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THE RURAt Ni£W-YOKKEH 
January 20, 
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 pf 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 Beet Pulp. 
Is it as well to feed beet pulp without 
wetting it, or if it should be wet, would 
it do just! to wet it at the time of feed¬ 
ing without leaving it to soak? It would 
be apt to freeze in cold weather if left 
long. What grain should be fed with it 
and how much of each, the roughage being 
silage and hay? E. s. b. 
Connecticut. 
We prefer to wet the beet pulp about 
eight hours before feeding, so it will have 
time to soak and swell up into its natural 
state before it is eaten by the cows. The 
principle of this method is that since milk 
contains 85 to 88% water the production 
of milk is largely dependent upon the 
amount of water a cow can be induced to 
consume up to the limit of her natural 
capacity, or slightly exceeding this point, 
provided, however, that her ration is well 
balanced and fed in sufficient quantity to 
supply all the other requirements of the 
animal. In cold weather we always mois¬ 
ten the beet pulp with hot water and leave 
it in the stable over night. It is then just 
right to feed in the morning after mixing 
It with the rest of the grain ration. In 
this way we avoid any possibility of freez¬ 
ing. For good fresh cows we feed three 
pounds dried beet pulp, four pounds dried 
distillers’ grains or five pounds dried 
brewers’ grains and two pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal. This makes a very good ration 
to be fed with silage and hay for rough- 
age. This also makes a safe ration, be¬ 
cause very little udder trouble will be found 
In herds fed in this manner. In changing 
feed it must be done gradually, and no cot¬ 
ton-seed meal should be fed to a cow with¬ 
in two months previous to parturition or 
two weeks thereafter, as it is liable to 
cause a feverish condition of the animal 
and sometimes serious trouble may result. 
c. s. G. 
consider that Bulletin No. 154 of the Cor¬ 
nell College of Agriculture, while perhaps 
not quite so scientific, is really more prac¬ 
tical for the farmer's use. c. L. M. 
Trouble With Pigs. 
I have four pigs, five months old. in good 
condition ; feed turnips, cut on machine and 
cooked to a mash, then mix some middlings 
in and give them about 16 quarts twice a 
day. The pen is 10x12 feet, board floor, 
leaves for bedding, and always dry. A 
week ago I began adding more middlings, 
but the quantity of the whole the same as 
above, 32 quarts. The next day they would 
not eat any more, laid in, one place, get¬ 
ting weak in their legs, and staggering 
when walking. Manure is rather hard. 
Once in a while they will drink a little, 
but not eat. One has died. Can you ad¬ 
vise me what to do? ‘q. p. 
Connecticut. 
Do not cook for hogs; it does not pay, 
and such food as you have been giving is 
apt to induce indigestion. Do not confine 
pigs to a pen. Make them take abundant 
exercise every day. Overfeeding and lack 
of exercise kill myriads of hogs each year. 
Physic the pigs with epsom salts in water 
or slop. Feed slop made of milk, middlings, 
eornmeal, bran and ground (screened) oats, 
and add limewater freely. Or omit the oats 
and bran and add 10 per cent of digester 
tankage once a day. A few sliced raw 
turnips will be beneficial. a. s. a. 
Weak Stifles. 
I have a colt whose stifle joints are 
both displaced. I think it was born so, or 
got so the night of birth. It is now about 
seven or eight months old, and does not 
get any better. During mild weather his 
movements are a little easier, but becomes 
quite stiff in cold, damp spells. Can you 
suggest a cure? The bones slip back and 
forth and he is lame, yet he sometimes 
runs about, and is very hearty at all times. 
I consulted a veterinarian but he said he 
had never seen a case like it, and didn't 
know what to do. r. h. w. 
Virginia. 
Such cases of pseudo-luxation of the pa¬ 
tella are very common in large, soft colts.' 
Tie colt up short in stall and blister the 
stifles with cerate of cantharides at inter¬ 
vals of the three or four weeks until the 
joints are strong. Blister one joint at a 
time. a. s. a. 
Fattening a Horse. 
Feeding Cow, Horses and Hens. 
1. Is 12 quarts of grain and 30 pounds 
of hay enough to feed a Jersey during the 
Winter? 2. I wish to take all my employ¬ 
er’s saddle and carriage horses off grain. 
Is 35 pounds hay a day (nothing else) too 
much or too little (in three meals) ? 3. 
Is all dry mash desired, some cut Alfalfa 
and four quarts of corn and other scratch¬ 
ing food enough for 80 hens and pullets? 
Connecticut. c. a. g. 
1. I should say that you are feeding the 
Jersey very liberally. Of course much de¬ 
pends on what the grain is, and also the 
hay. but in the matter of quantity it is 
sufficient. If the hay is good and not over¬ 
ripe. feed no more than she will eat up 
clean. 
2. Thirty-five pounds of hay per day is 
too much for the average horse. But 
why do you wish to take the horses off 
grain? Unless your hay contains a large 
percentage of clover it is not a balanced 
ration, even for a horse doing little or 
no work. Horses fed Timothy hay alone 
will become pot-bellied and short-winded, 
certainly not desirable qualities for car¬ 
riage or saddle horses. Better make their 
ration consist of two quarts of oats twice 
per day if they are not working, and not 
much more hay than they will eat up clean 
in an hour, three times a day. 
3. T think it likely that six quarts of 
scratching feed, fed at two feedings, would 
be about right for 80 hens provided also 
with dry mash and cut Alfalfa. Different 
breeds have varying appetites, but the ac¬ 
tions of the fowls furnish the most reliable 
guide as to the quantity of food they need. 
They should not have so much that they 
will not scratch the litter over for the last 
kernel, and yet enough so that they will 
not act ravenous after being fed. 
c. L. M. 
Another Balanced Ration. 
Will you give me a balanced ration from 
the following feeds: For roughage I have . 
well-eared silage, mixed Timothy and 
clover hay. corn and cob meal .$20 per ton : 
gluten, $32; bran. $27 : cotton-seed meal. 
$32 : oil meal, $40 ; dairy feed, $25 : dried 
brewers’ grains, $30; beet pulp. $25. My 
cows average in weight about 1,100 pounds. 
I am feeding for milk and cream. 
Pennsylvania. a. m. g. 
The following combination gives a bal¬ 
anced ration: 
Digestible Nutrients 
Dry 
Pro- 
Carbs. 
matter 
tein 
& fat 
35 lbs. silage 
. 7.35 
.315 
4.515 
12 lbs. mixed 
hay.. 10.45 
.406 
5.550 
4 lbs. dried 
brew- 
ers’ grains 
. 3.68 
.628 
1.912 
3 lbs. cotton-seed 
meal. 
1.116 
1.332 
1 lb. gluten, 
.90 
.232 
.699 
25.14 
2.697 
14.008 
Nutritive ratio, 1:5.2. 
Feed the silage and grain morning and 
night, after milking, and hay at noon. 
C. L. M. 
A Cow Ration. 
What do you think of the following cow 
ration? Cow weighs about 950 pounds, 
has given 20 pounds milk : Clover hay, 12 
pounds; eornmeal. five pounds; bran 
(wheat) one pound; middlings, two pounds; 
distillers’ grains, one pound; oil meal (new 
process) 11 pounds. I use Farmers’ Bulle¬ 
tin No. 346, U. S. Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. c. o. B. 
Ohio. 
Your ration is exceedingly narrow, and 
contains too much concentrates in propor¬ 
tion to roughage. I suggest that you add 
five pounds of hay to the ration, and cut 
the oil meal down to two pounds. Farm¬ 
ers’ Bulletin No. 346 is very good, but I 
What is good to fatten a horse quickly 
without injuring him? j. s. s. 
New York. 
We can suggest nothing better than an 
abundance of good foods such as are usually 
fed to horses. These would include oats, 
bran, corn, roots and best of mixed hay 
and corn fodder. Allow free access to rock 
salt. Have the teeth attended to by a 
veterinarian. If animal is slow to pick up 
a quart of blackstrap molasses may be di¬ 
luted with hot water and fed twice daily 
in a mixture of cut hay, eornmeal and bran. 
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