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Saved  Big  Veterinary  Bills  —  Cows 
Gave  More  Milk  the  Year  Through 
Mr.  C.  E.  Dodge  of  Dewittville,  N.  Y.,  is 
jne  of  the  many  cow  owners  who  have  dis¬ 
covered  that  it  pays  best  to  PREVENT  cow 
diseases.  He  knows  that  it  is  a  fine  thing 
to  have  on  hand  such  a  valuable  medicine 
as  Kow-Kare  in  the  event  of  actual  diseases, 
such  as  Abortion,  Retained  Afterbirth,  Bar¬ 
renness,  Milk  Fever,  Scours,  Bunches,  etc. 
But  he  also  knows  that  a  moderate  use  of 
Kow-Kare  in  the  feed  not  only  PREVENTS 
these  diseases,  but  greatly  increases  the 
winter  milk  flow.  He  writes  us  his  expe¬ 
rience,  as  follows : 
“Since  I  have  been  on  the  County  Farm, 
I  have  been  using  Kow-Kare  in  the  dairy 
for  the  last  ten  years.  I  have  52  cows.  My 
experience  is  that  a  few  dollars’  worth  of 
Kow-Kare  saves  us  a  great  many  dollars’ 
worth  of  veterinary  bills,  and  also  every  cow 
in  the  dairy  that  I  feed  it  to  produces  more 
all  the  year  thru  because  of  the  Kow-Kare.  I 
have  no  sick  cows  or  trouble,  when  I  begin 
feeding  Kow-Kare,  from  the  first  of  January 
until  I  turn  them  out  in  the  Spring.” 
Winter  feeds  are  so  much  harder  on  the 
digestive  and  milk  making  organs  of  the 
cow  that  the  vitality  of  these  functions  is 
sure  to  become  impaired  unless  nature  is 
assisted.  Kow-Kare  is  designed  primarily 
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Your  troubles  from  sick  and  backward  cow# 
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on  Kow-Kare. 
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ASSOCIATION 
CO.,  INC. 
Lyndonville,  Vt. 
Manufacturers 
of  KOW-KARE 
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VBEB 
BOOK 
Live  Stock  Matters 
By  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler 
Mixing  Dairy  Ration 
Will  vou  tell  me  in  what  proportion  to 
mix  a  cottonseed  meal,  gluten  feed,  lin¬ 
seed  oilmeal,  dried  beet  pulp,  wheat  bran, 
wheat  middlings,  in  order  to  have  a  ra¬ 
tion  analyzing  protein.  20  per  cent ;  fat, 
three ;  fiber,  14 ;  nitrogen  free  extract, 
47;  carbohydrates,  58?  w.  l.  a. 
New  Jersey. 
In  order  to  secure  a  grain  ration  from 
the  ingredients  identified  that  will  analyze 
20  per  cent  protein  and  58  per  cent  car¬ 
bohydrates,  it  would  require  combining 
them  in  the  following  proportion  :  Forty- 
three  per  cent  cottonseed  meal,  150  lbs. ; 
gluten  feed,  18  per  cent,  200  lbs. ;  linseed 
meal,  150  lbs.:  dry  beet  pulp,  300  lbs.; 
wheat  brain,  100  lbs.;  wheat  middlings, 
100  lbs. 
This  combination  would  yield  20.4  per 
cent  protein,  11.1  per  cent  fiber.  47.1  per 
cent  nitrogen  free  extract,  and  4.5  per 
cent  fat.  By  combining  the  fiber  and  the 
nitrogen  free  extract,  you  will  realize  the 
58  per  cent  of  carbohydrate,  as  desired. 
You  understand,  of  course,  that  this  re¬ 
fers  to  the  straight  aualvsis,  and  not  to 
the  digestible  nutrients. 
Your  suggestion  to  replace  the  beet 
pulp  and  middlings  with  ground  corn  and 
oats  would  greatly  improve  your  ration 
and  economize  its  cost.  For  instance,  the 
addition  of  200  lbs.  of  ground  corn  and 
200  lbs.  of  ground  oats  would  give  you, 
on  a  1.000-lbs.  basis,  10  more  pounds  of 
protein,  and  would  reduce  your  total  fiber 
30  lbs.,  and  give  you  considerably  more 
fat  and  carbohydrates. 
The  best  results  from  beet  pulp  do  not 
follovv  where  it  is  incorporated  in  a  ra¬ 
tion  in  the  dry  mix.  It  is  far  more  ad¬ 
vantageous  to  use  corn  and  oats  as  a 
source  of  carbohydrates  than  beet  pulp 
and  middlings,  and  to  rely  upon  the  beet 
pulp  to  add  palatability,  succulence,  lime 
and  bulk  when  supplied  after  it  has  been 
moistened  for  a  period  of  12  hours.  It  is 
not  wurth  while  to  include  middlings  in 
a  ration  for  dairy  cows  when  bran  is 
available  at  present  prices.  The  coarse 
bran,  in  addition  to  providing  bulk,  car¬ 
ries  added  minerals  so  essential  for  mak¬ 
ing  a  ration  safe  and  complete. 
Cow  and  Pig  Questions 
1.  I  have  an  eight-year  old  Guernsey 
cow,  thin  in  flesh  and  going  dry.  Due  to 
freshen  in  the  latter  part  of  March.  What 
shall  I  feed  her  to  put  her  iu  good  shape 
to  freshen.  I  have  lots  of  corn  stover, 
which  I  shred,  as  I  feed  some  German 
railet  hay,  corn  and  oats.  I  can  buy  al¬ 
most  any  kind  of  feed  at  the  mills  here. 
2.  Is  there  anything  to  be  done  for  young 
pigs,  four  months  old,  that  have  stiffened 
up?  These  pigs  were  kept  in  a  small 
place  until  they  began  to  show  signs  of 
stiffness,  then  removed  to  a  yard.  One 
of  them  is  doing  all  right,  blit  the  one 
which  I  wanted  to  keep  as  a  breeder 
seems  to  get  worse,  and  sometimes  she 
will  walk  on  her  knees  before  getting  to 
her  feet.  L.  J.  T. 
Ohio. 
If  you  have  corn  and  oats  with  a  good 
grade  of  corn  stover  and  hay,  then  the 
only  supplementing  grain  that  you  need 
to  purchase  for  use  in  feeding  your  dry 
cow  would  be  bran  and  linseed  meal.  A 
mixture  consisting  of  30  lbs.  of  corn  or 
hominy  meal,  30  lbs.  of  oats,  25  lbs.  of 
bran.  15  lbs.  of  linseed  meal  is  proposed. 
Feed  from  7  to  10  lbs.  of  this  ration  per 
day,  depending  somewhat  upon  the  size 
and  condition  of  your  Guernsey  cow. 
This  will  put  flesh  of  the  desired  kind  on 
her  frame,  which  is  necessary  for  the  best 
results  during  the  next  lactation  period. 
It  would  be  good  judgment  to  reduce 
the  food  somewhat  a  week  before  calving, 
at  which  time  the  ration  should  consist 
largely  of  ground  oats  and  bran.  This 
combination  should  be  fed  through  calving 
time  and  for  the  first  week  or  so  follow- 
ing  calving.  The  regular  grain  ration 
should  not  be  restored  until  all  of  the 
fever  incident  to  parturition  has  been  dis¬ 
persed  from  the  udder.  Then  a  combi¬ 
nation  consisting  of  30  lbs.  of  hominy, 
25  lbs.  of  bran,  15  lbs.  of  linseed  meal* 
10  lbs.  of  cottonseed  meal,  20  lbs.  of 
gluten  feed  should  be  substituted  for  the 
one  proposed  to  be  fed  during  the  dry 
period. 
2.  Evidently  your  pigs  are  lame  due  to 
the  lack  of  lime  or  sufficient  mineral  mat¬ 
ter  in  their  daily  ration.  Keep  before 
them  at  all  times  equal  parts  of  ground 
limestone  and  salt.  This,  together  with  a 
ration  of  corn  and  oats,  properly  supple¬ 
mented  with  digester  tankage,  will  enable 
you  to  correct  this  condition.  If  the  pigs 
are  confined  in  small  yards,  use  yellow' 
corn  rather  than  white  corn,  for  it  seems 
to  supply  essential  vitamines.  Exercise 
is  desirable,  and  if  at  all  possible,  let  tin- 
pigs  have  access  to  Alfalfa  or  clover  hay. 
I  am  positive  that  the  condition  will  re¬ 
spond  to  the  use  of  ground  limestone  and 
salt. 
A  man  who  believed  he  knew  all  about 
parrots  undertook  to  teach  what  he 
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“Hello  !”  in  one  lesson.  Going  up  to  its 
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voice  for  several  minutes,  the  parrot  pay¬ 
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final  ‘'Hello!”  the  bird  opened  one  eye, 
gazed  at  he  man  and  snapped  out : 
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