1909 . 
16 
THE RURAL new-vorker 
MORE BALANCED RATIONS. 
Will you give a balanced ration made 
from the following: Corn and cob meal, 
bran and oil meal. Timothy and clover hajr, 
and cows weigh about 1,000 pounds. 
Ohio. A - c - 
Will you give me the best grain ration 
to go with English hay and Japanese mil¬ 
let as Winter feed for cows? Would you 
advise some molasses at 15 cents per 
gallon? 
Massachusetts. 
The following is as nearly a bal¬ 
anced ration as it is possible to make of 
the ingredients F. A. C. mentions with¬ 
out impairing its value by using too 
much of one kind of feed. However, 
if clover and Timothy are separate I 
would use all clover and no Timothy 
1 311 • 
Digestible Carb. 
Feed Stuff. Dry Matter. Protein. & Fat. 
Clover hay. 12 lbs.. 10.164 
Timothy hay, 6 lbs. . 5.208 
Corn and cob meal, 
4 lbs. 
Wheat bran, 4 lbs... 3.54 
Oil meal, old process, 
2 
Nutritive ratio, 1 :5.8. 
The following ration is very nearly 
balanced and at the present prices of 
grain \V. B. N. will find it an econ¬ 
omical ration to use. I have assumed 
that your “English hay” is equal to our 
mixed grasses in nutritive value and 
your Japanese millet is equal to our 
Hungarian grass. 
Digestible Carb. 
Feed Stuff Dry Matter. Protein. & Fat. 
10.1 (14 
.8856 
5.0665 
5.208 
.1734 
2.8162 
’ 3.396 
.1904 
2.668 
3.54 
.484 
1.9076 
’ 1.816 
.5752 
.9739 
24.124 
2.3076 
13.4322 
Mixed hay, 12 lbs. .10.452 
SiiHot hay, 6 lbs. .. " *"*" 
Distiller’s dry grains, 
4 lbs. 
Oil meal, old process, 
2 lbs. 1.816 
Wheat middlings, 2 
lbs. 
Molasses, 1 lb. 
Nutritive ratio. 1 :5.3. 
.5064 5.5503 
5.538 
.27 
3.8442 
.992 
1.656 
1.816 
.5752 
.9738 
1.68 
.808 
.2558 
.032 
1.215 
.693 
23.974 
2.6314 
13.9323 
C. S. GREENE. 
SOME FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
The following questions were sub¬ 
mitted by an individual. The figures 
are so striking that I give them for 
the benefit of the many. 
With one foddering of cornstalks and 
one of Timothy and Red-top hay, how much 
of each of the following feeds should I 
give 1.100-pound cows, giving 12 to 14 
quarts of milk daily, wheat bran, ground 
corn ears and oil meal? 
Crude Digestible 
Ash Protein. Protein. Cost. 
4 
lbs. ground 
.256 
.05 
corn ears.. .06 .32 
4 
lbs. wheat 
bran .224 .64 
.48 
.06 
2 
lbs. oil meal .114 .66 
.566 
.035 
10 
lbs .398 1.G2 
1.202 
• 14% 
The corn is grown on the 
farm; 
it 
is desirable to feed as 
largely 
of it 
as possible. The cob will help to furn¬ 
ish bulk. It will hardly be safe to feed 
more than two pounds of the oil meal, 
hence we will have to add the four 
pounds of bran, which makes an ex¬ 
pensive ration, and one low in pro¬ 
tein. In view of the price at which 
they can be furnished I suggest the 
following, leaving the corn ears as 
before: 
Crude 
Digestible 
Ash. 
Protein. Protein. Cost. 
4 
lbs. ground 
corn ears.. .06 
.32 
.256 
.05 
2 
lbs. malt 
sprouts ... .118 
.48 
.396 
.02% 
2 
lbs. dried 
grains .. .072 
.48 
.324 
•02% 
i 
lb. cotton¬ 
seed meal. . .072 
.42 
.369 
.01 % 
i 
lb. oil meal .057 
.33 
.283 
."1 % 
10 
lbs.325 
2.03 
1.628 
.13% 
past, with none but the best results. 
Not that he does not like it, but be¬ 
cause it is too dear for what it con¬ 
tains. 
Assuming that I have to buy hay, and 
that Red-top and Timothy is worth $12 per 
ton, how much can I afford to pay for 
Alfalfa? 
From $18 to $20 unless it costs too 
much to make the exchange, assuming 
that both hays have been properly 
cured. 
If Alfalfa is substituted for the mixed 
hay, how much bran, oil meal and cob meal 
should be fed? 
If the Alfalfa is the real thing and 
properly cured f he bran, or sprouts and 
grains can be left out. 1 o my mind it 
is exceedingly doubtful if Alfalfa can 
be purchased. Any reader of The R. 
N.-Y. who has any to sell will find 
plenty of buyers if he will advertise 
in this paper. When I have been short 
of coarse feed I have found malt 
sprouts to help out, as when soaked 
they are very bulky and help to fill, and 
are high in food value. Care should 
always be exercised that they are 
bright and free from kiln dust. 
EDW’d VAN ALSTYNE. 
In this ration we get nearly as much 
ash, nearly half a pound more of di¬ 
gestible protein, and save three-quar¬ 
ters of a cent daily. Were it not for 
the need of a laxative, the ration would 
be improved by leaving out the oil 
meal and substituting cotton-seed 
meal. With the dry feeds mentioned 
it would not be wise. With silage I 
would certainly make that change. It 
might be wise with the bulky feeds 
(sprouts and grains), to leave the cob 
out of the meal. The point I particu¬ 
larly want to emphasize is that bran 
is about the dearest straight feed on 
the market. This party was getting the 
higher grades of bran. Many are fully 
three per cent lower in protein than 
those figured on above. The writer has 
fed none in his dairy for three years 
FEEDING VALUE OF BUCKWHEAT STRAW 
I cannot accept answer made by S. C. 
A. , Warren Co., N. Y., and published on 
page 884, as being correct to my ques¬ 
tion, namely, what is the feeding value 
of nice, bright, well-cured buckwheat straw 
as compared with Timothy hay at $8 per 
ton? S. C. A. puts four tons of this straw 
against one ton of hay. IIow he could 
reach any such conclusion, either by ob¬ 
servation, experience or analysis, is a mys¬ 
tery to me, as well as to every farmer 
about here who has had experience in 
feeding it. This is quite a buckwheat sec¬ 
tion, and many of the farmers consider 
the straw as valuable when fed in con¬ 
nection with other roughage. This is wLat 
prompted the question : Two neighbors, 
directly after thrashing 30 large loads of 
buckwheat, had barn and straw burnt by 
sparks from engine. They requested me to 
find out value of straw. Later adjuster 
valued straw at $4 per ton, and estimated 
amount at 20 tons, which was accepted 
as fair all areund. Professor W. A. Henry, 
on feeds and feeding, gives this analysis: 
Water Asli Pro. Fiber Nitro. Ether Ext. 
Timothy 15.0 4.5 0.0 29.0 41.9 3.0 
B. W. Straw 9.9 6.5 6.2 43.0 35.1 1.3 
Protein is what costs, and what we j 
must have, and can it be a fact that 120 
pounds of protein in a ton of hay is equal 
to 400 pounds and over of protein in four 
tons of this straw for feeding? I have 
a neighbor who has been in the sheep 
business many years. He says his experi¬ 
ence has taught that buckwheat straw 
cured nicely without frosting, fed to sheep 
once a day is worth as much, ton for ton. 
as Timothy hay, unless hay is cut very 
green, and the same rule would hold good 
with all stock, and in all the years he 
had fed it in this way with nothing but 
good results. a. l. litciiaud. 
New York. _ 
Estimating Weight of Hay. 
A. D., Olcott, N. Y .—I lately purchased 
a rather small mow of Timothy hay. Dimen¬ 
sions are as follows: 17% feet long by 
17% feet, wide and six feet depth. Give a 
careful estimate in tons. 
Ans.— If the mow is moderately 
hard, there shou'd be not far from 
314 tons. The rule is to find cubic con¬ 
tents of mow in feet and divide this 
by any number from 460 to 510, de¬ 
pending on whether the hay is solid 
or loose. But at best this can be only 
an estimate, as the same mow will sel¬ 
dom turn out the same weight twice. 
Everything depends on how near ripe 
the grass was when cut, the size of 
mow and amount of work done in it. 
We have taken hay from large mows 
nearly as solid as though baled. 
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