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THE KUKAL NEW-VOKKER 
February 7, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
TTKDER tin's bending 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. 
“ Pry 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. 
Dairy Ration With Buckwheat. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
a milch cow when using buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings? F. E. w. 
If your cows are getting the ordinary 
mixed hay. corn fodder, and silage of 
most New York farms, as their rough- 
age, a good grain ration to go with them 
might be composed of equal parts by 
weight of eornmeal, wheat feed, aud buck¬ 
wheat middlings. Ground oats might re¬ 
place all or part of the eornmeal in this 
ration, and it would be made somewhat 
richer in protein if a portion of the buck¬ 
wheat middlings was replaced by cotton¬ 
seed meal. Such a combination as this, 
for instance, 50 pounds eornmeal; 50 
pounds ground oats; 100 pounds mixed 
wheat feed; 75 pounds buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings; and 25 pounds cottonseed meal. 
There is no end to the combinations that 
could be made, aud those feeds which 
furnish the required food elements in 
cheapest form should, as a rule, be 
chosen. Buckwheat middlings is one of 
the best, and usually in this State, one of 
the cheapest of the high protein feeds. 
M. B. D. 
Cottonseed and Wheat Bran. 
Will you give a balanced ration for 
dairy cows from the following feedstuffs: 
Clover and Timothy hay, shredded fodder, 
corn silage, oil meal and cottonseed? 
IIow many pints of oil meal and cotton¬ 
seed. testing 35 and 41% protein re¬ 
spectively, should be fed for cow? Which 
is the cheaper feed, wheat bran at $26 
or cottonseed at $36? Is it necessary to 
feed bran to receive a big flow of milk? 
Ohio. R. C. C. 
You seem to have an abundant variety 
of roughage and a lack of variety for the 
grain ration. You will necessarily have 
to feed your cottonseed and oil meal mixed 
with silage, or you can purchase bran, , 
dried brewers’ grains or dried distillers’ i 
grains to lighten up the grain ration and 
furnish the required bulk. You will find 
it is more accurate to weigh your grain 
rations instead of measuring by the pint. 
A good-sized cow in full flow of milk 
should be able to eat one pound of oil 
meal, three pounds of cottonseed and five 
pounds of wheat bran or dried brewers’ 
grains. Cottonseed meal is cheaper at 
$36 than wheat bran is at $26 per ton. 
It is certainly not necessary to feed 
wheat bran in order to get a large flow 
of milk. You can get just as good re¬ 
sults or even better results with dried 
brewers’ or distillers’ grains, which fur¬ 
nish bulk to the ration as well. With 
this grain ration you should feed a lib¬ 
eral allowance of silage twice a day, with 
hay or corn fodder at noon, the grain 
ration to he divided into two feeds for 
morning and night. C. S. G. 
Improving a Ration. 
Will you please tell me if I am feed¬ 
ing the following feeds to best advan¬ 
tage? I mix. 200 pounds wheat bran, 200 
pounds dried grain, 200 pounds cob meal 
and oats ground. Should I add 100 
pounds of linseed or cottonseed meal at 
$2 per 300? I feed oats on straw and 
corn fodder as roughage. Does it pay 
to feed oats on straw? Would beet pulp 
be good dry? Cows have water in manger 
all times. I feed about six to eight 
quarts per feed twice daily. Is that 
enough for cows in milk? ir. a. d. 
New T Jersey. 
You are feeding plenty of feed, hut 
you could add 100 pounds each of cotton¬ 
seed and oil meal to your mixture to good 
advantage. In order to get the full ben¬ 
efit from beet pulp it should be soaked, 
hut it may he fed dry with fairly good 
results. Oats should bo ground for cow’ 
feed in order to make them more digest¬ 
ible. You cannot expect a very large 
flow’ of milk when cows are fed straw and 
corn fodder for roughage. Cows require 
good early cut mixed or clover hay or 
Alfalfa or silage in order to produce a 
good flow of milk profitably. c. s. G. 
Ration With Beet Pulp. 
Will you give me a good feed with beet 
pulp and with malt sprouts for cows in 
all stages of lactation? Most of them 
have been coming fresh since the first 
part of September up to the present time. 
I sell my milk and would like to get as 
big a flow as possible. Beet pulp costs 
$1.50 per ewt.; sprouts $1.30; bran 
$1.30; middlings $1.50. I can get cotton¬ 
seed meal, oil meal and gluten. At pres- 
ent I feed wheat bran, middlings and 
eornmeal to all of my cows; half of them 
I feed sprouts and the other half beet 
pulp. I give them clover and Timothy 
hay and cornstalks and Alfalfa hay once 
a day. Could you tell me where I could 
buy Alfalfa a little cheaper than $27 per 
ton, as that is what it costs me now, and 
1 can get No. 1 cow hay, clover and Tim¬ 
othy at $18 per ton. M. T. 
New’ Jersey. 
I would recommend four pounds beet 
pulp, two pounds cottonseed meal, four 
pounds dried brewers’ grains, and two 
pounds eornmeal. Feed as much of this 
mixture as your cows require to produce 
the desired flow’ of milk. My experience 
with malt sprouts has not been very sat¬ 
isfactory, as they failed to produce the 
results which were obtained by feeding 
dried beet pulp and dried brewers’ grains. 
I cannot see why you should feed oil 
meal with dried beet pulp, as it is too 
expensive to feed unless it is required as 
a laxative as a rule. Cows which have a 
good supply of soaked beet pulp do not re¬ 
quire any other laxative feed, the greatest 
objection to the use of the oil meal being 
its cost. The ration given above will 
produce a good flow of milk, but no cot¬ 
tonseed or eornmeal should be fed to 
cows within two weeks after they freshen. 
The price you are paying for Alfalfa hay 
seems to be about the market price, and 
I do not know where you can buy it any 
cheaper. c. s. G. 
Bean Pods for Cows. 
I have a quantity of bean pods. Will 
it be safe to feed them to my cows that 
are due to freshen in March and April? 
I have never fed any. Some of my neigh¬ 
bors tell me they are good for cows. 
Newfield, N. Y. r. w. b. 
Bean pods may safely be fed to cows 
at any time. They are relished by cows, 
and contain considerable more nourish¬ 
ment than Timothy hay or corn fodder. 
If not fed in too large a quantity cattle 
will waste but a comparatively small 
amount of bean fodder, although it looks 
hard and unappetizing. c. L. M. 
Roots For Cows. —On page OS I saw 
an inquiry signed J. W. F., Delaware, 
asking whether beets and carrots can be 
fed to cows without making the milk 
taste. I worked for one man over 40 
years, and fed all kinds of vegetables, and 
never had any trouble with milk being 
flavored. There is nothing better for 
cattle than good sugar beets and carrots. 
Carrots are good for horses, and why not 
for cows? If you want a large flow of 
milk, there is nothing that I ever found 
equal to cabbage, to be fed just as soon 
as milking is finished, never before. If 
given before it will spoil the milk. I have 
fed a bushel basketful to each cow at 
one feed, and never spoiled any milk. 
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