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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 20 
Live Stock Matters 
Keeping Cream Sweet; Oats and Peas. 
6. K. S., East Brookfield, Vt.~ 1. How can I 
treat my cream to keep it sweet for use in a dis¬ 
tant market? 2. How many oats and peas should 
be sown per acre for fodder ? 3. How much San¬ 
ford corn should be planted per acre, hills two 
feet apart and rows three ? 4. If a cow’s ration 
is meal and bran, what time of day should it be 
given ? 
Ans. —1. You can keep your cream 
sweet for shipping to a distant market 
if you will, when it is fresh, reduce it to 
a temperature of about 45 degrees. This 
can be best done by placing the cans 
containing the cream into tanks which 
are partly filled with ice water. Of 
course, thorough cleansing of the can 
before putting the cream in is necessary. 
Another way by which cream or milk 
can be preserved is by Pasteurizing. 
This is done by heating to a temperature 
of 150 degrees. Special apparatus for 
doing this work will cost about §50. 
There is a good opportunity in nearly 
every city for a progressive farmer or 
dairyman to work up a lucrative busi¬ 
ness by selling Pasteurized cream or 
milk to private families, and guaran¬ 
teed^ it to be free from all germs. 
2. For fodder, sow one to one and 
a-half bushel of peas and cover about 
three inches deep by cultivator or gang 
plow. Then sow oats at the rate of 1 % 
bushels per acre, and cover lightly with 
the harrow, or drill in. The peas should 
be put in deeper than the drill will put 
them. For late forage, barley should 
be substituted for oats. It makes 
more rapid growth, is less likely to 
rust, and withstands early frosts better 
than oats. A field of peas and barley 
remained in good condition for forage 
at Ithaca, N. Y., as late as December 1. 
3. Corn planted in hills requires from 10 
to 15 quarts of seed per acre. 4. Give in 
two feeds, one in the morning and one 
at night. If all be given at one feed, it 
should be in the morning, l. a. Clinton. 
Balanced Ration with Alfalfa and Sugar Beets 
C. 0. U., Alcott, Col.— In all the balanced rations 
given, I do not find one that fits my case, so I 
write for a little light. What amount of bran 
and corn meal must I feed with Alfalfa and sugar 
beets to make a balanced ration for milk ? 
Ans. —From the material you mention, 
it is an easy matter to compound a bal¬ 
anced ration. For a 1,000-pound cow 
giving milk, I would suggest a daily 
ration made up in the following propor¬ 
tions : 
Lbs. 
ANALYSIS. 
Dry 
Matter. 
Carbo-hyd. 
Protein. & Fat. 
15 Alfalfa hay... 
. 13.7 
1.56 
8.11 
20 Sugar beets... 
. 2.6 
.32 
2.18 
6 Wheat bran... 
. 5.3 
.72 
2.72 
3 Corn meal .... 
. 2.6 
.16 
2.13 
Total. 
. 24.2 
2.76 
15.14 
Nutritive ratio, 1:5.5. L. A. C. 
How Fine to Cut Ensilage. 
A. L. H., Norway, N. T. —Can any more corn be 
put in a silo, or is it any better for the ensilage 
if the corn be cut shorter than one inch ? 
Ans. —There is no good reason why 
corn for ensilage should be cut finer 
than one inch ; indeed, it may not be 
cut as fine as that. But the finer the 
corn is cut, the closer it can be packed. 
Upon the packing of the ensilage will 
largely depend its keeping quality. If 
it is coarse, air spaces will be left, and 
these will cause the spoiling of the 
ensilage. As a principle, the finer the 
corn is cut the more fully can the air be 
driven out, and the better the ensilage 
keeps. l. A. c. 
Capacity of a Silo. 
F. P. fV., Larnson’s, N. T. —How many cows 
will a silo keep seven months, that is 10x12 feet 
and 20 feet deep ? 
Ans. — A silo with the dimensions 
given, will contain about 96,000 pounds 
of ensilage. If the cows be fed the 
maximum ration of 40 pounds of ensi¬ 
lage per day, there would be an amount 
sufficient for 11 cows for seven months. 
If you have some hay or straw, and 
were to feed only 30 pounds of ensilage 
daily, it would enable you to keep more 
cows, and, probably, secure better re¬ 
sults. It is a very ordinary crop of corn 
which will not produce from 10 to 15 
tons of green matter per acre. Six 
acres of corn should fill the silo, and 
afford several tons of extra fodder. 
l. A. c. 
A Well-Balanced Ration. 
L. K. L., Milford Square, Pa.—I have eight 
cows, and each gets the following: Three pounds 
of corn-and-cob meal, four pounds of gluten feed, 
two pounds of wheat bran, two pounds of mid¬ 
dlings, two pounds of linseed meal, eight pounds 
of mixed hay, eight pounds of cut corn fodder. 
My cows averaged 30 pounds of milk a day each 
during the fall months, and since New Year’s the 
average yield is 26 pounds a day for each cow. 
The cows had calves in July, August, September 
and October. Do I feed too much of one feed, 
and not enough of another ? 
Ans. —Let us pick this ration apart, 
and thus see what the cows are eating. 
Muscle- 
Fat- 
Pure 
Lbs. 
makers. 
formers. 
fat. 
3 corn-and-cob meal.. 
. .193 
1.68 
.08 
4 gluten feed. 
. .816 
1.75 
.34 
2 wheat bran. 
. .240 
0.82 
.05 
2 wheat middlings ... 
. .255 
1.06 
.06 
2 linseed meal. 
. . 575 
0.65 
.14 
8 mixed hay. 
. .337 
3.45 
.10 
8 cut fodder. 
. . 198 
2.67 
.09 
Total. 
. 2.61 
12.08 
.86 
The so-called standard ration for a cow 
weighing 1,000 pounds, is 2% pounds of 
muscle-makers, 12% pounds of fat- 
formers, and .40 pound of pure fat. You 
are feeding an excess of pure fat, and 
not quite the full amount of fat-formers, 
but as the returns are good and the 
cows are healthy, we would not change 
except, possibly, to leave off a pound of 
the gluten feed. 
A Good Hen for Breeding. 
L. ./. N., Burlington, Vt.— Three years ago, I 
bought several hens from a farmer, and one of 
them has proved to be a wonderful layer. She 
is bluish gray in color, with small, black spots 
evenly scattered, plump back, nearly as large as 
a P. Rock, yellow legs, double comb, active and 
hearty. She has laid more eggs, summer and 
winter, than any other in the flock, including 
Leghorn and P. Rocks. I have raised two pullets 
from her, mated with a P. Rock, and they both 
are marked after the mother, and are equally 
great layers. Is there a distinct breed of fowls 
of this description, and if so, where can they be 
found ? 
Ans.— The bird is, probably, a mix¬ 
ture of several breeds. If she were ours, 
we would mate her with a P. Rock or 
B. Leghorn, and use all her eggs for 
hatching. 
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S. 1). R., (No address). —What is a good sub¬ 
stitute for milk for raising calves ? Is there any 
mixture of meals that would be a substitute after 
the calf is one week old ? Have any of the sub¬ 
scribers of The R. N.-Y. ever tried any of the so- 
called calf meals ? If so, with what results ? 
Ans. —We have had fair success with 
oat meal boiled to a jelly and small 
quantities of linseed meal, but have 
always used more or less skim-milk. It 
is reported that “hay tea” or Timothy 
and Clover hay steeped in hot water, 
will take the place of skim-milk, but we 
have not found it a success. We shall 
be pleased to have readers who have 
tried these milk substitutes tell us what 
they think of them. 
Hay, Mangels and Grain. 
T. H. C., Aylmer , Ont. —I have oat straw, corn 
stalks ripped, clover hay, mangels, ground corn, 
chopped oats, and bran. How should I use this 
feed to obtain the best results from a cow ? At 
what time of the day would you advise using the 
different feeds ? Do you believe that anything is 
gained by bran slops two or three times a day ? 
Ans.— We question the wisdom of feed¬ 
ing oats to a milch cow when bran can 
be readily obtained. We would feed the 
oats to horses or young stock. We con¬ 
sider them better adapted for promoting 
growth than for milk. We would make 
the basis of the ration clover hay. Feed, 
say 10 pounds of it, and 10 pounds of the 
mangels with what stalks the cow will 
eat up clean. Then feed equal parts of 
corn meal and bran—six pounds or more, 
as the cow evidently makes good use of 
it. We doubt whether it will pay to 
feed the bran in a slop. Our plan would 
be to divide the grain and the clover in 
two feeds—morning and night, and the 
mangels and stalks at noon. 
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