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'Tl-iJ'C RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
March 9, 
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, wnile “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 carbonydrates. 
A Restricted Ration. 
If one had plenty of good mixed hay and 
corn silage, could he use cotton-seed meal, 
gluten and oil meal wholly to balance the 
ration for milch cows, or would it be too 
concentrated a feed? a. J. B. 
Connecticut. 
If cotton-seed meal, gluten and oil meal 
were the only concentrates used, you would 
need to feed about 30 pounds of silage and 
16 pounds of hay per day to 1,000-pound 
cows; and in order not to get your ration 
too narrow you would have to confine your¬ 
self to about four pounds of grain—say 
two pounds cotton-seed meal, one pound 
gluten and one pound oil meal. This would 
generally be considered a small grain ration 
and too heavy for its bulk; nevertheless it 
is a cheap source of protein and would 
probably give fair results. It should be 
mixed and fed with the silage. A better 
ration would be 30 pounds silage, 15 pounds 
mixed hay, three pounds bran, two pounds 
cotton-seed meal and one pound oil meal. 
C. S. M. 
Balanced Ration for Cows. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
feeding cows? I have one Guernsey, fresh 
September 6, 17.5 pounds milk; Guernsey, 
fresh December 19, 22 pounds milk; Hol¬ 
stein, fresh January 14, 30 pounds milk. 
I am making butter; have corn and cob 
meal, limited amount of clover hay and 
cornstalks. Can buy Winter wheat bran 
$1.50 per 100; O. P. oil meal $2 per 100; 
cotton-seed meal $1.70; dried beet pulp, 
$1.25. I am feeding mangels at present, 
but supply will soon be gone. 
Ohio. c. e. E. 
I have worked out the following ration, 
which should give you good results: 
Dry 
Pro- 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates 
matter 
tein 
and fat 
10 lbs. cornstalks ..6.00 
.17 
3.4 
7 lbs. clover hay..5.95 
.476 
2.772 
3 lbs. cotton-seed 
meal .2.76 
1.116 
1.332 
3 lbs. corn and cob 
meal .2.55 
.132 
1.995 
2 lbs. dried beet 
pulp .1.87 
.136 
1.308 
1 lb. O. P. oil meal. .91 
.293 
.485 
20.04 
2.323 
11.292 
Nutritive ratio, 1 :486. 
If you have plenty of the cornstalks and 
corn and cob meal you can probably in¬ 
crease the amount I have given to advan¬ 
tage, and if your stables are cold it will 
probably be well to increase the amount 
of corn and cob meal. You will not need 
tor feed the beet pulp while you are feeding 
the fresh mangels. c. L. M. 
Another Cow Ration. 
Will you suggest a balanced ration, with 
beet pulp and without, Timothy hay for 
roughage, distillery grain, $1.60 per 100 lbs.; 
bran, $1.40 ; gluten, $1.55 ; oil meal, $1.85; 
cornmeal, $1.35; cotton-seed meal, $1.65. 
Cows weigh from 800 to 1,000 and are grade 
Holsteins, giving from 27 pounds at two- 
year-olds to 42 pounds at six years. Stable 
is comfortably warm, only freezes a very 
little in zero weather. Cows are in fair 
flesh, not fat, and the first one came in 
February 9. H. g. b. 
New York. 
Here are two formulas for rations which 
ought to produce fairly good results when 
fed to good fresh cows: 
No. 1. 
Digestible. 
18 lbs. Timothy hay 
Dry 
matter. 
15.66 
Protein. 
.504 
Carb. 
& Fat. 
8.37 
4 lbs. dried distill- 
ers’ grains ... 
3.68 
.992 
2.208 
2 lbs. cotton-seed 
meal . 
1.84 
.744 
.888 
2 lbs. cornmeal .. 
1.78 
.158 
1.528 
1 lb. oil meal .... 
.91 
.293 
.485 
23.87 
2.691 
13.479 
Ratio 1:5. 
No. 2. 
Digestible. 
Dry 
Carb. 
matter. 
Protein. 
& Fat. 
18 lbs. Timothy hay. 15.66 
4 lbs. dried distillers’ 
.504 
8.37 
grains . 
2 lbs. cotton-seed 
. 3.68 
.992 
2.208 
meal . 
4 lbs. dried beet 
. 1.84 
.744 
.888 
pulp . 
3.744 
.272 
2.61 
Ratio 1:5.6. 
24.924 
2.512 
14.076 
As you will see, the ration with beet 
pulp is wider than the one without, but it 
will give much better results. You are 
very unfortunate in not having something 
besides Tiniothy hay for roughage. If you 
had good silage with clover or Alfalfa hay 
you could produce milk at a much lower 
cost, as you are now buying practically 
four-fifths of the protein used, while you 
should be able to produce at least half of 
it, since protein is the most expensive 
constituent of the feeding stuffs we buy. 
Do not feed any corn or cottonseed meal 
to cows within two weeks after freshening. 
C. S. G. 
COST OF TILE SILO. 
On the first page of The R. N.-Y. of 
November 4, 1911, is an article by C. V. 
Hill on the building of drain tile silos. 
The writer states that the farmers of Mar¬ 
shall County, Iowa, are putting up a great 
many of these drain tile silos, and that they 
are considered a good suocess, and while 
he gives pretty complete directions for 
their construction, he has said nothing about 
what it would cost to construct such a 
silo, as the price of the tile, number re¬ 
quired per foot in height for a given 
width of silo, or the amount of cement 
needed properly to point up such a silo 
both inside and out. I would like reliable 
information in regard to the above ques¬ 
tions and also in case the costs of construc¬ 
tion is such as to justify their use, whether 
it is really necessary to reinforce them in 
some way, or whether it would be better, 
all things considered, to reinforce them, and 
if so, in what way would it be best to do 
so. K. 
Eau Claire, Wis. 
Owing to freight rates and different 
prices for material the cost of a 
plastered interlocking tile silo would 
vary considerably with the location and 
with the ability of the farmer to do 
more or less of the work himself. 
However, I will give him the bill of 
material with prices as they are in Mar¬ 
shall County, Iowa. 
A tile will lay six inches around and 
12 inches high; thus a 16 by 35 foot silo 
will require 3,500 tiles, not counting 
out for the doorways. These are sold 
freight prepaid, for $50 per thousand. 
The following is a bill of material for 
an interlocking tile silo, 16 feet in 
diameter and 35 feet high, with con¬ 
crete floor and roof and with a con¬ 
tinuous concrete door frame. 
Excavation: 
Two men, one day, at $2. $4.00 
One team, % day at $4 per day... 2.00 
$6.00 
Wall and door frame: 
Labor 4 men 2 days at $2 per day 16.00 
Plastering 5c. per yd., 440 yds.... 24.50 
Tile, 3500 at $50 per M.175.00 
Cement, 140 bags at 4c. per bag.. 56.00 
$271.50 
Floor:: 
Four men % day. 4.00 
Cement, 10 bags at 40c. per bag.. 4.00 
$8.00 
Gravel, two yards. 
Continuous doors: 
10-inch shiplap, 172 bd, ft. at 40c. 
per M. $6.80 
Tar paper or prepared roofing, 10 
square yards .1.25 
Forms for continuous door frames: 
Lumber, 1 pc. 2'x4"x8'. 
2 pcs. 2"x4"xl4'_24 bd. ft. 
2 pcs. 2"x6"xl6'-32 bd. ft. 56 bd. ft. 
4 pcs. I"xl0"xl4'.. .47 bd. ft. 
1 pc. I"xl0"x8'- 7 bd ft. 54 bd. ft. 
$4.40 
Eight %''x 7" machine bolts. 
Eight %"xl5" machine bolts. $1.50 
Labor: 
Carpenter at $4 a day.$17.95 
Scaffold . 10.00 
Derrick : 
3 pcs. 2"x6"xl6'_48 bd. ft. 
1 pc. 2"x6"x 6'_6 bd. ft. 
6 pcs. I"x6"xl6'-48 bd. ft. $4.10 
3 No. 9 guy wires, 100 feet long, 
20 pounds.60 
Roof: 
Cornice blocks. 
Cement, six bags at 40c. $2.40 
Sand, % yards. 
Steel, No. 9 wire, 10 pounds.30 
Form for cornice blocks: 
1 pc. I"x8"x3%'. 
1 pc. I"x6"xl2'_814 bd. ft. 
1 pc. 2"x4"x V _5 bd. ft. 
Lever for setting blocks : 
1 pc. 2"x4"x8'.2 2-3 bd ft. . .75 
Cement, 20 bags at 40c. $8.00 
Gravel, two cubic yards. 
Steel, 3 pcs. y 2 "xy 2 " xl8', 46 lbs... $2.30 
False work. 
26 pcs. I"xl2"xl0' sheeting. 
8 pcs. 2”x 6"xl0' rafters.260 bd. ft. 
1 pc. 4"x 4''x 6' or. 88 bd. ft. 
5 pcs. l"x 8"xl6'. 
4 pcs. l"x 6"xl6'.86 bd. ft. 
$17.50 
8 iron hooks. 1.00 
Reinforcing: 
450' No. 3 wire, $1.00. 3.00 
18 pcs. y 2 "xy 3 "xlS' reinforcing bars 
$2.76 $23.80 
$23.80 
Total .$349.10 
This places the cost of the silo at 
about $350. This compares favorably 
with the final cost of wood silos. 
There are many ways of cutting down 
the expense of building the scaffold by 
a long pole in the center and pieces 
running to the wall. As these are 
found on any farm, I did not include 
them in the bill of materials. In re¬ 
gard to the reinforcing, I will say that 
where the continuous concrete door¬ 
way frame is used, it is absolutely 
necessary, because the pressure will 
tend to make the doorway crack and 
pull the cross-ties apart. The reinforc¬ 
ing is of No. 3 hard carbon wire and 
goes around the silo on the level with 
the cross-ties. The vertical reinforcing 
is put in the concrete door jams and 
is of one-half by one-half steel. This 
helps to keep the doorway from crack¬ 
ing and spreading. c. v. hill. 
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