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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 23 
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More About “Ensilage and Bran.” 
J.H. W., West Philadelphia, Pa.— In The R. N.-Y. 
of January 26, Mr. G. N. Glass describes hi» milk 
herd. I would like some further particulars. 1 . 
What is his verdict about ensilage and its result¬ 
ant effects on the cows’ health ? 2. How many 
acres did it take to fill that silo, and what kind of 
corn did he use? Was it ripened or in the milk, 
or just denting ? 3. Can he make a balanced 
ration with bran only ? 4. What would it cost to 
get some purebred Holsteins, with so much milk 
guaranteed ? What is the common price for year¬ 
lings or two-year-olds, full blood heifers and bulls? 
5. We feed brewers’grains (fresh), costing nine 
cents per bushel, night and morning, one quarter 
inch cut corn fodder, let the cattle out for water 
at 10, and bring them in on a cooked feed contain¬ 
ing maltsprouts, $14 ; cob-corn meal, $15 ; ground 
screenings, $15.50 ; cotton-seed meal, $20 ; clover 
hay, $9 ; corn fodder (one quarter cut) and tur" 
nips. 6 . How is the silo mentioned constructed ? 
7. Can Mr. G. get as much dry matter per acre in 
ensilage, as he can in hay? 8 . Does he think 
that we could get more milk from ensilage, and 
have less feed to buy, than we are doing now ? 
The farm contains 120 acres, and is inside the 
city limits. We buy malt sprouts, screenings, 
cotton-seed meal, and brewers’ grains. 
Ans.— 1. My veudict about ensilage 
and its resultant effect on the cows’ 
health, from experience, is that I have 
fed nothing but ensilage and bran for 
five years. The same purebred cows are 
in my dairy to-day that were there when 
I started, and are in perfect health 
though they eat nothing else except 
these two articles, and stand in swing¬ 
ing stanchions five months of the year 
without any exercise. The R. N.-Y. 
would not care for heifer calves from 
such cows,” and seems to misunderstand 
my method. I bought cows to build up 
my herd to a certain size, but raise all 
the stock I want for my own use now. 
The calves I don’t wish to raise, I find a 
ready sale for at a week old, which pays 
me better than to raise them, consider¬ 
ing the value of the fresh milk. 
2. I put in the silo this year, about 25 
acres of corn; in a good corn year, 20 acres 
will fill it, and when full it will keep 25 
head of stock through the winter. 1 have 
used almost every kind of corn, but for 
this latitude, 1 think B. & W. ensilage is 
the best. It is a corn which grows large 
fodder, but not much corn. 1 cut when 
denting, if I can let it stand that long 
before frost. 
3. 1 get a ration that is pretty well 
balanced from ensilage and bran. 1 feed 
my cows all the ensilage they will eat, 
which is, on an average, about 50 pounds; 
and when a cow is giving-, five gallons of 
milk, I give 15 pounds of bian. This 
gives me a ration with a nutritive x - atio of 
1:6.2; we are told that the proper ratio 
is 1:5.4. In other words, 1 pay my cows 
in bran, that is I give them just about as 
much bran by measure as they give me 
milk. I feed three times per day, the 
same amount at each feed, ensilage and 
bran, mixed. 
4. As to the pi-ice of Holstein cows, I 
cannot answer that question. I haven’t 
bought any for two years, and haven’t any 
for sale ; consequently I don’t know. I 
have paid all the way from $50 to $300. 
5. «T. II. W. has quite a variety of feeds ; 
if there is anything in a variety of feed 
tickling the appetite, this surely ought 
to do it. I like a simple feed, and would 
advise J. II. W. to select two cows that 
are giving neax-ly the same quantity of 
milk, give them both the same amount 
of hay and corn fodder, give one the reg¬ 
ular mixture and the other the same 
value in bran; keep this xip for one 
month, and see which gives the more 
milk. 
6. As to the building of a silo, I will 
give a description of that, also of filling 
it later. 7. I don’t know but I can keep 
a cow on three-quarters of an acre of 
good corn through the winter, and I 
know that I could not keep her on three- 
quarters of an acre of hay. 
8. I feel almost confident that he will 
get more milk from ensilage than from 
clover hay and corn fodder, other things 
being equal ; that is if he fed as much 
grain feed. Whether it would be ad¬ 
visable to buy less feed, I am not able to 
say; my object has always been to pro¬ 
duce more corn ensilage, more pasture, 
keep more cows, buy more feed, ship 
more milk, and make all the profit I can 
by producing that milk as cheaply as I 
possibly can. The gist of the comments 
on ensilage and bran contained in The 
R. N.-Y. of January 26, seems to be that 
the cow must have a variety of feed to 
tone up her appetite. You can’t appetize 
her very extensively on hay or straw. 
If you have good ensilage, you may keep 
tfie ensilage from her and make her eat 
hay. You may starve her into eating 
sti’aw, but she won’t eat either if she 
has all the ensilage she wants. 
Venice, Pa. geo. n. glass. 
(Continued on next page.) 
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