1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
17 T 
TWO FEEDING QUESTIONS. 
A Ration for Cows. 
With linseed meal at $32.40, cotton-seed 
meal at $27.40, wheat bran, $22.40, com- 
meal, $20 per ton, what proportion of each 
should I feed to milch cows to get the 
best and most economical results? For 
roughage I have silage, corn fodder and 
mixed hay, mostly clover. a. r. l. 
Virginia. 
Except in rare instances I do not be¬ 
lieve the average dairy can be fed to ex¬ 
ceed eight pounds of grain a day at a 
profit; often quite a little less. There 
is a decided difference between feeding 
for profit and feeding for production. If 
the silage has enough corn in it, say 50 
bushels of ears to every 10 tons of stalks, 
there is no need to add cornmeal to the 
grain ration. Whatever is fed over and 
above what can be digested and assimi¬ 
lated is always fed at a loss, and often 
to the injury of the animal. The price 
quoted on linseed meal is too high. It 
can be bought in small lots to-day in 
New York for about $23 per ton, $9 or 
$10 a ton is too much for freight and 
commission. In it we have a most ex¬ 
cellent food, rich in protein and fat, a 
comparatively small per cent of crude 
fiber, and all very digestible. The 
general effect on the health of the ani¬ 
mal is also good, keeping the bowels in 
proper condition; in fact, about 90 per 
cent of the weight of the best commer¬ 
cial stock foods are from this source. 
Cotton-seed meal is richer still, and at 
the price named is the cheapest of the 
foods mentioned. But my experience is. 
that the cow cannot get as much out of 
it as its high per cent of food constituents 
would seem to warrant. In other words, 
the cow does not find it quite so diges¬ 
tible. It also must be fed with caution, 
as an excess is liable to produce trouble 
in the udder. Wheat bran is the dear¬ 
est feed in the list, and yet the most 
necessary, as it contains the mineral 
elements that are lacking in most other 
feeds. In fact, I have long been of the 
opinion that for best results in the 
health and strength of the cow and pow¬ 
er to bear healthy, strong calves about 
half of the ration (by weight) should be 
bran and middlings. Cornmeal is al¬ 
ways good, and cheap at the price men¬ 
tioned; very digestible, but deficient in 
protein. In view of the above, suppos¬ 
ing that the cows are many of them in 
full milk, are good size, and there is no 
corn in the silage, we will figure on 
the maximum amount (eight pounds) 
daily, always remembering that the first 
principle of feeding is to keep the animal 
in good health, and not losing in flesh. 
Two pounds of cornmeal, three pounds 
of wheat bran, two pounds of cotton-seed 
meal and one pound of linseed is suffi¬ 
cient. If there is enough corn in the 
silage leave off the meal if they get 35 
or 40 pounds silage daily. If the cows 
do not pay a profit on the above, reduce 
the amount. Feed all the mixed hay 
they will eat clean once a day. If corn¬ 
stalks are fed instead of silage it will be 
necessary to feed more grain. 
What to Feed Sheep. 
I have 40 sheep, to w'hich I am feeding 
20 pounds of shelled corn in the morning 
and 20 pounds bran at night, with what 
bright Crimson clover hay they will clean 
up. They also have access to a stack of 
ragweed hay. There is less grazing than 
common this Winter. They are expected 
to lamb soon. What change would you 
su && e st? A . R . L . 
Virginia. 
The only change I can suggest would 
be either to reduce the amount of corn 
and substitute more bran or oats until 
after their lambs are a week or two old, 
when the corn may be increased. This 
will grow a stronger lamb than the 
corn and produce more milk in the 
mother after it is born, and not quite so 
heating. Yet, if the ewes are not fat, 
with the clover hay and seme grazing, 
and taking the price of corn into con¬ 
sideration, it may not be wise to change 
the feed at all. edw. van alstyne. 
Rodkick: “I see some one has invent¬ 
ed a musical automobile.” Van Albert: 
“Indeed! Wonder what tunes it will 
play?” Rodrick: “Breakdowns, I guess.” 
—Chicago Daily News. 
“Uncle,” said the high school young 
man, “is ‘politics’ singular or plural?” 
“Sonny,” was the reply, “in de paht of 
de country whah I come f’um dey’s sin- 
g’lar, mighty sing’lar.”—Washington 
Star. 
Curioso: “Your name is Ephraim, is 
it? How’d your parents come to give 
you that name?” Modestus: “I don’t 
know for certain, but I suspect it was 
because I was a boy.”—Boston Trans¬ 
script. 
“Children,” asked the school commit¬ 
teeman, “what is political economy?” 
“Political economy,” answered the pre¬ 
cocious son of the district boss, “is get¬ 
ting men to vote for you as cheap as you 
can.”—Credit Lost. 
Returned Traveler: “What has be¬ 
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here ten years ago he was a budding 
politician.” Old Resident: “Well, he’s 
more than that now. He’s a grafting 
politician.”—Chicago Tribune. 
“So,” demanded the cross-examining 
lawyer, “you desire to make a categorical 
denial of all these charges, do you?” 
“No, sor,” answered the witness, “but 
I’ll say there ain’t a doggoned worrud of 
truth in any of them.”—Chicago Record- 
Herald. 
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brated family magazine. “It tells here 
how to build a modest home with $200,” 
he said, with enthusiasm. “Impossible,” 
spoke the experienced parent. “To build 
a home with $200 you’d have to use un¬ 
dressed lumber, and then it wouldn’t be 
modest.”—Chicago Daily News. 
Uncle Eph’m had put on a clean col¬ 
lar and his best coat, and was walking 
majestically up and down the street. 
“Aren’t you working to-day, uncle?” 
asked one of his Caucasian acquaint¬ 
ances. “No, suh. Ise celebratin’ my 
golden weddin’, suh.” “You were mar¬ 
ried fifty years ago to-day?” “Yes, suh.” 
“Well, why isn’t your wife helping you 
to celebrate it?” “My present wife, suh,” 
replied Uncle Eph’m, with dignity, “ain’t 
got nothin’ to do with it. She’s de 
’leventh.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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