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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
63 
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, while “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 carbohydrates. 
VEGETABLES FOR STOCK. 
What is the comparative feeding value, 
uncooked, of the following vegetables: Beets, 
carrots, cabbage, mangels and turnips, for 
horses, cattle and hens? Does cooking 
change the value? J. w. b. 
Massachusetts. 
except during a short time in the Sum¬ 
mer, for Winter feed we have to resort 
to silage as the next best feeding stuff. 
The best silage is made from well-eared 
corn cut just when the kernels begin to 
glaze. At this stage of growth the corn 
contains practically as much nourish¬ 
ment as when it is ripe and dry. By 
making -the whole corn crop into silage 
you save the labor of husking and grind¬ 
ing the corn, and you also save the waste 
that usually fallows feeding dry fodder, 
to say nothing of the improvement in its 
palatability and digestibility, which 
amounts to quite an item. Silage also 
makes a very convenient feed to use in 
cold weather. As the difference in its 
This is a difficult question to answer 
definitely, inasmuch as the different 
vegetables have widely varying values 
for the different classes of stock. While 
raw cabbage is an excellent feed for 
both cattle and hens it is not a safe feed 
for horses, and cooking practically spoils 
it for feeding. Mangels, carrots, beets 
and turnips are valuable for horses, cat¬ 
tle and hens in the order named when 
fed raw, except that raw beets are bet¬ 
ter for hens than carrots, and carrots 
are as good as, if not better than man¬ 
gels for horses. Cooking does not in¬ 
crease the value of any of the vegeta¬ 
bles mentioned except carrots and tur¬ 
nips for hens, and it reduces the value 
of all the vegetables named above for 
horses and cattle. 
Dairy Ration. 
Will you give me figures for the cheapest 
daily ration for a cow in milk weighing 
000 pounds using for a basis silage, (corn), 
and miixod hay (Timothy, Red-top, and 
.Tune grass) ? 1 am able to purchase malt 
sprouts, $25 per ton, gluten, $20, hominy 
chop, $27, wheat bran. $26, barley meal, 
$27 per ton. I am anxious to get a com¬ 
bination of some of these which will make a 
balanced ration at the least cost. s. L. r. 
Mahopac Falls, N. Y. 
The following is as nearly a balanced 
ration as I am able to compound from 
the feeds you mention, keeping the cost 
as 
low 
as possible 
at the same time. 
* 
tilde. 
Feeding 
Dry 
Protein 
Curb. 
HtllfV, 
matter. 
and fat. 
10 
lbs. 
mixed hnv 
8.17 
.422 
4.025 
40 
lbs. 
silage 
8.4 
.20 
5.10 
2 
lbs. 
barlcv meal 
1.78 
.174 
1.284 
5 
lbs. 
malt sprouts 
4.50 
.92 
2.045 
*> 
lbs. 
gluten feed 
1.8 
.404 
1.398 
25.19 
2.350 
14.612 
Nutritive rat 
io 1 :G.2. 
I would advise feeding this ration 
mixed with water several hours before 
feeding, so the malt sprouts will have a 
chance to swell. If you have any trouble 
with your cows not eating it you can 
make it palatable by mixing V /2 pound 
of molasses with it by first mixing the 
molasses with four times its weight of 
water and then using this sweetened 
water to wet the grain. The quantity 
given above is for cows giving 12 to 15 
quarts of milk per dav, and of course 
should be reduced for cows giving a 
smaller amount. 
Advantages of Silos. 
I wish to get information on the advan¬ 
tage* of feeding silage. According to gov¬ 
ernment bulletins I notice that corn con¬ 
tains the greatest amount of nutrients 
when it is fully ripe, and yet I see it 
claimed that silage feeding has so many 
advantages over dry feeding. We are now 
feeding, per cow, one pound cotton-seed 
meal, one pound oil cake meal; three 
pounds gluten; five pounds wheat bran; 
three pounds corn-and-cob meal, and ap¬ 
proximately 20 pounds corn stover. Cot¬ 
ton-seed meal costs $27 per ton ; oil cake, 
$24.75; gluten, $29.25; bran, $25; corn- 
and-cob meal, $20, and corn stover, $4.25. 
To the heavy milkers we feed some extra. 
1 would like to know wherein the chief 
benefit is in feeding silage instead of dry 
corn and stover. What would be the dif¬ 
ference in the cost? Is our present ration 
correct? What ration should we feed if 
we had no silage? G. 
Allentown, Pa. 
Silage has the same advantage over 
feeding dry corn fodder that grass has 
over dry hay. While the nutrients in 
the dry feed may appear greater to the 
chemist, the fact remains that for the 
production of milk nothing has been 
found that is better than good pasture 
grass. As of course this is not available [ 
cost is largely a matter of decreased 
labor and increased production it is im¬ 
possible to give any exact figures, except 
that it has been found almost universally 
profitable for others to feed silage, and 
there is no reason why it should not 
prove profitable for you. You are feed¬ 
ing a good grain ration at the present 
time. Gluten meal is recognized as next 
to cotton-seed meal for the production 
of milk and butter where it can be ob¬ 
tained. You can feed the same grain 
with silage that you are now feeding if 
you omit the oil-cake meal and corn-and- 
cob meal, as silage takes the place of 
both. _ c. s. G. 
Chairman (concluding an address of 
introduction) : “An’ now, ladies and 
gentlemen, I hab de honor of presentin’ 
to dis audience de speaker of de ebening 
—Professor Johnsing, of de Westville 
seminary—who will proceed to define de 
indefinable, ' depict de indepictable and 
unscrew de unscrewtable !”—Life. 
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