1000. 
THE KUKA.L, NEW-YOKKEK 
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RATION FOR MILCH COWS. 
Would you j?ive mo a balanced ration 
for milch cows In nil stages of freshness? 
My rough fodder is mixed hay, cornstalks, 
and will have to feed some straw. Wo 
can buy almost any kind of feed here. 
Hortonville, N. Y. f. e. k. 
Here is a good ‘balanced ration for 
you to feed: Eighteen pounds mixed 
Hay, four pounds dry distiller’s grains, 
two pounds oil meal, one pound cotton¬ 
seed meal, two pounds cornmeal. By 
using this for your standard ration you 
can mix in the corn fodder and a little 
straw as seems best suited to the condi¬ 
tion of your cows. Always be very 
careful not to fed much straw to cows 
far advanced in gestation, and do not 
give any cotton-seed or cornmeal to 
cows within two weeks after they 
freshen. c. s. gkeene. 
Ration for Jersey Cow. 
1 can buy the following feed: Wheat 
bran, $1.65 per bag; ground feed, corn 
and oats, $1.75; cotton-seed meal, $1.80; 
good line hay, $16 per ton. What propor¬ 
tions shall I feed to get best results from 
a Jersey cow? F,. L. p. 
Onawa. Me. 
From the feeds you mention I have 
compounded the following ration, which 
you can feed safely to a 1,000-pound cow 
with good results: Two pounds wheat 
bran; four pounds corn and oats (equal 
weights) ; two pounds cotton-seed meal; 
20 pounds mixed hay. You are 
paying an exorbitant price for wheat 
bran, as much as or more than we pay 
for Ajax flakes or dry brewers’ grains 
which are worth much more than bran. 
If you could substitute cither of the 
above for the wheat bran you would 
have a very good ration, although it 
lacks one important feature, and that 
is it contains no succulent or laxative 
feeds. You should therefore watch 
your cow’s digestion carefully, and if 
she shows signs of constipation you 
should add one pound of oil meal to 
the mixture, but do not increase the 
total amount fed each day. 
C. S. GREENE. 
Ration for Dry Cows. 
Will you give me a maintenance ration 
for dry cows and two-year-old heifers to 
freshen in the Spring? I have a small 
quantity of hay, considerable oat straw, 
and an abundance of silage, although not 
made from mature corn. Oil meal. $.‘56: 
cotton-seed, $34; coynmeal, $31. and bran, 
$ 28 . o. <>. s. 
St. Albans, Vt. 
This correspondent’s rou fe h feeds 
will analyze approximately as follows, 
digestible nutrients in 100 pounds; 
Carbo- 
Proteln. hydrates. Fat. 
ITn.v . 
2.8 
"43.4 1.4 
Oat straw. 
1.2 
38.6 0.8 
Silage . 
0.9 
11.3 0.7 
A 1,000-pound 
cow would require 
daily for maintenance, 0.7 
pounds pro- 
tein, seven pounds 
carbohydrates, and 
0.1 pound fat. A 
ration 
made up as 
follows would be 
desirable under the 
circumstances; 
Protoin. 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates. Fat. 
r> lbs. bav. 
.14 
2.7 .07 
5 lbs. oat straw... 
.06 
1.93 - .04 
30 lbs. silage . 
.27 
3.39 .21 
0.47 
8.02 0.32 
This ration carries an excess of car¬ 
bohydrates and fat over the requirement 
for maintenance, but is ■short in pro¬ 
tein. This deficiency may be made up 
most cheaply, by feeding about one 
pound of cotton-seed meal daily. As 
cows near period of freshening it would 
be well to increase this grain ration by 
the addition of one pound of hay. Two- 
year-old heifers will probably not weigh 
1,000 pounds, and will require propor¬ 
tionately less for maintenance, but al¬ 
lowance should be made for growth. 
Inoculating for Alfalfa. — I have been 
Interested In your various articles on the 
culture of Alfalfa. Permit me to give you 
an Item, possibly of some Interest. A 
neighbor has a very fine plot, of Alfalfa 
as an experiment. When he started it 
lie sowed on It a quantity of soil taken 
from a bed of Sweet clover growing along 
a creek a mile away. In this way he 
secured a good supply of the needed bac¬ 
teria. Sweet clover beds are in reach of 
many, and evidently will answer every 
purpose in the bacteria lime. f. m. s. 
Sardinia, N. Y. 
“WORKING THE CORN FOR ALL IT IS 
WORTH.” 
1 note the questions of M. K. on 
page 910, and your comments on them 
with much pleasure. I think there are 
many others in the East who are wak¬ 
ing up to the necessity for working the 
corn plant for all it is worth. In at¬ 
tempting to give a little of the results 
of my own experience and observation, 
it may be well first to give some analy¬ 
ses of various parts of the corn plant, 
as a guide to its feeding. While, in a 
sense, these analyses may be mislead¬ 
ing, if one knows his fodder they are of 
great assistance in compounding rations 
so as to take full advantage of every 
variety of fodder at hand. 
Corn, the whole plant field dried, may 
contain as low an amount of protein as 
2.7 per cent; or as high as 6.9 per cent; 
as low as 20.6 per cent carbohydrates 
or as high as 47.8 per cent; as low as 
0.6 per cent of fat or as high as 2.5 
per cent. Corn stover may contain as 
low as 1.8 per cent of protein, or as high 
as 8.3 per cent; as low as 23.3 per cent 
of carbohydrates, or as high as 53.3 
per cent; as low as 0.7 per cent of fat, 
or as high as 2.2 per cent. It is probable 
that these analyses of the entire plant 
were obtained from corn sown thickly, 
and that M. K.’s field-grown corn will 
analyze higher. The corn stover does 
not differ particularly in its food con¬ 
tent from the Timothy hay of the East, 
good stover being much richer than 
poor hay, and vice versa. 
Assuming that the corn has been well 
grown and well cured. M. K. has a 
mine of rich feed in his eight-acre crop 
of corn, that may be used to good ad¬ 
vantage witli but little, if any, purchased 
grains. If the corn can be stored so 
that it will not mold, and away from 
rats and mice, nothing will be gained by 
husking, only such part as it is desired 
to feed the horses. This will leave some 
of the whole corn and some stover for 
the cows. I would advise cutting the 
whole corn, in order to prevent the cows 
from picking off the cars and eating 
them rapidly. If sufficient quantity is 
cut ahead to allow it to heat slightly 
it will be a good plan. As to whether 
the stover should be cut, depends upon 
how well the cows eat it uncut. If 
they will eat it in sufficient quantities 
for best results, uncut, there will be no 
gain from cutting. If the amount to 
feed is so large that waste occurs, cut¬ 
ting and possibly steaming, will pay. It 
is to be supposed that M. K. has the 
usual complement of hay, straw, etc., 
and if so he will, with the whole corn 
and the corn stover, have a fine variety 
of roughage for his cows and will be 
obliged to purchase but little grain, 
most of which should be of the heavier 
kinds of protein feeds. 
Now we come to the horses, and M. 
K. has the choice of feeding his corn 
on the ear, shelled and fed whole, or 
ground with, or without, the cob. An¬ 
other reference to the tables of analyses 
may be of value. The corn kernel may 
run as low as 7.0 per cent protein, or as 
high as 13.7 per cent; as low as 65 per 
cent carbohydrates or as high as 76.7 
per cent; as low as 3.4 per cent fat, or 
as high as 7.1 per cent. The crop con¬ 
tains practically the same amount of 
nutrients as oat straw. I f it is found 
necessary to grind the corn before feed¬ 
ing, it will be best to grind it on the 
cob, as labor is saved and the feed light¬ 
ened. For a little more than one year, 
our farm team has had practically no 
grain except whole corn, as purchased 
in the market. They have worked hard, 
have, stood their work well, and have 
been full of life at all times. I now sec 
no reason for making any change what¬ 
ever. Of course an occasional feed of 
shorts or potatoes is given. They are 
fed average mixed hay with an occa¬ 
sional bundle of sweet corn stover, are 
well supplied with salt, are always wa¬ 
tered before being grained, and the corn 
is fed, scattered in such a manner that 
they must cat it slowly. 
I would certainly advise M. K. to try 
feeding his corn on the ear, weighing 
some and thereby determining how 
many ears to give at a feed. If this is 
found to work well, lie will be getting 
its full feeding value with the smallest 
amount of labor, and his horses will be 
less subject to colic than is usual when 
meal, or cracked corn, is fed. If it is 
found necessary to grind the corn, I 
can see no reason for mixing shorts 
with it, especially if the horses are at 
hard work, but would advise feeding it 
dry, and in such a crib or box that it 
will be eaten slowly, and always after 
watering. In the meantime, let us all 
be studying how we may grow larger 
and better crops of corn, and having 
grown it, how we can utilize it to the 
best possible advantage. We have a 
New England Corn Propaganda, the 
officers of which meet in Boston in a 
few days, and I may have something 
to say of interest for The R. N.-Y. 
readers in relation to this meeting. 
Maine. b. walker m’keen. 
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