat. 
3. Carrot and mangel tops have about 
the same feediug value as cornstalks or 
Timothy hay, provided they are compared 
on a similar moisture content basis. 
Ordinarily products of this character con¬ 
tain from 75 to SO per cent of moisture, 
and consequently yield a relatively small 
amount of dry matter. 
Cow and Poultry Questions 
1. W ould you kindly tell me a gmiu 
ration for cows in Winter quarters for 
cream production? I have mixed hay 
and cornstalks for roughage. 2. I wish 
a grain ration for laying hens in Winter 
quarters. My grains consist of wheat, 
barley, corn and oats. I will buy what¬ 
ever is needed to make up the proper 
rations. 3. 1 have a sidehill field too 
steep for cultivation which T have de¬ 
cided to plow and seed to Sweet clover i m 
early Spring. I would like your ad¬ 
vice as to my plan. Would it be ready 
for pasture in midsummer, and would 1 
need a fertilizer to force the growth? 
How would lime be? The soil is of loam 
nature. l. d. f. 
New York. 
1. You cannot influence the percentage 
of butterfat or cream equivalent by modi¬ 
fying the grain ration. It is natural for 
any given animal to produce milk carry¬ 
ing a certain percentage of butterfat. and 
this propensity cannot be modified to any 
appreciable extent by feeding rations high 
or low in protein or energy. I take it 
that you have a herd of Jersey cows, in 
which instance you will be able to pro¬ 
duce a unit of butterfat most economi¬ 
cally. Mixed bay and cornstalks are not 
recognized as an A No. 1 roughage, for 
they are high in fiber, not especially pal¬ 
atable, and are relatively low in total 
energy. Leafy roughage, such as that 
provided by clover or Alfalfa hay. is 
much mere desiral le and profitable t-> 
feed. Since you have neither silage nor 
mangels it would he well for you to sat¬ 
urate the roughage with molasses water 
and, in addition, to provide some moist¬ 
ened beet pulp as a succulence. Fifteen 
lbs. per day of moistened beet pulp will 
substantially increase the milk flow. A 
grain ration consisting of 350 lbs. of 
cornmeal. 300 lbs. of bran. 150 lbs. of 
cottonseed meal, 200 lbs. of gluten feed, 
would provide a suitable ration. You 
may consider corn, barley and oats sub¬ 
stantially interchangeable as a source of 
carbohydrates. A mixture of 100 lbs. of 
each of these materials might replace the 
grain suggested in the general mixture. 
2. In feeding poultry during the Win¬ 
ter it is necessary to provide them with a 
scratch food and a mash mixture. Kqual 
parts of cracked corn, whole wheat and 
oats make a useful scratch feed. One of 
the popular mashes used in one of the 
egg-laying contests consisted of equal 
parts of cornmeal, wheat bran, wheat 
middlings, gluten feed and meat meal. 
Under average conditions the birds will 
consume about equal amounts of each 
mixture. The mash is kept before the 
birds in self-feeding hoppers, while the 
scratch feed is given twice daily and 
thrown amoug the flock. This practice 
prompts the birds to take regular exer¬ 
cise. 
3. A mixture consisting of 15 parts of 
Sweet clover, 10 parts of Timothy and 
five parts of Redtop would make a satis¬ 
factory combination, and should he 
seeded at the rate of 12 quarts per acre. 
I should use either oats or barley as a 
nurse crop, seeding approximately a 
bushel per acre of either of these grains. 
The combination should be seeded as 
early in the Spring as possible, and it 
could be safely pastured after the plants 
are 7 or 8 in. high. You are aware, how¬ 
ever. that the area cannot be closely 
cropped the first year without injuring 
the young plants. All of the clovers re¬ 
quire an alkaline soil; hence if you are 
sure that the soil on this area is acid it 
would he well to distribute ground lime¬ 
stone at the rate of three or four tons 
per acre. This can be distributed at any 
season of the year. It is an indirect fer¬ 
tilizer, although it does> not contribute 
nitrogen, phosphoric a' or potash. It 
releases and makes available certain of 
these necessary elements and creates an 
atmosphere favorable to bacterial growth 
and development. An application of 
barnyard manure might well be made in 
this instance. 
