1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
181 
THE BALANCED RATION. 
We are feeding the following: Ajax, 
four pounds; cotton-seed meal, three 
pounds; cobmeal, four pounds; linseed 
incal O. P-, 1 Vi pound; clover hay, eight 
pounds; silage, 25 pounds per day. How 
near is it a balanced ration, and can we 
change anything to advantage? We have 
a lot of cut corn fodder. Would it be of 
much value with the present ration? Can 
we grow oats and Canada held peas to¬ 
gether and cut to put in the silo. Do you 
know of anyone being successful with this? 
Will they keep all right? Do they make a 
good feed? Ar e they hard to harvest? 
When do you cut them? Are they hard 
to put through a cutter? T. b. 
Edgemont, Pa. 
Let us analyze the ration you are 
feeding and see what it contains: 
Digestible 
Carbo- 
Dry 
matter. 
Protein. 
hydrates 
and fat. 
8 lbs. clover hay 
6.778 
.5904 
3.3776 
25 lbs. silage... 
5.25 
.225 
3.225 
4 lbs. Ajax. 
3.68 
.924 
2.611 
3 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed meal 
2.754 
1.1103 
1.34475 
4 lbs. corn and 
cob meal .... 
. 3.396 
.1904 
2.668 
iy> lbs. linseed 
meal 0. P. • • 
1.362 
.4314 
.73035 
- 
23.22 • 
3.4715 
13.9567 
Nutritive ratio 1 :4.02. 
Comparing these figures with a stand-, 
ard ration we find that you are feed¬ 
ing 23.22 pounds, which is practically 
correct, as the standard for a 1,000- 
cow is 24 pounds. Taking the protein 
next, which is the most expensive part 
of the ration, we find you are feeding 
3.17 pounds instead of 2.5 pounds, 
which the standard calls for, so you 
are practically wasting one pound of 
protein, which costs you between three 
and four cents a pound every day fot 
each -cow you are feeding. You are 
not only wasting this feed, but you 
run the risk of spoiling your cows by 
feeding such a narrow ration, which 
has a nutritive ratio of one pound pro¬ 
tein to only 4.02 pounds carbohydrates 
and fat. Although the ration contains 
the proper amount of carbohydrates and- 
fat, the excess of protein spoils it for 
the economic production of milk. The 
ration I gave you some times ago will 
produce better results at a lower cost. 
It is as follows; 25 lbs. silage, 12 lbs. 
clover hay, four lbs. Ajax, 1J4 lb. cot¬ 
ton-seed meal and five lbs. corn and cob 
meal. To this ration you can add all 
the corn fodder your cows will eat and 
you will have nearly a balanced ration. 
Oats and peas when cut just before the 
oats ripen, make very good silage if 
properly packed with two men in the 
silo. We mow them with a machine, 
and do not find them any harder to cut 
and handle than corn. c. s. greene. 
I have three grade cows, fresh about 
November 15, 1908, giving at present about 
20 pounds milk each. I am feeding corn- 
meal and bran (three and two) six pounds, 
sweet corn silage 25 pounds daily, corn 
stover in morning, hay noon and night. 
Corn stover cut and cured before frost; 
hay is lowland, cut while green and well 
cured. Present prices are: Meal, $1.40; 
bran, §1.30; standard middlings, $1.30; 
cotton-seed, $1.60; buckwheat feed, $1.60; 
gluten, $1.60; Ajax flakes, $1.55; hominy, 
$1.50. I have had no experience in feed¬ 
ing, or farming. Have read The R. N.-Y. 
with great interest, but found nothing that 
seems to suit my position. Milk at present 
$1.62 per 100. H. G. P. 
You are not feeding enough grain to 
produce the amount of milk your cows 
should be giving. You are also feeding 
two of the most expensive feeds you 
mention. If you will gradually change 
your ration of grain to four pounds 
Ajax flakes, two pounds cotton-seed 
meal, and two pounds wheat middlings 
you can make milk at a lower cost per 
quart. You should be at least two 
weeks in making this change, as it is 
dangerous to change a ration suddenly-. 
C. S. GREENE. 
Will it pay me to build a silo for five 
milch cows and five yearling heifers, and 
state what size It should be to keep them 
eight months? I have bought a rundown 
farm, and had no experience to start with. 
I bought the farm the same time I tried 
10 weeks for 10 cents for The R. N.-Y., 
and it gave me lots of information. 
Through its influence I have started a 
small herd of Ayrshire cattle, and if It 
had not been for your paper I would 
have had nothing but scrubs. Above all 
the Dawley case with the Jersey cattle was 
the best thing for the farmers that couid 
have happened, for it has made all the 
breeders send out what they advertise to 
the farmers. e. c. j. 
Pennsylvania. 
Generally speaking, it will pay to 
build a silo for 10 cows or .yearlings. 
A 50-ton silo would answer your pur¬ 
pose very well. If you build a round 
one it should be about 12 feet in 
diameter and 24 feet high. This would 
give you plenty of room for 50 tons and 
allow room to settle. Be sure your corn 
is nearly ripe before cutting it for the 
silo, and then pack it evenly and solidly 
during the process of filling. Neglecting 
these two points has often caused much 
loss in poor or spoiled silage. 
g. s. G. 
BREAD COMPARED WITH CORNMEAL. 
What would be the relative value of 
broad compared with corn or meal for feed ? 
I have often bought wheat and rye bread 
in the city, soak it in skim-milk and feed 
it to pigs and hens. Would you inform 
me how much it is worth per pound for 
feed when meal or corn is worth cent 
per pound? R. b. f. 
Connecticut. 
The relative value of bread and 
cornmeal depends to a great extent 
upon the stock to which it is fed. For 
example, bread is better for young pigs 
or chickens or laying hens, while for 
preparing either pigs or poultry for 
market, cornmeal would no doubt pro¬ 
duce better results. I feed a great deal 
of both feeds all the time, and my 
experience leads me to believe that with 
either feed their worth depends largely 
upon how they are used. As bread 
contains more moisture than cornmeal 
the price per pound should be corre¬ 
spondingly less. With cornmeal at V/z 
cent a pound probably \ l /\ cent for the 
bread would be about right. 
MURDERING CHICKENS FOR FOOD. 
This town is about 60 miles from St. 
Louis, and is a market for live poultry 
from a large farming section. The general 
store generally ships “on foot” to the 
city but this Winter are dressing them 
“alive"—hang them by the feet, remove 
the feathers, then whack them on the 
head with a board and they are ready for 
the city without shedding a drop of blood. 
Has that been done in accordance with the 
pure food laws? J. n. h. 
Missouri. 
It is doubtful if the Pure Food law 
would try to prescribe how a chicken 
should be killed. It does say that no 
animal should be sold for food which 
has died otherwise than by slaughter. 
The above method of killing a chicken 
is murder pure and simple, and such 
birds which have lost no blood are not 
slaughtered legally. We shall do our 
best to have such practice stopped. 
ITCHING SKIN IN HORSE. 
What is the cause of a horse when 
hooked to a wagon surging his buttocks 
against the shafts, and also against the 
sides of the stall, and seems to be un¬ 
easy in general? Is It a habit, or is it 
due to some disorder of the system? 1 
think it might possibly be a kidney trouble, 
but not being experienced cannot tell. 
Please give opinion and advice. b. b. 
New York. 
Itchiness of the skin at the root of the 
tail, due to collection of filth and seba¬ 
ceous matter may cause the habit men¬ 
tioned ; or it may be induced by pin worms 
irritating the lining membrane of the rec¬ 
tum. If the horse is fat, overfed and 
underexercised, correct these things by 
light rations, more work or exercise, and 
be sure to groom him thoroughly night and 
morning. If pin worms are causing the 
irrtiation give a rectal injection two or 
three times a week of three quarts of 
soapy warm water to which has been added 
a cupful of decoction of tobacco made by 
pouring boiling water on tobacco' stems 
and allowing to soak for a few hours. 
a. s. A. 
Kind Lady (at children’s party) : 
“Well, my little man, what are you 
going to be when you grow up?” Lit¬ 
tle man (tugging at uncomfortable 
neckwear) ; “Somefin’ what don’t wear 
a collar!”—Punch. 
USUAL CROP OF 
CREAM 
SEPARATOR 
SNARES AND TARES 
If actual merit alone prevailed the DE LAYAL cream 
separator would be the only one made, sold or used. 
But the dairy farmer with his dollars is an alluring proposi¬ 
tion to those who “need the money,” so that every season brings 
with it a new crop of separator fakes and fables, with some of 
the old conjurers over again and always a few fresh ones. 
Last year the new and improved line of DE LAYAL 
machines literally swept the field. This year everybody has 
a “new” machine, which is the one thing they universally 
harp upon in their talk and advertising. But it is mostly bosh 
and nonsense. There is mighty little new to them. No more 
DE LAYAL patents have expired so that there is nothing else 
“new” that they can lay hold of this year. 
There’s the usual crop of fakirs appropriating the facts of 
DE LAVAL separator use and the endorsements DE LAVAL 
separators have received, and quoting them as though they 
applied to their own inferior imitations of the standard cream 
separator. 
There’s the concern which makes an inferior disc separator 
and speaks of the “disc” separator being “the machine which 
has won out universally in Europe, the home of the disc separa¬ 
tor.” True, but it was the DE LAYAL that has done the 
winning out in Europe, as it has in America. 
There’s the political separator concern, with the new “year” 
or “cents” trademark, whose claims it is to be hoped nobody 
ever believes, and which manifestly practices the circus man’s 
theory that the great American public ever likes to be fooled. 
There’s the only concern which has stuck to the abandoned 
DE LAVAL “ hollow bowl ” of 30 years ago, but will this year 
desperately join the procession of 10 year back DE LAVAL 
imitations with a “disky bucket bowl” machine. 
There’s the “Trust,” striving to complete its monopoly of 
dealer and farmer, harvesting much costly separator experience, 
largely at the expense of buyers-for-use, through trying to build 
a cream separator like ordinarily made farm machinery. 
There’s the “mail order” outfit, with their cheaply made 
machines, bought here and there, not made by themselves or 
sold under the real manufacturer’s name, all claiming the earth, 
and many of the things that should be below it. 
But the merry lot changes and dwindles every year. They 
gradually drop out and leave their unfortunate patrons helpless 
with trashy machines. More will fade away this year. The 
dairy farmer, like the creamery man, is coming, to know some¬ 
thing of separators. He doesn’t swallow mere “claims” so 
easily. 98% of the world’s creamerymen use DE LAYAL 
machines. The percentage of farm users content with nothing 
else is always increasing. 
There isn’t a single reason why every man who buys a 
cream separator this year should not buy a DE LAYAL. 
There are many reasons why he should. The best costs no more 
than the various grades of inferior imitating machines. 
A DE LAVAL catalogue may be had for the asking. A 
DE LAVAL machine may be tried for the asking. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. 
42 E. Madison Street 
CHICAGO 
1213 A 1215 Filbert St. 
PHILADELPHIA 
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SAN FRANCISCO 
General Offices: 
165 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. 
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MONTREAL 
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