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335 West 30th Street, New York 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Grading Roughage 
I have bought! a roughage mill, and ex¬ 
pect to grind the roughage and whole 
grain together, and would like to know 
Sow much of each to take. I have corn 
fodder, Alfalfa, ear corn, oats, and can 
get cottonseed meal, oil meal, and mo¬ 
lasses. 1 have silage, I want, this feed 
for milk cows and young cattle, 
I’ennsylvania. A. G. W. 
Very little would be gained by grinding 
your roughage and your grain concen¬ 
trates together. I do not know of any 
mill that, would perform this operation 
efficiently and economically. A better 
plan would be to shred or cut your rough- 
age materials, if this is to be desired, 
and then run the grain through the mill 
separately or mixed together. If you 
attempted to set the burrs close enough 
so that the grain would be ground line 
enough you would find that the expense 
of grinding roughage would be too great 
to justify the practice. 
There is nothing to be gained by grind¬ 
ing Alfalfa hay for use in feeding dairy 
cows. It is both palatable and highly 
digestible, and the cows will eat a suf¬ 
ficient quantity of the hay to supply all 
of their requirements for protein and 
mineral matter that can be economically 
supplied from this source. 
A Milk-test Problem 
I came from Belgium about a year ago, 
and bought a 660-aerc farm, with 60 head 
of stock. You know that when a ‘‘green¬ 
horn" buys a farm, everybody comes to 
him and gives him advice. The first, 
week I was here I was intro¬ 
duced to a middle-aged farmer, known to 
have a heart as big as his body. This 
man told me that there were tricks in all 
trades, and especially in dairying. For 
instance, he said: “Do you know that 
milk loses in butterfafc test by being 
hauled a long distanceV He said h<“ had 
this sml experience. These words sounded 
so foolish and crazy to me that l always 
looked at him with pity, as if he was 
ripe for the asylum, and I think that I 
•looked the same to him. 
I had been selling my milk to a con¬ 
cern six miles away, but in November I 
decided to listen to I hat fool’s advice, and 
I went with my milk to a company 2 Vj 
miles away. The four or five first days of 
November, the first-named company tested 
my milk 8 .S, and paid me $ 2.22 for this 
milk. Tbc next day and the following 
days of November the other concern tested 
my milk, 4.4 and 4.8, and paid $ 8 ,f)M 
fol* same; same cows, same feed, same 
care, same amount of milk, same milking 
machine, same owner and same shipper; 
only one key to mtlkhouse. 
Could you tell me whether my neighbor 
is n fool or a genius? For the last few days 
when he passes my house I tip^ my hat 
to him. His ad vice raised my November 
milk check of about $150. May I ask 
v m to solve this test problem? For my 
cart 1 guess I would he in jail if T should 
dare say or write what I think about it. 
Now York. in*, a. k. 
You have presented an interesting 
story. While it is true that milk will 
churn more or less in the can if hauled 
long distances over rough roads, variation 
in the butterfnt reading would not begin 
to he as great as you have indicated in 
this instance. If the factory representa¬ 
tive were careful in sampling the milk, 
there should not. be so great variation in 
the test. Either the first-named concern 
was cheating you or the second was ex¬ 
ceedingly generous, thinking, perhaps, that 
they could obtain your patronage for a 
given, length of time, and might well af¬ 
ford to make some special inducements in 
the way of adding to your butterfnt test, 
temporarily at least The facts resolve 
themselves into a mere matter of integ¬ 
rity of the buyers themselves, Perhaps 
your neighbor is better acquainted with 
the habits or the representatives of the 
men in question than you are. Perhaps 
he knows from experience that, one is 
straight and the other is crooked. If your 
contention is correct, some milk would 
have mighty little butterfnt present by 
the time it. reached its destination, for 
instances are not uncommon where milk 
is transported at least 500 miles and then 
distributed as market milk. I should say 
that, your neighbor is neither a genius nor 
a fool, but rather that he is a good neigh¬ 
bor, and anxious that you should profit 
from his misfortunes. Tn order to he on 
the safe side and to satisfy yourself, might 
I suggest that you send a composite sam¬ 
ple of the milk tn each of the dealers and 
that a third gam pie he sent to the dairy 
department at the experiment station for 
testing purposes? In this way you will 
be able to compare results and to check 
tip on the different tests. 
It would also be interesting to note the 
particular type of breed of cows that you 
are milking. If they are straight llol- 
stcins, then a test of 8.4 or 8.8 would he 
an appropriate one. If the herd consists 
of Ilolslein cows with Jerseys or Guern¬ 
sey grades, then a butterfnt reading 4.4 
per cent would be normal. There are 
very few herds of straight Holstein cows 
that reach the latter figure in butterfat. 
Some one lias remarked that experience, 
after all, is not only the best, but the 
dearest school, and that honesty is not the 
best policy, but the only policy to follow. 
I should look into the reputations of the 
two dealers iu question, and naturally 
you would' be justified in patronizing the 
one that pays you the highest price for 
your product. 
Grinding Ears of Corn 
Will you give on opinion of nutriment, 
if the full ear of corn is ground? 1 have 
two men on my farm, of opposite opinions. 
One says it. takes the place of ground 
feeds, such as middlings, meal, bran, and. 
while possibly not as nutritious as some 
fine feeds, will lake .their place and save 
me a great deal of money iu feeding chick¬ 
ens, pigs. cows, and horses. The other 
man claims absolutely no nutriment, and 
the cobs are lit only for the fire. 
New York. c. \v. p. 
80 far as actual digestible nutrients 
are concerned, corncobs do not make any 
contribution to a ration. In many eases 
it is difficult to shell the coni and then 
grind the shelled corn. For this reason 
feeders frequently resort to the us ' 1 of 
corn and coh meal. It is a matter of con¬ 
venience rather than a belief that there 
is virtue In the feeding value of corn- 
t 
cobs. 
When corn and cob meal is fed to dairy 
cows, it gives fairly satisfactory results, 
bill it has no place in a ration intended 
for horses, swine, or chickens. Pigs can¬ 
not handle high-fibor materials of this 
character. You only invite colic when 
you feed corncobs to horses, and you can¬ 
not even foot a chicken by grinding the cob 
with the corn. Even when dairy cows are 
fed, if the cobs are replaced with straight 
bran, or some product of this character, 
much better results will be obtained. Me¬ 
chanically they might provide bulk. but. 
on the other hand, bran or ground oats 
would provide the quality hulk and at the 
same time contribute s >me nourishment. 
If I were to decide the controversy, t 
certainly would not vote for corncobs. 
If you will observe tho feeding habits m 
horses, chickens, and pigs, you will find 
that they have to be very hungry before 
they will eat corncobs of their own vo¬ 
lition. On the other hand, cows, if given 
whole corn, will consume only about 50 
per cent of the cobs. 
Feeding Steers 
I have six feeding steers, and am going 
to get them on full feed in about four 
weeks. I intend to feed corn and cob meal, 
wheat bran, and oilrncnl. What propor¬ 
tion should I use. and what amount should 
I feed at a feeding, twice a day, when 
on full feed? Steers weight 000 lbs. each. 
I have mixed bay and corn fodder. 
Pennsylvania. . a. it, Z. 
For OOO-lb. steers on full feed, I should 
allow 1 Vo lb. cottonseed meal per steer 
per day. and from 14 to IS lbs. of com. 
If desired, the oilmen! can be fed in pref¬ 
erence to the cottonseed meal. Approxi¬ 
mately the same amount would suffice. 
There is nothing to be gained by includ¬ 
ing wheat bran iu a ration intended for 
fattening steers. Tt is relatively laxa¬ 
tive, and it does not contribute digestible 
nutrients economically in instances of this 
sort. It is very well suited for use itt 
feeding young stock or milk cows; but it 
is too expensive to use in rations intended 
for fattening steers. It will require about 
four weeks to bring your steers to full 
feed. Then it is well to allow them all 
that they will clean up with relish, but 
make sure that they clean up their troughs 
each day. Allow them till of the rough 
age that they will consume, although you 
will find that where steers are on full 
feed they will eat very little hay or corn 
fodder. 
