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FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
'Feed for Milch Cows.J 
Will you give me a balanced ration of 
the following: Gluten, $30 per ton; bran, 
$26, cotton-seed meal, $33; wheat feed, 
$29; distillers’ grain, $34, ground corn and 
cob, $27. I would like to use the gluten 
and distillers’ grains, as I have them on 
hand, but would like to change the gluten 
for something else when this is gone for I 
cannot get any more. m. c. f. 
New York. 
The following mixture will give good 
results: Wheat feed, two pounds; distillers’ 
grains, three pounds, and gluten feed, three 
pounds. For the second ration use bran, 
one pound; wheat feed, two pounds, and 
cotton-seed meal, three pounds. Feed of 
these mixtures according to the needs of 
the cows, say one pound to three or four 
pounds of milk. c. l. m. 
Will you give me a good fair ration for 
milch cows from the following mixed feed: 
Gluten, cob meal or regular eornmeal and 
grounds oats? How many quarts of each 
should I feed morning and night? Would 
it be better to have corn and oats ground 
together and with or without cobs? Weil- 
cured corn stover and stock hay is all the 
roughage I have. R. R- a. 
Connecticut. 
A mixture of one pound of corn and cob 
having the interest of my breed at heart, 
I ask that you qualify your statement. If 
you wish further proof, I will gladly furnish 
it, and I think every breeder of exhibi¬ 
tion Reds will come to my assistance if nec¬ 
essary. R. W. MELENDY. 
Massachusetts. 
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Improving a Dairy Ration. 
I have a four-year-old cow, calved six 
weeks, giving about 11 quarts of milk per 
day. I do not desire to force for milk, but 
wish to feed properly and economically so 
would ask you to suggest improvements in 
my feed. Ilay was cut Tate and is two 
years old. Bran is $1.30 per 100 pounds; 
wheat middlings, $1.35; eornmeal, $1.40; 
gluten meal, $1.60. I am feeding about 
eight pounds per day of these grains mixed 
as follows: one pound bran, one pound 
corn-meal, three pounds middlings, and four 
pounds of gluten. Any improvement you 
may be able to suggest will be much appre¬ 
ciated. s. G. 
Massachusetts. 
The ration is rather wide, though not 
excessively so, for milk production. That 
is, it contains a larger proportion of car¬ 
bohydrates than is usually recommended. 
You could leave out the eornmeal to good 
advantage and of course, still feed the 
same total quantity. Gluten feed contains 
about 23 per cent digestible protein ; distil¬ 
lers’ dried grains 25 per cent and cotton¬ 
seed meal 37 per cent. If you can substi¬ 
tute distillers’ grains (made from corn, not 
rye), at the same price as gluten, or cotton¬ 
seed meal at $2 per 100 pounds, it will be 
to your advantage to use one or the other, 
preferably cotton-seed instead of gluten. 
c. L. M. 
Why So Many Chicks Die 
A common cause is improper feeding. 
Who would feed beefsteak to babies? It is 
almost as foolish to feed raw grain to chicks. 
They simply cannot digest it. 
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ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE DAIRYMEN’S LEAGUE 
Mid-winter Molt 
meal, one pound ground oats and three 
pounds gluten will give practically a bal¬ 
anced ration, this to be fed twice a day. 
It will be best to mix all the ingredients. 
If you have the corn on the cob, or it costs 
no more to get it ground that way, it will 
be better to have it ground with the cobs. 
They have a very small amount of nourish¬ 
ment, and are desirable in adding bulk. 
However, you cannot afford to pay much 
extra for the cobs. I have given the amount 
In pounds, instead of quarts. Weigh a 
quart of the mixture, and then feed ac¬ 
cordingly. C. L. M. 
Ration for Thin Cow. 
I have a Jersey cow calved about a month 
ago; the calf was taken away from her 
recently. I am feeding her three quarts 
twice a day of a feed made up as follows : 
100 pounds bran, 25 pounds rolled oats, 
25 pounds ground corn, 25 pounds buck¬ 
wheat shorts (the buckwheat shorts test 25 
per cent protein). Iu addition to the 
above she is fed the usual amount of rough¬ 
age, such as corn stalks and Timothy hay. 
She is not, however, milking as much or as 
rich in cream as before she went dry pre¬ 
vious to having her calf. Could you sug¬ 
gest a better ration? The cow seems In 
good health but looks a little thin. 
New York. H. c. w. 
The ration you are feeding conforms 
very closely to that recommended for milch 
cows. It is certainly wide enough so that 
she ought to gain some in flesh. A cow 
fresh iu milk never gives as rich milk as 
one far advanced. If she is a little thin 
that may be the eanse of the reduced milk 
flow. Try increasing the grain feed a little, 
also if you can get it, take about two 
pounds of dried beet pulp, wet it and let 
it stand an hour or so. then mix with the 
other grain and feed, once or twice daily. 
C. L. M. 
“ Exhibition Reds” as Layers. 
In The R. N.-Y. of January 25, under the 
heading of “Brevities” appears the follow¬ 
ing: "We get many questions like this: 
‘Would the hens that win blue ribbons at 
poultry shows also win in egg laying con¬ 
tests?’ We doubt it;-the scale of points 
does not seem to point at eggs.” I wish 
to take exception to your reply, in so far 
at least as it concerns the Rhode Island 
Red breed. The “scale of points” in the 
Standard of Perfection, in the Rhode Island 
Reds calls for an oblong bird with long 
back and keet, acknowledged by ull utility 
poultry breeders to be the true egg type. 
Those who have exhibited know that that 
type counts in the show-room and that 
without it an otherwise good bird cannot 
win. What better “scale of points” can we 
have, and does it not point to eggs? 
My own eight years of breeding, exhibi- 
tious_ and utility Reds proves to my own 
satisfaction, at least, that iu general the 
wst show specimens are the best layers, 
there are of course "exceptions to all rules,” 
out I have- yet to find the exception, when 
™/.P ens of mated exhibition birds, many 
theiri ribbon winners, tiave not proven 
of laying pens. Giving your paper 
fhu?' 4 thf ‘ wel « ht that a statement of 
tills nature would carry with the public, and 
Perhaps you can suggest a reason why 
all my Leghorns and Barred Rocks have 
molted heavily since Christmas Day. About 
that time the eggs dropped from about 
18 to only three or four a day, their 
combs faded iu color, and the house was 
soon full of feathers, for they molted 
mostly around the neck. Now they are 
looking very good and am expecting in¬ 
creased production immediately. Birds are 
March hatched, B. Rocks March 1 and Leg¬ 
horn next and hatched in same machine. 
They were fed on homemade dry mash 
of brown eornmeal, middlings, ground oats. 
Alfalfa and fish scraps, equal parts, before 
them all the time, one quart of scratch 
grain, wheat corn and oats to each 10 
hens, once a day. About December 15 
substituted beef scrap for fish scrap in 
their mash. I am inclined to blame the 
weather for this molt, as the B. Rocks 
started laying in August and had laid 
about 40 per cent, for months of October 
and November. They are kept in a house 
15 feet square. In all I have 55 Leghorns 
and 18 B. Rocks. p. x. b. 
Massachusetts. 
Pullets hatched In February and early 
March and pushed to early maturity so 
that they begin laying in August are apt 
to lay for a time and then molt, as yours 
seem to have done. The best way to avoid 
this undesirable state of affairs seems to 
be to delay batching until a little later 
in the season, or to delay maturity by 
withholding moat from- their growing 
rations, and substituting corn, if it is 
seen that they are ripening too fast. 
M. B. D. 
Brown Leghorn Questions. 
I have 39 Brown Leghorn hens, prize 
winners, and three roosters, one year old. 
My house Is 12 by 16 feet; my yards 12 
by 140 feet long. Is that all right? Will 
you give a good ration for eggs, and also 
one for fertility ? Can you mention some¬ 
thing about tlie Brown Leghorns in regard 
to their habits, laying qualities, fertilizers, 
and the different feeds they need? 
Md. A. L. B. 
Your poultry quarters are amply large 
for the flock that you have, though one, or 
at most two, roosters are snflieient to secure 
fertility of eggs from a flock of Leghorns of 
that size. The “Cornell” ration, so frequent¬ 
ly mentioned in these columns, is probably 
as satisfactory as any both for egg produc¬ 
tion and the maintenance of health and 
vigor. This consists of a whole grain ra¬ 
tion composed of 60 pounds wheat, 60 
pounds corn, 30 pounds oats, and 30 pounds 
buckwheat, mixed, and fed iu deep litter, 
night and morning, about one quart to each 
2o fowls. In warm weather the buckwtieat 
Is omitted. A dry mash composed of 60 
pounds eornmeal, 60 pounds wheat middlings, 
30 pounds corn, 10 pounds Alfalfa meal. 10 
pounds oil meal, 50 pounds beef scrap, and 
one pound salt, is kept before the fowls 
In hoppers to which they have access after¬ 
noons only. The Brown Leghorns are one 
of the best of the Mediterranean varieties, 
being splendid layers of large white eggs 
good foragers, non-sitters, and hardy. 
M. B. D. 
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