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Live  Stock  Questions 
Answered  by  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler 
Duties  of  Herdsman 
Will  you  tell  me  the  duties  of  a  herds¬ 
man?  How  many  cows  can  one  man 
handle  alone,  get  from  a  large  pasture 
night  and  morning,  ride  a  horse  in  the 
morning,  on  foot  at  night,  no  dog.  Feed, 
except  the  roughage,  hay,  straw  and 
silage  will  be  thrown  down  in  Winter, 
but  I  must  distribute  all  feed.  I  must 
take  cows  to  brook  50  ft.  from  barn  for 
water  in  Winter.  Cows  are  to  be  kept 
clipped,  with  power  clipper.  Barns 
must  be  kept  in  sanitary  condition  as 
Grade  A  milk  is  produced.  I  must  do 
all  milking  with  milking  machine,  milk¬ 
ing  four  cows  at  a  time ;  care  for  ma¬ 
chine,  milking  utensils,  milk  house  and 
engine  room.  I  must  ice  milk  and  have 
it  ready  to  go  to  station  at  7  A.  M.  This 
is  as  nearly  a  full  description  of  what 
I  must  do  as  I  can  give  and  would  like  to 
know  whether  or  not  one  man  could  do 
all  this  with  a  herd  of  50  cows? 
New  York.  w.  o.  b. 
It  has  never  been  my  good  fortune  to 
employ  a  herdsman  who  could  take  cave 
of  50  cows  and  perform  the  various  jobs 
that  you  have  mentioned.  At  Briarcliff 
Farms  where  we  had  60  cows  in  milk, 
and  this  was  during  the  period  of  the 
war  when  labor  was  inefficient  and  in¬ 
dependent,  we  figured  that  about  the 
minimum  number  of  cows  that  the  aver¬ 
age  man  could  care  for  and  milk  by  hand 
was  20.  Of  course  the  installation  of  a 
milking  machine  would  add  materially 
to  the  number  of  cows  that,  one  man 
could  care  for.  I  should  say  emphatically 
that  it  would  require  two  men  to  do  the 
work  that  you  have  described.  Of 
course  the  duties  of  a  herdsman  aro 
many.  Usually  a  dairyman  is  employed 
to  handle  the  milk  and  dairy  products. 
If  a  man  looked  after  the  feeding,  care, 
and  management  of  a  herd  of  25  cows 
admittedly  he  would  be  doing  much  more 
than  the  average  man  employed  on  dairy 
farms. 
Use  for  Rye 
What  is  best  to  do  with  300  bushels  of 
rye?  I  have  milk  cows,  horses,  also  lay¬ 
ing  hens,  five  miles  of  not  very  good 
road  to  cart  the  rye,  either  to  have  it 
ground  or  sell  it.  Or  shall  I  buy  some 
pigs  to  feed  it  to?  R.  D.  N. 
It  is  my  belief  that  you  could  scarcely 
afford  to  buy  pigs  to  consume  300  bushels 
of  rye  available.  Certainly  it  would  be 
unwise  to  include  any  of  this  product  in 
rations  for  poultry,  and  it  is  not  par¬ 
ticularly  palatable  for  cows.  It  would 
all  depend  upon  what  price  you  would 
have  to  pay  for  pigs  and  the  age  of  the 
pigs  that  are  available.  If  you  could 
purchase  shotes  weighing  between  75  and 
100  lbs.  that  you  desired  to  fatten  quickly 
for  market  purposes  then  a  mixture  con¬ 
sisting  of  equal  parts  of  corn  and  rye, 
lo  which  10  per  cent  of  tankage  had 
been  added,  would  give  good  results.  In 
your  section  of  New  Jersey  the  bulk  of 
the  rye  is  marketed,  although  a  great 
deal  of  it  is  used  for  swine  feeding. 
One  of  the  large  producers  of  Jersey 
Red  hogs  in  Burlington  County  used  a 
combination  of  molasses,  rye,  corn,  and 
fish  meal  as  a  basis  for  fattening  hogs. 
The  fish  meal  was  more  economical  to 
purchase  than  tankage,  and  the  molasses 
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