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THE RURAL 
Ration for Holstein Herd. 
Will you give a ration for a Holstein 
herd of dairy cows, from the following? 
Corncob meal, ground oats, wheat bran, 
cotton-seed meal. As roughage we have 
Timothy hay, corn stover and silage. 
Kapidan, Va. c. h. m. 
The following ration will produce 
very good results when fed to good 
Holstein cows, although if is not what 
is called a scientifically balanced ration, 
as it is a little too wide: 40 pounds 
silage. 12 pounds corn stover or eight 
pounds hay, five pounds corn and cob 
meal, four pounds wheat bran, three 
pounds cotton-seed meal, two pounds 
ground oats. While this ration has a 
nutritive ratio of about 1:6.5 it is as 
narrow as the combination should be 
made for practical use. I would not ad¬ 
vise the use of either ground oats or 
wheat bran in the above ration if bought 
at their present market prices, for the 
reason that dried brewers' or distillers’ 
grains or malt sprouts can usually be 
purchased at more reasonable prices, 
quality considered. c. s. G. 
A Hen Ration. 
What do you think of this ration for 
six hens, 18 pullets and a cock? Morning, 
a wet mash of two quarts bran, one quart 
cornmeal and a good one-half pint of beef 
scrap mixed in boiling water. At noon, 
one quart mixed cracked corn, barley and 
wheat; night, three pints to two quarts of 
cracked corn. They have the table scraps 
also, hut we have only a small family. 
ltumford, It. I. p. w. t. 
It is impossible to lay down any rules 
as to the amount of feed for a certain 
number of hens, as large hens eat more, 
as a rule, than small hens, and laying 
hens eat more than they do when not 
laying. The worst feature of your 
method of feeding is that you fill your 
fowls up with a big feed of warm mash 
in the morning so they have no desire 
or incentive to scratch or exercise. 
They are not hungry, so they simply 
stand around on one foot or sit on the 
perches all day. Such hens are not 
profitable. I would suggest that you 
feed your noon feed, corn, barley and 
wheat, early in the morning. It should 
be scattered in the litter on the. floor 
making the hens work for at least two 
hours to get their breakfast. This 
exercise warms them up naturally and 
starts their blood to circulating faster. 
They will then be ready for the mash 
at noon, and no harm can come from 
feeding it if you are careful not to feed 
too much, only just what will be eaten 
up clean in 10 or la minutes should be 
given. The night feed should be scat¬ 
tered in the litter on the floor at least 
an hour before sundown. All the whole 
or cracked grain the fowls will eat 
should be given at this time. Of course 
provision must he made for green feed 
of some kind every day and grit, 
crushed oyster shells and fresh water 
should always be accessible. 
C. S. G. 
A Dairy Ration. 
Give a ration for dairy cows say 1,000- 
pound cows, from the feeds to be obtained 
here, a very limited number. We can obtain 
the following at prices given : Bran, wheat, 
$30 per ton ; ship stuff, $36; cornmeal $36; cot¬ 
ton-seed meal, $40; dried beet pulp, $28; 
cotton hulls. $20; mixed hay, $23. 
Danville, Va. ‘ j. t. w. 
You certainly cannot afford to pay $36 
per ton for cornmeal and ship stuff un¬ 
less you are getting more than four 
cents a quart for your milk. Neither 
would it pay to buy cotton hulls at $20 
per ton. when they analyze but little 
over one per cent of protein. It would 
be cheaper to fill the cows up on hay at 
$23 per ton, although that is very high. 
The following balanced ration is the 
cheapest and most practical combination 
I can make from the feeds mentioned: 
NEW-YORKER 
Dry 
matter 
Feeding stuff. 
18 lbs mixed 
hay .15.678 
4 lbs wheat 
bran . 3.52 
4 lbs. dried 
beet pulp... 3.744 
3 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed meal. . 2.76 
Digestible Nutrients. 
Carbohy- 
d r a t e a 
Protein and Fat. 
.759 
.488 
.272 
1.116 
8.325 
1.812 
2.616 
1.332 
20.1 
02 
2.635 14.0J5 
While this is an expensive ration, 
costing over. 38 cents a day for each 
cow, it should only be fed to those 
which give from 15 to 20 quarts of milk 
a day. For cows giving a smaller 
amount of milk less feed can be given. 
It would be advisable, however, to mix 
the grain in the proportions given except 
for cows which are within three or 
four months of parturition and for at 
least two. weeks, thereafter, during which 
time the cotton-seed meal should be 
omitted. In starting to feed cotton-seed 
meal or any concentrated feed always 
begin with a very little and increase 
very gradually. This is where the skill 
of the feeder is tried to its utmost. 
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