1909. 
THE RURAL, NEAV-YOR AUR 
1077 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this headi-g wo endeavor to give advice 
and suggestions about feeding mixtures of grains 
and fodders. No detlnite rules are given, but the 
advice is based upon experience and average 
analyses Of foods. By ‘ protein” is meant the 
elements in the food which go to make muscle or 
lean meat. “Carbohydrates” comprise the starch, 
sugar, etc., which make fat and provide fuel for 
the body, while “fat” is the pure oil found in 
foods. Dry matter” means the weight of actual 
food left in fodder or grain when all the water is 
driven off. A ‘‘narrow ration” means one in which 
the proportion of protein to carbohydrates is close 
—a "wide” ration means one which shows a larger 
proportion of carbohydrates. 
Rations with Mixed Hay and Stalks. 
Will you give me what you consider the 
best balanced ration for a Jersey and 
Ilolstein cow, where we have all the corn¬ 
stalks and mixed hay that would be re¬ 
quired? Also with the same roughage the 
best grains to use, and quantities, with 
dry brewers’ grains and wet brewers’ grains. 
Please give the rations separate, o. w. L. 
Woodbridge, N. J. 
The best ration that I have found for 
feeding with mixed hay and cornstalks 
is composed of five pounds of Ajax 
flakes or dried distillers’ grains, two 
pounds of cotton-seed meal and one 
pound of O. P. oil meal. For the brew¬ 
ers’ grains ration I would suggest the 
following: four pounds dry brewers’ 
grains, four pounds hominy chop, 25 
pounds wet brewers’ grains and all the 
cut cornstalks and mixed hay the cows 
will eat. c. s. greene. 
A Ration for Butter. 
Will you suggest grain ration for butter, 
to feed with Timothy, clover and mangels? 
We have barley, oats and corn, home grown ; 
can get cotton seed at $35 per ton. 
Waterville, Me. 
Here is a ration containing the feeds 
you mention which, although a little too 
wide, will produce a large amount of 
butter if fed judiciously to good cows. 
Digestible 
Feeding Dry Carbohydrates 
stuff. 
matter. Trotein. 
and 
fat. 
12 
lbs. 
clover bay 
10.2 
.816 
4.752 
5 
lbs. 
Timothy bay 
4.35 
.14 
2.325 
20 
lbs. 
mangels. 
2.25 
.22 
1.12 
4 
lbs. 
corn and cob 
meal 3.4 
.176 
2.66 
2 
lbs. 
barlev meal 
1.78 
.174 
1.384 
2 
lbs. 
ground oats 
1.78 
1.84 
1.136 
2 
lbs. 
cotton-seed 
meal 1.84 
.744 
.888 
25.60 2.454 
14.265 
Nutritive ratio 
1 :5.8 
If you could use your Timothy hay 
for horses and feed your cows all the 
good clover hay they will eat you would 
have almost an ideal ration without buy¬ 
ing anything except the cotton-seed 
meal, which you cannot afford to dis¬ 
pense with. C. S. GREENE. 
Mixing Grain for Milk Making. 
We have 10 cows, seven or eight that 
will be fresh this W’inter, and I would like 
to know how to mix my grain so I wil) get 
the most benefit out of it. We have about 
600 bushels of corn, 300 or 400 bushels 
of oats, and 75 bushels of rye; about 1500 
bundles of of stalks, 20 tons of clover and 
Timothy mixed. Buffalo gluten is $1.65 
per 100; oil meal, O. I*., $1.75 ; bran $27 
per ton ; sucrene $25 per ton. We sell our 
milk at the condenscry. This month it is 
$1.60 per 100; next will be about $1.70, 
and the next $1.80. F. l>. t. 
CORN PER ACRE. 
Your Connecticut man will have to 
take a back seat, for last year there were 
181 bushels of corn made on an acre in 
Marlboro Co., S. C., the same county 
where Col. Drake made his famous crop. 
And this year M^. Batts of Wake Co., 
N. C., made 226^ bushels of corn on an 
acre, as certified to by the State Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture, the Director 
of Institutes and the Chairman of the 
Raleigh Board of Trade. I saw some of 
Mr. Batts’s corn with eight cars on a 
stalk—ears, mind, not nubbins. His crop 
averaged four ears per plant. And I do 
not believe that he had an ear that would 
have passed high by the score card at 
one of the play shows of pretty ears 
that are so popular. But he had the corn, 
and is it not better to get 226% bushels 
of corn from an acre of land than to 
have only ears that are prettier than 
some one’s else? The ears that carry 
off the prizes at the shows carry with 
them no guarantee that they will make 
more corn per acre than the ears that 
took no prize. Pretty ears are all very 
well, but it is corn per acre that the 
farmer wants, and stalks that carry but 
one big show ear will not make the corn 
that stalks carrying four medium-sized 
ears will. In fact by actual shelling test 
I found that a stalk of Cocke’s Prolific 
corn with four ears made twice as much 
corn as a stalk that carried one big ear. 
We will learn something about corn 
when we have shows of the entire plant, 
showing its prolificacy, its stature, its 
yield per acre and the cost of producing 
the crop. The present corn shows teach 
nothing but that one man has ears that 
come nearer to the requirements of the 
score card than those of another man, 
while the corn of the latter may be bet¬ 
ter for seed than the prize lot. When 
we increase the number of fruits on any 
plant, we invariably decrease their size, 
though in the aggregate there will be more 
of the product. Breeding for show ears 
tends to single ears on the plant, and a 
plant too tall and ungainly, top-heavy and 
easily blown down, and the score card 
has been the means of reducing rather 
than increasing the yield per acre. The 
average yield of corn in the South is 
amazingly low, but when there is a prize 
offered for a great yield it is always 
made by the Southern prolific corns and 
in the South. Last year, with 181 bush¬ 
els in South Carolina, Iowa came in with 
125 bushels, while five men in South 
Carolina had the same amount. This 
year in North Carolina the second place 
was taken by Mr. Robbins of Wake Co., 
N. C., with 167 bushels, w. f. massey. 
DEWEY’S 
DISTILLERS DRIED GRAINS. 
Ideal Dairy Feed, is rich in protein, will increase 
the quantity of milk, and lower its cost. Splendid 
for sheep and all young animals. Good for horses. 
Write for description, samples and prices. 
THE DEWEY BROS. CO., Box 442, Blanchester, Ohio. 
Wauseon, O. 
It would be my advice to sell the rye 
and buy cotton-seed meal and oil meal 
with the money. Have your oats and 
corn all ground together, cob and all, 
and feed about seven pounds a day of 
the mixture, more or less, as may be re¬ 
quired by each individual cow. To this 
should be added about two pounds of 
cotton-seed meal and one pound of oil 
meal (O. P.) for each cow after they 
have recovered from the effects of par¬ 
turition, w’hich is usually in about two 
weeks. You have hay enough to feed 
your stock until the first of May, but 
you will naturally want to feed your 
cornstalks, or they would probably go to 
waste. You should therefore cut them 
into one-inch lengths and feed all your 
cows will eat after they have been fed 
10 or 12 pounds of hay. If your corn¬ 
stalks have been properly saved without 
being weatherbeaten the above ration 
will give you very good results, with a 
cash expense of only 5% cents a day 
per cow for the purchased feed. If you 
cannot get the cotton-seed you can use 
the Buffalo gluten in its place, but it will 
not produce as much milk. To save the 
cornstalks properly for feeding you 
should leave them in shocks in the field 
only until they can be stacked safely 
near the barn without danger of heating. 
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