1008. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CASH VALUE OF SILAGE. 
On page 858 you ask for cash value 
of corn silage. I have bought a crop of 
silage this Fall, 100 tons, for $300. I 
shall sell 20 tons of hay, worth now $15 
per ton, to pay for it, which I otherwise 
would have fed my milking cows. The 
silo is on a neighboring farm a quarter of 
a mile away. I haul enough for two 
days. When I haul I back wagon up to 
silo and throw direct in box of wagon. 
I will report in Spring how much more 
milk I have made this Winter by the use 
of silage. G. p. k. 
Clinton Corners, Nc Y. 
We consider silage worth $2.50 per 
ton when hay is worth $12. Of course 
it would be worth less if it was to be 
handled. I bought about 25 tons last 
Spring for $44 at auction, and con¬ 
sidered it a bargain. It was near at 
hand, and I filled bran sacks enough for 
three or four feeds and fed from the 
sack. What you could afford to pay 
would depend on how far you had to 
draw it and what hay is worth. If good 
silage it is worth very much more than 
ordinary hay for milk. F. A. c. 
Portlandville, N. Y. 
MILK DIFFICULTIES. 
1. What do you think of the quality of 
the milk that can be raised on a farm 
which is all meadows, bogs and muck except 
about three acres around the house? 
Ditches of stagnant water are nearby and 
pools also. 2. Is there any special way of 
feeding the cattle that would give the 
milk which is 10 to 20 hours’ old, 24 hours 
at most, a decided rotten taste, not onion? 
I cannot express what it is. The milk 
seems to be handled right and cleanly, it 
is cooled off after milking, and before it 
is put down the well; the cans are clean. 
This second question has no connection with 
the first, as it refers to the product of a 
different farmer. j. b. f. 
New York. 
1. The quality of milk which can be 
produced on such a farm as you de¬ 
scribe depends to a great extent upon 
the man who has charge of the cows 
and does the milking. As a rule it is 
safe to say that few farmers realize 
the importance of preventing the con¬ 
tamination of milk from such sources 
as pools of stagnant water and muck 
land sufficiently to insure the produc¬ 
tion of clean milk. This farm could, no 
doubt, be improved by simply draining 
off the surface water with open ditches 
and providing a pure water supply for 
the cattle to drink. A proper sanitary 
arrangement of the barn and work 
should then make the production of 
clean milk an easy matter. 2. In re¬ 
gard to the cause for a rotten taste in 
milk, there is no wholesoi..e food that 
could cause .the trouble without detec¬ 
tion. I would look for the trouble to 
come from some unwholesome food, such 
as moldy corn fodder, spoiled silage, 
fermented brewer’s grains, musty hay 
or any food which has started to fer¬ 
ment or decompose. Of course, turnips 
and cabbage will taste in the milk if 
fed just before milking, but this would 
be easy to detect. c. s. G. 
MILKING MACHINES. 
Will not the milking machines put the 
dairy business into the hands of a compara¬ 
tively few corporations who can afford to 
keep large herds and produce milk at a low 
cost? 
Personally I have no fear that the 
dairy business will be so monopolized as 
to seriously affect the small dairyman. 
So far as the man with four or five 
cows is concerned he is independent of 
a milking machine to-day and will be 
till the machines become so simple and 
cheap that he can have one if lie cares 
to. Further, this man will never attain 
the highest success in dairying. He has 
not cows enough to make up or market 
his product economically unless he hap¬ 
pens to live where he has his milk or 
cream taken from door, and unless he is 
exceptionally fond of cattle there will 
not be enough of his dairy to cause him 
to put in it his best. A man to be 
“prosperous” in the dairy business, must 
be “businesslike,” whether he has few 
or many cows. As a rule the wealthy 
man with the large dairy and fine equip¬ 
ment, and good prices for his products, 
too, is not the man who is making 
money from his cows. The man who 
does this now, and always, is the man 
who gives them his personal attention all 
along the line. Milking is only an in¬ 
cident. Just now the labor is a very 
important problem, which the milking 
machine will help to solve. Many, very 
wisely, will go out of dairying, into 
sheep and horses. The man who is 
rightly situated, and of sufficient in¬ 
telligence, will make more money out 
of his cows, and matters will adjust 
themselves as they always do. A tem¬ 
porary injury may come to some, but in 
the end all will be better off. I heard 
the same complaint when I bought the 
first twine binder that ever came into 
Columbia County. To-day the smallest 
farmer owns one, and none so poor as 
to do reverence to the cradle or hand- 
rake. EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
QUESTIONS ABOUT COW RATIONS. 
1. I have a few tons of last year’s hay— 
clover, Timothy and Red-top mixed, which 
was pressed some 10 months ago, and after¬ 
wards colored, and some of the bales of 
about 200 pounds each dampened through by 
snow and rain beating in upon them, so 
that they are now brown and have a 
musty odor inside, but are dry and seem 
to throw off no dust. The cows eat it 
more readily than they do a good quality 
of this year’s Timothy and seem to like it. 
Will this hay injure the cattle in any way, 
by causing abortion or otherwise, if fed 
largely upon it for several weeks? They 
are also having plenty of grain. 2. I am 
feeding my Jersey cows, due in March and 
April, the old hay, as above mentioned, 
Timothy hay, and each also, daily, about 
three quarts of ground oats, three quarts 
of wheat bran, alternating with three 
quarts of buckwheat middlings, four quarts 
of buckwheat hulls and nearly two pounds 
of cotton-seed meal and the same amount 
of oil meal, and two pounds of beets, be¬ 
sides a few apple or potato parings, per¬ 
haps four quarts a week, and occasionally 
10 or 15 pounds of shock corn, say once 
a week, and one-lialf pint of molasses daily. 
How is this for a proper and balanced ra¬ 
tion, and is it too heavy, and if so, which 
of the feeds should be shortened up? The 
animals also have the run of a pasture, 
now rather short, on pleasant days. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. s. w. c. 
1. From the fact that your cows eat 
this hay with a relish and that it is not 
dusty when the bales are opened, I am 
of the opinion that it is not materially 
injured for feeding purposes. Of course 
there is always some danger in feeding 
musty hay, so it should be fed with care 
and discontinued if any bad results 
should follow. 2. The ration you are 
feeding figures out as follows by taking 
the approximate weights for the meas¬ 
ures given and figuring half the quan¬ 
tity of each of the feeds you alternate: 
® T3 
U 
K ® 
s! 
P 
« - 
Feeding Stuff 
fi * 
a 
IF 
AH 
O 
5 
Ground Oats, 2}<& lbs. 
2.302 
.2882 
1.6721 
Buckwheat Middlings, lf4 lbs. 
1.323 
.3351 
.7516 
Buckwheat Hulls, 2 lbs. 
1.85 
.0368 
. .8776 
Oil Meal, 2 lbs. 
1.816 
.5752 
.9738 
Cotton-seed Meal, 2 lbs. 
1.836 
.7402 
.9594 
Beets, 2 lbs. 
.26 
.0242 
.179 
Wheat Bran, 1 lb. 
.885 
.121 
.4769 
Mixed Hay, 18 lbs. 
15.66 
.4928 
9.288 
Molasses, 1 ib. 
.8 
.032 
.693 
26.732 
2.6455 
15.8714 
Nutritive Ratio 1 : 6 
This ration is rather heavy for Jersey 
cows coming in in March and April, and 
it is a very costly one unless you have 
lots of oats at a low price. You cannot 
afford to buy oats at two cents a pound 
as a feed for dairy cows. By cutting out 
the oats and buckwheat hulls you would 
reduce the cost of the ration nearly six 
cents a day, and it would not reduce its 
feeding value very much. You should 
also soon decrease the amount of cotton¬ 
seed meal fed to cows coming in in 
March and April, not feeding any after 
January 1. Here is a slightly narrower 
ration which I think you would like bet¬ 
ter. Three pounds buckwheat middlings, 
three pounds malt sprouts, one pound 
oil meal, one pound cotton-seed meal 
with the same hay, beets and molasses. 
This feed should be wet with molasses 
and water a few hours before feeding. 
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