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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
283 
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES. 
Value of Corn Bran. 
Will you tell me the relative feeding value 
of corn bran and wheat bran for milch cows 
being fed all the corn (whole) silage they will 
cat twice a day, and all the corn fodder and 
what straw they want during the day? I 
can buy corn bran for $10 per ton. 
Still Tond. Md. c. o. w. 
Corn bran has 7.4 per cent digestible 
protein, 59.8 carbohydrates, 4.6 fat, while 
wheat bran lias 12.5 protein, 40.6 carbo¬ 
hydrates and 3.1 fat. At the price you 
name the corn bran is a decided bargain, 
and seems too good to be true. It is not 
nuite so palatable as wheat, and has more 
fiber in it, but a mixture of about four 
or five pounds of the bran with two or 
three pounds of cotton-seed meal will 
give you good results with your rough- 
age. Wheat straw is pood fodder, and 
takes about as much energy to digest it 
as it is worth for milch cows. Better run 
it through a cutter and use for bedding, 
and as an absorbent to save every particle 
of the liquid manure. 
Fat-Formers for Connecticut Cows. 
What can I raise on a farm in the north 
central part of Connecticut for a good ration 
for cows to produce butter fat? Having 
just come into possession of the farm, I do 
not know what would be best. Can I raise 
wheat here and what kind? F. O. H. 
Hast Ilartland, Conn. 
This is a large question. I presume 
you refer to grain feed. If you have 10 
or more cows I should plan for a silo 
and raise sufficient corn if possible, so 
that the cows might have at least 30 
pounds each per day for the entire year, 
save perhaps in May and June, when pas 
turage is good. This you will find the 
cheapest food you can grow, and it will 
help out greatly for a milk ration. By 
adding a little gluten feed and cotton-seed 
meal to your silagfe, with what hay they 
will eat, you will have a good milk ration. 
By saving both liquid and solid manure 
your farm will be growing better every 
year. You are a long way from the rail¬ 
way, and long hauls are expensive, so 
that you must either raise nearly all your 
feed or buy that which is rich in protein 
so as to haul as little feed as possible. 
You can raise either Spring or Winter 
wheat in your locality, and can have the 
grain ground. You can also raise peas 
and oats to feed green or harvest for hay, 
or allow to ripen and thrash the grain for 
grinding, and can feed the straw. Peas 
and oats ground make a nice feed. You 
can also raise Soy beans and use the fod¬ 
der, grinding the beans. If you raise the 
beans get a little dirt and chaff with the 
beans to sow on the piece to inoculate it 
with the proper germs, as the beans will 
do much better. I think if I were in your 
position I should strike in heavy for 
silage and depend on gluten and cotton 
seed to balance up. Quite a problem 
ahead of you, but stick it out and you will 
succeed. 
Ration for Milk. 
I have silage, early-cut mixed hay: oats, 
peas, some barley, grown together. Is this 
grain ground sufficient to make cows give 
large messes of milk? If not, what should 
he added to increase the flow? How should 
silage he fed, once or twice a day? What 
will the above analyze? j. f. g. 
Schuyler Lake, N. Y. 
Of the feeds you have on hand barley 
is the poorest and the peas the best. A 
mixture of peas and oats, half and half, 
would analyze 12.6 per cent protein, 50 
per cent carbohydrates and 2.5 fat. If 
you feed 40 pounds daily of silage and 
eight to 10 pounds hay this would anal¬ 
yze as follows: 
('a rho- 
Protein. hydrates. Fat. 
4<t lbs. silage.52 5.64 .24 
10 lbs. good hay.59 4.09 .12 
Total .1.11 9.73 .36 
To balance this up you need about 1.4 
pounds protein and three pounds carbo¬ 
hydrates. To get this protein would take 
at least 10 pounds of your mixture, which 
would give more carbohydrates than you 
need, and is more grain than I believe in 
feeding. If you will take five pounds of 
your mixture and add two pounds of cot¬ 
ton-seed meal your ration then will anal¬ 
yze : 
Parbo- 
40 lbs. silage.52 
10 lbs. hay.59 
5 lbs. peas and oats .63 
2 lbs. cotton seed.. .80 
Total .2.54 
in. hydrates. 
Fat. 
5.64 
.24 
4.09 
12 
2.50 
.13 
.41 
.19 
12.64 
.78 
a fine ration, 
and 
be palatable and healthy for the cow, and 
the cost, outside of what you raise, not 
very heavy. I would advise feeding the 
silage in two parts, 20 pounds each at 
night and morning, and half of the seven 
1 omuls grain mixed with it. I should 
feed the hay about three hours after feed* 
ing the silage in the morning. Will you 
try this and report later? I do not be¬ 
lieve in feeding all cows alike. This is an 
average. Some need more and others re¬ 
quire less. This you must find out by 
observation for yourself. 
Grain for Winter Milkers. 
.How can I improve my grain ration for 
Winter milkers? | am feeding 3% pounds 
bran. 2 Vi pounds cotton-seed meal and 2'/i 
pounds gluten each per day, with 40 pounds 
silage (no ears on it) and all the hay they 
will eat. Hay is Timothy mixed with other 
meadow grasses. Milk is sold at shipping 
station. Bran is $21 ; cotton-seed meal $27 ; 
gluten $24. f. e. r. 
New Milford, Pa. 
We are unable 
to tell 
you how 
to im- 
prove the ration. 
It analyzes now 
about 
as follows: 
Carbo- 
Protein, hydrates. 
Fat. 
40 lbs. silage. 
5.64 
.24 
8 lbs. hay. 
. . .47 
3.67 
.09 
3(4 lbs. bran.... 
1.43 
.10 
2 *4 lbs. cotton-seed 
meal . 
.46 
.21 
2 VI lbs. gluten feed .53 
1.16 
.06 
Total .. 
. .2.87 
12.36 
.70 
On its face this contains a little more 
protein than is called for by the stand¬ 
ard, but the silage having no ears will 
fall a little short of the above analysis. 
This ration ought to make milk, and if it 
does not I should inquire of the cows for 
the reason. 
“Gluten” That is Not Gluten. 
I enclose a sample of gluten meal. I shall 
he glad if you can tell me whether it is a fair 
sample. It seems to me to he very coarse, 
and is also about a peck (o the bag more 
bulky than some I got at the beginning of 
the Winter, that was much finer also. The 
company I get it from is selling much more 
this Winter round here, and I was wondering 
if they do It by putting everything in as 
gluten meal. My cows are not doing quite as 
well as on the first I bought. .r. r. j. 
Freeman, Ont. 
The sample sent is in no sense gluten 
meal, nor even gluten feed. Tt is appar¬ 
ently a mixture of corn bran (that is, the 
husk or outer covering of the corn ker¬ 
nel) and a little gluten feed. Tt looks de¬ 
cidedly inferior to both gluten meal and 
gluten feed. Gluten meal contains 28 to 
32 per cent digestible protein, gluten feed 
23 to 25 per cent, and corn bran only 
seven to eight per cent, so there is quite 
a reason for cows not giving as much on 
this feed as on good gluten meal or gluten 
feed. Gluten meal is made from the 
flinty portion of the corn kernel, and con¬ 
tains no husk; is very heavy, weighing 
1.7 pounds per quart, and contains 32 to 
35 per cent crude protein. Gluten feed is 
a mixture of hull and glutinous part of 
corn;, weighs 1.4 pounds per quart, and 
contains 23 to 28 per cent crude protein. 
This is a little safer feed than gluten 
meal in ordinary hands, but there is fully 
$5 per ton difference in value between 
gluten feed and gluten meal. When glu¬ 
ten feed was $25 per ton we should not 
want to give over $18 to $20 for the kind 
like sample. Better to let it alone and 
use another make. We are sick of these 
fake feeds, and the market is full of them. 
Ask for guaranteed analysis when you 
buy and occasionally send a sample to 
your experiment station for analysis. 
H. G. MANCHESTER. 
Retained Afterbirth. —If “Reader" will 
commence feeding his cow a handful of dry 
oats night and morning two weeks before she 
is to drop her calf, and increase it every 
day up to Iwo quarts night and morning at 
the time she drops her calf, he will have no 
further trouble. I nad one that bothered 
me for four or five years, but never after the 
above treatment. She lived four or five years 
after. c. e. b. 
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