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farm  products  into  pork.  Broorl  solec- 
tion  is  of  minor  importance  when  com¬ 
pared  with  tile  selection  of  typo,  feeding 
qualities,  and  early  maturing  charnetiT- 
istirs.  It  would  he  easy  to  select  in  your 
correspondent's  territory  very  useful  and 
profitable  <  >,  T.  C.  swine,  and  providing 
they  are  liberally  fed  with  this  mixture 
they  ought  to  realize  a  clear  profit  to 
the  owner. 
It  is  gratifying  to  note  that  this  cor¬ 
respondent  has  sufficient  determination 
and  will  power  to  cling  to  the  farm  and 
work  out.  agricultural  problems  in  a  prac¬ 
tical  way.  There  is  something  about  live 
stock  farming  that  is  most  interesting 
and  attractive  for  young  men  who  have 
responded  to  this  call  and  interested 
themselves  in  practical  problems,  and 
they  have  a  right  to  be  proud  of  the  op¬ 
portunities  they  are  afforded  on  an  up-to- 
date  farm.  f.  c.  VI. 
Lily  and 
Primrose 
Separators 
Ration  for  Fresh  Cow 
Will  you  give  me  a  balanced  ration  for 
a  four-year-uld  Jersey  cow?  She  fresh¬ 
ened  two  weeks  ago,  is  doing  good  work 
at  the  pail.  I  have  a  good  quality  of 
mixed  hay.  and  am  feeding  a  peek  of  raw 
potatoes  once  a  day,  with  two  quarts  of 
ground  oats  and  buckwheat  in  which  I 
mix  a  little  wheat  bran  and  a  half  pint 
of  cottonseed  night  and  morning.  What 
do  I  need  to  make  this  ration  all  right? 
I  can  get  ground  corn.  Would  that  be 
worth  while?  T.  a.  b. 
Maine. 
In  figuring  a  ration  for  your  cow,  I 
have  assumed  she  weighs  000  pounds  and 
is  producing  MO  pounds  5%  milk  daily: 
This  being  the  case  the  following  is  a 
good  balanced  ration  to  feed  daily.  10 
pounds  mixed  hay,  15  pounds  potatoes, 
one  pound  ground  buckwheat,  two  pounds 
cottonseed  meal,  two  pounds  gluten  feed, 
two  pounds  dried  distillers’  and  brewers’ 
grains,  two  pounds  wheat  bran,  one  per 
cent.  salt. 
Feed  grain  at  rate  of  one  pound  to 
three  pounds  of  milk.  The  ration  which 
you  are  now  feeding  is  unbalanced,  not 
containing  enough  protein,  so  I  have  put 
in  the  gluten,  cottonseed  and  distillers’ 
grains  to  supply  this  protein,  u.  F.  j. 
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Ration  for  Jerseys 
Will  you  balance  a  ration  from  the 
following  feeds  for  Jersey  cows  weighing 
from  700  to  1,000  pounds,  giving  from  20 
to  30  pounds  of  5.3%  milk?  Wheat 
bran,  $24  per  ton;  standard  wheat  mid¬ 
dlings,  $24  per  t<m ;  distillers’  grains 
(dry  I,  $35  per  ton;  cottonseed  meal, 
$42  per  ton;  corumeal.  $33  per  ton;  lin¬ 
seed  oil  meal  (old  process),  $10.50  per 
ton;  mixed  clover  and  Timothy  hay  and 
plenty  of  corn  silage.  F. 
New  York. 
At  20  cents  per  pound  for  nitrogen  and 
four  cents  per  pound  for  phosphoric  acid 
and  potash,  assuming  that  70%  of  the 
fertility  of  the  feed  is  available  in  the 
manure,  your  grain  feeds  rank  as  fol¬ 
lows;  Bran  $1.13  tier  cwt.,  middlings 
$1.14  per  cwt.,  distillers'  grains  $1,17  per 
cwt,,  cottonseed  meal  $1.22  per  cwt., 
oil  meal  $1.49  per  cwt.,  eornmeul  $1.03. 
This  shows  us  we  should  aim  to  bal¬ 
ance  a  ration  from  the  first  four  feeds 
iu  the  list,  oil  meal  and  cornmeai  being 
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mixed  hay,  three  pounds  dried  distillers’ 
grains,  two  pounds  cottonseed  meal,  two 
pounds  standard  middlings,  one  pound 
wheat  bran,  one  per  cent.  salt. 
Feed  at  rate  of  one  pound  of  grain  to 
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I  have  16  grade  Holstein  cows  weigh¬ 
ing  about  1,200  pounds  each,  for  which 
I  would  like  to  have  you  give  me  a  bal¬ 
anced  ration  from  the  following  feeds: 
Corn  silage,  mixed  clover  hay.  cornmeai. 
wheat  middlings,  wheat  bran,  gluten 
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per  day.  D,  A.  N. 
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