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THE K.URAI> NEW-YORKER 
April 11, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
U NDER 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, liy “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 
ttie proportion of protein to carbohydrates is 
close—a “wide” ration means one which shows 
a larger proportion of carbohydrates. 
Ration for Jersey. 
Will you give me advice how to feed a 
Jersey cow, the best feed for milk and 
the right proportion? I have plenty of 
mangels and carrots and good hay; have 
been feeding gluten and bran, but do not 
know just what quantity we ought to 
give. F. B. G. n. 
A common proportion for mixing bran 
and gluten is three pounds of gluten to 
five pounds of wheat bran. Of course 
the proportions, and the quantity to feed 
depend to a great extent upon the kind 
of hay you are feeding, the condition your 
cow is in and the amount of milk she is 
giving. If your hay is Alfalfa or clover 
you would not require so much gluten, 
as cornmeal could be substituted at a 
lower price. In regard to quantity it 
is usually best to let the cow decide that, 
feeding all she will eat and digest proper¬ 
ly without getting off her feed. Your 
mangels and carrots should be cut into 
small pieces and fed liberally all that 
will be eaten with a relish twice a day. 
c. s. G. 
Another Milk Ration. 
Will you give your opinion as to feed¬ 
ing both milch cows and young stock 
the following feeds? 800 pounds rye, 
500 pounds oats, 500 pounds corn and 
cob, all being ground together; in addi¬ 
tion to the above feed the milch cows to 
have a fair allowance of dried brewers’ 
grains soaked with the mill-feed. If you 
think it would pay to buy and mix other 
concentrates with this feed, state what 
proportion and what feed. J. H. X). 
For milch cows I think you will find 
it profitable to mix 500 pounds of cotton¬ 
seed meal with your feed. For young 
stock your mixture is very good as it 
stands. c. L. m. 
Dairy Ration. 
Will you please give me a balanced 
grain ration for dairy cows fresh now till 
they go to pasture? For roughage I 
have clover and Timothy mixed hay. I 
have my own oats and corn, which I 
can grind myself, and have in stock bran, 
middlings and gluten feed, and can get 
oil meal or cottonseed meal. ii. c. P. 
If you will mix equal parts by weight 
of the feeds you have on hixnd, and two 
parts of either cottonseed or oil meal, 
preferably cottonseed, you will have a 
very good milk ration. Feed six to seven 
pounds to a cow giving 25 pounds of 
milk daily, and more or less in proportion 
to milk flow. C. L. M. 
Improving Milk Rations. 
I have a cow, part Jersey and Hol¬ 
stein, came in middle of November. I 
am only getting from four to five quarts 
of milk from her a day; am feeding her 
bran and middlings. Can you tell how 
to feed her to better advantage, to pro¬ 
duce more milk? Should she give more 
milk or is it the nature of the cow? She 
is a young cow and in good health. 
Ohio. J. W. 
Bran and middlings with an unknown 
quantity of roughage makes a very poor 
ration for the production of milk, so any 
cow freshening in November whether 
naturally productive or not, could not be 
expected to give a large quantity of milk 
at this time. If, for example, you are 
feeding mixed hay you should add one 
pound of oil meal and two pounds of 
cottonseed meal to your grain ration, 
and you will have a much better chance 
of producing a satisfactory flow 'of milk. 
C. S. G. 
Winter Feed for Farm Horses. 
We find that it is impossible to give 
any set rule for feeding either a -working 
horse or one that is idle. It is mainly 
a matter of judgment, and best results 
can be secured only after long experience. 
During the Winter, when horses are do¬ 
ing practically no work, about the best 
method is to turn them out in the barn¬ 
yard, where they can have plenty of 
cornstalks to pick at, and where they 
have plenty of room to exercise. With 
such treatment an ear of corn twice a 
day will be all the grain required. In 
Spring and Summer, when doing very 
hard work, we feed good sound corn for 
their grain ration, and govern the quan¬ 
tity by the size of the horse. Eight or 
nine large ears (or three to four quarts 
shelled corn) would be an average meal 
for a medium-sized farm horse. For 
medium work oats and corn mixed half 
and half and fed at the rate of three 
to four quarts to a meal will give satis¬ 
factory results. 
The condition of a horse, however, does 
not depend on the grain ration alone. 
The hay fed night and morning will 
count fully as much as the grain, and 
it should be bright and clean, and* cured 
so as to be palatable to the horse. Al¬ 
falfa and clover fed in moderate amounts, 
either night or morning; or preferably 
mixed with good bright Timothy and fed 
both night and morning will do much to 
keep the horse in ideal working trim. 
South Jersey. tbucker, jb. 
Ration With Molasses. 
I am feeding four pounds of dried 
beet pulp wetted with molasses dissolved 
in hot water; also one pound wheat bran, 
two pounds gluten, and two pounds cot¬ 
tonseed meal a day. Is this a, good ra¬ 
tion, or would you advise some change? 
Do you think it profitable to feed mo¬ 
lasses? I have plenty of clover and 
Timothy hay, but no silage. M. A. A. 
I see no reason for making any change 
in the ration you are feeding. I believe 
that a certain amount of molasses may 
be fed profitably. It furnishes a compar¬ 
atively cheap source of carbohydrates, 
and also has a good effect on the diges¬ 
tion. c. L. M. 
Silage for Horsei. 
Every year there are questions about 
the wisdom of feeding silage to horses. 
Here is positive advice from the Colorado 
Experiment Station: 
“Silage is not a safe horse feed. It 
is used to some extent for that pur¬ 
pose, but the feeder must be extremely 
careful in the examination of the silage 
that goes to the horses. Horses are 
more subject to digestive derangements 
than most other live stock, and while 
a comparatively small amount, say a 
fifth of their feed, by bulk, may consist 
of good silage, there is great danger 
from overfeeding, or from the feeding of 
moldy or spoiled silage. 
“It is impossible wholly to prevent 
moldy spots in silage, these being caused 
frequently by imperfect packing, leaving 
slight air pockets. Also, it is very diffi¬ 
cult to make sure that there are none of 
these moldy spots in silage which is being 
fed. Its use should be confined chiefly to 
growing colts and idle horses. As it con¬ 
tains about 75 per cent, water, it causes 
a horse to sweat easily and affects him 
otherwise in the same way that green 
feed or pasture does.” 
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