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Ration with Buckwheat and Oats 
Will you send me a good milk ration? 
I have 15 grade cows. I have 30 bushels 
of buckwheat: and 100 bushels of oats, 
and can buy about any kind of feed. 
New York. j. c. 
I am assuming that you do not have 
silage and that you have no legume hay 
for roughage. A ration built around 
buckwheat and oats is suggested in the 
following shovel mixture: Cornmeal, 250 
lbs.; ground oats, 200 lbs.; ground buck¬ 
wheat. 150 lbs.: gluten feed, 200 lbs.; 
cottonseed meal, 100 lbs.; linseed meal, 
100 lbs. 
In thp absence of both silage and man¬ 
gels or turnips, beet pulp should be used 
to provide succulence, and the cows 
should be given all of the roughage they 
will clean up three times a day. Ir would 
be well to feed hay morning and night 
and let them have some fodder to pick 
over during the middle of the day. Add 
1 per cent of salt to this ration unless it 
is kept before them at all times in con¬ 
venient self-feeding boxes. Make sure 
that the cows have access to plenty of 
drinking water. 
condition of your cow’s - udder. It might 
be due to the use of feeds highly concen¬ 
trated, which, if fed excessively, cause 
congestion, inflammation and disorders 
of this character. Then, too. the cow 
might be diseased; that is, might be suf¬ 
fering from tuberculosis of the udder. 
If the condition is due to digestive dis¬ 
orders, then bathing the udder for half 
hour periods two or three times daily 
with a hot solution of salt water would 
reduce this congestion, provided the cow's 
diet is restricted to laxative feeds. Usu¬ 
ally if the congestion is brought about by 
digestive disorder ; then it is well to give 
the cow a pound of Epsom salts that have 
been dissolved in a quart of warm water 
and added to a pint of molasses. This 
can be administered in the form of a 
drench and followed by bran mash. 
Give the cow an abundance of rough- 
age, such as Alfalfa or clover hay. and 
restrict, for a week or 10 days the amount 
of grain fed. If no response comes from 
this treatment, then l should seek the ad¬ 
vice of a veterinarian and determine 
whether or not. she might be suffering 
from some congenital disease. 
Ration with Oats and Cobmeal 
I am feeding high-grade HolSlcins. Will 
you give me the best milk producing and 
most economical mixture from the fol¬ 
lowing list of grains and prices: Bran. 
$30; corncob meal. $11,50; ground oats. 
$25 ; oilmeal. $54. all per ton. I have an 
abundance of good Alfalfa hay and good 
corn silagp. Would you suggest any 
grains or feeds to he used with these to 
improve the value of the mixture or make 
move economical? Which is of more val¬ 
ue. ground oats or bran? J. F. c. 
Iowa. 
Ground oats are superior to wheat 
bran in feeding value, providing the oats 
are of good quality and of good weight. 
Usually homegrown oats are superior to 
bran, but many times the oats that are 
purchased from local feed dealers consist 
of screenings, oat hulls and materials 
that possess very little feeding value. 
Bran carries approximately 12 per cent 
of protein as against 11 per cent for oats, 
hut the oats are higher in carbohydrates 
than the average run of Winter bran. 
Under the conditions that you have de¬ 
scribed, oats at $25 per ton would he 
more economical than bran at .$30, and 
if Alfalfa or clover hay is available, you 
could get aloug without bran. 
If you could supplement the oilmeal 
with some gluten feed, that is, use some 
oilmeal and some gluten feed, the cost of 
your ration might be reduced and its effi¬ 
ciency increased. With corn and • cob 
meal worth only $14.50 per ton you 
should rely chiefly upon this product, to 
provide your carbohydrates, and add 
merely enough of the other products to 
provide bulk and the necessary amount of 
protein. I am suggesting the following 
proportions for Ilolsteins. assuming that 
you have good silage and plenty of Alfalfa 
hay: 
Corn and cob meal. 450 lbs.; ground 
oats, 200 lbs.; oilmeal, 150 lbs.; gluten 
feed, 200 lbs. 
Add 1 per cent of salt to the combina¬ 
tion, and feed 1 lb. of the mixture for 
each 3V6 lbs. of milk produced per cow 
per day. Give the cows all of the silage 
and Alfalfa hay that they will relish, and 
make sure that they eat generously of 
roughage. It ought to be possible for 
you to obtain gluten feed in your section 
more economically than you could pur¬ 
chase oilmeal, and it is not practicable to 
rely upon oilmeal to provide all of the 
protein, especially where Alfalfa hay is 
available. The two products are likely to 
he too laxative if used ns combination 
feeds. If you have a reasonable outlet 
for your market milk it ought to be pos¬ 
sible for you to make some money under 
these conditions and prices. 
Trouble with Cow 
I have a cow whose udder is swollen. 
It swelled before she came fresh, then 
after she calved it swelled just the same. 
The swelling goes away and then comes 
again, hut most of the time it is swollen. 
I would like to know what to do for it. 
New Jersey. J. n. 
There are a number of conditions that 
might be responsible for the congested 
Ration with Oats 
I have a large herd of cattle and at 
the present time feed my cows a mixture 
of 500 lbs. gluten, 500 lbs. meal, 500 lbs. 
cottonseed, 500 common middlings and 
1.100 lbs. ground oats. I give each cow 
a heaping bushel of silage twice a day. 
and about 2% quarts of aforesaid ration 
morning and evening: also hay them 
twice a day. w. v. 
New York. 
I should omit the use of common mid¬ 
dlings, reduce the amount of ground oats 
and increase the amount of corumeal or 
hominy. Wheat bran is move desirable 
than middlings for feeding dairy cows, 
although if your oats are homegrown and 
then ground, the chances are that they 
will provide a unit of digestible matter 
more economically than the purchased 
wheat bran. On the other hand, if you 
are buying your oats from the dealer in 
the shape of ground oats, the chances are 
that you are getting a generous percentage 
of oat hulls, and this product seriously 
depresses digestion. 
A mixture consisting of 000 lbs. of 
oats, 200 lbs. of bran, 400 lbs. of corn, 
400 lbs. of gluten meal. 300 lbs. of cot¬ 
tonseed, and 100 lbs. of oilmeal is sug¬ 
gested. I should add 1% per cent of salt 
to this combination. 
Rather than feed each cow an arbi¬ 
trary amount of grain such as you have 
suggested, 1 should regulate the amount 
of grain in proportion to the individual 
production of milk. Fresh cows, giving 
40 or 50 lbs. in the midst of their lacta¬ 
tion period should naturally be fed more 
thnu are those cows giving perhaps half 
of this quantity. You are wise in al¬ 
lowing them all of the silage that they 
will consume, for this is a safety valve, 
provided it is supplemented with a useful 
roughage. 
Too Much Protein 
I am milking nine Holstein and Jersey 
cows; have cornstalks and mixed clover 
hay. I am feeding a mixture of GOO lbs. 
oilmeal, 300 lbs. eoru-nnd-eob meal, 150 
lbs. brewers’ grains, 200 lbs. wheat bran. 
150 lbs. ground oats, with two per cent 
salt, I feed 1 lb. for each 3 lbs. milk 
per day, with all the cornstalks in morn¬ 
ing and night and hay at noontime that 
they will clean up. How can I improve 
this ration? 1 can get gluten and wheat 
middlings. j. l. 
Newton, N. ,T. 
You are using an extravagant amount 
of linseed meal; in faet, owing to the 
excessive amount of this product used, 
your ration is highly concentrated, car¬ 
ries too much protein, and is thus expen¬ 
sive and ill-suited to your conditions. I 
would suggest a mixture carrying 150 
lbs. brewers’ grains. 800 lbs. corn-and- 
eob meal, 200 lbs. wheat bran, 150 lbs. 
ground oats, 200 lbs. oilmeal, 100 lbs. 
gluten. I should not use any of the 
wheat middlings, and it is not necessary 
to include the gluten if the cows are thin 
in Mesh, which I assume they are if they 
have been fed this ration over un ex¬ 
tended period of time. As much linseed 
oil as you are using would have a ten¬ 
dency to produce undue laxativeness, and 
thus meddle with the usual digestive pro¬ 
cedure. The addition of some moistened 
beet pulp would stabilize your ration. 
