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FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this heading we endeavor to give advice 
and suggestions about feeding mixtures of grains 
and fodders. No deiinite 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. 
Purchased Dairy Feed. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
10 cows that aro all anout to freshen? I 
shall sell cream, and all the roughage I 
have is Timothy and clover hay. My corn 
fodder is all gone. I shall have to buy most 
of the feed. N. k. 
New York. 
With your clover and Timothy hay I 
would advise feeding the following grain 
ration if available: Five pounds dried 
beet pulp, two pounds cotton-seed meal, 
two pounds wheat bran, one pound corn- 
meal. Feed all the hay your cows will 
eat and grain in proportion to the 
amount of milk they give after fresh¬ 
ening. Before that time feed liberally 
enough to keep them in good thriving 
condition; but do not feed any cornmeal 
or cotton-seed meal until cows have 
been fresh at least two weeks. Wheat 
bran and the dried pulp can be fed right 
along during the freshening period if 
required. In feeding the dried pulp 
always wet it with all the water it will 
absorb a few hours before feeding and 
then mix the other grain with it just at 
feeding time. You will find this ration 
will produce a good flow of-milk when 
fed to good fresh average-sized cows. 
If your cows are extra large heavy 
milkers of course the amount of feed 
must be increased accordingly, c. s. g. 
Improving a Ration. 
I am feeding one pound oil meal, one 
pound cotton seed meal, two pounds bran, 
three pounds com and cob meal, three 
pounds beet pulp, 22 pounds clover hay 
daily. Please improve this ration. Per¬ 
haps the beet pulp is not necessary with 
so much bran. I wish a ration that con¬ 
tains clover and corn and cob meal. 
■ Massachusetts. c. H. s. 
• Here is the analysis of the ration 
which you are feeding at the present 
time: 
Digestible 
Dry Carbon 
Feeding Stuff. 
Matter. 
Protein. 
and Fat. 
22 lbs. clover hav 
18.70 
1.496 
8.712 
1 
lb. oil meal.... 
.91 
.293 
.485 
1 
lb. cottonseed 
meal. 
.92 
.372 
.444 
2 
lbs. bran. 
1.70 
.244 
.906 
3 
lbs. corn and 
cob meal . 
2.55 
.132 
1.995 
3 
lbs dried beet 
pulp . 
2.808 
.204 
1.962 
27.648 
2.741 
14.504 
Nutritive ratio, 1.5.3. 
If you have good, heavy' milkers, 
which by the way are the only cows 
that respond satisfactorily to good feed¬ 
ing I would not attempt to change this 
ration except in special cases as it is 
already well balanced and contains all 
the ingredients in proper quantities 
for the production of a large flow of 
milk economically, and it will keep your 
cows in first-class condition at the 
same time. c. s. G. 
Ration Needs Improvement. 
Following Is feed at hand; please give 
me formula ‘for balanced ration. I make 
chop of 20 bushels ear corn; 10 bushels 
oats; 10 bushels buckwheat. Of this mix¬ 
ture I feed about 10 pounds a day; with It 
three pounds cotton-seed meal, and three 
pounds dairy feed, a molasses grain ana¬ 
lyzing three per cent fat and 17 per 
cent protein. As roughage I feed oats, 
rye, and buckwheat straw cut tine with 
same amount of corn stover. This is put 
in mixing trough, moistened and ground 
feed put on it and mixed. I use enough 
cut straw and stover to satisfy appetite 
of cow. I can buy No. 2 white middlings 
at $1.60 per 100, bran $1.50 per 100, corn 
chop $1.30, dried beet pulp $1.45 per 100, 
dairy feed $1.30 per 100 : cotton-seed meal 
$1.75 per 100. The object is to use as 
much as possible of the chop made from 
my own grain, corn, oats and buckwheat. 
My cows 'are common scrub, with here and 
there a trace of Jersey blood. F. o. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
From the feeding stuffs mentioned I 
do not know that I could improve on 
the ration you are feeding except by 
the addition of about three pounds dried 
beet pulp. If you can get dried dis¬ 
tillers’ grains at a reasonable price I 
think it would also pay to use them in 
place of the dairy feed. It is prac¬ 
tically impossible to compound a satis¬ 
factory ration from the feeding stuffs 
mentioned. You will not gain much by 
feeding corn stover, rye, buckwheat 
and oat straw to scrub dairy cows. Prac¬ 
tically all of the ration you feed must 
be made up of grain, which is neces¬ 
sarily expensive whether raised at home 
or purchased outside, as the straw and 
stover does not contain much nourish¬ 
ment, and are a decided hindrance to the 
production of milk at a low cost, because 
they contain so much indigestible fiber 
which overworks the cow’s digestive 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER] 
April J, 
organs without correspondingly increas¬ 
ing the production of milk in return. I 
can only suggest that you should build 
a silo and fill it with cornstalks, ears 
and all, just as it is beginning to glaze. 
Then try to raise some clover or Al¬ 
falfa hay, and if successful you can 
cut your grain bills down about one- 
half. There is certainly money to be 
made by feeding good feed to good 
cows, but it does not pay to keep scrub 
cows on poor feed. c. S. G. 
Ration too Fattening. 
What ration can you advise for my cows? 
Thev are Jerseys. I mix 300 pounds bran, 
200 'pounds cornmeal and 200 pounds gluten 
together, and give each cow five pounds 
each feed. That is, 10 pounds per 
dav. 1 also give each cow two pounds 
dried beet pulp each feeding. I wet the 
beet pulp about eight or 10 hours before 
1 feed; then 1 mix pulp and grain all to¬ 
gether. For roughage I have hay, Tim¬ 
othy and wild grass mixed. My cows are 
keeping too fat, and are not milking very 
well. Should I feed any oil meal to them? 
What is the best way to feed the beet pulp? 
Long Island. a. w. e. 
You are feeding your cows too much 
grain of a fattening nature. If you will 
change the mixture to 400 pounds wheat 
bran, 200 pounds cotton-seed meal and 
200 pounds gluten feed, I am sure you 
will get more milk with less feed than 
you are now feeding. Six or seven 
pounds of this mixture with four pounds 
of beet pulp should be sufficient for 
one day for a Jersey cow in full flow of 
milk. You are feeding the beet pulp 
properly by soaking it several hours 
and then adding the grain mixture. Be 
careful to use just enough water, so it 
will all be absorbed by the pulp. There 
is no occasion for you to feed oil meal 
with this ration, unless you can buy it 
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