1908. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
795 
year). I believe this gives us $67.70 as 
the cost of the food for a cow for a 
year, which is a pretty good argument 
against keeping poor cows. 
Madison Co., N. Y. j. grant morse. 
In Vermont. 
A cow which is capable of giving 30 
pounds of 4J4 per cent milk per day 
for the Winter will eat lots of feed, 
and she certainly deserves it. Assum¬ 
ing the care and general conditions to 
be the best, with warmth, light, pure 
air and plenty of water and salt, etc., 
this cow should have, approximately, 35 
to 40 pounds of silage, which must be 
made from mature corn carrying a fair 
proportion of grain. The hay of clover 
and mixed grasses must be early cut 
and properly cured, and I like to give 
such a cow about 12 pounds per day 
and if, as is likely, she leaves a little 
of the coarser parts, remove it and feed 
to the work horses. The proper grain 
ration will vary from time to time, ac¬ 
cording to price fluctuations occasioned 
by the law of suppjy and demand, but 
my favorite grain ration is six pounds 
of Biles’ XXX feed, a dried distillery 
feed, containing 32 to 36 per cent pro¬ 
tein, and two pounds of cotton-seed 
meal. I am aware that many feeders 
would sav linseed or oil meal in prefer¬ 
ence to cotton-seea meal, but the latter 
contains the needed protein in so much 
cheaper form that i prefer to feed it, 
depending on the silage to keep the 
bowels and digestive tract in proper 
working order. Figuring this ration at 
ordinary prices here we have silage, 
35 pounds per day at $2 per ton, .035; 
hay, 12 pounds at $10 per ton, .06; six 
pounds XXX feed at .018 per pound, 
.11; two pounds cotton-seed meal at .017 
per pound, .034; total, .239 per day. A 
cow is usually stall-fed for 200 days, at 
24 cents per day we have $48, half 
ration for 60 days, Spring and Fall, 
$7.20, pasture $4 or a total cost for 
one year of $59.20. Figuring hay, grain 
and silage separately we have: Silage, 
$S; hay, $14; grain, $33; pasture, $4. 
It takes a mighty good cow and a good 
market to pay for this amount of feed 
and leave a profit. This cow is to 
make butter fat enough to make about 
l/ 2 pound churned butter per day, 
worth now 30 cents per pound or 45 
cents per day. Multiply this by 200 
days and we have $90 for the Winter 
and one-half the Winter production for 
60 days more $13.35, adding to this, 
skim-milk, $15; calf $5, and we have 
$123.35 or a profit of $64.15 above cost 
of feed, allowing the manure to offset 
the cost of labor. l. c. litchfield. 
Vermont. 
The Cost in Canada. 
In this section the cost of wintering 
a 1000-pound cow, giving 30 pounds of 
milk per day, would be about as fol¬ 
lows: Three tons silage at $2.50 per 
ton, $7.50; y 2 ton oat straw at $4 per 
ton, $2; 1 ]/ 2 ton mixed hay at $10 per 
ton, $15; 1500 pounds provender at 
$1.40 per 100, $21; total, $45.50. If 
mill feed were substituted for proven¬ 
der, the cost would be practically the 
same. _ c. s. m. 
HANDLING YOUNG HEIFERS. 
We have two heifers, now two years 
old, that are expected to commence giv¬ 
ing milk late this Fall. By the time this 
is printed we shall have taken these 
heifers from the back pastures where 
they have been running, and put them 
with the dairy herd. We want them ac¬ 
customed to going with the cows; be¬ 
sides, we want to feed up well on grain 
and some good milk-producing feeds be¬ 
fore they become cows. We shall work 
up gradually on the grain feeds until 
they are eating a pretty good ration, if 
they seem to relish and assimilate it 
properly. When cows are first turned 
together they always have to find out 
by a test of strength which is master, 
and, apparently, they must find just what 
is the real rank or station of the new 
comer. This we want determined before 
the heifers get too heavy with calf. This 
point is as important in one way as the 
feeding-up process is in another. I am 
coming to have my doubts about the ad¬ 
visability of feeding a heifer, or perhaps 
a cow either, a heavy ration just pre¬ 
vious to her coming fresh, especially if 
she was not fed very much for some 
weeks before. Better to feed earlier and 
then let up a little on the heavy feeds 
for one or two weeks before calving. 
One of our most serious faults, I fear, 
is our failure to develop our young ani¬ 
mals properly, both when they are 
calves, and for several months before 
they gome fresh. Good feed and plenty 
of it are as essential during the two 
years of the animal’s life as they are 
after the animals become cows. 
H. H. LYON. 
COW RATION; SINGLE COMB WYAN¬ 
DOTTE. 
1. Will you toll me what grain and how 
much my cow ought to have this Winter. 
I have swale hay. She will freshen about 
the last of April; then she will have better 
hay. Do you think a cow having an abund¬ 
ance of pasturage needs grain? What breed 
of cattle do you think best for butter? 2. 
I sent for some Wyandotte chicks. One 
rooster has a single comb. Shall I call him 
a Wyandotte, or am I to think the seller 
has imposed on me? h. m. 
1. A cow coming in the last of April 
should go dry about the first of March. 
From now until she is dried off she 
cannot be expected to give as much 
milk as she did during the Summer sea¬ 
son and, therefore, should not receive 
so much food- A cow in full flow of 
milk should be fed a little grain all 
Summer except perhaps a month or two 
in the early part, when pastures are at 
their best. YVhen pastures begin to dry 
up and the grass becomes hard it is 
generally necessary to supplement them 
with grain or soiling crops in order to 
maintain a good flow of milk. The 
amount of grain should be varied ac¬ 
cording to its cost, the amount of milk 
the cow is producing and the character 
of the other food used. Swale hay is 
not considered a very good feed for 
milk, so it will be necessary for you to 
make up the deficiency with grain. I 
would suggest that you use a mixed ra¬ 
tion of two pounds gluten feed, four 
pounds of wheat bran or three pounds 
of distillers’ dry grains, one pound 
cornmeal and one pound old process oil 
meal, with what hay she will eat. This 
ration should be about right for feed¬ 
ing now, and can be reduced as the 
flow of milk decreases. It is impossible 
to state which breed of cattle is the 
best for dairy purposes. As a rule it 
is better to select animals of high in¬ 
dividual merit rather than of a certain 
breed. Both good and poor cows can 
be found among all the breeds. 2. 
Wyandottes do not have single combs, 
but freaks or sports are liable to occur 
in breeding any kind of stock or birds. 
If all the other chickens hatched show 
good breeding I would not condemn 
the breeder on one single-combed chick. 
C. S. GREENE. 
Brewers’ Grains for Hens.— Regarding 
the question on page 723, I have fed wet 
brewers’ grains to both chickens and ducks 
with very good results. They are eaten 
greedily if mixed with middlings or corn- 
meal. Keep grains packed in tight barrels 
or boxes. They are better if bought fresh 
every week. j. v. 
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