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Feeding Brood Sow 
What do I need to add to skim-milk to 
make a ration for a year-old bred sow? 
I have the basement of the horse barn to 
keep her in. There are six horses and I 
1 ho 11 gilt she eonld work over the manure. 
T have nil the skim-milk that l ran feed 
her. m. ( 1 . p, 
Massachusetts. 
A combination of <‘ 01 * 11 , ground oats and 
skim-milk would make an ideal combina¬ 
tion for use in feeding brood sows. If 
the proportions are combined so that six 
parts of corn, four parts of ground oats 
and f>0 lbs. of milk arc us<*d as a unit, 
the sow will gain and increase in weight 
and vigor and in satisfactory form. By 
this I do hot mean that the ground oats 
and skim-milk should he mixed in a tbill, 
sloppy mixture; rather, the cornineal and 
ground oats should he combined in a 
thick mash and the sow given the milk 
separately to drink. You might increase 
the amount of milk if you have an abund¬ 
ant.. it, and thus reduce the total cast 
of feed. The addition of Alfalfa hay or 
Alfalfa meal would increase the hoik of 
the mixture and make sure that the sow 
was supplied with an abundance of min¬ 
erals. Alfalfa hay is relatively coarse 
for use in feeding young pigs, but it is 
particularly well suited for feeding brood 
sows. 
In determining the amount to feed 
daily, a safe guide is to make sure that the 
sow is gaining a pound a day in weight. 
This is assuming that she is thin at mat¬ 
ing time and that she would gain approx¬ 
imately TOO Ihs. in weight during her 
period of gestation. There is very little 
to he gained by working over the barn¬ 
yard manure, especially if horses are th« 
only animals that you are feeding. 
the cow to gain regularly in weight dur¬ 
ing her rest period. Base up on the ra¬ 
tion during calving time, and do not al¬ 
low the cow to have full rations until all 
of the inflammation incident, to parturi¬ 
tion has disappeared from the udder. 
Ration for Milk-making 
What is the best ration to feed my 
Jersey cow? She freshened in Septem¬ 
ber. I bought her recently, and was told 
she would give around 20 Ihs. per day or 
better. I get. but 1 <> or IS Ihs. per day. 
I am feeding the same kind of grain as 
former owner —do Ihs. of a mixed dairy 
feed per day. I feed at noon small po¬ 
tatoes, turnips, cabbage, all of the hay 
that she will eat three times a day. She 
is five years old, in good flesh. T would 
like to get. more milk. I can get all kinds 
of ground feed here. A. J. C. 
I'erhnps you are not. providing the row 
with enough of the right kind of rough- 
age, It is essential that cither Alfalfa 
hay or clover hay he used if the maximum 
production of milk he obtained and fre¬ 
quently Timothy or Hod-top hay is sub¬ 
stituted for such legumes. I do not know 
(tie quality or analyses of the usual feed 
you an* buying, but unless it carries at 
least 20 per cent of protein, and not more 
than eight or 10 per rent of fiber, it be¬ 
longs In the roughage class. One cannot 
make a good ration for cows from low- 
grade products, and none of the low an¬ 
alyses feeds are built from genuine feeds. 
When dairymen or owners of family cows 
stop buying their hay or straw in a bag 
and cease to buy roughage under the pre¬ 
tense of concentrates, many of the con¬ 
flicting feeding problems will be solved. 
Kqual parts of corn meal, wheat bran, 
ground oats, oilmen!, ami gluten feed, and 
one per cent of salt will give you good 
results. 
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Feeding One Cow 
Will you give mie a good -ration for mv 
Holstein cow?? She is very thin. T have 
Timothy hay only. a. s. 
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A ration consisting of 3J50 lbs. hominy, 
200 His. bran, 150 lbs. buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings. 200 lbs. gluten, 200 lbs. cotton- 
need. 100 lbs. oilmen! is suggested, This 
combination is relatively high in protein, 
blit, since your roughage is so poor nnd 
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I’nlil the pasture season opens I 
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