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By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Sweet Potatoes for Dairy Cows 
Does feeding a cow sweet potatoes dry 
up her milk? I have been told by some 
parties that it does, and by others that it 
does not. e. a. 
New Jersey. 
The use of sweet potatoes in rations 
for dairy cows has not resulted in a sat¬ 
isfactory production of milk. Too often 
feeders are inclined to feed extravagant 
amounts of these tubers, and as a result 
the lactation flow is interrupted and 
oftentimes shortened, Cows that go on 
and off feed, as they are apt to do if feu 
generously on sweet potatoes, are hard to 
get back on to their regular feed. No 
doubt your neighbors have experienced 
this difficulty. Neither sweet nor Irish 
potatoes provide succulence, as do man¬ 
gels. turnips nr root crops of this char¬ 
acter. and their value must be estimated 
in accordance with the carbohydrate or 
digestible dry matter that they contribute. 
If a reasonable amount, say 10 lbs,, are 
fed daily, and provided they are accom¬ 
panied by a good roughage, some suc¬ 
culence. and a complete grain ration, the 
sweet potatoes cau be fed without injur¬ 
ing the milk flow. It will be much better, 
however, to utilize your surplus in feed¬ 
ing pigs rather than in feeding dairy 
cows. 
Feeding for Butter 
Ration with Cornstalks 
Will you tell me what is a balanced 
ration to feed with cornstalks and mixed 
hay to get the best results from a milk 
cow? j. w. o. 
New York. 
There is perhaps no best combination 
of grains to be fed in conjunction with 
cornstalks and mixed hay for milk cows. 
The roughages that you have available 
do not form an ideal base for the ration. 
Clover or Alfalfa hay have many advan¬ 
tages over mixed hay or cornstalks and, 
if possible, should be provided for cows 
in milk. 
Assuming that you do not have silage, 
mangels "r turnips, and that you desire 
to feed your mixed hay and cornstalks to 
cows in milk, I would suggest the follow¬ 
ing shovel mixture: 250 lbs. corn. 200 
lbs. gluten feed, 250 lbs. bran, 150 lbs. 
cottonseed meal, 50 lbs. oilmeal, 100 lbs. 
ground oats. The addition of two daily 
feedings of moistened beet pulp would 
increase the flow of milk and the results 
would be even better in ease the beet 
pulp were saturated with molasses water. 
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Will bran soften or harden the but¬ 
ter? I have two cows, and like to get 
all the milk I can. My milk is very 
poor. Part of the milk is for making but¬ 
ter. Butter is too soft. I know I have 
had too high a temperature. Feed at the 
present time is corn and cob meal, glu¬ 
ten, bran, ground oats, but I cannot get 
this all the time. I add oilmeal and cot¬ 
tonseed meal. In the morning, a medium 
grade lmy; noon and night, plenty of 
corn fodder with small ears on. I have 
some mangel beets and when these are 
gone will feed beet pulp. What should I 
now feed on grain to get plenty of good 
milk? c. B. 
The amounr of cream that will gather 
on any given amount of milk cannot he 
materially influenced by making modifi¬ 
cations in the feed mixture. High or low 
testing milk is determined by inheritance 
rather than as a result of feeding. Of 
course it is reasonable |u assume that 
complete feeds, those that satisfy all the 
demands of nutrition and enable the 
cow to maintain ail of her functions ef¬ 
ficiently. will produce milk of the most 
normal cream line. The old idea of feed¬ 
ing ingredients high in fat or carbohy¬ 
drate and expecting them to produce milk 
containing more burterfat is false rea¬ 
soning. It is possible to modify the color 
of the milk slightly, and to produce a 
quality of cream that, will churn more 
satisfactorily. 
The function of bran in a ration is to 
provide hulk, also to supply ash and min¬ 
eral constituents essential for milk pro¬ 
duction, It should not constitute the en¬ 
tire grain ration, for it is relatively high 
in fiber and proportionately low in di¬ 
gestible energy. It provides safety in 
any and all rations, which is a quality 
scarcely appreciated. 
Assuming that you have either Jersey 
or Guernsey cows for home butter mak¬ 
ing purposes, I would suggest that you 
feed some moistened beet pulp twice 
daily to provide succulence after your 
mangels and root crops have been ex¬ 
hausted. Moisten the beet pulp for 12 
hours previous to feeding, and you will 
find that 1 lb, of the dry pulp will ab¬ 
sorb about 4 lbs. of water. Feed from 3 
to 5 lbs. of the dried pulp to each cow 
per day after it has been saturated. For 
the grain ration a simple mixture would 
consist of equal parts of cornmeal. ground 
oats, wheat bran, linseed meal and glu¬ 
ten feed, Feed 1 lb. of this mixture for 
each 3 lbs, of milk produced per day, 
provided the cows have all the hay or 
roughage that they will consume. If de¬ 
sired. add 1 per cent of salt and mix 
thoroughly with the grain ration. Make 
sure that the cows have access to plenty 
of water. 
If it is desired to make butter of the 
most desirable consistency, the milk 
should he immediately cooled after milk¬ 
ing, and if a thick cream is desired the 
millc should be spread out as much as 
possible mid collected from large shallow 
pans. After these trays or pans are 
skimmed tbe assembled cream should lie 
ripened and churned. I should avoid tile 
use of cottonseed meal under the condi¬ 
tions you have described, feeling that 
the linseed and gluten protein will suf¬ 
fice, The best results in maintaining 
family cows follow where careful atten¬ 
tion is given to feeding the cows during 
their dry period. Even though they are 
foraging on grass, some grain should he 
provided each day. and more especially 
if the cows are thin and are inclined to¬ 
ward heavy production. It seems that 
there is some constituent in green grass 
lhat enables them to assimilate calcium 
and phosphorus more efficiently and to 
store these necessary ingredients for use 
during their lactation period. Likewise 
it is important to provide the cows at all 
times with a legume hay. either Alfalfa 
or clover, if it is desired to prompt them 
to maximum and the most efficient pro¬ 
duction. 
Some of the expert who lecture to 
farmers are trying to switch the attention 
of producers toward the domestic mar¬ 
ket. Here is the way President Friday 
of the Michigan Agricultural College put 
the argument while talking to some De¬ 
partment folks at Washington the other 
day. 
"The countries of Europe aiv likely to 
he poor customers for the next seven <>r 
eight years. Their agriculture has recov¬ 
ered more thaau anything else. For what 
they need to buy they have little money 
to pay. They have sent us most of 
their gold, our tariff keeps out their 
goods, and their credit is not very 
strong. They cannot buy liberally until 
conditions are righted, and that will take 
considerable time. Meanwhile, the sale 
will he slow for such farm products as 
we export, like grain, meat and cotton. 
But the perishable fruits and vegetables, 
hay and miscellaneous products depend 
on the domestic market. In many States 
tiie shop workers are more miruerous than 
the farmers. The high freight is like a 
tariff wall about the farmer living close 
to the cities, and some of them should 
shift to fruit and vegetables, and sup¬ 
plant the distant shipments. Not all 
farmers can do it. Some can. and the 
others will have to rely on cutting cost or 
raising the yield." 
lr is to lie hoped the prophets of trouble 
for the export trade are partly mistaken. 
The export trade in farm products has 
kept up very well so far. Perhaps the 
hills ahead are not so steep as they look. 
As for fruit and vegetables, they were 
somewhat overdone this year. Still, it 
is a fact that some farmers are not using 
the chance they have to supply markets 
close by. In some cities this season early 
homegrown tomatoes were selling at five 
times the price of wlieat or potatoes, ami 
city hay buyers were paying more for 
freight on Western liny than it would 
cost to raise as good hay within hauling 
distance. Some sizable towns in a good 
climate for fruit have no good supply of 
strawberries, raspberries, cherries, ent¬ 
rants. plums or quinces. As for cutting 
down cost, everybody knows that about 
half of the cows and one-third of the 
hens do not pay milch for hoard, and 
there are plenty of acres that would 
starve a farmer if lie owned no other 
kind. 
Potato shipments to date are many 
thousand cars behind last season to De¬ 
cember 1. yet the price is only from half 
to two-thirds as much. Plainly the de¬ 
mand is less active, partly because the 
consuming States of the Middle West have 
raised more of their own supply, and 
partly for the lack of storage buying. 
Grocers, hotels and families have not 
stocked up for the Winter, because they 
expect to hu.v as cheaply any time they 
please. The demand will he all rhe bet¬ 
ter sustained later in the season, and 
those who wait may be a little disappoint¬ 
ed in the price. Sweet potatoes, anyhow, 
seem to he selling higher. The unusually 
low prices increased the demand and im¬ 
proved the market situation. Cabbage, 
after going almost as low as possible, 
unless for cattle feed, is about stead j at 
$10 to $15 per ton in the cities. The first 
signs of what may be expected next sea¬ 
son Comes in the shape of reduced cab¬ 
bage plantings in Florida. From past ex¬ 
perience it seems likely that other leading 
cabbage .sections north and south will fol¬ 
low the satin- course. Then, with a Sum¬ 
mer drought or two, the cabbage situa¬ 
tion would look very much different from 
that of the present season. It takes 
courage to plant a crop that brought loss¬ 
es the year before, and it is almost as 
hard to let up on a crop that paid well. 
So the crop plantings move up and down, 
almost sec-saw fashion. O. n. f. 
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