1912. 
U'HEO RUKAb NLC VY-YORKBB 
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FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Raising Calf Without Milk. 
I wish to raise a heifer calf without 
niilk. I have rend advice to make a gruel 
of white middlings and oil meal, equal 
parts by weight, but it does not state how 
much. I feed her three times a day. Is it 
good to give her an egg? She is two weeks 
old. K - 
New Jersey. 
My own experience in feeding any kind 
of gruel to calves has been very unsatis¬ 
factory. Dry feed is better for calves, and 
much less likely to cause digestive troubles. 
Gradually dilute the whole milk with water 
In which a little oil meal has been cooked, 
not over a tahlespoonful of oil meal at first. 
The calf will soon drink the water with¬ 
out any milk. When she has finished 
drinking put a handful of white middlings 
in the pail and let her lick them out. 
Provide her with a little box in which 
place ground oats and bran, and let her 
have access to good hay, preferably clover 
or Alfalfa. A little good silage is also 
good. As soon as she will eat them thero 
is nothing better than whole oats, and there 
is no danger of her eating too much of 
them for her own good, which might be the 
case with very heavy ground feed. You 
may have to tempt her appetite somewhat 
at first to get her to eat dry grain, but it 
is much better than porridge. The egg will 
do no harm, but it Is rather expensive feed. 
c. L. M. 
A Kentucky Cow Ration. 
Give me a balanced ration from the fol¬ 
lowing feeds I have: Ship stuff, $1 per 
100; corn distillers’ grains, $29.50; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $28.50; or Alfalfa meal instead 
of ship stuff, $27.50; Alfalfa and clover and 
Orchard grass hay mixed; also have sheaf 
oats to mix with hay. Cows weigh from 
700 to 1,000 pounds. w. c. D. 
Kentucky. 
Give what hay the cows will eat up 
clean, and a grain ration in the propor¬ 
tion of three pounds cotton-seed meal, 
three pounds corn, three pounds distillers’ 
grains, and one pound ship stuff. A good 
rule for feeding the grain will be one 
pound for each 3% or four pounds of milk 
produced, and in the case of young co'ws, a 
little extra for the growth of the animal. 
There will probably be less waste If the 
sheaf oats are fed to horses, but they may 
be fed to the cows, along with the hay, if 
desired. Grain should be fed twice a day, 
and the cotton-seed meal well mixed with 
the lighter grains. C. L. M. 
Another Cow Ration. 
Please inform me if i am using the right 
ration for milk. I feed mixed hay, about 
one-fourth clover, all they will eat up 
dean. Grain, one pound cornmeal, one 
pound provender, 1% pound gluten, 2(4 
pounds beet pulp, wet, twice a day to each 
cow. Amount of milk now getting on above 
feed 32 quarts per day from both cows, 
one grade Jersey, fresh last October, one 
grade Holstein, fresh in December. 
Massachusetts. w. H. J. 
Your ration is a good one and seems to 
be giving good results. I think it likely 
that to increase the gluten feed to two 
pounds and decrease the cornmeal corre¬ 
spondingly would produce a little more 
milk. c. l. M. 
Cotton-Seed Meal for Calves. 
I note that on page 214 Chester L. Mills 
makes the statement that cotton-seed meal 
is considered a dangerous feed for calves. 
If this is true, at what age is it safe to 
begin the feeding of it? Would it be best 
to feed it alone or in combination with 
other grains, and in what quantities? 
Vermont. D. m. b. 
I am not able to say just how soon it 
will be safe to begin feeding cotton-seed 
meal to calves, probably not before they 
are eight or nine months old, and then in 
small quantities and mixed with other 
grains. I have fed a ration consisting of 
equal parts by weight of ground oats, bran 
and cotton seed meal to calves nine months 
old or older, with good results, but from 
three to fourteen mouths of ago I prefer 
whole oats or whole oats and corn if calves 
are being fed skim-milk. Do not feed cot¬ 
ton-seed meal to heifers in calf, and in all 
cases guard against constipation. 
C. L. M. 
Cream and Feed Questions. 
I have been shipping cream to Buffalo | 
trade for past 20 years but recently lost; 
the trade that I had, and for the present 
thought I would take my cream to the local 1 
creamery; we are situated only 16 miles 
from Buffalo. During the last few days of 
February I delivered 805 pounds of cream 
testing 27.16 plus per cent and my dividend 
for same was 805 pounds cream testing 
27.16 plus; for making three cents; butter 
average 30 cents, leaving me $70.42. What 
would you say for the over-run on the 
above? 
Will you figure out a balanced ration so 
there will be enough left to buy the baby 
a shirt after paying for feed at the fol¬ 
lowing rates: 
Mixed hay .$23.00 
Bran . 31.00 
Cornmeal . 31,00 
Ground oats . 42.00 
Distillers’ rye dried grains. 27.00 
Brewers’ dried grains (corn). 34.00 
Cottonseed meal . 35.00 
Oil meal . 42.00 
Gluten . 33.00 
Is it a wonder that the farmers’ sons 
sneak toi the city for a job after they have 
been to school long enough to be able to 
comprehend the meaning of figures and take 
a glance at the above? I would like to 
find a market for good Jersey cream made 
from such a herd as there are few equal 
to, made under sanitary conditions, and 
get a fair price for it. The Buffalo trade 
prefer to buy from farmers who do not 
understand testing or much about figures, 
and who will let them have their product 
in exchange for what they have a mind 
to send them. G. H. 8. 
New York. 
As I figure it. you get about 32% cents 
per pound for butter fat. At the present 
prices of feed and labor it is certainly dif¬ 
ficult to figure out a very large profit. 
About as cheap a balanced ration as I can 
figure out is as follows: 
Mixed hay . 20 pounds $0.23 
Gluten . 2 pounds .033 
Cottonseed meal .... 2 pounds .035 
Cornmeal . 3 pounds .046 
Distillers* grains .... 2 pounds .027 
$0,371 
Hero is a cost of 37 cents a day for 
feed. Now if your cow gives a pound and 
a half of butter fat a day, and that’s a 
pretty fair cow, you will have 11 cents a 
day with which to buy shirts and other 
little incidentals. This is supposing you 
do all the work yourself, and don't count 
your own time as worth anything. I don’t 
see how the feed bill can bo cut down 
much unless you can grow your feed 
chenper than you can buy it. I am not 
familiar with marketing cream, so can 
give no suggestions as to that end. Here 
cheese is the main product. This Winter 
milk production has been quite a satisfac¬ 
tory proposition. All the cheese factories 
in this immediate section are owned by 
one firm. They are operated from April 
until the latter part of November, and their 
central factory the year round. This Win¬ 
ter they have made butter and skim cheese, 
taking out two-thirds to three-fourths of 
the butter fat. With butter selling at 42 
cents a pound and skim cheese around 12, 
the results have been good, netting 53 
cents a pound for butter fat at the highest 
sale, and better than 45 cents all Winter. 
When one raises his own roughage there 
is some money in dairying at such prices, 
at least a living profit. 
But we do not always fare so well. A 
year ago butter was low, cheese ditto, and 
no sale whatever for skims, so that we 
barely got pay for the grain we bought, 
let alone roughage and labor. The last 
cream I sold in the Spring of 1911 brought 
less than 25 cents a pound for butter fat. 
Cheese was low until late in the Fall. The 
average price of milk at our cheese factory 
last season (April 10-November 13) was 
97 cents per hundred pounds, with a test 
averaging right around 3.8 per cent of but¬ 
ter fat. The year before It was $1.30. 
The firm operating around here proposes 
to build a central plant equipped for dis¬ 
posing of milk in whatever way shall be 
most profitable; cheese, butter, condensed 
milk, cream, or whatever is highest in the 
market. In this case they will collect the 
milk from the farmers, a thing they have 
promised to do next Fall when the small 
factories close. Milk can probably be pro¬ 
duced at a minimum expense for handling 
in this manner, and one year with an¬ 
other, there is a little money to be made, 
if one works hard and manages well. 
Now, I do not know that all this will 
help you much in your problem. High- 
priced feed seems to be a fixed condition, 
so the only other relief seems to be to 
get a high price for milk—and there’s the 
rub. it would seem that you ought to find 
an outlet in Buffalo for cream at a good 
price, but I am not familiar with conditions 
and prices there. c. L. m. 
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