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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
February 21, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
TTNDEK 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. 
Jiy “protein” is meant the elements in the food which go 
to make muscle or lean meat. “Carbohydrates” comprise 
the starch, sugar, etc., which make l'at 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” rat ion means 
one which shows a larger proportion of carbohydrates 
Dairy Ration. 
With the price on gluten $1.55; cot¬ 
tonseed meal $1.75, oil meal $1.80, wheat 
bran $1.35, cornmeal $1.50, give me the 
best and cheapest ration for cows in milk. 
For the past 10 days I used gluten 100 
pounds, cottonseed meal 100, oil meal 10, 
and mixed it and fed from four to five 
quarts per cow, hut I would like to 
know if that is a good feed. If not let 
me know. c. H. 
Callicoon, N. Y. 
This is a good ration as it stands, but 
would be a little better if you will add 50 
pounds of bran. The ingredients you are 
using are very heavy, and if something 
light and bulky be added, like wheat bran, 
digestion and assimilation will be better. 
C. L. 51. 
Improving a Ration. 
Will you advise me in regard to a bal¬ 
anced ration for cows? I have plenty of 
cob meal available, and am feeding four 
quarts of cob meal, one of cotton-seed a 
day. Could you make me a better bal¬ 
anced ration with cob meal in it? I have 
oat fodder, millet and plenty of good 
bay. H. p. b. 
Barkhamsted, Conn. 
I believe the following mixture will 
give slightly better results than the one 
you are using: Corn and cob meal, three 
pounds; cottonseed meal, two pounds; 
wheat bran, one pound; oil meal, one 
pound. c. L. M. 
Succulence Needed. 
Our heifer was two years old last 
month, and bad her first calf at the same 
time. We are not going to raise the calf, 
and weaned it when about 10 days old, 
so that the loss of milk is now becoming 
more apparent every day, cannot be at¬ 
tributed to the calf. We feed about a 
half peek of feed and bran at a meal, 
also cut cornstalks and Timothy bay 
plentifully, but the milk supply is steadily 
diminishing and I am anxious to find 
out the reason. Would you approve of 
gluten meal and oil meal with the bran 
and if so, what is the proportion or what 
recommend to improve 
G. B. D. 
The other 
station with 
ration would you 
the milk supply? 
Dunellen, N. J. 
Your heifer is showing the effects of 
Winter conditions and a lack of succulent 
feed. If you could procure a good sup¬ 
ply of silage, mangels or dried beet pulp 
you would prevent further shrinkage in 
milk from this cause, aud your heifer 
would keep in better condition physically. 
If you cannot get any of the above men¬ 
tioned succulent feeds you should feed at 
least three pounds of gluten or 2*4 
pounds of cottonseed meal and one pound 
of oil meal per day. The proportion of 
bran to these feeds would be about twice 
as much bran by weight. Timothy hay 
and cornstalks will dry cows up very fast, 
as a rule, unless special pains is taken 
to keep up the flow of milk with other 
feed. c. s. G. 
Read the Feed Analysis. 
day when I drove up to the 
a load of produce a farmer 
whom I knew stepped lip to me. show¬ 
ing a sample of bran from a carload he 
and his neighbor farmer had bought from 
a dealer in Buffalo, and which they were 
just unloading. The sample appeared to 
be a fair grade of bran, and as it was 
$1.80 per ton cheaper than at my deal¬ 
er’s, I decided to take a load. I hap¬ 
pened to meet my feed dealer and inci¬ 
dentally told him of my intention of load¬ 
ing from the car. lie warned me by 
asking if I had seen the analysis. I told 
him I had not, but had seen the bran, 
lie laughed and we parted. 
When I drove up to the ear the sacks 
were toppled into the sleigh loose and I 
occasionally noticed the print on them 
read “Blue Grass Feed,” etc. I reck¬ 
oned they were perhaps a lot of old mixed 
sacks, and relying on the integrity of the 
farmers handling the feed and thinking 
it was rather difficult to get a reliable 
analysis from the sacks I finished my 
load and drove away. On arriving home 
and unloading I found them to be all 
new sacks printed : “100 lbs. Blue Grass 
Feed. Guaranteed analysis: Protein 9- 
11; fat 2-3 ; fibre 16-17.” This appeared 
to me as if I was stung, but when I com¬ 
pared the analysis with that of my $28 
bran, I knew I was. Following is the an¬ 
alysis of the better bran, so one can 
draw his own conclusions: Protein 15.50; 
fat 4.50; fibre 8.50; carbohydrates, sugar 
and starch 33.00. What I wish to im¬ 
press your readers with is that you can¬ 
not judge a feed from its appearance, and 
while I tasted and chewed this bran I 
could not distinguish, till I chewed the 
better bran, when the woodiness of the 
former became apparent. F. w. K. 
Wyoming Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Yes, and be sure to read 
all the analysis. You may find this “in¬ 
cluding mill run of screenings” which 
means that sweepings, screenings and 
weed seeds may have been run into the 
bran. 
Results of Balanced Ration. 
I was called upon to attend to the feed¬ 
ing of six cows for a farmer during a 
part of the Winter season. The cows 
were going dry, the best one giving only 
about 12 pound a day, though they should 
have been giving good messes. They were 
fed silage and hay in reasonable propor¬ 
tions but their grain ration was com¬ 
pletely out of balance. It consisted of 
bran, cornmeal and hominy, and was fed 
by measure regardless of weight, though 
the full weight was sufficient, but lack¬ 
ing in protein content. When that grain 
was gone, I replaced it with linseed meal 
(old process), cornmeal and cottonseed 
meal. I should have used gluten instead 
of cornmeal but it was not in stock. I 
proportioned these feeds to form a bal¬ 
anced ration and fed the same amount 
by weight which the farmer had fed. 
Each of those six cows doubled her milk 
production in a few days and the ex- 
peuse of the feed was actually lessened. 
New York. c. it. 
Another Dairy Ration. 
What do you consider a good, not 
too expensive grain ration for two cows? 
We have plenty of good quality meadow 
hay mixture of Blue grass, Herd’s grass 
and common bunch grass. Prices are: 
Bran, $1.45 per bag; middlings, $1.65; 
gluten, $1.75; linseed, three cents per 
pound about. We have no silage, corn 
fodder or oats of any kind. Cows are 
Holstein, heifer and Holstein Jersey five 
years old, kept for home use, latter due 
to freshen next June. A. h. s. 
Caudia, N. II. 
Mix two parts by weight of gluten, one 
of bran and one of middlings. If the 
middlings are the brown sort so common 
on the market, and really only finely 
ground bran, use cornmeal instead* of mid¬ 
dlings. Of this grain mixture feed one 
pound per each 3 y% pounds of milk pro¬ 
duced. Give a little more to the cow due 
to freshen in June until April 1 to 15, 
when she should be dried off. When dry 
feed her two to four pounds daily, or 
enough so that she will be in smooth con¬ 
dition when she freshens. Feed hay two 
or three times daily, all the cows will 
eat up clean. Do not feed cornmeal for 
three or four weeks before the cow 
freshens. c. L. M. 
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