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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 7. 
GRAIN RATION WITH SILAGE. 
I have a small dairy; I am feeding 
Timothy and Red-top hay, shredded corn 
stover and silage. For the grain ration 
each cow receives per day one-half peck 
nubbins and one-half peck of corn and oat 
chop; also one pint of oil cake meal. This 
is my first experience with silage. Is there 
any lack in the above ration to make it 
balance? I have wheat. How would it do 
to grind the whole wheat and feed it with 
the chop? Will the wheat take the place 
of bran? Would it be better to feed cotton¬ 
seed meal than the oil meal (old process) ? 
Pennsylvania. j. a. t. 
Your ration lacks materially in pro¬ 
tein, but just how much I cannot say, 
the breeder;” but now—well, I shall 
await with interest what others say 
Perhaps some one can see a way out; I 
cannot. I laid the question before a 
neighbor. He said; “I would apply to 
the Director of the Farmers’ Institutes; 
he would make it his business to see 
that I was not cheated, perhaps would 
sell me one from bis own herd, then I 
would know that it was all right.” He 
said it honestly enough, but I detected a 
glint in his eye. m. w. 
T. 
What About This Alfalfa? 
li. If., Wellsville, Pa .—About five 
as you do not give the weights of the years ago I made the first experiment in 
ingredients. It is also too laxative, as 
it is very seldom that oil meal is re¬ 
quired in a ration with silage. And 
another thing, it is too expensive un¬ 
less your prices of food stuffs are dif¬ 
ferent from those in New York. I 
would first discontinue feeding the 
“nubbins,” as they are not a good feed 
for milk production. If you have gone 
Alfalfa growing (hat was made in this sec¬ 
tion of the State. The upper, or higher, 
portion of a five-acre field was prepared 
and seeded by sowing the seed broadcast 
both ways. As I had no fine harrow, I 
simply rolled the seed down, firming it into 
the fine soil, and left it at that. It came 
up very evenly and made a good stand of 
grass; in fact, I have taken off three crops 
every year since. After the first year I 
decided to sow (lie remainder of the field 
to the labor of husking them already, and did s0 - F,rst 1 l llow(,d under a heavy 
crop of green rye just after it had shot 
head. The plot was prepared and seeded in 
the regular way, but for some reason the 
seed did not come up evenly. Possibly I 
turned under loo much green manure, which 
soured the soil, or possibly the seed was 
not good. The weeds and wild grass came 
up thickly. I clipped it three times the 
first year but found that there was not 
enough Alfalfa standing to justify bother¬ 
ing with it, although there was quite a 
sprinkling of good, strong plants through¬ 
out the plot. I decided to make another 
trial of it. To rid the land of weeds, I 
decided to put in corn, which I did. The 
corn is now off and I wish to sow it next 
Spring as early as I can get the land ready. 
IIow would be the best way to sow it? 
Some writers say the land should not be 
plowed again. If I seed it without plow¬ 
ing, what is the best way to get rid of 
the cornstalks? Should they be cut off 
close to the ground and gathered up and 
taken off? There is a heavy clay under¬ 
lying this plot, and part of it is very wet 
during wet weather and another portion is 
inclined to be spouty during the Winter. 
Would it be well to sow the entire patch in 
Alfalfa or sow some other kind of grass on 
the wet portion, and what kind is recom¬ 
mended ? 
feed what you have left to swine, and 
next time let them go through the 
shredder with the stalks or into the silo 
if cut green. I would then substitute 
three pounds of cotton-seed meal for 
the one pint of linseed, and you would 
have a ration about like this: 40 
pounds silage; 10 pounds mixed hay; 
six pounds corn and oat chop; three 
pounds cotton-seed meal; nutritive ratio 
1 :G.3. Although this ration is yet too 
wide, not containing quite enough pro¬ 
tein, it would be a great improvement 
on the one that you are feeding. If 
you had some clover hay or bay mixed 
with clover instead of the clear Red- 
top and Timothy it would be an im¬ 
provement. There is no reason for 
feeding shredded corn stover with hay 
and silage, but if you have it on hand 
it can take the place of hay for the 
noon feed while it lasts. Your whole 
wheat can be ground and fed, but it 
would be very expensive, and it is too 
heavy to lighten up the ration in place 
of bran. Even wheat bran costs too 
mu.cli to feed at present, so we have 
substituted dried brewers’ or distillers’ 
Ans. —We would like the opinions of 
the experts about this. We think the 
rye soured the land and perhaps it was 
not rolled down. Lime would have 
grains, which are cheaper. A grain 
ration composed of about two pounds helped, though the seed may have been 
wheat middlings, four pounds dry P° or - We have had best success in 
brewers’ grains and V/2 pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal would produce just as much 
milk at a small cost. c.s. greene.. 
EDUCATION OF THE CATTLE CASE. 
We have written a number of farmers 
asking what they would do if they wanted 
to buy a purebred animal to head a flock 
or herd. Some good answers are to be 
printed. We are satisfied that there never 
was a time when plain farmers were better 
prepared to buy purebred animals if they 
August sowing and would wait until 
that time. There should be something 
growing on that corn ground now. If 
Crimson clover does not thrive we 
should sow rye or rye and Cow-horn 
turnips—anything that will hold the 
ground during the Winter and give 
something to plow under. In sowing 
Alfalfa it seems necessary to have the 
soil well filled with humus. We should 
by all means plow that field. With a 
roller you can smash the cornstalks 
could be sure of the pedigree. There are 
just as many honest breeders as ever be- down and plow them under. In our own 
fore, and we can introduce any buyer to a case we should sow oats and peas this 
man who can make the papers fit! Here Spring and cut the crop for hay, leaving 
is one answer: a ]j the stubble possible. Plow this under 
I don’t think that I am competent to an< ^ fit the soil as well as possible for 
discuss the question. Had it came to tIie Alfalfa-seeding in August with a 
, . '. _ , ... good dressing of lime. We would not 
me before this Dawley affair came out see d Alfalfa on those wet spots, but in 
I should have said: “Put my trust in place of it Red-top and Alsike clover. 
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