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Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 16, 1922 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Raw Fur 
Dealers 
Feeding Questions; Use of Colostrum 
Last .Spring I sowed some oats and 
barley; three bushels of oafs, two bush¬ 
els of barley, one peek of Canadian peas. 
This I am grinding for feed; 400 lbs. to 
100 lbs. of corn, not having much corn 
left To this I add 100 lbs. bran. How 
much gluten should I mix with this for a 
Guernsey cow for family use. or any 
other grainV She is about seven years 
old and in good tlesll; she freshened the 
second week in October and is giving 
about 12 quarts of milk a day. I am not 
looking so much for quantity as quality, 
as we use it all for our own use. making 
our own butter. I have some cornstalks 
and beets, and plenty of mixed hay 
(clover. Alfalfa, Alsike and Timothy). 
Last Winter I cut cornstalks up with a 
feed cutter, also beets, and mix about 4 
lbs. grain with a bushel of this twice a 
day. Also, would 1 lb. of beef scrap to 
10 lbs. of this, oats, corn and bran, make 
a good laying mash for my Barred Rook 
hens? What is the first milk which 
comes front a cow after freshening good 
for? Someone has told us it will make 
excellent custard without eggs, c,. u. 
Auburn, A*. Y. 
In addition to the bran and gluten I 
would suggest the use of some linseed 
meal. A combination consisting of 400 
lbs. oats and barley. 100 lbs. corn. 100 
lbs. bran. 2.“0 lbs. gluten feed. 1.10 lbs. 
linseed meal, is suggested. This is n 
useful combination, and should be fed in 
proportion to the daily production of 
milk. If your cow gives 12 quarts of 
milk she should be given about Si lbs. or 0 
lbs. of this grain tier day. This is in 
addition to the mixed hay and constalks 
that you have available. 
Nothing is to be gained by feeding 
grain mixed with the fodder; in fact, it is 
a wasteful method of feeding cows. They 
are very apt to pick over the good corn¬ 
stalks and thus waste some of the grain, 
while if the grain is fed straight and the 
cornstalks by themselves there will be no 
wastage of concentrates. A cow will 
choose all of roughage that is necessary 
for mechanical digestion. 
The addition of 100 lbs. of beef scrap 
to the mixture suggested would make a 
good combination for use in feeding your 
Barred Rocks. 
Concerning the use of colostrum, which 
is the name applied to the first milk 
drawn from the cow after calving, it can 
be used for feeding pigs or poultry, but. 
so far as I know, is not suitable for borne 
consumption. It contains au excessive 
amount of fat, is laxative in its charac¬ 
ter, and the flavor is distasteful. 1 have 
never heard of its being used as your 
neighbors have suggested. 
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King Helpmate's Beauty and her heifer calf two days old, from photograph 
taken a few days prior to finishing her yearly records 
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Result of the Correct Use of 
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King Helpmate’s Beauty No. 90933 AR No. 11377, a Guernsey heifer owned 
by W. H. Rogers, of Oxford, N. Y., record 10,405.40 pounds of milk and 
525.52 pounds of butterfat, class GG at the age of two years and one month. 
King Helpmate’s Beauty was the youngest of forty-eight cows admitted 
to the Advanced Registry, from July 1st to 15th, 1922. She made the 
unusual record of over 100% more butterfat than was required at her age 
to qualify for admission to the Advanced Registry. 
During the test, King Helpmate’s Beauty carried her calf through the 
full period of gestation and in addition to the above milk and butter record, 
produced the beautiful heifer calf pictured above. These results were 
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David B5ustein & Bro, 
176 W. 27th St. New York City 
due to come in next Sum titer. 1 have 
mixed hay with some plover rmcl Timothy, 
niul Red-lop. also mil ha.v and about 100 
bundles of good clean corn fodder. It 
seems impossible to get beet pulp. Can 
I mix Alfalfa meal with cut cornstalks at 
noon? I should scald the Alfalfa meal 
and lei it stand 12 hours. We are mak¬ 
ing sweet Iinttor. Also, can 1 pm millet 
seed in after oats are cut next Summer 
and get enough hay to pay? w. n. P. 
Long Hill, Conn. 
I should feed the .Jersey heifer that is 
to freshen next Summer a mixture of three 
parts of corn, three parts of bran, three 
parts of ground oafs, and one part of oil- 
meal. I should feed her from 5 ihs. to 
7 lbs, of this mixture per day. in addition 
to all of the roughage that she will con¬ 
sume. 
For the fresh cow giving 20 lbs, of milk 
per day I should allow from 7 lbs. to 0 
lbs, of a mixture consisting of equal parts 
of corn meal, ground oats, wheat bran, lin¬ 
seed meal, and gluten feed. Nothing 
would be gained by mixing the Alfalfa 
meal with the corn fodder. As a matter 
of fact, I hits would be wasteful. The 
grain can lie mixed with the Alfalfa meal 
if desired, although the moistening of the 
hay with warm water, as you have pro¬ 
posed. would enable you to force the cow 
to eat an increased amount of this rough- 
age. 
Very little if anything is gained by 
grinding Alfalfa hay for dairy cows. 
Where it is shipped in from the Western 
territory there is an advantage in pur¬ 
chasing Alfalfa meal, because the freight 
rate is considerably less, owing to the fact 
that cars can be more heavily loaded with 
Alfalfa meal than with baled ha.v. 
Barnyard millet, if seeded after oafs, 
would produce a crop of roughage that 
would be read' for harvest before frost. 
Buckwheat would do the same thing, and 
there is very little difference in their 
feeding value. Tile buckwheat perhaps 
is a surer crop. Neither of them is espe¬ 
cially suited for feeding dairy cows. If 
some Canada field peas are seeded with 
oats daring the early Spring and this crop 
harvested when the oats are in the milk 
stage and the Canada pens in blossom you 
would provide a roughage that would lie 
next to clover hay or Alfalfa iu its feed¬ 
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