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THIS RURAb NEW-VORKEH 
March 1, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Beans for Live Stock. 
• 
We have quite a few bushels of stained 
beans which are not fit for market. Would 
they make good feed for poultry, horses, 
cattle or hogs or other stock? If so, how 
do they prepare them? w. e. o. 
Cedar Kim, Pa. 
The beans will be suitable for all stock 
except horses. Sheep will eat them raw 
like corn. We should boil the beans with 
the small potatoes and feed to hogs. 
Cottonseed Meal for Hogs. 
Is it good to feed hogs cotton-seed meal, 
or is there anything that could be mixed 
with it to make a good feed for hogs? I 
have heard that hogs would not do well 
on cotton-seed meal. F. a. m. 
Allegan Co., Mich. 
The Texas Experiment Station conducted 
rather extensive experiments in feeding 
cotton seed to pigs and the following con¬ 
clusion was reached: “There is no prolit 
Balanced Dairy Ration. 
Will you fix me up a balanced ration 
for cows giving about 25 pounds of milk 
per day? I have clover hay and corn 
stover for roughage. For the concentrates 
I have cottonseed meal, Winter wheat 
bran, corn, and oats. I also have a limited 
supply of mangels. Would it make any dif¬ 
ference if Alfalfa were used instead of the 
clover bay in the above ration ? l. a. b. 
Michigan. 
The following proportions of the feeds 
mentioned will give good results: Cotton¬ 
seed meal, four pounds; bran, two pounds; 
corn ami oats, ground, two pounds. Give 
six to eight pounds daily of this mixture. 
Feed clover and corn stover two or three 
times daily. The mangels should be fed 
after milking so that no flavor from them 
will get into the milk. The digestible nu¬ 
trients in clover bay are protein, 0.8 per 
cent, fat and carbohydrates 39.(5 per cent; 
Alfalfa bay. protein 11 per cent, carbo¬ 
hydrates 42.3 per cent. In 15 pounds of 
hay there would be a difference of .63 
pounds of digestible protein, or about the 
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whatever in feeding cotton seed in any 
form, or cotton-seed meal, to hogs of any 
age." The mortality was high, and those 
pigs that survived were permanently stunt¬ 
ed. C. L. M. 
Brewers' Grains for Hogs. 
What is the value of brewers’ grains at 
82.50 per ton at the brewery for hog 
feeding, against corn, and how should 
grains be fed? They will have to be hauled 
five miles? o. it. s. 
New York. 
Wet brewers’ grains contain the follow¬ 
ing digestible nutrients: Protein, 3.9 per 
cent, fat and carbohydrates, 12.5 per cent, 
which is about half the protein content 
of corn, and one-sixth the carbohydrate 
content. I have had no experience in feed¬ 
ing brewers’ grains to swine, and can find 
no authority on the subject. However, bar¬ 
ley is an excellent pig feed, and it would 
seem to me that wet brewers’ grains, 
mixed with an equal weight of cornmeal, to 
supplement the carbohydrates, ought to 
make a good ration for growing swine. 
C. L. M. 
Strong-Tasting Milk, 
What causes the milk of a Guernsey 
cow to become old and strong four or live 
months before coming in fresh ? 
Pennsylvania. E. B. C. 
It is a peculiarity of some cows that 
their milk becomes strong-tasting after hav¬ 
ing been milked a few months. This is not 
a trait of any breed, but apparently a 
reversion to the primitive type of cow, 
which gave milk simply to nourish her calf 
for a short time. Then the milk became 
strong, so that the calf would cease suck¬ 
ing. At least, this is the theory. If the 
bad taste is not caused by any ill health 
it is probably this primitive trait, and so 
far as I know, there is no remedy. 
C. L. M. 
Silo for Six Cows. 
I am farming on seven acres, keep six 
milk cows and two horses. I am thinking 
of putting a concrete silo under my barn 
floor 10x13 feet, and about 15 feet deep. 
Would that be large enough for six cows, 
and would it la* advisable to have the 
silo wholly in the ground? IIow many 
acres of corn would it take to till and 
would it be any benefit to the feed? I now 
feed 300 pounds corncob chop and 300 
pounds middlings mixed and 25 bushels 
brewers’ malt in one week. My cows are 
very fat and do well ; have one cow that 
was fresh in February last and still milks 
from 10 to 12 quarts daily. c. it. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
A silo 10x13 feet would be too large for 
six cows. Unless you can take off at least 
an inch or two from the entire surface 
daily the silage will mold. A round silo 
eight feet in diameter and 30 feet high 
would be large enough, and in better pro¬ 
portions. It is not advisable to build a 
silo under ground, on account of the <11(11- 
culty of getting the silage out. Silage 
is heavy, and you cannot readily pitch 
it much higher than your head. It will 
be cheaper and more satisfactory to have 
the silo mostly above the level of the feed¬ 
ing floor. The amount of corn necessary to 
till the silo will of course depend much upon 
the crop. Two acres of very good corn 
would do it, but four would be a safer 
guess. It is rather surprising how much 
green corn fodder will go into a small, deep 
silo. The ration you are feeding is abund¬ 
ant, but rather more fattening than I 
should recommend. I believe you would 
get better results to omit the corn and 
cob meal and feed proportionately more of 
the middlings and malt. C. 1.. M 
amount contained in one and three-fourths 
pounds of cottonseed meal, in favor of 
the Alfalfa, and also .4 pounds of carbo¬ 
hydrates. You could reduce the grain ra¬ 
tion by one and one-half pounds of cotton¬ 
seed meal (assuming 15 pounds of hay 
to be fed daily), and still have as good 
a ration. C- L. M. 
Grain for Holstcins. 
Would this be a balanced ration for 
Holstein cows weighing about 1000 pounds 
in full flow of milk, with all the mixed 
hay they will clean up and a half a bushel 
of corn silage night and morning? Oats, 
ground, 50 pounds; bran, 100 pounds; 
gluten, 150 pounds; oil meal, 50 pounds; 
hominy meal, 50 pounds; cornmeal, 50 
pounds; cotton seed, 50 pounds. I feed 
one pound of grain to 3V& pounds of milk. 
New Hampshire. s. w. 
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ill effects whatever upon n cow to eat 
silage up to the time of calving, in fact, 
it is much better than to give all dry 
feed. c. i,. M. 
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