March 5 
i92 
MANCHESTER’S DAIRY NOTES. 
Rations for Cows. 
I am feeding milch cows 12 pounds Tim¬ 
othy and clover hay; two pounds wheat 
bran; three pounds wheat middlings; 3% 
pounds cornmeal. How does that compare 
with a balanced ration? a. m. t. 
Dover, N. J. 
What amount must I use of each, wheat 
middlings, ground rye, mixed hay, Tim¬ 
othy, clover and Red-top, to make a bal¬ 
anced ration for milch cows? w. c. s. 
Dover, N. J. 
The ration you are feeding "will ana¬ 
lyze: 
Pro- Carbohy- 
tein. drates. Fat 
12 lbs. Timothy & clover. .58 
2 lbs. wheat bran.25 
3 lbs. wheat middlings... .43 
3V6 lbs. cornmeal .23 
Total .1-49 
4.73 
.81 
1.44 
2.28 
9.26 
.17 
.17 
.15 
.10 
.59 
tein. 
drates, 
15 
lbs. 
hay . 
.72 
5.91 
4 
lbs. 
bran . 
1.62 
3 
lbs. 
gluten . 
1.59 
Total 
.1.93 
9.12 
tein. 
drates. 
15 
lbs. 
hay . 
.54 
6.40 
8 
lbs. 
middlings .... 
.1.16 
3.84 
4 
lbs 
rye meal. 
2.70 
Total 
.2.10 
12.94 
This is not exactly a balanced ration, 
as more protein is needed, and the ra¬ 
tion contains only enough of the other 
ingredients for cows weighing 750 
pounds. Adding a pound of cotton-seed 
meal per cow per day for cows of that 
size would balance it for you. This 
would give you protein 1.89, carbohy¬ 
drates 9.47, fat .57. A cheaper and bet¬ 
ter ration would be 15 pounds of the 
mixed hay, four pounds bran and three 
pounds gluten feed: 
Pro- Carbohy- 
Tat. 
.21 
.12 
.08 
.41 
It is rather difficult to make a bal¬ 
anced ration from the mixed feed and 
rye meal, as a balanced ration from 
these would take so much grain that it 
would cost more than we should pay. 
However, 15 pounds of the hay, eight 
pounds of middlings and four pounds rye 
meal would give you a fairly good ra¬ 
tion, but we think 12 pounds of grain per 
day per cow rather more than is neces¬ 
sary or economical: 
Pro- Carbohy- 
Fat. 
.15 
.40 
.04 
.59 
For this grain ration you could sub¬ 
stitute four pounds gluten feed, three 
pounds rye meal and three pounds mid¬ 
dlings, which would be cheaper, and 
give you a little better ration, viz., 2.22 
protein, 11.93 carbohydrates and .44 fat. 
Ready-mixed Feed. 
I send you herewith a sample feed taken 
from a sack with lead seal and branded 
as follows. “Caution: In order that you 
may be sure of getting the genuine, insist 
on having corn, oats and barley, kiln-dried 
feed, in our branded and sealed sacks. 
Analysis, crude protein, 13.00 per cent; crude 
fat, 5.00 per cent.” Our feed man charged 
$1.45 per 100 pounds for the stuff. Will it 
pay to buy it to use with bran in making 
up a mash for poultry? No. 1 chop can 
be had for $1.50; corn, 70 cents per bushel; 
cats, 55 cents; buckwheat, 70 cents; wheat, 
$1; wheat feed (bran), $1.25, and middlings, 
$1.50 per 100 pounds. I feel sure your 
opinion in regard to above will be greatly 
appreciated by many of your readers in 
this locality. s - p - c - 
West Virginia. 
That lead seal covers a “multitude of 
sins.” As far as our experience goes 
the feeds that find it necessary to use a 
lead seal to keep their contents intact 
are mighty poor refuse foods that con¬ 
tain some things that could not be sold 
on their own merits, but have to be 
mixed up and coddled to make some one 
believe they are good for something. We 
should think we were burning money if 
we paid $1.50 per 100 for this food. 
Run some of it through a medium fine 
sieve and most of it will stay in the 
sieve, and you will find its contents 
largely a woody fibrous material that is 
a near blood relation to an oat hull. We 
should let it alone, and all others of the 
same class. The prices you quote seem 
rather high unless your locality is such 
that freight rates are ’way up. Highest 
grade hominy feed retails here at $1.20 
per 100, as against $1.50 with you. Corn 
or cornmeal at 70 cents for corn or $1.25 
per 100 is probably the cheapest food 
you can use with the bran for a mash. 
Value of Mixed Feed. 
Is corn protegran with a guaranteed 
analysis of 35 per cent of protein and 8.5 
of fat a better or cheaper feed for cows at 
$22 or $23 per ton than oats at 35 to 40 
cents per bushel or corn at 60 cents or corn 
and oats mixed? Or would it pay to sell 
oats or corn at present prices and buy 
corn protegran feed for milch cows at $22 
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or $23 per ton, while feeding corn stover 
and clover or mixed hay? l. w. g. 
Lodi. N. Y. 
Oats at 40 cents per bushel is the same 
as $25 per ton, and these furnish 11.8 per 
cent protein and five per cent fat. Corn 
at 60 cents per bushel is same as $21.42 
per ton, and the corn furnishes 10.5 per 
cent protein and 5.4 per cent fat. If you 
base the value of a food upon the 
amount of digestible protein contained 
in it (which, however, is only a fair way 
of doing when one has plenty of coarse 
fodders home grown, rich in carbohy¬ 
drates and fat), you can readily see that 
the corn protegran feed at $22 or $23 is 
a decidedly cheaper food than either the 
corn or oats, and we should think it 
good economy to sell corn and oats at 
the prices mentioned and buy the corn 
protegran. Be sure you get the corn, as 
rye protegran will analyze considerably 
lower, and, in our opinion, is not as good 
by quite a little. Unless you have facili¬ 
ties at home for grinding the corn and 
oats the cost of hauling and grinding 
must be added to them. We should con¬ 
sider 100 pounds of the protegran equal 
for dairy feeding to 200 pounds of either 
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WHITE WYANDOTTES 
C A. HALL, Oak Hill, N. Y. 
White and Barred Rocks strains], and W^ite 
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—Rhode Island Reds, Light Brahmas, 
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25 Boulevard, Middletown, R. I._ 
FOR SALE—EGGS THAT HATCH 
From my heavy-laying strain of heavy' tv 8 
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Don’t Use a 
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