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mold and encourage bacterial action. 1 
can see no reason why a combination of 
cabbage and cornstalks could not he used. 
I Share the belief that it would be nec¬ 
essary to add considerable water, ami 
perhaps wise to provide some commercial 
inoculating medium. This suggestion i> 
not based upon the results of research, 
but simply one man's opinion. I do know, 
however, that cabbage provides an excel¬ 
lent succulence for milk cows. At the 
New Jersey Experiment Station a num¬ 
ber of years ago we were able to produce 
an unbelievable tonnage, and when fed 
to the cows in generous quantities the 
milk flow was substantially increased. 
We were successful in storing the cab¬ 
bage in pits and iu covering them with 
straw and litter. The shredded corn¬ 
stalks were used to cover the cabbage, 
and very little decay was experienced. 
It might be wise to ensile a part of 
your cabbage and cornstalks, but I am 
inclined to believe that better results 
would follow a system of feeding the 
shredded cornstalks dry and storing the 
cabbage in pits or dug-outs. We should 
be glad to have any dairyman who has 
had experience of this character relate 
his results. 
Dairy Ration; Pomace 
I have a dairy of eight cows. I have 
only corn fodder and mixed hay. Timothy 
and Alsike. with a fair amount of Alsike 
in it. not mostly Timothy. I am feeding 
at present fodder enough to satisfy cows 
and 1 lh. of 24 per cent dairy feed to 
every ft lbs. of milk. I am told that over 
four quarts of feed to a mess, mostly It! 
per cent, would make them sick, and 
what I am doing is forcing them, and 
they will not be any good another year. 
The cows have come up considerably un¬ 
der my feeding. Am I doing right by 
feeding 1 to 2. or is this supposed to bo 
forcing? 1 have one grade cow which 
gives 28 quarts a day. I nm feeding 
eight quarts of feed. Is this too much? 
She weighs about TOO or 800 lbs., I 
should judge, and is fresh. I am milking 
three cows at present and making 00 
quarts a day. You state on page 1322 
that in your estimation apple pomace is 
not of much feeding value, and an edi¬ 
torial on page 131S strongly advocates 
the use of samp, 1 believe your estima¬ 
tion is without silage, but to take its 
place. n.E. s. 
Your neighbors are not giving you the 
best advice. A 24 per cent ration will 
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good rest period and are fed a nutritious 
wide ration they can be force fed or 
given higher protein feeds during their 
lactation period. 
As to the use of apple pomace, there 
appears to he an honest difference of 
opinion. It is unfortunate that we do 
not have more experimental data to guide 
us in our conclusions. My own experi¬ 
ence suggests that it cannot be used to 
replace silage, but that if it can be used 
in conjunction with some succulent feed 
it can be safely and profitably fed. The 
trouble is that it is rather difficult to 
preserve the apple pomace unless it is 
put into barrels or silos, and this the 
average farmer is not iu a position to do 
at the time of year when it is available. 
It is not often that it is found in very 
great amounts on the average farm, and 
this prompted my suggestion that it could 
not be looked upon as an economical 
source of succulence. 
A Georgia Ration 
•Will you pleas** balance the following 
grains for a small family herd consisting 
of eight head? 1 have on hand cotton¬ 
seed meal, velvet bean meal, bran, cot¬ 
tonseed hulls, corn and cob ground to¬ 
gether. a little later ground oats. Cattle 
are out on range at nil times: have for 
pasture Bermuda grass and little wild 
grass iu woods, nearly all nut grass; for 
roughage, pcavine hay and clean oat 
straw. I also have about two acres of 
rutabagas coming along for later use. 
Thomnsvllle, Ga. J. n. 
All the products that you have identi¬ 
fied, with the exception of cottonseed 
hulls, corn and cob meal and oats, are 
protein concentrates, and since the velvet 
bean meal is not especially palatable it is 
not an easy matter to suggest a simple 
ration that will be satisfactory. The fol¬ 
lowing mixture is proposed: 100 lbs. 
ground oats, 300 lbs. corn and cob meal, 
ISO lbs. cottonseed bulls, ISO lbs. bran. 
100 lbs. velvet bean meal, 200 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed meal. It is assumed that the velvet 
bean meal is free front hulls. Instances 
have been reported where the vines and 
hulls of the velvet beans have been found 
to contain toxic properties. Feed this in 
proportion to the milk produced by each 
cow per day. The addition of 10 per cent 
of linseed meal, designed to replace some 
of the cottonseed meal, will give perhaps 
better results. 
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Cabbage in the Silo 
I want information concerning the en¬ 
siling of refuse cabbage. Has it been 
done successfully? Last Winter I fed it 
green, usually frozen, with good results; 
but a great deal of it heated and rotted; 
probably one-half of it. I have about 
the same amount Ojgkr acres) this year. 
This moans a lot of feed. I am building a 
silo now, too late to get the corn in while 
fresh cut. The corn is now in the shock, 
and I think of puttiug in a load of the 
dry corn and a load of refuse cabbage, but 
would like to know whether it will keep 
before doing it. v. m. it. 
T have failed to find any instances 
where cabbage and cornstalks have been 
ensiled. The Illinois Experiment. Sta¬ 
tion has been unusually successful in util¬ 
izing dry cornstalks iu the silo. Their 
practice involves the husking off of the 
corn and running the stalks through the 
silage cutter and iuto the silo. A great 
deal of additional water is required to 
create the necessary fermentation and, 
as I recall, the best results followed where 
some bacteria were introduced to insure 
enough fermentation. It required prac¬ 
tically as much water, pound for pound, 
as dry cornstalks, in order to prevent 
not injure milk cows provided it is com¬ 
pounded from a variety of ingredients. 
Under average circumstances the use of 
a 24 per cent feed is not a forcing feed, 
and if accompanied by good roughage it is 
not harmful. In fact, the one common 
error committed by 'the average daii^'inan 
is the feeding of rations that are deficient 
in protein. Excessive amounts of cot¬ 
tonseed meal, or, in fact, extravagant 
amounts of any high protein carrying in¬ 
gredient, are very nfO to disarrange the 
digestive system and to disturb the nor¬ 
mal lactation propensities of the dairy 
cow. Personally 1 dislike to use more 
than 10 per cent of cottonseed meal in 
any ration, and have found it wise to in¬ 
sist upon as much as 15 per cent, of lin¬ 
seed meal. The following combination 
ought to give you good results: 150 lbs. 
linseed meal. 100 lbs. cottonseed meal, 
250 lbs. glutei), 200 lbs. bran. 200 lbs. 
hominy, 100 lbs. distillers' gi-aius. Feed 
this in proportion to the production of 
each cow, allowing approximately t lb. of 
grain for each 3^ lbs. of milk produced. 
It is always good practice to provide 
plenty of good roughage aud to feed gen¬ 
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cows that arc being fed the maximum 
amount of grain. If the cows are given a 
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