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75he  RURAL-  NEW-YORKER 
April  8,  1910. 
Feeding  a  Balanced  Ration 
Jvc  ntock  foods  are  rouiehly  divided  Into  four  clas9ea  of  PubstanccA—protetn,  or  l«*n  meat  or  muscle  makers 
STch  are  aiirc  "  or  fit  farmer* ;  pore  fat  ;  and  fiber  the  latter  being  &  wh.  Indigestible  matter.  The  Mote  . 
,lace  of  carbohydrates  and  fat.  and  tb*  theory  of  a  balanced  ration  la  to  combine  the  two  cJaaees  of  torn!  so  t 
he  least  waste  and  BtJU  irtve  the  animal  what  it  need*.  The  */  nutritive  ratio  means  the  ratio  between  proto 
arhohydrotea  and  fat.  One  part  of  pioteln  to  throe  of  the  other  would  be  a  narrow  ratio,  while  one  part  to 
‘  wide'*  ratk».  .  ,  . 
- The  following  analyses  are  used  in  figuring  rations  :  - 
Digestible 
Protein  Garbo. 
and  Fat 
80.2  47.6 
6.8  77.2 
22.7  61.2 
20.0  45.7 
29.7  56.2 
21-3  69.3 
10.7  62.3 
9.4  76.9 
9.5  72.1 
Dry  Matter  Fat 
Feeding  Stuff 
Dry  Matter  Fat 
Feeding  Stuff 
Linseed  Meal,  O.  P. 
Hominy  Chop 
Buckwheat  Middling* 
Brewers’  Graloe.  dry 
Gluten  Meal 
Gluten  Feed 
Oats 
Barley 
Rye 
Corn  Fodder,  green 
Corn  Fodder,  cured 
Mixed  Hay 
Red  Clover 
Timothy 
Alfalfa  Hay 
Corn  Meal 
Distillers’  Grains,  dry 
Wheat  Bran 
Cottonseed  Meal 
Cottonseed 
Meal. 
41.00@42.00 
41.00frn42.00 
39.00(®41. 00 
40.00@41.00 
40,00@'41.00 
Bran. 
24.00@)24.60 
24.00®24.50 
23.00@24.00 
22.00@22.50 
22.00@22.50 
New  York 
Philadelphia 
Cleveland  . 
Buffalo  . . . 
Pittsburgh 
LOCAL  PRICES. 
Ashuelot.  N.  H.,  wheat  bran.  ton.  $29;  mid¬ 
dlings.  $30:  corn  meal.  $35;  cottonseed  meal. 
$39.50;  oil  meal,  $42j  oats,  husli.,  $.68. 
Hawthorne.  Mass.,  middlings,  $28:  corn  meal, 
$34;  cottonseed  meal.  $40  to  $42:  oil  meal,  $42. 
Fonda,  N.  Y.,  wheat  bran,  ton,  $27:  brown 
middlings,  $29;  flour  middlings.  $33;  corn  meal, 
$34;  gluten  feed,  $34;  oats,  hush.,  $.55  to  $  60; 
corn,  $.95. 
Grand  Rapids.  Mich,,  bran.  ton.  $27;  mid¬ 
dlings,  $28;  corn  feed,  $26;  coarse  meal.  $29; 
oil  meal,  $37;  bay.  $13  to  $16, 
Harbor  Beach,  Mich.,  bran.  ton.  $29;  gluten 
feed,  $31;  corn  meal,  $32:  middlings,  $29;  cot¬ 
tonseed  meal,  $37, 
Middletown,  Md..  wheat  bran.  ton.  $25  to  $28; 
middlings,  $32  to  $33;  corn  meal,  $37,50;  gluten 
meal,  $32  to  $33;  brewers’  grains,  $28  to  $29: 
cottonseed  meal,  $89  to  $40. 
Montrose.  Pa.,  yellow  corn,  100  lbs.,  $1.50: 
yellow  meal,  $1.60;  spring  bran.  $1.35;  mixed 
feeds,  $1.40:  hominy.  $1.55;  flour  middlings, 
$1.60:  gluten,  $1.65;  dried  brewers’  grains, 
$1-40. 
Bloomfield,  Conn.,  wheat  bran,  ton,  $27:  mid¬ 
dlings,  $20;  corn  meal,  $34;  gluten  feed,  $35; 
brewers'  grains,  $31;  cottonseed  meal.  $40. 
East  Windsor,  N.  Y..  meal,  100  lbs..  $1.40: 
hominy,  $1.60:  gluten,  $1.50;  mixed  feed,  $1.40; 
oil  meal,  $2.00, 
Harbeson.  Del.,  wheat  bran,  ton,  $30;  nrd- 
dlings,  $30  to  $32,50;  cottonseed  meal.  $35; 
gluten  feed,  $35.  ,, 
Willseyville,  N.  Y.,  wheat  bran.  100  lbs., 
$1.55:  middlings.  $1.25;  corn  meal,  $1.80;  gluten 
feed,  SI. 50;  cottonseed  meal,  $2.00. 
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1st  —  If  you  are  still  using  some  gravity  or  setting 
“  process  of  creaming — 
BECAUSE  your  cows  have  likely  freshened  now  and  your  supply  of 
milk  is  greater. 
BECAUSE  your  spring  work  requires  every  minute  of  your  time 
and  a  good  cream  separator  will  be  a  great  time  and  labor  saver. 
BECAUSE  your  young  calves  will  thrive  best  with  warm,  sweet 
separator  skim-milk. 
BECAUSE  with  your  increased  milk  flow  your  greater  waste  of 
cream,  without  a  good  cream  separator,  must  run  into  more  money 
than  you  can  afford  to  lose. 
2nJ — If  you  have  a  very  old  De  Laval  or  an 
===  inferior  separator  whether  new  or  old — 
BECAUSE  the  losses  of  the  poor  separator  from  incomplete  skim¬ 
ming,  and  the  tainted  product  of  the  hard-to-clean  and  unsanitary  sep¬ 
arator  mean  most  when  your  volume  of  milk  is  the  greatest. 
BECAUSE  of  the  ample  and  “more  than  advertised"  capacity  of  the 
De  Laval,  you  can  separate  more  quickly  and  save  time  when  time 
means  most  to  you. 
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/•TwLvN.  fussing  with  an  inferior  or  half  worn-out 
Improving  a  Ration  * 
I  have  grade  Holstein*.  and  am  feeding 
besides  mixed  hay,  the  following  grain  ra¬ 
tion  :  300  pounds  bran.  100  pounds  corn- 
meat,  100  pounds  gluten,  100  pounds  cot¬ 
tonseed  meal,  and  100  pounds  Ajax.  I 
feed  one  pound  to  four  pounds  of  milk. 
Could  I  cut  the  eornmeal  out?  To  what 
way  could  it  be  balanced  to  make  it  more 
economical?  -w.  r.  x. 
New  York. 
Your  ration  can  be  balanced  very  nice¬ 
ly  without  use  of  eornmeal.  Bran  also 
can  be  cut  down.  The  ration  you  are 
now  feeding  is  not  balanced,  being  lack¬ 
ing  in  protein.  The  following  is  a  bal¬ 
anced  ration  for  a  1000-lb.  cow  producing 
25  pounds  of  4%  oiilk  ;  18  nounds  mixed 
hay,  one  pound  cottonseed  meal,  two 
pounds  Ajax,  two  pounds  gluten  feed,  two 
pounds  bran,  one  per  cent-  salt. 
Feed  this  grain  at  rate  of  one  pound 
to  -3%-  pounds  of  milk  produced. 
\\  ill  you  give  me  a  ration 
weighing  around  000  pounds, 
testing  4.5  per  ceut.,  with  the 
home-grown  grains,  corn,  oats, 
wheat?  I  have  silage,  oat  stnn 
stover  for  roughage.  Is  rye 
good  for  feeding  horses? 
New  York. 
It  is  impossible  to  balance 
using  only  your  home-grown 
cause  they  are  all  low  in  prot 
difficult  to  balance  an  entirely  s 
ration,  using  yocr  feeds  and 
chased  protein  concentrates.  1 
ing  ration  is,  however  balance 
conditions : 
Daily  Ration. 
25  lbs.  corn  silage. 
5  lbs.  corn  stover. 
5  lbs.  out  straw. 
1  lb.  ground  oats. 
1  lb.  ground  rye. 
1  lb.  ground  buckwheat. 
Skim-milk  for  Cows 
What  do  you  think  of  feeding  separated 
milk  to  cows?  T  have  heard  different 
opinions  in  regard  to  this  and  would  like 
yours,  (’an  I  improve  the  ration  that  I 
mn  feeding  in  connection  with  the  milk? 
I  am  feeding  at  present:  f  lbs.  dried  boot 
pulp.  2  lbs.  cottonseed  meal,  2  lbs._  corn- 
menl,  2  lbs.  wheat  middlings,  15  lbs. 
mixed  hay.  Jersey  cows  giving  25  lbs.  4 
per  cent,  milk  per  day.  I..  N.  w. 
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,‘U4  lhs.  cottonseed  meal. 
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1  per  cent.  salt. 
Feed  grain  at  rate  of  1  lb.  to  2  lhs.  of 
milk. 
The  worst  criticism  of  this  ration  is 
that  it  is  expensive  if  we  figure  oats,  rye 
and  buckwheat  at  market  prices.  It 
would  seem  you  would  do  well  to  feed 
your  oats  to  horses  mid  sell  your  rye  nud 
buckwheat.  Rye  in  particular  should  find 
ready  sale.  If  you  could  do  t  his  1  should 
recommend  the  following  grain  ration  fed 
at  rate  of  1  to  Sy2  lbs.  milk  with  rough- 
age  as  above. 
2%  lbs.  cottonseed  meal. 
2  fbs.  dried  distillers’  grains. 
1  lb.  gluten. 
1  lb.  eornmeal. 
Tliis  is  a  more  desirable  ration.  A 
pound  of  grain  is  saved  by  using  the 
three  high  protein  feeds,  cottonseed  meal, 
distillers’  grains  and  gluten. 
Rye  straw  can  he  used  to  advantage  in 
feeding  idle  horses  in  Winter.  Working 
horses  are  too  busy  to  spend  the  time  and 
energy  necessary  to  masticate  it.  and  for 
such  as  these-  it  would  better  be  used  for 
bedding.  .  n.  F.  J. 
Too  Wide  a  Ration 
Would  you  tell  me  whether  the  ration 
for  my  12  cows  giving  from  20  pounds  up 
to  45  pounds  of  milk  a  day,  is  all  right? 
I  am  feeding  each  cow  two  bushels  of  .sil¬ 
age  corn  and  Timothy  and  clover  hay 
mixed  and  one  pound  of  grain  to  every 
four  lbs.  milk  of  the  following  mixture: 
250  pounds  Ajax.  100  pounds  of  gluten, 
100  pounds  eornmeal.  100  pounds  Win¬ 
ter  bran.  The  cows  do  not  seem  to  do 
very  well  on  that.  My  silage  will  be 
gone  in  about  a  mouth;  then  1  shall  have 
nothing  but  hay  and  grain.  a.  i..  z. 
Figuring  on  basis  of  au  I100-lh.  cow. 
producing.  20  pounds  of  uiilk  daily,  the 
ration  you  are  feeding  _supplies  2.276 
pounds  protein  and  17.057  pounds  carbo¬ 
hydrate  quivalent.  The  feeding  stand¬ 
ard  calls  for  2.705  pounds  protein  and 
14.07  pounds  carbohydrate  equivalent. 
This  shows  that  your  ration  is  lacking 
in  protean,  and  I  should  hardly  expect 
it  to  give  best  results.  Since  you  say 
Beach  and  Clark  of  the  Storrs  Experi¬ 
ment  Station,  found  that  when  skim-milk 
was  offered  to  a  herd  of  24  cows  only  four 
would  drink  it.  Skim-milk  was  fed  to 
these  cows  in  place  of  half  the  grain  ra¬ 
tion,  feeding  8  lbs.  skim-milk  to  take  the 
place  of  one  pound  of  grain.  They  found 
if  caused  a  small  increase  in  the  milk 
flow,  nud  resulted  in  a  saving  of  grain 
which  gave  the  milk  a  value  of  1!V.  per 
evvt.  which  is  less  than  pigs  will  return 
when  fed  skim-milk. 
Assuming  that  you  are  feeding  15  to  20 
lbs.  of  skim-milk  per  cow  per  day,  your 
grain  ration  is  very  well  balanced.  Sub¬ 
stituting  oue  pound  of  bran  iu  place  of 
one  pound  of  the  eornmeal  would  in¬ 
crease  the  protein,  hulk  and  portability 
of  the  graiu  ration  slightly.  The  beet, 
pulp  is  an  excellent  feature  particularly 
since  you  have  no  silage.  a.  v.  j. 
Feeding  for  Butter 
1.  Will  you  give  rile  a  good  balanced 
ration  for  eight,  cows  averaging  about 
1000  pounds  in  weight?  They  give  about 
10  pounds  milk  a  day.  but  we  do  not 
think  it  very  rich.  We  would  like  to 
make  butter,  and  are  only  making  about 
45  pounds  a  week.  We  would  like  a  good 
.ration  for  butter.  We  are  feeding  now 
about  nine  quarts  a  day  of  one  pint  cot¬ 
tonseed  meal,  one  quart  oats  and  rye.  one 
quart  gluten  feed,  one  quart  flour  mid¬ 
dlings.  one  quart  dairy  feed. 
This  ration  we  feed  morning  and  night, 
and  for  fodder  we  feed  cornstalks  morn¬ 
ing  nud  night  and  mixed  clover  hay  twice 
a  day.  but  not  very  plentiful  of  either, 
as  we  are  short  owing  to  the  wet  Sum¬ 
mer  last  year.  2.  Would  there  he  any 
harm  in  feeding  cottonseed  meal  to  hens? 
New  York.  H.  G. 
1.  An  excellent  daily  ration  for  your 
cows  is  as  follows:  Eight  pouuds  mixed 
hay,  eight  pounds  corn  stover,  one  pound 
cottonseed  meal,  tw<>  pounds  dried  dis¬ 
tillers’  grains,  one  pound  hominy,  two 
pounds  standard  middlings,  one  pound 
gluten  feed,  one  per  cent.  salt. 
Feed  this  graiu  at  the  rate  of  a  pound 
to  three  pounds  of  milk.  This  is  a  high 
rate  for  4%  milk,  but  it  is  necessary 
where  one  has  a  limited  supply  of  rough¬ 
age.  8o  far  as  it  is  known  at  the  pres- 
