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bohydrates  and  fat  required  for  one  pound 
of  3,  4  and  5  per  cent.  milk. 
Carbohydrates 
Protein  and  fat 
3%  milk . 0584  .190 
4%  milk . 0045  .224 
5%  milk . 0748  .281 
P.y  using  these  tables  you  create  a  stan¬ 
dard  to  suit  your  conditions,  and  then  by 
using  table  published  in  The  It.  N.-Y. 
you  can  balance  your  ration.  For  exam¬ 
ple:  To  find  standard  for  1,000-lb.  cow 
producing  25  lbs.  of  4%  milk. 
Maintenance,  protein,  .7:  caibohv- 
d rates  and  fat,  7.23. 
For  25  lbs.,  4%  milk. 
25  .0045  protein. 
25  .224  carbohydrates  and  fat. 
Protein  Carbohydrates  and  fat 
.7  7.23 
1.012  5.00 
2.312  12.83 
Lightening  a  Ration 
What  is  the  best  grain  ration  I  can 
make  of  the  following :  Cornmeal,  cot¬ 
tonseed  meal.  25  to  30  lbs.  silage  well 
eared.  Cow  pea  hay  and  corn  fodder 
Virginia.  j.  p.  p.  m. 
I  have  never  found  that  a  ration  com¬ 
posed  entirely  of  two  heavy,  concentrated 
feeds  like  cornmeal  and  cottonseed  meal 
would  produce  the  best  results  as  a  feed 
for  dairy  cows  as  they  will  do  better  on  a 
greater  variety  of  grain  containing  a  por¬ 
tion  of  light,  bulky  feed.  For  this  pur¬ 
pose  J  would  suggest  a  mixture  composed 
of  150  lbs.  dried  brewers’  or  distillers’ 
grains,  100  lbs.  cottonseed  meal  and  100 
lbs.  cornmeal.  I f .  however,  yon  are  un¬ 
able  to  get  any  other  grains  except  the 
two  kinds  mentioned  T  would  mix  them  in 
the  proportion  of  two  parts  cornmeal  ami 
one  part  cottonseed  meal,  always  feeding 
them  on  the  silage  and  the  cow  will 
THK  minute  you,  as  a  dairyman,  realize  what  STAR 
BARN  EQUIPMENT  offers,  “common  sense”  will  tell 
you  to  install  it— quick.  And  the  “gold  dollars”  your 
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BARN  EQUIPMENT  means  better  milk — it  means  more 
milk  insures  a  healthier  herd— and  on  top  of  it  all— divides 
barn  labor  by  two. 
Now  certainly  any  kind  of  modern  barn  equipment  is 
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On  that  basis  we  ask  you  to  make  your  own  comparison  be¬ 
tween  other  kinds  and— 
Cooking  Silage  in  the  Silo 
On  page  286  I  notice  a  note  about 
cooking  silage.  In  the  Spring  of  1912, 
whi.le  a  senior  in  agriculture  at  Purdue 
University  I  went  with  a  number  of  agri¬ 
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land  comprised  in  the  nine  farms  make 
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if  he  is  interested  in  farming. 
On  one  of  these  farms,  owned  by  Eu¬ 
gene  Funk,  was  a  silo  fitted  up  to  cook 
the  silage.  As  I  remember  the  explan¬ 
ation,  it  took  usually  two  days  to  fill 
the  silo.  A  perforated  steam  pipe  was 
laid  in  the  silo  after  partially  filling  and 
was  covered  over  with  the  green  corn. 
Then  in  the  evening  the  engine,  was  run 
up  to  the  silo  and  the  boiler  connected 
with  the  pipe.  The  cooking  was  contin¬ 
ued  all  night,  and  the  next  day  the  fill¬ 
ing  was  completed,  followed  by  cooking 
the  fresh  corn  as  before.  Mr.  Funk 
claimed  that  this  method  of  putting  the 
silage  up  was  considerably  more  satis¬ 
factory  than  the  usual  method.  In  the 
first  place,  no  fermentation  at  all.  or 
practically  none,  takes  place,  so  that  the 
loss  which  always  occurs  in  a  fermenta¬ 
tion  is  entirely  obviated.  In  the  second 
place,  and  more  important,  the  silage 
does  not  spoil  readily  when  exposed  to 
the  air,  even  in  warm  weather,  as  does 
ordinary  silage.  It  is  not  necessary, 
therefore,  to  feed  at  the  rate  of  two  inch¬ 
es  per  day  in  warm  weather  as  is  usually 
found  necessary  in  feeding  silage.  The 
day  on  which  we  made  the  trip  was  a 
warm  Spring  day  shortly  before  corn- 
planting  time,  and  it  had  been  preceded 
by  several  such  days.  Mr.  Funk  stated 
that  no  silage  had  been  fed  from  the  silo 
for  some  days,  and  yet  as  was  clearly 
evident  from  our  own  examination  even 
the  surface  layer  was  still  in  fine  condi¬ 
tion. 
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