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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Tunc 16, 
Live Stockand Dairy 
HOW TO FEED THE STOCK. 
T. J., Fairfield Co., Conn .—How many 
horses, cows, yearlings, and hogs, with some 
chickens, say about 200, would the sub¬ 
joined articles of food, keep in good condi¬ 
tion without having to purchase food? The 
farm has raised the past year 39 tons prime 
hay, (19 tons for bedding) ; 210 tons silage; 
500 bushels ear corn; 150 bushels turnips; 
70 bushels blood beets ; 55 bushels mangel 
beets ; 15 tons straw ; 500 heads of cabbage; 
25 tons of cornstalks. Of what value is 
silage any way? I notice that some do not 
seem to think much of it for making milk. 
When I read T. J.’s question my first 
thought was, if that 39 tons prime hay 
was only clover, and he had plenty of 
oats to grind and mix with that silage. 
But it seems that his farm produced the 
food stuffs named, and he does not wish 
to exchange any of it, nor buy more. I 
will make no effort to figure a balanced 
ration; that I think would be impossible 
with the materials given, but will make 
a rough estimate of the amount of stock 
that I think can be kept on the food 
named. The straw, I presume, to be 
feeding straw, the turnips, beets and 
mangels we will mix together and call 
roots. The horses, I suppose, are to be 
kept a year out of the crop, the other 
stock just through the Winter, from grass 
to grass. Two horses, four tons hay, 
four tons straw, 140 bushels ear corn, 90 
bushels roots; 200 hens, all the cabbage 
and 240 bushels ear corn; six hogs, 185 
bushels roots, 120 bushels ear corn and 
one ton hay (grind corn, mix with 
cooked roots) ; 33 cows, 33 yearlings, the 
silage, the cornstalks and the remainder 
of the hay and straw. If the skim-milk 
was kept on the farm more hogs could be 
fed. “Mapes, the hen man,” will not ap¬ 
prove of that ration for the hens, and 
the cows could not-be expected to give a 
very large mess of milk, and yet it is a 
fair illustration of the way the larger 
proportion of the stock of the country is 
fed, most farmers feeding just what they 
raise on the farm. I have wintered cows 
on clover hay alone, and they gave a 
fair mess of milk all Winter, but they 
were in good flesh at the commencement 
of Winter and “Spring poor” at the end. 
Clover hay is nearly a balanced ration for 
milk, but a cow would have to eat more 
than she could hold to get the amount of 
nutriment that she should have. There¬ 
fore, my cows were really starved, al¬ 
though continually stuffed with all the 
hay that they could eat. Had I fed 
ground oats twice a day they would have 
eaten less hay, given more milk and come 
through the Winter in better condition. 
As to the value of silage, it should not 
be fed alone, and fed with Timothy hay 
it is not a milk ration, but take good corn 
silage, mix with each feed ground oats, 
or wheat bran, or both mixed together, 
and give two feeds of clover hay a day; 
there is nothing that will fill the milk- 
pail as full and bring the cows through in 
better condition, although our scientific 
friends can easily fix a cheaper and more 
scientifically-balanced ration from mill 
products. M. w. 
Bath, N. Y. 
I assume that T. J. has enough pasture 
for his cattle for at least five months out 
of the year. He would then have enough 
silage for 40 cows, allowing 40 pounds 
per cow per day and also 10 yearlings 30 
pounds per head per day. He could use 
all hay, straw and cornstalks for rough- 
age. By selling the cabbage and purchas¬ 
ing some oats to mix with his corn he 
could keep one pair of horses and still 
have enough grain left for his hens. Of 
course the hens would eat several bushels 
of the beets. He could turn off about 20 
hogs provided he had the skim-milk to 
use. This no doubt would keep his cows 
in fair condition, provided he did not 
try to do Winter dairying. It would be 
impossible to get a large flow of milk 
from this ration owing to the lack of 
protein. After feeding silage for 14 years 
I can safely say that it will produce at 
least 10 per cent more milk than ordinary 
hay under any conditions. O. s. 
Chateaugay, N. Y. 
If pork is worth seven cents per pound, 
how much'hay will it take to winter a 
cow, or how old is Ann, are easy com¬ 
pared with the above. Here is where the 
rule of three goes on strike. If that 15 
tons of straw had oats on it, three good 
horses would handle them and half the 
hay. The 200 fowls would about clean 
up the corn and most of the cabbage, ami 
might stay in good condition, but mar¬ 
keting the eggs would give very little 
trouble; 210 tons of silage will feed 50 
cows for 200 days, or 27 cows for one 
year. That, together with the remainder 
of the hay, the straw, the cornstalks and 
the vegetables, might keep them in fairly 
good condition, but the butter question 
would be no more troublesome than that 
of the eggs. As to the number of hogs, 
that would depend somewhat on the breed 
of the cows, and on whether the milk was 
sold whole, or whether the skim-milk and 
buttermilk were left on the farm. If the 
latter, then 10 pigs ought to be made to 
grow into nice thrifty porkers, but they 
would not get very fat with no more 
grain than what the fowls left of the corn. 
A few calves could probably be raised 
also. Either this farm should be taught 
to raise more protein or the owner should 
buy it, and if it was bought and fed cor¬ 
rectly, T. J. would find it just about the 
most profitable investment he ever made. 
A cow should be fed all she will eat of a 
well-balanced ration, then if she does not 
respond with a profit she should be ex¬ 
changed for one that will. Well-cured 
Alfalfa hay cut young and fed with silage 
is said to form a balanced ration, but 
Timothy hay and silage does not. became 
there is a lack of protein, and a cow must 
get about 2 / 2 pounds of that important 
element in her food daily, or shrink at 
the pail. Of course there are other ele¬ 
ments, just as important, which must be 
furnished her, and they can be obtained 
more cheaply in silage than in any other 
way. The same is true of the hens. With 
that amount of corn a slight expenditure 
for other grains containing the elements 
not found in corn would increase the 
profits wonderfully. h. A. G. 
East Berne, N. Y. 
GREEN FORAGE FOR PIGS. 
I have my pig orchard in wheat. I want 
to seed it down. Is there anything better 
for pigs than Red clover and Timothy? Trees 
are not very thick. Would it be better "to 
sow Timothy this Fall? Is land from which 
an old orchard has been cut suitable to set 
out young fruit trees again? h. f. c. 
No. Bloomfield, N. Y. 
It will be a good plan as soon as wheat 
is off, to plow the land or disk it, till 
there is a fine seed bed. Then give it 
more working, till after the middle of Au¬ 
gust. Then if the land is sufficiently 
moist, sow two bushels of rye per acre 
and four quarts of Timothy seed. Next 
Spring sow two quarts of Medium Red 
and two quarts of Alsike per acre. The 
rye will probably give considerable late 
Fall and Winter pasture, and next Spring 
will require a large number of hogs to 
consume it and prevent getting too coarse 
for pasture and going to seed. Or V/ 2 
bushel of rye can be sown and pastured 
during the Fall and Winter, and until 
the rye begins to joint in the Spring. 
Then take the hogs off, and keep them 
off till the rye has ripened, fallen down 
and the clover shows up through it. This 
will give a surprising lot of feed and 
pasture, a volunteer crop of rye for Win¬ 
ter pasture along with the rye and clover. 
The volunteer crop of rye may be as 
good as the original crop. The minimum 
amount of labor goes with this plan, and 
the land gets better. The Alsike clover, 
if not pastured too close, will probably 
be in evidence when the Timothy fails, 
and it is advisable to plow the land again. 
In starting a new orchard it is much bet¬ 
ter to use new land. I notice fruit 
growers in a section near here prefer 
new land. john m . jamison. 
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