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i'HE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 24, 
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 luei 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. 
Feeding a Family Cow. 
What do you know about dried beet pulp 
as a feeding ration for a family cow for 
producing a good flow of milk and making 
butterV Cornmeal is $1.50 per 100 pounds; 
oil meal, $2.50; buckwheat middlings, $1.50 ; 
wheat bran, $1.50, and ground oats, $1.00. 
What amount of each would make a good 
ration, and how much to feed per day? 
How fed, in slop or dry? For roughage I 
have corn fodder, Timothy hay and sheaf 
oats cut rather green and" not" very coarse 
in straw. 
Cooperstown, Pa. p. a. 
Dried beet pulp is an excellent feed 
for milch cows, especially when silage 
is not available. From three to 10 
pounds per day can be fed to each cow 
with good results under certain con¬ 
ditions. It should always be wetted be¬ 
fore feeding, using as much water as is 
necessary thoroughly to saturate it. 
Your roughage is not the best for the 
production of milk and butter, there¬ 
fore unless it is of extra good quality 
it will not produce satisfactory results. 
Timothy hay, especially when cut late, 
makes good horse hay, but it is too 
hard and dry and contains too much 
carbonaceous matter in proportion to its 
nitrogenous elements to produce milk in 
paying qualities. Corn fodder is fairly 
good feed during the Fall and early 
Winter, but it must be cut or shredded 
before cows will eat it without too much 
waste. When cold weather comes and 
the fodder gets dry and hard it becomes 
unsatisfactory in a milk-producing ra¬ 
tion. Sheaf oats, too, make better horse 
feed than cow feed, but of course they 
can be used in the absence of anything 
better. 
I would advise feeding all the hay, 
corn fodder and sheaf oats your cow 
will eat, feeding according to her appe¬ 
tite, preference and the available sup¬ 
ply. If your cow is a good milker, of 
medium size, it would probably pay you 
to feed her about five pounds of dried 
beet pulp wet and mixed with about 
eight pounds of buckwheat middlings 
and wheat bran, equal parts by weight 
mixed dry before mixing with the beet 
pulp. These amounts are only given 
as an illustration of an average ration, 
and not as a rule to go by, as some cows 
require more and others less. If your 
cow refuses to eat the buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings, or if the butter is too salvy, I 
would reduce the quantity of middlings 
and add a little cotton-seed meal. Any 
change in feed that you may make must 
be made very gradually, and its effect 
noted carefully in order to obtain the 
best results. c. s. G. 
Balancing Home-Grown Food. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
milch cows from the following: 
Ear corn (chopped), oats (chopped), corn 
fodder (chopped i. clover hay, all grown on 
farm; wheat bran, about $20 per tou; 
black molasses, about 11 cents to 12 cents 
per gallon. At the same time state whether 
you would suggest anything more to in¬ 
clude with the above. 
Spring City, Pa. e. s. 
It is impossible to compound a bal¬ 
anced ration from the feeding stuffs 
mentioned that would be practical for 
feeding, as they do not contain a suffi¬ 
cient proportion of protein. It will 
therefore be necessary for you to add 
a small amount of some concentrated 
protein feed like gluten, oil meal or 
cotton seed. I would suggest that you 
add a pound of old process linseed meal; 
as you do not mention any succulent 
feed the oil meal will partly make up 
this deficiency. You should also add a 
pound of cotton-seed meal and you 
would then have a perfectly balanced 
ration, as follows: 
—Digestible— 
Carbo- 
Dry 
Pro- 
hydrates 
Feeding stuff. Matter. 
tein and Fat. 
Clover hay 
(12 lbs.) . .10.2 
.816 
4.752 
Corn fodder 
(8 lbs.) . . 4.65 
.20 
2.084 
Corn and 
cob meal 
(2 lbs.) . 
. 1.7 
.088 
1 QO 
Oats (ground: 1 lb.).. .80 
.002 
.568 
Wheat bran 
(4 lbs.).. 3.52 
.488 
1.812 
Molasses (2 
115s.). 1.58 
■ 1S2 
1.19 
Cotton-seed 
meal (1 
lb.) _ 
.02 
.372 
.444 
Linseed meal (1 lb.-... .91 
.203 
.485 
24.37 
2.531 
13.565 
Nutritive 
ratio 1 :5.36 
Your corn fodder should be cut in 
short lengths] or shredded and steamed 
by pouring hot water over it and letting 
it stand covered with an old blanket for 
several hours before feeding to make it 
more palatable. It would also improve 
it to salt it a little. The roughage 
should be fed three times a day as best 
suits your convenience, and the grain 
divided into two feeds for night and 
morning. Before mixing the molasses 
with grain it should be dissolved in 
three times its bulk of water. It then 
mixes readily with dry or wet grain. 
Of course the quantity to feed each cow 
must be regulated by the feeder. This 
ration is intended for an average-sized 
cow in full flow of milk. c. s. G. 
Corn as a Foundation. 
Could you give me a balanced ration 
from the following feeds? Corn on the- 
ear and oats I have; corn is worth 50 
cents per bushel, and oats are 40 cents. 
The following I can buy : Gluten, $30 per 
ton; old process oil meal, $40; shorts. 
$25.50 ; cotton-seed meal, $34 ; bran, $24.75. 
and hominy, $26. Corn I have very plenti¬ 
ful, and would like to feed as much as 
would he profitable. i. z. m. 
New Holland. Pa. 
I would advise grinding your corn and 
oats together, equal parts, cob and all, 
or if you have more corn than oats you 
could use two parts corn and one part 
oats. Then make a mixture as follows; 
400 pounds ground corn and oats, 200 
pounds cotton-seed meal, 100 pounds 
linseed oil meal and 300 pounds wheat 
bran. Feed of this mixture as much 
as is required by each cow. You dc» not 
state what roughage you are using, so I 
cannot make the ration scientifically bal¬ 
anced, but the above mixture will pro¬ 
duce good results when properly fed. 
If you have clover or Alfalfa hay of 
good quality you should only feed half 
the quantity of cotton-seed meal, and 
if you feed silage you do not require any 
linseed meal. c. s. G. 
Damage from Vicious Animals.— In 
England an interesting farm case has 
gone up to the highest courts. A farm 
laborer walked across a farmer’s field 
along a path which was habitually used 
by the public as a short cut. While in 
this field and on this path the man was 
attacked and bitten by a vicious horse, 
owned by the farmer and known by 
him to be vicious. The laborer sued 
for damages and won $500 in the lower 
court. This was appealed and the appeal 
granted by. two higher courts, which 
held that the laborer was a trespasser, 
and therefore in the field at his own 
risk. Final appeal was made to the Eng¬ 
lish House of Lords and the original 
verdict upheld. The highest court held 
that since the path across this field had 
been habitually used by the public, the 
owner gave tacit permission to the labor¬ 
er to use the path. As the owner knew 
the horse was dangerous, and put up 
no notice to that effect, he was respon¬ 
sible for damage done on a public way. 
The moral of this is, do not let your 
fields become habitually used by the pub¬ 
lic, or you will become responsible for 
damage from your stock the same as if 
they were on the public road. 
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