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<Iht RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
January 21, 1922 
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of every cow. A little extra care In win- \|l|| 11 /»// \Vu>J [,\%" I'U 
ter will keep tho entire herd producing at tM' Jli / 
a profit the year ’round. 
Cows In harn—with very little green feed, much roughage and concen¬ 
trates—need every aid possible to keep assimilation and digestion strong. 
Let these functions lag and the milk yield falls. Tho cow becomes an 
easy prey to serious disease. 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration Without Cottonseed 
Will you give me a balanced ration with 
Cobmeal as a starterV Have silage, with 
one feed of clover hay a day, the others 
meadow' hay. Can get any grains, but 
do not care to use cottonseed. A. it. 
New Hampshire. 
With silage for succulence, and corn 
and cobmeal as a starter, I should pur¬ 
chase wheat bran, gluten feed, and oil- 
meal, and combine them in the following 
proportions: ‘150 lbs. corn and cobmeal, 
250 lbs. bran, 200 lbs. gluten food. ‘200 
lbs. ailment, Feed 1 lb. of this mixture 
for each .'H4 lbs. of milk produced per 
cow per day, and allow 3 lbs. of silage 
daily for each 100 lbs. of live weight. 
Give them all of the meadow Bay that 
they will clean up once a day. 
Lame Heifer 
I have a grade Holstein heifer one year 
old. Iler ration from a calf has been 
equal parts by weight of cracked corn, 
bran, middlings and ground oats, with 
occasionally oilmen) or gluten feed added. 
With the exception of the last 50 lbs. I 
have fed dairy feed, a quart und a pint 
twice daily. Heifer lias been kept iu a 
well-bedded box stall, and since frost she 
has been allowed to roam the farm once 
or twice a week. Natural hay. mostly 
herds grass, has been kept before her at 
all times. For the last few days she has 
become lame, first in the hind feet, then 
in front, till now she can scarcely walk 
at all. I have given her a light dose of 
salts every second day for three doses, 
hut she seems to get worse instead of 
better. Can yon suggest anything bet¬ 
ter? She has been up to this time 
healthy and sleek. T. W. K. 
It is possible that the heifer in ques¬ 
tion was injured while roaming over 
frozen fields. Make sure that her feet, are 
not infected with hoof rot: or foul foot. 
The ration that you were originally feed¬ 
ing would give you good results, hut T 
should include some oilmeal or gluten feed 
in the mixture at nil times rather than 
occasionally, ns you have been doing. A 
quart and a pint twice daily of feed would 
not la* enough for a growing heifer. She 
ought to have 5 lbs. or <1 lbs. of grain per 
day, properly supplemented with a leafy 
roughage. Make sure that the heifer is 
stabled in a well-bedded stall, free from 
draughts. There is nothing wrong with 
the ration that you have used from the 
outset. 
Grain With Apple Pomace 
Would you figure a ration for grade 
Holstein cows getting mixed hay, corn¬ 
stalks and apple pomace? I have a quan¬ 
tity of r.ve which I would like to feed to 
the cows, as T have no hogs, ami am un¬ 
able to sell ii at what it cost to grow jt. 
We used to feed it to Cows along with 
corn and oats, wheat bran, etc., years 
ago, when we were making butter, with 
good results. We also have plenty of 
corn and oats, and a mill to grind same, 
and can get oilmeal at $2.50; cottonseed. 
$2.45; gluten. $2.25; brewers’ grains, 
$1.75; bran, $1.30. *w. it. c. 
T have very little faith in the results 
obtained from feeding apple pomace to 
dairy cows. It easily becomes ferment¬ 
ing, and at bpst only tickles a cow's appe¬ 
tite. When used purely as a source of 
variety il might be justified, yet I have 
mv doubts as to whether it is safe to use. 
Likewise, rye is of questionable useful¬ 
ness in mixtures Intended for dairy cat¬ 
tle. It is apt to be dusty, and frequently 
rye contains ergot am] is responsible for 
disorders in both digestive and reproduc¬ 
tive system that are costly. As you say. 
It; is a much better feed for hogs. How¬ 
ever. if il is first grade r.ve, it might he 
used ns follows: 100 lbs. ground rye. 
200 llis. corn, 150 lbs. oats, 200 lbs. 4f> 
per cent cottonseed meal. 150 lbs. brew¬ 
ery grains. 100 lbs. oilmeal, 100 Ihs. bran. 
One hundred pounds of this mixture 
ought to produce .‘550 lbs. of milk, pro¬ 
vided it was fed in conjunction with 
mixed hay and corn fodder. If your ex¬ 
perience prompts you to continue the 
apple pomace, well and good ; hut I am 
sure that moistened beet pulp would give 
you better results than the potnuce. 
Dairy Rations 
We are feeding cows ground oats and 
mixed grain, two quarts of the mixed 
grain and one quart of ground oats at 
each milking. We give all the good tame 
hay they will clean up three limes a day. 
Cows arc in fine shape, but l have been 
told that oats will cause stomach worms 
and that the bulk of the mixed grain was 
brewery grains. IVhat do you think of 
flu* wily we arc feeding? and also give a 
good ration. Would you advise keeping 
salt iu front of cows at all times? They 
have all the good spring water they will 
drink. Is corn meal a milk producer, aud 
would you advise feeding it? V. W. n. 
While corn and oats are considered 
excellent feeds for dairy cattle, they must 
be supplemented with a variety of pro¬ 
tein feeds, such as are contained in the 
mixed feed that you are using. While 
brewery grains are used to a limited ex¬ 
tent in this feed, you will find that the 
mixture contains other ingredients of 
recognized feeding value. ! should re- 
plnee half of the oats with cornmeal. 
Oats are not responsible for stomach 
worms; in fact, dairy cows are never in¬ 
fected by parasites of this character. 
Occasionally this condition prevails 
where horses are fed largely on Timothy 
liny and oat straw; hut you need have no 
worries from ibis source In feeding your 
dairy animals. By all means keep salt 
before the cows at nil times. Allow 
them free access to leafy roughages, and 
make sure that your dry cows are highly 
conditioned previously to calving time. 
It is as important, to feed dry cows in¬ 
telligently as it is to feed milking ani¬ 
mals generously, and the combination 
that you arc using ought to prove highly 
satisfactory. 
Death of Pigs 
T have lost six two-months-old pigs 
within two weeks, the doctor said from 
feeding middlings, as lie could find no 
other cause. I bad been feeding thick 
skim-milk morning and evening, varied 
with one quart middlings iu six quarts 
water at noon. To satisfy me that it was 
not iiog cholera, as the pigs became par¬ 
alyzed in tlie hindquarters, lie sent viscera 
for examination by specialists. They 
could find nothing except inflnrmnntlon of 
the bowels as a cause for death. The 
doctor slill thinks it is the middlings. 
The pigs had no rash, no color, no fever, 
and the only symptoms noticeable were 
diarrlnea and the inability to stand on 
hind legs, death following after three or 
four d.n s. II. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is possible that the middlings re¬ 
ferred to contained screenings or weed 
seeds that contained poisonous properties. 
Tests reported by the Canadian Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture show conclusively 
weed seeds of this character contain toxic 
properties that are poisonous for pigs. 
White middlings iu themselves do not pro¬ 
vide a complete ration for growing pigs. 
When accompanied by skim-milk or but¬ 
termilk a certain deficiency would he Cor¬ 
rected: nevertheless one cannot expect to 
produce pork profitably under prevailing 
conditions without the use of coni at its 
present value. Furthermore, you have 
diluted your middlings to such an extent 
that actually your pigs are starved to 
death on a full stomach. The concen¬ 
trates Intended for pig feeding should be 
supplied either through the agency of the 
self feeder, or only enough water should 
be added (o bring the materials to the 
consistency of buttermilk. Pigs should be 
permitted to eat rather than drink their 
feed, and this is possible only when thick 
mashes are available. I would suggest 
that you send a sample of the middlings 
to lion. Fred Rasmussen, Secretary of 
Agriculture at Harrisburg, with the re¬ 
quest that the percentage of fiber he as¬ 
certained. The condition of paralysis 
that you have reported substantiates the 
suggestion that one cannot rely exclusive¬ 
ly on cereal by-products to provide a com¬ 
plete ration for growing animals, ns these 
by-products may lack essential vitamines 
that are necessary for normal growth and 
development. For this reason and tunny 
others it is advisable to obtain ingredients 
from several sources, and not rely upon 
any one product to supply all of the pro¬ 
tein or energy in live stock feeding. 
Dairy Feeding 
I have cow pea buy (very full of 
beans), silage made from corn that would 
make 125 bu. of cars to the acre, and 
plenty of corn and oats. T would like to 
feed with this, to dairy cattle, cottonseed 
meal only, as that is about the only con¬ 
centrate 11mt can be bought advantage¬ 
ously. T have plenty of corn fodder for 
the cattle to pick over during the day. 
Outside of cottonseed meal I would like 
to feed oidv what we grow on the farm. 
Elktoii, Hid. V. R. 
Cow pea hay is a legume that is both 
palatable and nutritious, and when fed in 
conjunction with silage makes an ideal 
feed. With plenty of corn and oats, cot¬ 
tonseed meal is in reality the only con¬ 
centrate 1 that you need to buy, especially 
if your cows are in good condition and 
have not beeu forced during their pre¬ 
vious lactation periods. A mixture con¬ 
sisting of equal parts of corn and cob 
meal, ground oats and cottonseed meal 
could la* safely fed in conjunction with 
silage and cow pen lmy, yet it is probably 
true 'that you would get belter results by 
limiting the Cottonseed meal and adding 
gluten feed. Allow the cows all of tin 1 
legume hay they will consume and, in ad¬ 
dition. let them have free access to corn 
fodder. An average sized cow will con¬ 
sume about 115 lbs. of silage daily, and 
you ought to got ns much as .1 or 4 lbs. 
of milk for each pound of grain fed un¬ 
der these conditions. By carefully select¬ 
ing cow s and basing their value entirely 
Upon tlieir ability to convert feed into 
milk at a profit, it ought to la 1 a rela¬ 
tively simple matter for you to make 
rapid advances iu profits from your dairy 
farm operations. 
