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Shall  We  Feed  All  Cows  Alike 
A  Difficult  Question. — Do  rows 
vary  to  any  particular  extent  in  their 
tastes  or  food  requirements?  I  have  been 
asked  if  I  can  “give  any  concrete  illus¬ 
tration  to  show  that  a  ration  suitable 
for  one  cow  in  a  herd  might  not  be  best 
for  another.”  I  confess  that  I  cannot, 
and  I  doubt  if  it  is  wise  for  practical 
dairymen  to  go  into  the  matter  of  the 
individual  tastes  of  the  different  cows  in 
a  herd.  This  does  not  mean  that  he 
should  not  keep  close  watch  of  his  cows  to 
see  that  the  bowels  do  not  become  con¬ 
stipated  or  the  reverse,  as  well  as  that 
they  do  not  get  over  fat  or  over  thin. 
Mixing  the  Ration. — In  compound¬ 
ing  a  grain  ration  there  are  three  things 
to  keep  iu  mind  in  addition  to  its  cost 
price : 
1.  The  proper  proportion  of  protein  or 
muscle  makers. 
2.  The  proper  proportion  of  carbohy¬ 
drates  or  fat  and  heat  makers. 
3.  Bulk  or  fiber. 
We  find  in  the  gluten  feeds  and  meals 
a  good  example  of  a  feed  that  has  an 
over-supply  of  protein  or  nitrogenous  mat¬ 
ter.  It  needs  "balancing.”  This  is  ac¬ 
complished  by  mixing  with  it  something 
that  has  an  under-supply  of  nitrogenous 
matter.  Nothing  that  I  know  of  so  well 
fills  the  bill  for  this  as  cornrneal.  For  a 
bulky  feed  I  find  nothing  that  suits  me 
so  well  as  dried  brewers’  grains  or 
wheat  bran.  Different  situations  as  to 
a  supply  of  home-grown  forage  or  rough- 
age  call  for  different  rations  of  grain 
feeds,  hut  the  feeds  mentioned  above  can 
be  changed  in  proportions  to  suit  auy 
ordinary  need. 
Roughage  anp  Succulence. — In  my 
own  case  I  have  no  silage,  but  depend 
on  home-grown  mixed  hay.  dry  corn¬ 
stalks  and  mangels  (for  Winter)  and 
find  that  a  mixture  of  equal  parts  by 
weight  of  gluten  meal,  dried  brewers’ 
grains  and  Corn  meal  makes  so  satisfac¬ 
tory  a  grain  ration  that  I  have  used  it 
almost  exclusively  for  several  years  past. 
The  present  Winter  good  wheat  bran  can 
be  had  a  little  cheaper  than  the  dried 
grains,  and  I  am  substituting  bran  in 
place  of  one-half  of  the  dry  grains.  This 
gives  the  following  formula  :  20f)  pounds 
gluten  meal,  200  pounds  cornmeal.  100 
pounds  dried  grains,  100  pounds  wheat 
bran.  Probably  nine  out  of  teu  readers 
will  say  that  I  am  using  too  much  corn- 
meal,  but  I  am  willing  to  lot  the  cows 
be  the  judge  as  to  that,  rather  thau  the 
scientific  chaps  who  framed  the  New  York 
State  law  known  as  the  concentrated 
feeding  stuffs  laws,  and  did  not  think  the 
carbonaceous  matter  in  feeds  of  sufficient 
importance  to  be  stated  in  the  guaranteed 
analysis. 
Ax  Abundant  Ration. — When  you 
starve  a  hen  she  simply  stops  short  on 
egg  production  and  begins  at  once  to  use 
up  the  partly  developed  yolks  to  keep 
up  the  fires  of  life  before  she  draws 
on  her  body  fat.  The  young  of  the 
species  do  not  depend  on  what  the  mother 
produces  to  sustain  life.  Nature  had  a 
different  problem  when  she  was  provid¬ 
ing  for  the  young  of  mammals,  so  we  fiud 
that  when  a  cow  is  starved  she  does  not 
"stop  short”  iu  her  yield,  but  continues 
to  give  a  partial  supply  of  milk  so  long 
as  there  is  meat  or  fat  on  her  lames 
from  which  to  draw  material  to  make  it. 
For  this  reason  I  believe  it  good  policy 
to  provide  a  ration  that  will  keep  a  cow’s 
ribs  well  covered  with  flesh  and  fat.  Ex¬ 
perience  has  convinced  me  that  the  above 
formula  makes  a  safe  grain  ration  and 
keeps  the  cows  fat  enough  to  look  well 
and  at  the  same  time  produce  well.  In¬ 
cidentally  it  happens  to  he  practically 
the  same  as  the  first  of  the  series  of  for¬ 
mulas  for  a  balanced  ration  lately  pub¬ 
lished  by  The  R.  N.-Y.  I  refer  to  the 
one  supplied  by  Prof.  Wing. 
A  Satisfactory  Ration. — At  the 
present  time  my  cows  are  eating  14 
pounds  a  day  each.  As  I  am  using  what 
we  call  "corn  and  cob”  meal  in  place 
of  the  regular  cornmeal  of  commerce, 
about  a  pound  of  this  is  ground  cobs, 
which  do  not  count  much  except  as  a 
filler  to  give  bulk.  In  addition  they  get 
about  a  half  bushel  of  sliced  mangels  a 
day  and  a  liberal  foddering  of  mixed 
hay  iu  the  morning  with  dry  cornstalks 
at  night.  In  case  I  need  to  dispose  of  I 
a  cow  this  ration  puts  her  in  prime  con¬ 
dition  to  sell  for  beef  (when  kept  far¬ 
row  >  h.v  the  time  she  dries  off  enough 
so  that  her  milk  docs  not  pay  her  way, 
without  extra  feeding  of  a  fattening  ra¬ 
tion.  Last  year  I  had  occasion  to  turn 
off  three  cows  to  make  room  for  younger 
ones,  and  they  were  good  enough  with¬ 
out  extra  feeding  to  sell  for  .$236,  while 
still  giving  a  paying  flow  of  milk. 
Milk  Returns. — My  10  cows  gave 
11,148  pounds  of  milk  in  December,  an 
average  of  36  pounds  a  day.  They  aver¬ 
aged  pounds  a  day  in  September, 
41 14  in  October  and  4014  in  November. 
One  of  them  that  freshened  in  July 
and  is  milking  least,  only  882  pounds  in 
December,  is  already  getting  fat,  and  I 
shall  experiment  by  reducing  the  num¬ 
ber  of  pounds  of  the  mixed  ration  and 
adding  a  little  clear  gluten  or  cottonseed 
meal.  Possibly  in  this  way  I  can  learn 
something  that  will  throw  light  on  the 
question  asked  at  the  opeuing  of  this  ar¬ 
ticle. 
Cow  Testing. — I  have  just  learned 
that  a  new  cow-testing  association  lias 
recently  been  started  in  western  Orange 
County,  with  some  of  its  members  within 
a  few  miles  of  my  place.  I  am  surprised 
to  learn  that  on  the  first  round  in  the 
month  of  December  only  two  cows  out  of 
a  total  of  some  500  were  found  that 
yielded  40  pounds  of  milk  a  day  or  over. 
Three  such  cows  were  found  iu  my  small 
herd  of  10  cows.  Two  of  them  fresh¬ 
ened  in  July  and  the  other  one  in  Octo¬ 
ber,  which  tends  to  prove  that  the  ra¬ 
tion  given  above  is  a  good  one. 
A  Red-a Ni> -White  Holstein. — One  of 
the  three  is  a  red  and  white  Holstein.  The 
most  noted  breeder  of  registered  Holsteins 
in  the  county,  if  not  in  the  State,  called 
me  on  the  ’phone  one  day  and  told  me 
that  one  of  his  registered  cows  had  given 
birth  to  a  red  and  white  heifer  calf.  He 
was  sure  that  the  sire  was  a  black  and 
white  registered  animal  of  a  noted  strain. 
Since  it  is  not  eligible  for  registry  in  this 
country  on  account  of  its  color,  he  said 
I  might  have  it  for  about  the  price  of  a 
grade,  or  $15.  The  red  color  would  not 
debar  it  from  registry,  I  believe,  in  the 
old  country.  She  dropped  her  second  calf 
in  July  of  1915,  when  three  years  and 
five  months  old,  and  gave  1.257  pounds 
in  December.  1,347  in  November,  1.462  in 
October  and  1.536  in  September.  Pre¬ 
vious  to  that  time  I  kept  no  record,  but 
she  gave  60  pounds  a  day  on  different 
occasions  with  only  two  milkings  a  day. 
I  count  on  her  to  help  build  up  a  good 
herd.  Both  her  calves  have  been  black 
and  white,  and  the  last  one  is  a  splendid 
looking  heifer,  now  six  months  old. 
o.  w.  MAPES. 
Orange  Co.,  N.  Y. 
"You  must  learn  to  ‘swat  the  fly,’ 
Ethel.  Flies  carry  typhoid  fever.”  “Will 
typhoid  fever  kill  any  one  who  gets  it?” 
"Certainly,”  "Mother,  why  doesn’t  it 
kill  the  fly?” — Life. 
pail  the  cow 
kicks  over  is  lost  forever 
AND  the  butter-fat  that  goes  into  the  can  through  the 
AA  skim-milk  spout  of  a  cheap,  inferior  or  worn-out 
■*“  cream  separator  is  just  as  surely  lost  as  the  milk  in 
the  pail  the  cow  kicked  over. 
If  you  are  trying  to  get  along  without  a  cream  sepa¬ 
rator;  or  with  an  inferior  or  worn  out  machine,  you  are 
losing  butter-fat  right  along  and  butter-fat  is  money. 
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