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Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feed with Poor Pasture 
Please give balanced ration for ordi¬ 
nary row giving about two gallons of 
milk per day. Roughage now. pasture in 
the woods, leaves, weeds, etc. No grass 
pasture, hut woods are extensive. We 
ran buy cottonseed meal, corn and oats, 
wheat brail, middlings. In (lie Winter 
we buy Timothy and clover mixed hay. 
I low many pounds of hay should she 
have, and how much concentrates? 
North Carolina. p. )i. n. 
Assuming that you desire to limit your 
grain ration to the products available and 
identified, L should sitggi a a combination 
consisting of 150 lbs. of cottonseed meal. 
150 Ills, of corn and oat chop, 10(1 lbs. of 
wheat bran. 50 lbs. of middlings. The 
addition of 25 lbs. i>f linseed meal would 
greatly improve this combination- Feed 
1 lb. of this grain for each 8V-> lbs. of 
milk produced per day. Since you do not 
have pasture I should feed beet pulp or 
mangel beets for succulence. 
Timothy hay has viry little feeding 
value for cows in milk, and it would he 
highly advantageous if you would buy 
overcome this condition. Feed him a ra¬ 
tion consisting of equal parts of corn- 
meal. ground oats and middlings to which 
lias been added 10 per cent of digester 
tankage. Let him have access to Alfalfa 
or clover hay. Make sure that lie does 
not sleep in damp quarters, and if possi¬ 
ble get him out in a paddock where lie 
can have access to grass or some green 
feed. The condition that you describe 
will not long exist under sanitary con¬ 
ditions where the animal is properly fed 
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More Protein Needed 
I am feeding dairy cows 800 lbs. of 
corn. 800 lbs. oats. 800 lbs. barley. 200 
lbs. wheat. 200 lbs. Geld peas, all ground 
together and mixed with 100 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed meal. 86 per cent. What change 
would you suggest, if ntiyV For roughage 
I have mixed hay and some clover; no 
silage. 2. Would you advise using liberal 
quantity of sawdust for bedding? it is 
an excellent absorbent, and therefore re¬ 
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clover hay or Alfalfa hay exclusively, 
rather than mixed hay. as proposed. It 
might cost you a little more per ton, but 
it would have many advantages under the 
conditions you have described. Ordi¬ 
narily a cow will consume from 10 to 12 
lbs. of hay pei day, and should be allowed 
all that she would clean lip with relish. 
i he soil, and would appreciate your 
opinion. ». f. 
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1. I should modify your ration by omit¬ 
ting the 200 lbs. of wheat, doubling the 
amount of cottonseed meal and adding 
200 lbs. of linseed meal to vour combina¬ 
tion. The ration as you have submitted 
it is relatively low in protein, and the 
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Grain with Poor Roughage 
What grain should I feed? I have 12 
milking cows mid very little pasture. I 
have nothing hut Timothy liny the year 
around and some corn fodder. M. it. 
Connecticut. 
It is a difficult proposition to suggest 
a grain ration that can be fed success¬ 
fully with Timothy hay and corn fodder. 
Neither of these are well suited for milk 
production, and it is necessary to feed 
relatively extravagant amounts of grain 
in order to produce a satisfactory flow of 
milk. 1 would suggest that yon go to a 
responsible dealer and get a feed carrying 
24 per cent: of protein and not more than 
10 per cent of fat. and let this provide 
the bulk of your grain ration. Do not 
build a feed around waste product, such 
as oat hulls or weed seeds. IWliere cows 
are in pasture thaddition of 15 per cent 
of ground oats amY 15 per cent of corn- 
meal to tile mixed feed is advantageous, 
for usually one can widen the ration with 
corn and oats during the Summer season 
with advantage. Variety is an essential 
in rations for dairy cows, and it is best 
provided through the use of rations that 
have demonstrated their usefulness and 
value. 
Ailing Hog 
I a in just getting started with pure¬ 
bred Berksliires. I bought a high-grade 
young boar, horn in February, getting 
him late in April. lie sncey.es; sound 1 
as though he had a cold. IIis nose is 
rather wet, and once recently lie sneezed 
out a little white thick stuff. He is gain 
ing, hut not so well as lie ought to. Ii 
you can tell me what ails him and how 
to treat him I will he much obliged. 
Massachusetts, i.. n. n. 
I am inclined to believe that vour hoar 
is suffering from exposure, and that if 
he is allowed clean quarters and is able 
to got out in the sunshine he will soon 
added linseed meal and cot ton seed meal 
will improve it materially. You might 
better sell your wheat for its market 
value and buw bran for feeding pur¬ 
poses. When you feed both oats 
and barley in conjunction with n 
legume hay you can get along fairly 
well without any wheat products in your 
combination. However, either bran or 
middlings would be more economical and 
desirable than the wheat alone. 
2. As to the use of shavings or saw¬ 
dust. I should say that they provide the 
very best kind of bedding for dairy cows 
and are not injurious to the soil. It fre¬ 
quently becomes necessary to add more 
lime where shavings are used, but unless 
they are used over a long period of years 
it has been my experience that they are 
not objectionable or harmful. 
Poorly Balanced Ration 
I have two grade Jersey cows, and am 
feeding a ration analyizing as follows: 
Protein. 0 per cent; fat, 1 per cent; car¬ 
bohydrates. 60 per cent; fiber, 11 ■/. per 
cent. I have pasture and feed, green 
oats, hut I do not get I he results I ought 
to get. My cows give about nine quarts 
of milk a day; that is. each nine quarts. 
The mixed feed is a compound of ground 
barley, oats, hominy, meal. corn, oat mid¬ 
dlings, shorts aiul hulls. c. e. a. 
Connecticut. 
A ration carrying a mixture of 0 per 
cent of protein is not at all suited for 
feeding dairy cows, and this is why the 
results that you are reporting are un¬ 
satisfactory. A ration should yield not 
less than 20 per cent of digestible pro¬ 
tein, and it is impossible to get this kind 
of a ration by combining products high 
in filler and low in digestible nutrients. 
If you prefer to use a ready-mixed feed. 
Ilieii select one of the grades carrying at 
least 24 per cent of protein and not more 
than 10 per cent of fiber. 
