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THE RURAb NEW'YORKER 
January 21 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this heading we endeavor to give advice 
and suggestions about feeding mixtures of grains 
and fodders. No definite 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. 
Feeding for Butter Making. 
I am feeding the following kinds of grain : 
Wheat middlings, oil meal, Buffalo gluten, 
hominy meal, cotton-seed meal and cut corn¬ 
stalks for roughage. How many pounds of 
grain should I feed per day to each cow? 
I make butter. Cows weigh about 900 
pounds each. Is the ration too narrow? 
Connecticut. R. J. B. 
As you do not give the amounts of 
the different kinds of feeding stuffs 
which you are using it is impossible 
for me to figure the exact nutritive ratio 
of the ration you are feeding at the pres¬ 
ent time, but assume it to be about as 
follows: 
Digestible 
Garb. 
Dry 
and 
matter. 
Protein. 
fat. 
Feeding stuff. 
20 lbs. corn stover. . . . 
12.00 
.34 
6.88 
2 
lbs. wheat middlings. 
1.70 
.256 
1.214 
2 
lbs. oil meal. 
1.82 
.586 
.97 
2 
lbs. Buffalo gluten.. 
1.80 
.464 
1.398 
2 
lbs. hominy meal... 
1.78 
.15 
1.41 
2 
lbs. cotton-seed meal 
1.84 
.744 
.888 
21. 2.54 12.76 
Nutritive ratio, 1:5. 
You will see that this ration has a 
nutritive ratio of 1:5, which is a little 
narrower than the standard calls for. As 
you only have corn stover for roughage 
you must depend almost entirely upon 
your grain ration for the production of 
milk, which necessitates very heavy feed¬ 
ing, probably one pound of grain for 
every 2Yi or three pounds of milk. This 
is a much better rule to follow than so 
much per cow, although some cows re¬ 
quire much more grain than others to 
produce the same amount of milk. If 
you had some home-grown silage and 
Alfalfa or clover you could feed your 
cows properly at a much lower cost. The 
principal fault with your grain mixture 
is that it is very heavy and inclined to 
be sticky or clammy in the cows’ mouths. 
If you would use wheat bran or dried 
brewers’ or distillers’ grains instead of 
the middlings it would help to overcome 
this trouble and by mixing in about two 
pounds of cornmeal or hominy the ration 
would be nearer balanced. c. S. G. 
Beet Pulp for Succulence. 
You speak of dried beet pulp as an ex¬ 
cellent rood in place of silage or food of 
similar nature. I am snort of a succulent 
food this Winter ; usually have had a good 
supply of mangels, but the dry season cut 
the yield last Fall so I am out of them. 
Thus I am reduced to hay and grain for 
milk production. I am feeding at present 
for grain as follows : 300 pounds bran, 200 
pounds gluten, 200 pounds cornmeal, mixed, 
and I feed from seven to 10 pounds daily 
according to individual cows, with hay to 
fill out balance of ration, whatever they 
will eat clean. At present prices this mix¬ 
ture costs me 1.3 cents per pound. Can you 
give me a better ration without increasing 
cost too much? If you can substitute any 
other article for it do so. I have a small 
herd of six cows and peddle the milk at 
six cents, raising the hay and buying the 
grain. R. s. 
Massachusetts. 
As you have no succulent feeding stuff 
for your cattle I would advise feeding 
a little oil meal—from one to two pounds 
per day for each cow, and also dried beet 
pulp. It would no doubt pay you to start 
with one pound of the dried pulp per 
day for each cow and increase gradually 
up to five pounds if you find that your 
cows increase in their production of milk 
enough to pay the extra cost. If you 
cannot get the pulp or silage you will 
probably have to rely entirely upon the 
oil meal. A very good ration to use 
would he two pounds cotton-seed meal, 
three pounds buckwheat middlings and 
five pounds dried beet pulp. This ration 
would certainly increase your production 
of milk and ought to cost approximately 
the same as your present ration. Al¬ 
ways mix the beet pulp with all the 
water it will absorb before mixing it 
with your other grain. If you cannot 
procure the ingredients of this ration 
you could greatly improve the ration 
you are using at present by substituting 
dry distillers’ grains for the wheat bran. 
The dry distillers’ grains are worth at 
least 50 per cent more than wheat bran 
and cost but $5 per ton more. c. S. G, 
Ration Without Roughage. 
I would like figures for a balanced ra¬ 
tion in following feeds or any other econom¬ 
ical feed to be procured locally: Corn¬ 
meal, wheat bran, gluten, middlings. 
Congers, N. Y. c. a. J. 
It will be impossible for me to furnish 
you with exact figures for a balanced 
ration without knowing what roughage 
you have available, as the kinds and 
amounts of the different grains which are 
proper for a balanced ration depend to a 
great extent upon the roughage used. At 
the present time we find that the cheap¬ 
est protein feed can be grown on the 
farm in most cases in the form of clover, 
Alfalfa and other legumes. If however, 
you cannot get one or more of these 
feeding stuffs you will have to buy a 
large amount of protein, which is the 
most expensive nutrient. Cotton-seed 
meal, gluten and linseed are the cheapest 
sources of concentrated feeding stuffs 
carrying a high percentage of protein, 
while dried distillers’ grains analyzing 
about 23 per cent protein is the cheapest 
bulky grain. Compared with wheat bran 
dried distillers’ grains contain nearly 
twice as much digestible protein at a 
cost of about $5 per ton more. Corn 
silage is about the cheapest carbonaceous 
feed for milk production if available, 
but it would probably not pay to build 
a silo for three cows. If you will let 
me know just what feeding stuffs you 
have or can get I will then be able to 
give you more specific information. 
C. S. G. 
Calves with Catarrh. 
I have some last Spring calves that seem 
thrifty, look well, have been on pasture all 
Summer. I notice that they run at the 
nose in the morning; when they first get 
up they look like a horse with distemper. 
The discharge almost fills the nostril, just 
looks like discharge from distempered horse. 
No cough that I can notice, only a slight 
sneezing when first getting up to free the 
nostril. What is the cause and what can 
1 do for them? f. n. w. 
Virginia. 
The calves have catarrhal cold, and pos¬ 
sibly lung worms. See that stable is kept 
cool and perfectly ventilated. Sprinkle a 
little chloride of lime upon the floor once 
daily, and cover lightly with bedding 
Nostrils may be syringed out once daily 
with a 10 per cent solution of boric acid 
if found necessary. Make calves exercise 
out of doors every day when weather is 
not wet or stormy. a. s. a. 
Diseases of Cats. 
Can you tell me the cause of a disease of 
cats, and whether or not there is any cure 
for it? We are overrun with mice and have 
secured several cats at different times, but 
sooner or later they get this disease and 
that would be the finish of them. The 
last cat which we lost we raised, and it 
was several months old, so it does not 
seem to us that it can be anything around 
the place that they get. In the beginning 
of the disease they act as though they had 
been poisoned; cough, vomit a yellowish 
froth which would later turn green; act 
“dopy,” wouldn’t eat any food from the 
time they were first taken sick until they 
died, which would he within three days 
time; would cry out as if in great pain 
if you touched any part of their body ever 
so gently. It seems to he a contagious 
disease. We have tried it seems nearly 
everything, hut can find nothing that wili 
give relief or cure. Would there be any 
danger of a dog, ferret or other small ani¬ 
mal contracting this disease from a cat? I 
believe many of the farmers are troubled 
the same way. They are buying common 
cats around here because they are so 
scarce. w. c. 
New York. 
Cats, like dogs, rats and mice, suffer 
from “distemper” and it is terribly in¬ 
fectious to such animals. This may he 
the disease present on your place, and it 
will be found practically impossible to get 
rid of it. Disinfection and whitewashing 
after thorough cleansing would be the only 
likely method of getting rid of the in¬ 
fection. In several instances where barn 
cats are fed milk warm from the cows 
twice a day, tuberculosis contracted from 
such milk has been found the cause of 
disease and death. Such a cause should be 
considered here, and it would be wise to 
have the cows tested with tuberculin, if 
that has not been done. If the disease 
continues a qualified veterinarian shouid 
be engaged to make a post mortem exam¬ 
ination and study of the disease, a. s. a. 
Garget. 
I have a Jersey cow affected with a phase 
©f garget new to me, and would like''advice. 
During the first lactation period she 
seemed in perfect condition and did very 
well at second calving (three weeks ago), 
except that one teat was so obstructed, 
apparently at the end, that I could get only 
a very line stream. There was some scab 
at opening until within a week. I have 
used milking tube and have tried leaving 
teat plug in between milkings. There has 
been scarcely any inflammation, soreness 
or swelling, but lately the quarter remains 
plump after milking and gives less than a 
pint, while the other quarters give over a 
quart. There have been no “slugs” in the 
milk. In the separator the milk from all 
teats shows very gargety, while the milk 
from three normal teats is nearly all right. 
The only grain ration has been mixed feed, 
four quarts daily now. Do you think it 
probable that the cow will lose the use of 
the affected quarter? h. m. s. 
Franklin, N. II. 
Most likely the trouble has already gone 
so far that the quarter will lose its func¬ 
tion. Use of the milking tube is about 
certain to cause infection and eventual loss 
of a quarter. It is almost impossible to 
keep from carrying infective matters into 
the teat by means of the tube, despite care¬ 
ful sterilization. At the outset a teat 
bistoury should have been used to slit 
through the obstacle in four different direc¬ 
tions. This should he tried now, under the 
strictest antiseptic precautions. After the 
operation a little milk should be stripped 
from the treated teat at frequent intervals, 
so as to keep the duct open. At same time 
give the udder hot fomentations three times 
a day and twice daily rub in a mixture 
of equal parts sweet oil and fluid extract 
of poke root. a. s. a. 
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