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"he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May t>, 1922 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
He lost enough 
cream every 
six months 
to pay for a 
DE LAVAL 
“ had a cream separator that 
I had been using and thought 
was all right. I have five cows 
and had been selling cream and 
feeding skim-milk to hogs as 
fast as separated. A few days 
ago I sold the hogs and left the 
skimmed milk in the can. The 
next day I noticed cream on it. 
I was so surprised that I skim¬ 
med it off by hand, churned it 
and made one pound and six 
ounces of butter. 
“It took little figuring to 
show how much cream I had 
been feeding my hogs each day. 
I figured I had paid the price of 
a No. 15 De Laval every six 
months.” 
This letter is typical of many 
letters we receive. 
Perhaps this same thing is 
happening to you and you don't 
realize it. If you are using an 
old or partly worn-out separa¬ 
tor, or are skimming by hand, 
undoubtedly you are wasting 
enough cream to pay for a De 
Laval in a short time. The 
waste of cream occurring every 
day is criminal—more than 
enough to pay for the entire 
output of the De Laval Fac¬ 
tory. 
Most any kind of cream sepa¬ 
rator will do fairly good work 
the first few months, when it is 
new. But if it is cheaply made, 
after the first few months your 
trouble will begin. 
And the worst of your ex¬ 
perience with such a machine 
will not be the fact that it wears 
out quickly or that it runs hard, 
or that you are piling up repair 
expenses, but that you are los¬ 
ing a lot of butter-fat. 
Why take chances at all when 
you can get a De Laval which 
has won hundreds of prizes, 
thousands of contests, and is 
used by millions. Experience 
has proved that it is the best 
cream separator that money 
can buy, and in the long run 
the cheapest. 
Order your De Laval now and 
let it begin saving cream right 
away. See the local De Laval 
Agent, or if you don’t know 
him, write to nearest office. 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
New York Chicago 
165 Broadway 29 E. Madison St. 
San Francisco 
61 Beale St. 
Sooner or later you will use a 
De Laval 
Cream Separator and Milker 
Improving a Ration 
Will you tell me whether the following 
ration is well balanced, and. if not. how I 
can change it to balance V I am feeding 
Ilolsteins this ration, with all the silage 
they will clean m>, and about 10 lbs. 
mixed hay. and sail. I was giving char¬ 
coal and about 14 pint molasses, luit find 
they do just as well without them: 400 
lbs. corntileal. $33 per ton; 500 lbs cot¬ 
tonseed, $5$; 500 lbs. bran. $35; 625 lbs. 
gluten. $80; 875 lbs. brewers’ or dis¬ 
tillers’ dried grains, $38; 250 lbs. oil- 
meal, $60. L, H. c. 
Cortland. X. Y. 
The ration submitted carried about 27 
per cent of protein, and this percentage 
is an extravagant amount to feed dairy 
cows of average production. I should in¬ 
crease the corn meal to 600 lbs., use only 
300 lbs, of cottonseed meal, with 100 lbs. 
of brewers or distillers’ grains, and 800 
lbs. of oil meal. This will give you a 
combination yielding about 23 per cent of 
proteiu. It is evident, however, that the 
cottonseed meal is more economical than 
the linseed meal; but. with the class of 
roughage that you have, and the fact that 
you are using distillers’ grains, will, in 
my judgment, justify the use of the lin¬ 
seed meal. Corn is much more desirable 
and efficient than molasses, nor is char¬ 
coal needed. Your corrected ration then 
would read 60ft lbs. corn meal, 800 lbs. 
cottonseed meal. 50ft lbs. bran. 400 lbs. 
gluten. 40ft lbs. brewers’ or distillers' 
grains. 300 lbs. linseed oil. Feed this in 
proportion to the daily production of milk 
and limit its use to cows in milk. A ra¬ 
tion for dry cows or young cows can be 
simplified, and should Consist, at the 
prices quoted, largely of cornmeal, bran 
and gluten feed. 
Dairy Ration with Peanut and Cocoanut 
Meal 
I have four cows and three heifers for 
which I would like to get a good milk ra¬ 
tion. I have a large quantity of 3ft per 
cent peanut and 20 per cent cocoanut 
meal, which 1 am feeding in equal parts, 
with mixed hay. VVhat would you advise 
me to mix with the above feed, using the 
peanut and cocoanut meals as a base? 
Would you advise beet pulp, as I have no 
silage, with the addition of cornmealV 
Commack, N. Y. w. c. s. 
A combination of peanut meal and oo- 
coanut meal unsupported would not pro¬ 
vide a satisfactory ration for dairy cows. 
Both of these products are low-grade ma¬ 
terials, They are highly concentrated, 
and, combined, as you have been feeding 
them, would be deficient in bulk and high¬ 
ly unpalatable. The addition of corn and 
bran would be necessary to bring them 
into satisfactory balance. I would sug¬ 
gest the following proportions: 800 lbs. 
cornmeal or hominy. 800 lbs. peanut 
meal, 200 lbs. cocoanut meal, 200 lbs. 
wheat bran. This will give you a com¬ 
bination carrying about 20 per cent of 
protein and, while it lacks variety and is 
not highly desirable, it is suggested lie- 
cause you apparently have an abundant 
amount of the two products named on 
hand. In the absence of -.jingo. beef pulp 
should be moistened for 12 hours before 
feeding, and fed in rather generous quan¬ 
tities. 
The 30 per cent peanut meal carries 
considerable hull, and the copra meal (co¬ 
coanut) is likely to be rancid on account 
of the abundance of free oil that is usual¬ 
ly present. I should add 1 per cent of 
salt to this combination. If some gluten 
feed and some ground oats could be pur¬ 
chased at reasonable cost and added to 
this combination they would no doubt in¬ 
crease the palatabiiity of the product. 
You requested a simplified ration ; hence 
these two products are omitted in the 
original suggestion. 
Feeding Questions; Starting a Purebred 
Herd 
1. Will you give a good ration for 
grade Ilolsteins. considering the follow¬ 
ing prices of grain? Gluten. $2.20 per 
CWt.; corn distillers’ grains. $2.70; cot¬ 
tonseed. 43 per cent, $3.15; oiltncal, 
$3.20; bran. $2.75: beet pulp, $1.95. I 
am feeding at present gluten and corn 
distillers’ grains, half and half; also mois¬ 
tened beet pulp, about 4 qts. beet pulp 
to every 8 qts. of dry grain. Advise me 
how much of your ration to feed, giving 
quart measure. I have no roughage left 
but good mixed hay for the cow. 2. Will 
forcing cows to cat salt b.v putting same 
on their grain injure them in any way? 
3. Would moistened beet pulp be good for 
hens as a part of their green food? 1. I 
am intending to buy two or three regis¬ 
tered Holstein calves and work into a 
registered herd that way. Would it he 
advisable to get high-priced ones to start 
with? IIow much should I pay for one 
bull and two heifers? I notice they are 
advertised at different prices, it. is\ i\r. 
Elnora. N. Y. 
1. It would bo to your advantage to se¬ 
cure some clover <>r Alfalfa hay in order 
that your dairy cow may be fed a pal¬ 
atable roughage. Beet pulp, although 
bulky and relatively high in fiber, does 
not constitute a satisfactory substitute 
for bay. A combination of gluten and 
distillers’ grains would not give good re¬ 
sults, for it would lack variety, and the 
cows would not take kindly to such a 
mixture. 1 would suggest the following: 
300 lbs. cornmeal, 200 lbs. gluten. 20ft 
lbs. bran, liftft lbs, distillers' grains. 200 
lbs. buckwheat middlings. Feed this in 
proportion to the daily production of each 
animal, allowing 1 lb. of grain for each 
3% lbs. of milk produced per day. Yhi 
can easily estimate this amount by tak¬ 
ing a sample of the feed and weighing a 
quart measure full. The beet pulp should 
be moistened before being fed, and the 
cows should be given all of the mixed hay 
that they will consume. 
2. There is nothing to be gained b.v 
forcing cows to eat an extravagant 
amount of salt. By combining 10 lbs. of 
salt with each 1.00ft lbs. of feed you will 
supply this product in sufficient quantity. 
3. Moistened beet pulp does not prove 
a satisfactory supplemental feed for poul¬ 
try. At first they seem to take kindly to 
this product, but after a few days they 
tire of it and arc not attracted by its 
presence. Mangels, cabbage, or sprouted 
oats provide a mucll more satisfactory 
succulence for every class of poultry. 
4. I would not. under any circum¬ 
stances. buy high-priced Holstein heifers 
to start a purebred herd. Perhaps the 
best way to get started in the purebred 
breeding business is to go to some re¬ 
sponsible neighbor or acquaintance who 
has first-class animals for sale at reason¬ 
able prices. Ret in touch with the secre¬ 
tary of the Holstein Association in your 
county nr State, if there is one. and fol¬ 
low his advice. Nothing is to he gained 
by paying fabulous sums of money for 
calves and caring for them under condi¬ 
tions that, arc not satisfactory. An in¬ 
vestment of $300 ought to provide a very 
useful bull calf that would trace to an¬ 
cestors noted for their individuality and 
production. Of course, price is deter¬ 
mined by a number of factors, and it is 
always well to seek the counsel of some 
disinterested person who will help you 
get started in the right way. 
Economical Grain Ration 
With the roughage I have, corn silage, 
stover and mixed hay. would the follow¬ 
ing bo just the right grain ration? 600 
lbs. corncob meal, 400 lbs. wheat bran. 
400 lbs. dried brewers’ grains, 400 lbs. 
oilmeal. 800 lbs. cottonseed (prime). 
What percentage protein would it an¬ 
alyze? Having plenty of corncob meal, 
which cost I am not counting, the other 
ingredients would amount to $33.95 a 
ton mixture of feed, while a ton of pre¬ 
pared mixture, 22.5 per cent protein, 
would cost $43. Would it be more eco¬ 
nomical. and would it have the same feed¬ 
ing value, to buy prepared feed and mix 
with it 600 lbs. corncob meal? r. j. n. 
Princeton. N. J. 
Assuming that the cottonseed meal used 
carries 43 per cent of protein, and that 
the brewers’ grains will yield about 25 
per cent, the combination that you have 
suggested will yield 22.5 per cent of pro¬ 
tein. It is a very useful combination and, 
at the price quoted, would give you very 
satisfactory results, If fed in conjunc¬ 
tion with corn stover, mixed hay and 
silage, your production ought to be very 
satisfactory. I should add 1 per cent of 
salt to the mixture. 
Dairy Ration with Peas and Barley 
I am feeding dry cows one part corn 
and cob meal, one part Canadian peas, 
and one part barley. I have mixed hay, 
very good corn silage, with lots of corn 
in it. and have barley, corn on the cob, 
and ilbout 40 bushels of Canadian peas. 
Our grain dealt:'.- do not know that grain 
has dropped yet. so I do not care to buy 
any more grain than is necessary. 
Ticonderoga, N. Y. e. f. 
The ration that you are using for your 
dry cows would bo improved if you sub¬ 
stituted oilmeal for the cottonseed meal, 
and likewise I would suggest the addition 
of an equal part of wheat bran. The ap¬ 
proved combination, therefore, would con¬ 
sist of two parts of corn, one part of 
wheat bran, one part of linseed meal, one 
part of Canada field peas and one part of 
barley. This could be used for your dry 
cows as well : likewise for heifers. Canada 
field peas, when fed in conjunction with 
oats, make a splendid mixture for young 
stock, and if it is desired to use these 
products rather than to pun-hase a great¬ 
er variety of ingredients, it can he safely 
done. Give the heifers an abundance of 
roughage. They should lie maintained in 
good condition, and should gain steadily 
in weight ; hut there is objection to feed¬ 
ing them so much grain that they will 
become unduly fat and sluggish. 
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