100G. 
RATION FOR A DAIRY HERD. 
I have been sending my milk to the cream¬ 
ery up to October 1, but have now engaged 
it the year round to a person who has a 
milk route. I have a fine herd of registered 
Jerseys, Holsteins, Guernseys and grade Jer¬ 
seys. They range from four to right years 
old. Will you give me a ration for them? I 
have bran at $1.25, sprouts $1.05, grains 
$1.10. gluten meal $1.35. Best of Timothy 
pasture ; no clover. w. e. .t. 
There is no question that cows so di¬ 
verse in temperament and make-up as 
Holsteins and Jerseys will not give the 
best results if fed alike. As a rule, the 
Holsteins can most economically use a 
rather narrow ration, even as low as 1:4, 
where the Jerseys will take one as wide 
as 1 :7. I do not mean to say that it is 
necessary to conform exactly to this rule, 
but I do say that the Jerseys or Guernseys 
need more of the heat and fat-producing 
elements in their food than do the Hol¬ 
steins. It is well to keep this general 
principle in mind. 
Just now, with pasture, I doubt if any¬ 
thing will give as good results for the 
money as some of the molasses feeds. 
'[ lie basis of them is the brewers’ feeds 
with molasses. They will not analyze 
much above 17 per cent protein, but they 
are very high in digestible carbohydrates, 
and these with pasture grass are very 
acceptable. This feed costs me $1.15 per 
100, and is giving me excellent results. 
The cows should also have a good feed at 
night of stalks, pumpkins, or even hay. 
This will usually pay, as from now on the 
pasture grass will rapidly decrease in food 
nutrients. I had been feeding a large 
mess—all the cows would eat—at night 
of stalks well cured. I substituted a feed 
of pumpkins and two pounds of the 
“Hammond dairy feed” and gained one 
quart per cow a day. Later in the season 
when the pasture is gone, they will need 
more protein in their ration than the mo¬ 
lasses feed affords. What shall furnish 
it? Wheat feed at $1.25 is altogether too 
dear for what it contains. If the grains 
are about 22 per cent protein I would feed 
largely of them. Gluten meal to be worth 
$1.35 should contain over 30 per cent pro¬ 
tein; sprouts at $1.05 are not dear, if they 
analyze over 20 per cent protein, provided 
they are bright and free from dust and 
weed seeds. Cotton and linseed meal at 
$30 are less expensive than bran at $25, 
the former contains over 40 per cent pro¬ 
tein, the second over 30 per cent, the last 
not to exceed 1(5 per cent. Both are very 
rich, and two pounds per day is about all 
it is wise to feed. All I have said scr far 
as to Winter feeds is of the grains. The 
coarse foods are no less an important fac¬ 
tor. Evidently there is no clover; that 
will mean more protein—the expensive 
element—in the grains. If the hay was 
cut early they will do with one pound of 
grain less per day. If they have stalks, 
and they were cut early and well housed, 
it will mean more milk and less pur¬ 
chased feed than if they were partly dry 
before being cut and spend the holidays in 
the field. If silage is to be had, it will 
mean two pounds of grain less a day per 
animal than with the best dry stalks, 
bailing in silage if they can have a half 
bushel of roots a day they will get more 
out of the same feed and need less grain. 
Cornmeal is a good and digestible food, 
and may well make one-third of the grain 
rations when there is no silage. In a 
word, feed with the coarse feeds available, 
after pasture is done, what grain the cows 
need to keep them in good condition, and 
what they will pay a profit on. This can 
be made up from two or three sources. 
Buy that which contains the most diges¬ 
tible protein which can be purchased for 
the least money. As a rule have at least 
one-third in weight of seme bulky food 
like dried brewers’ grains or sprouts. It 
is not absolutely necessary that the cows 
should have bran if they get the ash in 
some other feeds. I have found about 
eight pounds a day on an average per 
animal to be about the amount one can 
profitably feed. If buckwheat middlings 
can be purchased for $20 or $23 per ton 
they will make a cheap and wholesome 
feed. Lastly don’t leave the cows out at 
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night, nor withhold the coarse feed. Don’t 
leave them in pasture after the middle of 
November, except it be a little while in 
the middle of the day. It is easier to 
keep up the milk flow than to restore it 
after it has gone down. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
A CALL FOR SMALL COWS. 
Wanted, a Lilliputian breed of cows. It 
may seem strange to the readers of an 
agricultural paper that a small breed of 
cows should be called for at this day, as 
the tendency of late years has all been to 
breed up to large size, and the largest 
possible capacity for milk and butter, but 
no one has ever thought there was a place, 
and a large one, too, for just the opposite. 
Tt is with the city, suburban and village 
laboring’ man. The ordinary cow of the 
present costs too much; $40 to $00 is too 
much for the working man to pay for a 
cow. Then she eats too much, costing 
him too much to maintain. It takes too 
much barn room to store Winter feed, too 
much shelf room in cellar or pantry, toa 
much milk and too much butter. True, 
the surplus can be sold to nearby neigh¬ 
bors, but it is always a nuisance to deal 
out in pints and quarts to a family that is 
not in the business for profit, and last, 
but not least, the objection to the cow of 
to-day for the poor man is that if she 
dies the loss is too great. We want a 
cow in the cow world that will take the 
place that the pony does in the horse 
world: one that should be produced with 
her first calf at from $15 to $20 or not 
to exceed $2.5, and to weigh about 400 
pounds, and whose yearly keep would be 
in proportion; to produce from one to 
two gallons of milk per day and two to 
four pounds, of butter a week, so that the 
average family would have enough for all 
needed purposes and no surplus that 
would need be wasted. That would be a 
family cow exclusively. I believe that 
he who will produce such a race would 
make as well by it as by any other kind 
of farming. To illustrate how such a 
cow would be appreciated I cite a case; 
a man had a cow that from some cause 
was much below the ordinary size, but 
was all that could be expected of her 
inches. A neighbor asked him what he 
would sell her for. He answered: “The 
price is $500, as I could not replace her 
if I sold her, so I do not have to sell.” 
Now who will ofTer such a grade of cows 
for sale, or exhibit at the fairs? 
Ohio. A. A. F. 
R. N.-Y.—'I he Kerry cattle from Ire¬ 
land or the Brittany cows from France 
are probably the smallest breeds. If a 
breeder started out to develop a race of 
small cows he would probably be obliged 
to charge more for them than large cows 
would bring. Better keep goats* 
DRIED BEET PULP 
Burning Sawdust. — I have seen great 
quantles of sawdust burned in sawmills, fed 
automatically, but it fell on grate bars at 
foot of high smoke-stacks. They use nearly 
all the sawdust for fuel now, only using a few 
slabs that cannot be worked into latli, etc. 
I think that sawdust would have to he put 
in alternate layers of slabs or brush to get it 
burned. Dry sawdust piles will burn, but 
green or sour will not without help so far as 
1 know. Thirty years ago in Manistee they 
used to run the slabs on live rollers and 
burn them to get rid of them ; later they ran 
them into great burners. Now they use 
everything they can for laths, etc., and grind 
the scraps and knots in a “hog" and store in 
great bins to run nights evaporating salt. A 
farmer who fanned where a sawmill had been 
says that sawdust is very hard to get rid of. 
You can only burn the top off the heap and 
wait till it dries and burn off another layer. 
The bottom is always soggy. t. W. d. v. 
Michigan. 
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better fit*- 1 *] 
For More Milk, 
More Flesh, More Profit. 
If you have studied your feeding operations 
carefully, you know that your stock is wasting a 
certain percentage of the feed you give them. It goes 
through the animals without being properly digested. 
It is not an easy matter to determine just how much 
you are losing now, but it won’t take long and it won’t cost 
much to find out how much more money you can make. 
If you are a dairyman, the milk pail will tell the story. 
Dried Beet Pulp 
A Food and Conditioner. 
It is a nutritious, succulent, "green” food that promotes digestion and perfect as¬ 
similation. It is a relish, an appetizer, that increases the flow of the digestive juices and | 
this insures the more thorough digestion of all feed consumed. 
You’ll not see undigested grain in the voidings of cattle that are fed dried beet 
pulp. It cools and regulates the whole alimentary canal. 
Read These Letters From Men You Know. 
A. P. Pease & Rons, Southampton, 
Mass., write: “I have fed 10 tons of 
Beet Pulp this winter and do not 
think there is a better feed on the 
market, considering priee and re¬ 
sults.” 
R. J. Vanderbeek, Wyekoff, N. J., 
writes: “pried Beet Pulp is the 
best dairy feed wo have ever fed in 
our experience in the dairy busi¬ 
ness. Produces sweet and whole¬ 
some products.” 
Thousands of practical dairymen and general farmers are making 
larger profits by feeding Dried Beet Pulp. You can do likewise. 
Rives you the whys and wherefores. Both 
VJUi rree DOOR Helen title and practical reasons by the 
score, together with many reports from prominent, successful 
agriculturists ivho are users of Dried Beet Pulp. 
Send Postal asking for the Book. 
It’s June 
Pasture the 
Year Round. 
LARROWE MILLING COMPANY. 
611 Produce Exchange, 
New York City. 
You can produce a quart 
of milk for less money by 
adding Dried Beet Pulp 
to your ration than you 
can without it. 
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Have The Greatest Capacity 
DO THE CLOSEST SKIMMING 
Run The Easiest 
And Last 
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PHILADELPHIA 
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Drives out blood impurities. Makes strong nerves and muscles. 
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Get it from your druggist 
