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THE RURAL NEW.YORKER 
March 28, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
T J NDElt this heading we endeavor to give ad- 
vice and suggestions about feeding mix¬ 
tures of grains and fodders. No definite rules 
are given, but the advice is based upon experi¬ 
ence and average analysis of foods. By “pro¬ 
tein'’ is meant the elements in the food which 
go to make muscle or lean meat. “Carbohy¬ 
drates” 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. 
Milk for Cow Feed. 
Would it be injurious to feed warm 
separator milk back to a milch cow? 
Milford, N. Y. A. D. B. 
No. There would be no injury what¬ 
ever. Such milk is good cow feed and 
is frequently fed on most farms. The 
results would be better from feeding such 
skimmed milk to little pigs or hens. As 
cow feed, however, such milk will give 
good results, and is not an unnatural 
feed as you claim. 
Dairy Ration. 
Will you give a balanced ration for 
Jersey cows in order to get the most 
butter? I feed early-cut well-cured 
mixed hay and water twice a day with 
the cold chill taken off. Grain available, 
cornmeal, cottonseed meal, oil meal, mixed 
feed, hominy, Ajax flakes, bran middlings, 
beet pulp, oatmeal and feed flour. Please 
give me a ration for the same cows in 
Summer while at grass. J. F. 
Maine. 
A good ration for your cows at present 
is cottonseed meal two parts (by weight), 
oil meal one part, cornmeal one part, and 
Ajax flakes two parts. When the cows 
are on pasture feed cottonseed meal three 
parts, cornmeal one part and bran one 
part. At present feed one pound of 
grain to 314 or four pounds of milk. Dur¬ 
ing the Summer the amount will depend 
on the amount of pasture. Give as much 
grain as will give a profitable increase in 
the milk production. c. L. if. 
Another Dairy Ration. 
Will you give me a balanced ration 
with these grains? I have nothing but 
corn fodder, and would like to have a 
balanced ration for my cows. Cottonseed 
$1.85; corn chop $1.35; oil meal $1.85; 
brewers’ grains, dried, $1.G0; gluten 
$1.60; bran $1.40^ 11 . L. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Mix 100 pounds of cottonseed meal, 
100 pounds oil meal and 200 pounds 
wheat bran. Feed six to eight pounds 
daily, according to the amount of milk 
the cow gives. c. L. if. 
Ration for Fattening Pigs, 
Will you give me a balanced ration 
for pigs 10 weeks old or more? I have 
corn, beans and middlings, corn at 80 
cents per bushel; beans $17 a ton, and 
middlings $28 per ton. We boil the 
beans in a 60-gallon iron kettle, then 
mix together and make into a slop. We 
fatten from 20 to 30 a year. 
New York. g. w. w. 
Equal parts corn and beans have about 
the nutritive ratio which gives best re¬ 
sults for feeding pigs. Toward the end 
of the fattening period the proportion of 
corn should be increased. Your method of 
preparing the beans is a good one. The 
amount to be fed depends of course on 
the appetites of the pigs, and the judi¬ 
cious feeder will be able to tell when the 
pigs have sufficient nourishment and yet 
are not overfed. c. L. M. 
Ration Without Succulents. 
I am just starting in the dairy busi¬ 
ness and as I do not have any silage or 
roots to feed would like you to give me 
a balanced ration of the following: Glu¬ 
ten $1.50; sugarota dairy ration $1.45; 
brown middlings $1.40; red dog $1.60; 
corn, oats and barley $1.40; wheat bran 
$1.45; oil meal $2; corn and oats chop 
$1.60; Buffalo dairy ration $1.45. I 
have cut corn fodder and mixed hay for 
roughage. My cows are most of Guern¬ 
sey breeding. The above named feeds 
are about all that can be bought in this 
vicinity. J. H. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
Mix together three parts, by weight, of 
gluten feed, two parts oil meal, two parts 
red dog flour, and three parts bran. It 
increases the palatability of feed to mix 
in two or three per cent, of fine salt, and 
I usually do it. It is also well to give 
the cows free access to salt, if convenient. 
Feed six to seven pounds a day to a cow 
giving 25 pounds of milk and more or less 
in proportion to milk production. 
C. L. M. 
v Ration for Brood Sow. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
brood sow before and after farrowing, 
made from following feeds? Cornmeal 
$1.55 per cwt.; bran $1.40; flour mid¬ 
dlings $1.60; linseed meal $2. s. F. K. 
New Jersey. 
Before farrowing give a thin slop of 
three parts by weight of flour middlings, 
two parts wheat bran and one part oil 
meal. The slop may be made with water, 
or if milk or whey is available, so much 
the better. There is little danger of 
overfeeding, if the sow has plenty of ex¬ 
ercise, and is supplied with charcoal, salt 
and ashes. For a few days before far¬ 
rowing, and for two days after, feed 
moderately. Then give a slop made of 
three parts middlings, one part cornmeal 
and one part oil meal. If there is any 
tendency toward constipation add two 
parts bran. After a few days the feed 
should be increased considerably, and 
the sow should have all she will eat 
three times daily, and still have a good 
appetite for the next feed. c. L. M. 
Balancing a Ration. 
How may I make up a balanced ra¬ 
tion out of the following: Cottonseed 
meal, per 100, $1.85; oil meal $1.75; 
molasses feed $1.25; cornmeal $1.40; 
bran $1.35; Timothy hay two feeds; sil¬ 
age one feed. E. P. v. A. 
New York, 
Mix three parts by weight of cotton¬ 
seed meal, one of oil meal, one of corn¬ 
meal and two of bran. Feed with the 
silage. Feed one pound of grain per 3*4 
pounds of milk. c. L. M. 
Molasses for Hogs. 
I am starting to raise some hogs and 
have no milk to feed nor any tankage. 
What do you think about feeding mo¬ 
lasses to hogs? What amount would you 
feed to pigs about six weeks old, and to 
a sow having newborn litter? How 
would you increase when pigs are getting 
older than six weeks? I would like to 
have some one answer this for me. 
Pennsylvania. E. a. k. 
Feeding molasses is commonly used to 
increase both the palatability and digesti¬ 
bility of the feed eaten. As hogs usually 
eat enough without molasses there is no 
reason why it should be fed to them for 
the purpose of increasing consumption, 
so for this reason molasses is not as 
valuable for pig feeding as it is for 
horses and cattle. Under some condi¬ 
tions, however, it is possible that mo¬ 
lasses may increase the digestibility of 
the other feeding stuff's eaten sufficiently 
to warrant its use for pigs. c. S. G. 
363.1 Bushels Potatoes 
From One Acre of 
Massachusetts Land 
A. Webster Butler of Brockton, Mass., 
won the first southern zone prize offered by 
the Bowker Fertilizer Company for the larg¬ 
est yield of best quality potatoes grown ex¬ 
clusively on Stockbridge Potato Manure. 
His acre was a “rocky loam” producing 
about 2 1-2 tons of hay per acre in 1912 on 
manure. Rows were 36 in. apart and Green 
Mountains cut to two eyes were planted 14 
inches apart. The piece was cultivated five 
times. The acre was sprayed with Pyrox. 
Local Butchers and Beef. 
I have read the article on the first 
page of February 21. The East is not 
the only place where the packers have 
the retail butchers handcuffed. About 
six weeks ago a farmer near here brought 
a fine three-year-old dressed beef to town, 
to sell to a butcher. I happened to go 
into the market right behind the farmer 
and heard him say he had four quarters 
of beef which he would like to sell to 
the butcher. All the satisfaction he gave 
the farmer was, “We can’t handle coun¬ 
try-dressed beef,” and no excuses or ex¬ 
planations given for choking the farmer 
off short. I bought one quarter of the 1 
beef and it was the best we have ever 
been able to buy in this town in the 19 
years that we have lived here. 
A month ago I took a basket of strictly 
fresh eggs into a grocery at Gary, Ind., 
and got 34 cents per dozen and at the 
same time they were selling them for 
44 cents per dozen and these same store¬ 
keepers are making a great howl because 
some people who like a square deal go 
to mail-order houses t oget it. h. 
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POTATO MANURE 
was applied 2100 lbs. broadcast and 700 lbs. 
in the drill. No other fertilizer or dressing 
of any kind was used. The entire crop 
weighed 21,783 lbs. or 363.1 bushels. His 
total score including quality points was 589 
points, the highest in the southern zone. 
Other Winners secured yields ranging from 
311.1 bushels to 502.6 bushels in the northern zone, 
(Me., N. H., Vt.,) and from 183.8 bushels to 363.1 
bushels in the southern zone, (Mass., R. I., Conn.) 
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yields of potatoes were obtained. No other fertilizer than 
the Stockbridge Potato Manure was used. 
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