1910. 
37 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Under this headi g 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, wuile “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 carbonydratds. 
A COMBINATION RATION. 
What is the nutritive value of the heavy 
black Xew Orleans molasses? What would 
be a good ration for milch cows, using the 
following feeds : corn fodder, corn and col) 
meal. New Orleans molasses, oil meal, small 
potatoes? J. it. t. 
Ohio. 
The analysis of molasses, such as is 
usually fed to stock, is as follows: S0.83 
per cent dry matter, 3.2 per cent protein 
and 69.3 per cent carbohydrates and fat, 
all digestible. It is practically impos¬ 
sible to compound a good ration for 
milch cows from the feeds you mention, 
because molasses, oil meal and potatoes 
all tend toward producing the same ef¬ 
fect upon the animals, making their di¬ 
gestion too laxative, and with the corn 
fodder and corn-and-cob meal it makes 
a very fattening ration, containing an 
excessive amount of carbohydrates and 
fat, and not enough protein to produce 
a sufficient quantity of milk. If you 
will omit the oil meal and use equal 
parts of buckwheat middlings and dry 
brewers’ or distillers’ grains in its place 
you would have a very good combina¬ 
tion. I would recommend the follow¬ 
ing proportions: Seven pounds corn- 
and-cob meal; three pounds Ajax flakes; 
three pounds buckwheat middlings; two 
pounds molasses; twelve pounds po¬ 
tatoes. All the corn fodder that will be 
eaten. It is better to feed your po¬ 
tatoes all out this Winter, as they are 
not so good after they begin to sprout. 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
Please give me a good ration for milch 
cows from these feeds: Bran, cornmeal, 
middlings - and beets with clover hay. 
Elberon, N. J. r. si. 
You do not state what breed of cows 
you are keeping or give any idea of the 
condition they are in, so I have formu¬ 
lated a ration for average-sized cows in 
good condition, and giving 25 to 30 
pounds of milk per day. 
Digestible 
Dry 
Feeding Stuff. Matter. 
Pro¬ 
tein. 
Carb. 
& Fat 
IS 
lbs. 
clover hav. 
15.3 
1.224 
7.128 
r, 
IDs. 
wheat bran. 
4.4 
.61 
2.265 
3 
lbs. 
wheat middlings 
2.64 
.384 
1.821 
0 
IDs. 
cornmeal. 
1.78 
.158 
1.528 
5 
Ills. 
mangels (beets). 
1.35 
.165 
.84 
25.47 
2.541 
13.582 
Nutritive ratio, 1 :5. 
If your cows are very thin in flesh, 
and if they are not coming in before 
Spring, you could increase the amount 
of cornmeal for a few days, or until 
they begin to gain. The above, however, 
is not scientifically balanced, hut it will 
produce good results when properly fed 
to good cows. Of course you under¬ 
stand that nearly as much depends upon 
the care and the way the cows are fed 
and housed as upon the feed itself 
whether a profit is to be made from 
them or not. Everyone who feeds cotvs 
should know better than anyone else 
how much his cows will eat and digest 
properly. Therefore no strict rule can 
be laid down. The best feeders are the 
men who study their cows, each one in¬ 
dividually, and feed them according to 
their likes and dislikes. 
cows, CALVES AND HOGS. 
I wish to keep 14 rows, raise all the 
calves and raise, besides, all the hogs I 
can on the skim-milk, feeding with the milk 
to both calves and hogs grain to balance 
tile ration. I would have clover, corn and 
peas for hog pasture. Object is to raise all 
the hogs I can. ITow many can I raise, 
and how many acres each of clover, corn 
and peas must I have to raise for their 
pasture? w. w. w. 
Port Byron, N. Y. 
Usually the man who conducts the op- j 
orations is the best judge of the amount ! 
of land necessary for the different crops 
sufficient to feed a certain amount of 
stock. However, a few suggestions mav 
help you to solve the problem. There is 
a limit to-the number of hogs which you 
THE HUHAIv NEW-YORKER 
can raise profitably by feeding the skim- 
milk from 14 cows to both calves and 
pigs. It would be my advice to start 
with two or three good brood sows, 
and raise two litters of pigs each year 
from them. Have them come in March 
and September. The March pigs will 
then he ready for market in December 
or January, and the September pigs 
could be sold in July. I would make 
liberal use of the pasture mentioned, in¬ 
cluding a little rape. Be sure you have 
enough pasture for all the pigs you 
raise and the excess, if any, can be used 
for your cows and horses. By sowing 
clover with the last cultivation of corn 
you should have good pasture for your 
pigs the following Spring. If you have 
plenty of land and can grow barley it 
would probably pay you to grow some 
and grind it for finishing the pigs for 
market. By mixing ground barley with 
skim-milk you have a very satisfactory 
feed for the last three or four months 
before the pigs go to market, and you 
will save a lot of money by growing 
your own barley instead of buying corn¬ 
meal. c. S. GREENE. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See. guarantee pag. 12. 
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PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Spoiled Broilers.— “t’ome in and look 
at a box of broilers." said a poultry dealer. 
The chickens mentioned were sticky and 
sour, although they had come but a short 
distance, were evidently fresh-killed and 
the weather was cold. Why should chick¬ 
ens spoil under such conditions? There 
was only one reason that seemed at all 
probable; they had evidently been packed 
in the box before thoroughly cool. In 
handling dressed meats of any kind, wheth¬ 
er animals or birds, it is necessary to be 
sure all animal heat is out before wrap¬ 
ping in cloth or putting in a box or other 
close package. Neglect of this precaution 
is sure to result in loss. If such meats are 
hung in a cool, airy place over night 
there will be no trouble of this sort. The 
shipment of broilers referred to will prob¬ 
ably be a total loss, though possibly some 
cheap buyer may come along and "offer a 
small fraction of their actual value if sound. 
Better was raised to an abnormally high 
figure before the holidays, and the severe 
storm has delayed goods on the road, so 
that at this writing there has been no 
drop, though the market feeling is decided¬ 
ly shaky. The reason given for these high 
prices is said to be the great scarcity of 
butter, yet it can be had in any "rea¬ 
sonable quantity if the buyer is ready to 
pay 38 to 40 cents wholesale, so that this 
“scarcity” would seem to be of a some¬ 
what artificial character. Great efforts are 
being made to work up sentiment favorable 
to letting down the bars to oleomargarine, 
and the oleo manufacturers and dealers, 
who are also large dealers and speculators 
in butter, with ample facilities for secret 
cold storage, consider it a timely move to 
put -butter prices away up, at the same 
time feeding consumers with the argu¬ 
ment that oleo free of tax would bring but¬ 
ter down to a normal figure. In talking 
with people who favor the free sale of 
artificial butter the writer has found that, 
while they think it a "good thing” for the 
consumer, not one, practically, wants it 
for his own use. Several of the Chicago 
oleo manufacturers have opened retail 
places in New York. The goods are dis¬ 
played in neat bricks, properly labeled, and 
there are free samples for those who wish 
to test the quality. No doubt some oleo 
is sold at these places, but although I have 
been near them a good many times when 
the butter stands in Washington Market 
were doing a big business, I have never 
yet seen a sale of oleo made at these retail 
places. The conclusion is that the retail 
stores are merely a “bluff” to give the 
trade an appearance of honesty and open¬ 
ness, while the actual business' Is done, as 
of old, in secret, and the consumer who 
buys the oleo thinks he is getting butter. 
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The Guernsey cow, Dolly Dimple 
I9 T 4-+. that recently completed a remark¬ 
able year’s official record as a 314 -year- 
old, making 18 , 458.8 lbs. milk and 906.89 
pounds butter fat, equivalent to 1,058 
pounds butter, goes to the head of all 
Guernsey cows in both milk and butter 
fat production, and has also undoubt¬ 
edly excelled all other cows of like age 
of any breed. In a schedule of the feed 
eaten during this year’s work, issued 
by Secretary Caldwell of the A. G. C. 
Club, we note that Dolly Dimple was 
fed from 5 to 9 pounds of dried beet 
pulp per day, and a total of 2,537 pounds 
during the great test. This heifer is 
owned at Langwater Farms, North 
Easton, Mass., the property of Mr. F. 
Lothrop Ames, and this herd contains a 
great many other cows that have high 
Advanced Registry records. We under¬ 
stand that all the cows that are on such 
tests in this herd are systematically fed 
dried beet pulp, and the phenomenal 
record of Dolly Dimple would seem to 
indicate that this is a valuable feed for 
such purposes. 
(The Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World, 
Dec. 8 , 1909 .) 
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