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THLC RURAL 
NEW-YORKER 
January 17, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
1 TNDER 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 analysis of foods, 
lly "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. 
ROOT CROPS AND LEGUME SILAGE. 
How will root crops, such as beets, car¬ 
rots, etc., compare with silage? Can one 
feed carrots to milk and butter cows 
without flavoring the milk? Can turnips 
be fed to milch cows, and how do they 
compare with silage? Could cow Peas or 
Soy beans be put in a silo whole? Some¬ 
times late in the season the weather is 
unfavorable for curing hay, such as cow 
peas and Soy beans, and how would it 
be to pack them whole in the silo? 
Delaware. J. w. F. 
The comparative feeding value of corn 
silage, sugar beets, carrots and turnips 
based upon analysis of constituents is as 
follows: 
Nitrogen 
Crude Free 
Water Ash protein Fiber Extract Fat 
Sugar beets .. 
. 86.5 
0.9 
1.8 _ 
0.9 
9.8 
0.1 
Corn Silage... 
. 79.1 
1.4 
1.7 
6.0 
11.0 
0.4 
Carrots. 
88.6 
1.0 
1.1 
1 3 
7.6 
0.2 
Turnips. 
90.1 
0.9 
1.3 
1.2 
6.3 
0.8 
Dairy Ration. 
How is this for milk and butter? 
Please give proportions wheat bran, mo¬ 
lasses feed, oats, corn, clover hay and 
corn fodder. How much should I feed 
per pound of milk? f. f. b. 
West Virginia. 
None of the feeds you mention are 
very high in protein. The various brands 
of molasses feeds vary much in compari¬ 
son, so it is difficult to tell the value of 
this kind of feed without the analysis. 
Assuming yours is a good brand, analyz¬ 
ing 16 per cent or better of Protein, I 
would say that the following would be a 
good ration for a cow giving 20 pounds 
of milk daily: Clover hay, 12 pounds; 
corn fodder, 12 pounds; bran, two 
pounds; molasses feed, two pounds; 
ground oats, two pounds; cornmeal, one 
pound. This allows one pound of grain 
for about three pounds of milk. If you 
have to buy the cornmeal, I should omit 
it and feed proportionately more of the 
other grains. C. L. M. 
Feeding a Heifer. 
How should I feed our heifer, .‘l 1 /) years 
old? She will come in for the first time 
about March 1. Has suffered very much 
from indigestion. We have black grass, 
cornstalks, mangels, carrots and turnips. 
Island Heights, N. J. P. J. 
Black grass should be all light to feed 
your heifer twice a day, with cornstalks 
cut into one inch lengths at noon. The 
loots should be cut up and fed liberally 
twice a day. If your heifer is in good 
condition she will not need any grain 
with this feed until after she freshens. 
If you are careful not to overfeed at any 
time you should have no trouble with in¬ 
digestion. c. s. G. 
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It will be noted that the sugar beets 
and carrots contain a larger percentage 
of water, but smaller amounts of other 
constituents. However, from a stand¬ 
point of analysis pound for pound, there 
is not a great variation in feeding units; 
the difference, however, comes when one 
calculates the cost of production. The 
labor cost for growing, thinning, weeding 
and harvesting root crops is greater than 
that involved in growing corn for silage, 
and under ordinary farm conditions it 
is much easier to store corn in a silo 
than to put the roots in a cellar or cave 
well adapted to their preservation. An 
average yield of sugar beets would be 
about 20 tons per acre, carrots under 
similar conditions might yield 12 tons, 
while corn silage well matured could be 
expected to yield as much as 12 tons to 
the acre. The question resolves itself 
into one of labor cost, and in case 12 
or more cows are maintained in the herd, 
it is generally conceded that the average 
is decidedly in favor of the silage. Car¬ 
rots and mangels can be safely fed to 
dairy cows in case they are fed just after 
milking. When considering the matter of 
growing turnips for feeding dairy cows, 
it is a practice in South Jersey to Seed 
the ground intended for grass, with two 
ounces of turnip seed, at the time of 
making the seeding for grass, usually 
after potatoes in September, and pulling 
the turnips just previous to killing frosts. 
They are stored in heaps which are cov¬ 
ered with hay, and this practice seeming¬ 
ly is in great favor with the dairymen. 
The turnips are fed during the late Fall 
or early Winter, and usually if a large 
number of cows are maintained they have 
silage for later as well as Summer feed¬ 
ing. The same precautions in reference 
to the time of feeding should be taken, 
and unless they are fed in very large 
quantities no undesirable evidences are 
noticed in the flavor of the milk. Cow 
peas and Soy beans can be safely put in 
the silo, but should be mixed with corn 
in the proportion of five tons of corn to 
one ton of either cow peas or Soy beans. 
When the latter materials are ensiled by 
themselves the fermentation is excessive, 
and often burning results. The mass 
comes out of the silo with a very bad 
color, but is surprisingly palatable in 
spite of this condition. It was the prac¬ 
tice of the New Jersey Experiment Sta¬ 
tion for a number of years to ensile cow 
peas and Kaffir corn with the regular sil¬ 
age corn, and the silage was of a very 
high quality. F. c. M. 
Ration for Dry Cows, 
Will you balance me a ration for Jer¬ 
seys now dry, due to freshen in one to 
two months? For roughage I have corn 
silage, mixed hay, some clear clover hay 
and oat straw. Grain costs as follows: 
Cornmeal ,$1.60. bran $1.50, cotton-seed 
meal $2, oats 50, distillers’ dry grains 
$1.80. I have oats. G. T. s. 
Sinclairville, N. Y. 
For the present give one feeding per 
day of straw, silage and mixed hay, with 
three to live pounds of ground oats and 
bran, equal parts by weight, scattered 
over the silage. Two or three weeks 
after the cows freshen the following grain 
ration will be better for milk production : 
Cotton-seed meal, three pounds; distil¬ 
lers’ dried grains, three pounds, and corn¬ 
meal, two pounds. If you can get white 
or flour middlings at not very much more 
than cornmeal it will be better than the 
cornmeal. If you have plenty of silage 
it will be well to feed twice daily, about 
one half bushel per cow at a feed. I 
prefer not to feed straw to a fresh cow, 
or one giving a good flow of milk, but 
by giving a little more grain straw may 
be used for part of the roughage, when 
the quantity of hay is short. c. l. M. 
Buckwheat for Milch Cows. 
How much value, if any, is there in 
buckwheat for feeding for milk? 
Loon Lake, N. Y. w. g. l. 
Whole buckwheat, ground, would make 
an inferior grain ration for milk pro¬ 
duction, ranking with cornmeal in this 
respect. It is fattening rather than milk 
producing. Buckwheat middlings, how¬ 
ever, are one of the very best of milk 
producing foods, and the farmer should 
exchange his whole buckwheat for mid¬ 
dlings when he wishes to use buckwheat 
for dairy cows. Buckwheat middlings 
rank with brewers’ dried grains and 
gluten feed in milk producing value, but 
as the middlings are a local product in 
this State, they can usually be purchased 
cheaper than the others mentioned, and 
full advantage of this should be taken 
by dairymen who are in position to get 
them at home. Some find it difficult to 
understand why a portion of the grain 
can be superior to the whole as a milk 
producer. The reason is that the flour 
which is taken out when middlings are 
produced has little milk-making value, 
and may better be exchanged for the 
middlings out of some one’s else buck 
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