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Tbt  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  6,  1923 
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swill  and  insure  healthy  pork  at  killing-time. 
Successful  stockmen,  dairy-farmers  and  poultrymen  use 
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Live  Stock  Matters 
Conducted  By  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler 
Minerals  for  Swine 
I  have  read  about  feeding  hogs  min¬ 
erals,  and  would  like  to  try  it.  I  have 
on  hand  wood  ashes,  wood  charcoal,  Bone 
charcoal,  marl  lime,  and  precipitated 
potash.  Will  you  advise  what  quantity 
of  each  to  use  in  making  up  the  mixture, 
including  salt.  u.  G.  L. 
Pennsylvania. 
The  simplest  combination  of  ingre¬ 
dients  contributing  mineral  matter  to 
swine  that  can  be  provided  for  general 
use  on  the  farm  consists  of  equal  parts 
of  ground  limestone,  bone  meal,  and  salt. 
If  it  is  impossible  to  obtain  the  bone 
meal  at  a  reasonable  cost  then  a  simple 
combination  of  ground  limestone  and  salt 
will  meet  any  condition  that  arises  in 
the  pig  lot.  This  simple  formula  is  the 
result  of  extensive  inquiry  and  searching 
investigation.  When  the  question  of 
mineral  Substitutes  and  mineral  defic.- 
encies  was  presented  to  the  public  a  num¬ 
ber  of  years  ago  most  of  ns  assumed  that 
since  variety  was  the  spice  of  life  a 
variety  of  materials  carrying  mineral 
contributions  was  safe  and  essential. 
There  is  no  more  reason  why  a  pig  should 
have  charcoal  than  that  a  human  should 
eat  the  hark  of  a  sassafras  tree.  Espec¬ 
ially  is  this  true  if  a  simple  combination 
such  as  salt  and  ground  limestone  will 
do  the  work.  Cows  that  have  Alfalfa 
hay  every  day  when  they  are  not  on 
pasture  cannot  possibly  develop  any  min¬ 
eral  deficiency.  Pigs  that  have  access  to 
grass  and  forage  crops,  especially  if 
these  plants  are  legumes  such  as  clover 
or  Alfalfa  have  no  mineral  defieiencj 
problem  until  they  are  confined  in  dry 
yards,  and  then  the  simple  combination 
of  ground  limestone  and  salt  will  satisfy 
their  craving  and  support  complete  ra¬ 
tions.  This  does  not  mean  to  indicate 
that  pigs  can  live  on  salt  and  ground 
limestone  if  improperly  fed  but  where 
common  sense  is  utilized  in  the  selection 
of  variety  of  feeds  the  mineral  problem  is 
not  great. 
Starting  Pork  Production 
Which  plan  would  you  call  the  better, 
to  start  with  say  10  or  12  shotes  from 
one  breeder,  and  one  or  two  males  from 
another  or  buy  a  couple  of  brood  soivs 
with  pigs?  In  your  estimation  which  is 
the  better  proposition  hogs  or  poultry?  I 
have  poultry  but  with  the  present  high 
prices  of  feeds  and  the  low  prices  of 
eggs  T  receive  only  25  cents  per  dozen, 
strictly  fresh  eggs  (Leghorn).  There  is 
absolutely  no  profit  here  at  this  time  in 
poultry.  a.  H. 
Pennsylvania. 
The  easiest  way  to  venture  into  pork 
production  is  to  purchase  two  bred  sows 
from  a  responsible  breeder  and  develop 
the  litters.  If  the  initial  purchases  were 
not  related  then  it  would  be  possible  to 
select  breeding  animals  from  both  litters. 
This  method,  however,  will  involve  a 
greater  initial  investment  than  would  pre¬ 
vail  in  case  you  bought  10  or  12  pigs  at 
weaning  time  and  grew  them  to  maturity. 
Generally  speaking  a  combination  of  pigs 
and  poultry  is  more  desirable  than  the 
exclusive  production  of  either  type.  When 
eggs  are  low  pork  might  be  high  and  the 
maintenance  of  both  pigs  and  poultry  en¬ 
able  the  producer  to  equalize  his  labor 
load  and  to  establish  a  more  uniform  in¬ 
come.  Unfortunately  the  hen  is  a  pretty 
small  unit  to  rely  upon  for  a  constant 
profit.  Suspension  in  the  production  of 
eggs  or  meat  frequently  invite  the  high¬ 
est  prices.  However,  the  poultry  clien¬ 
tele  is  a  changing  one  for  the  simple  rea¬ 
son  that  the  greatest  profit  from  the 
poultry  industry  is  evolved  from  the  farm 
flock  that  grows  and  develops  from  the 
chick  stage  without  very  much  additional 
cost  for  feed.  care,  or  management.  The 
special  producer  of  poultry  and  eggs 
must  compete  with  these  scavenger 
flocks  and  during  the  peak  stage  of  pro¬ 
duction  he  suffers  materially  from  their 
activities. 
There  are  three  things  that  have  great¬ 
ly  stimulated  poultry  farming  during  the 
last  few  years.  One  is  the  development 
of  cold  storage  facilities  making  possible 
the  equilization  of  distribution  of  poultry 
products  throughout  the  year.  Another 
is  the  improvement  in  the  process  of  se¬ 
lection  whereby  it  is  possible  to  pick  out 
the  producers  from  the  non-producers  by 
giving  due  consideration  to  conformation 
and  external  evidence  of  internal  func¬ 
tion.  The  third  is  the  utilization  of  the 
newer  ideas  in  animal  nutrition,  whereby 
more  animal  protein  is  incorporated*  in 
their  rations,  and  this  supported  by  arti¬ 
ficial  lighting  arrangement  has  made  it 
possible  for  the  bird  to  eat  more  and  pro¬ 
duce  more  in  proportion. 
The  most  unfortunate  factor  in  farm¬ 
ing  today  is  the  fact  that  the  prices  ob¬ 
tained  for  farm  products  have  no  definite 
relationship  to  the  cost  of  production. 
The  farmer  plants  his  crop,  develops  his 
flock  of  birds,  raises  his  crop  of  Spring 
pigs,  without  the  slightest  knowledge  as 
to  what  prices  will  prevail  when  these 
products  are  ready  to  merchandise.  When 
the  price  of  milk  is  below  the  cost  of  pro¬ 
duction  he  cannot  shut  off  the  cow’s 
udder  and  lock  the  barn  door  as  would 
be  the  result  in  any  other  manufactur¬ 
ing  industry  where  the  particular  com¬ 
modity  manufactured  did  not  bear  its 
cost  of  production. 
Your  experience  in  the  growing  of 
poultry  is  not  dissimilar  to  that  reported 
by  many  other  farmers  who  are  growing 
their  crops,  which  goes  to  show  that  prob¬ 
lems  in  production  have  received  an  un¬ 
due  share  of  the  attention  of  the  public 
and  the  idea  of  marketing  has  been  over¬ 
looked.  The  demand  rather  is  for  men 
with  knowledge  of  markets  and  market¬ 
ing  requirements. 
Sorghum  in  New  York  State 
Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler’s  answer  to  H.  L. 
C.,  on  page  115G,  as  to  sorghum  as  feed 
for  cattle  producing  milk,  is  wrong,  ac¬ 
cording  to  my  experience  in  its  use.  I 
fed  it  for  many  years  in  Iowa,  beginning 
about  July  1,  and  with  good  results,  and 
cutting  it  three  times  it  produced  over 
twice  what  the  best  corn  would  do,  be¬ 
sides  giving  the  best  green  feed  to  the 
cows  when  pastures  were  drying  up. 
As  to  New  York  I  can  give  exact  re¬ 
sults,  from  feeding  to  one  cow,  which  is 
a  half  Jersey.  She  is  alone  on  a  pas¬ 
ture.  three  acres,  of  Alfalfa  and  Tim¬ 
othy.  24  hours  a  day.  I  sowed  10  rows 
100  ft.  long  of  sorghum,  to  see  if  results 
would  be  as  in  Iowa.  It  is  sown  in 
rows  about  1  in.  apart  in  row,  rows  2  ft. 
apart.  As  it  began  to  get  dry  in  pasture 
about  the  15th  of  July,  I  began  giving 
the  cow  all  she  would  eat,  both  night  and 
morning,  at  milking  time,  cutting  the 
sorghum  first  at  about  2  ft.  high.  Inside 
of  two  weeks  her  milk  flow  had  increased 
from  16  quarts  per  day  to  18  quarts  per 
day,  and  it  has  held  up  to  that  ever  since, 
though  we  have  had  no  rain  since  then 
until  yesterday.  There  has  been  such  a 
growth  that  I  have  not  been  able  to  feed 
even  one  cutting  of  the  sorghum  to  the 
cow,  but  have  cut  about  half  of  it  once 
and  started  to  out  the  second  cutting  of 
it  aboii t  a  week  ago.  The  balance  of 
patch  w'hich  has  not  been  cut  is  8  ft. 
higli  and  seeded  out.  I  am  certain  that 
there  is  over  twice  the  feed  of  the  best 
corn  here  in  New  York,  though  it  does 
not  grow  quite  so  rapidly  as  in  Iowa.  I 
plant  same  time  corn  is  planted. 
Onondaga  Co.,  N.  Y.  fred  l.  white. 
Ration  for  Family  Cow 
I  have  a  Guernsey  cow  giving  nine 
quarts  of  milk  per  day.  I  am  feeding 
six  quarts  per  day  of  bran  and  middlings. 
She  is  out  on  pasture.  Can  you  help  me 
in  suggesting  other  feed,  or  is  this  right 
and  good  for  her?  j.  f. 
Kingston,  Mass. 
A  ration  restricted  to  bran  and  mid¬ 
dlings  would  not  enable  your  family  cow 
to  produce  the  maximum  amount  of  milk. 
It  would  be  deficient  in  protein,  and  it 
has  the  further  objection  of  tracing  ex¬ 
clusively  to  the  by-products  of  wheat. 
The  following  combination  would  be  more 
desirable:  40  lbs.  eornmeal,  20  lbs.  bran, 
20  lbs.  middlings.  20  lbs.  cottonseed  meal, 
10  lbs.  linseed  meal.  Feed  5  to  10  lbs.  of 
this  grain  mixture  per  day,  depending 
upon  the  amount  of  milk  produced.  A 
pound  of  this  grain  ought  to  enable  a 
cow  to  produce  3%  lbs.  of  milk.  Mois¬ 
tened  beet  pulp,  accompanied  with  clovor 
or  Alfalfa  hay  as  a  supplement  to  L'-' ■ 
combination,  wmuld  enable  you  to  obtain 
an  inn-eased  flow  of  milk. 
