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THE KURA L H fc£ W-YORKER 
April 25, 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
T T NT)ER tills hending 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. 
Value of Mangels. 
Will you advise me whether sugar 
beets or mangels make a good feed for 
]>igs and which is the better? Should 
they be fed to pigs cooked or uncooked? 
AN hich will make the more milk when 
fed to cows? IIow will one peck beets 
compare in feeding value with one peck 
balanced ration of grain? j. r. m. 
Mangels or sugar beets, with a proper 
amount of grain, are very beneficial to 
hogs. The sugar beets contain consider¬ 
ably more nutrients than the mangels. 
I should advise feeding the beets raw. 
The nutritive ratio of beets is similar to 
that of oats. However, the beets con¬ 
tain about 00 per cent, of water, while 
the oats contain 10 per cent, of water. 
A fair comparison of beets with oats or 
barley would make one pound of the 
grain worth six to eight pounds of beets. 
The beets, however, cannot entix-ely take 
the place of grain, though on account of 
their succulence their feeding value may 
be more than their analysis alone would 
indicate. C. L. M. 
Feeding Work Horses. 
Will you balance a ration for horses 
weighing about 1,200-1,300 pounds from 
the following feeds? Oats GO; bran $1.45 
cwt.; mixed feed $1.60 cwt.; hominy and 
cornmeal $1.75; gluten $1.80; brewers’ 
grains $1.45. I have heard the gi'ains 
were good cheap horse feed. The horses 
are in good flesh and I would like to get 
them ready for the Spring work. 
New York. o. p. 
The following ration has been found 
by experiment to be satisfactory for 
horses weighing 1,000 pounds, and doing 
rather heavy work: Hay six pounds; 
wheat bran two pounds; corn, unground, 
four pounds; brewers’ dried grains, eight 
pounds. For farm wox-k my own advice 
would be to increase the amount of hay 
in the above ration to about 14 pounds 
for a 1,200-pound horse, and feed 15 
pounds of grain daily. This is for horses 
at hard work. When idle or doing light 
work decrease the grain. Oats alone, or 
two parts oats to one of corn by weight, 
also make a good working ration for 
work horses. Feed the same as above. 
c. L. M. 
Value of Sorghum Silage and Seed. 
Could the blades from stripping sor¬ 
ghum cane and the cane tops he used to 
advantage for silage, in connection with 
corn? If so about what proportion in 
weight would one dare use for good re¬ 
sults? Can you give me an approximate 
estimate of the food value of sorghum 
seed? A. V. II. 
Pomeroy, O. 
There is no reason why blades from 
stripping sorghum cane and the cane 
tops could not be used to advantage for 
silage in connection with corn; in fact, 
the sorghum fodder leaves contain about 
20% more protein than sorghum fodder, 
5% more di‘y matter and 20% more of 
the carbohydrates. 
According to Henry’s “Feeds and Feed¬ 
ing,” the digestible nutrients in sorghum 
seed are as follows: Crude protein, 
4.5% ; carbohydrates, 61.1%; fat, 2.8%. 
According to this analysis sorghum seed 
would compare favorably in feeding value 
to buckwheat flour or dried beet pulp, i 
the former having a trifle moi’e protein, 
while the latter, of course, contains no I 
fat. The fair valuation, thei’efore, of the [ 
feeding value of sorghum seed would be 
about $26 or $28 per ton. 
F. C. MINKLER. 
Ration for Holstein. 
Will you make up a balanced ration 
for a Holstein cow coming fresh in the 
middle of April? I have Timothy hay 
for roughage, and have oats that I caii 
have ground. I can buy all kinds of 
concentrates. What should I feed after 
turning out to pasture? b. s. 
New York. 
A very good ration would be as fol¬ 
lows: Ground oats three pounds, bran 
two pounds, oil meal two pounds and 
cottonseed meal two pounds. A good 
Summer feed for cows on pasture is cot¬ 
tonseed meal two parts, by weight, one 
part of cornmeal and one of bran. The 
amount which can be fed with profit will 
depend on the amount and succulence of 
the pasture grass. * c. l. m. 
Milk Ration ; Small Silo. 
Will you give me a ration for cows, 
milking, grade Jerseys, from S00 to 1,000 
pounds each, of the following feeds? I 
am feeding Timothy and clover hay, and 
have Ajax, cottonseed meal, cornmeal and 
bran. Can a silo be profitable when only 
four or six cows *re kept and what size 
of silo 20 feet high would be required? 
New York. w. ri. b. 
The following grain mixture will give 
you good x’esults: Ajax flakes two pounds, 
cottonseed meal, three pounds, cornmeal 
one pound and bran two pounds. It is 
doubtful whether a silo will pay for only 
four to six cows. However, this will de¬ 
pend on many conditions. You will have 
to consider the cost of filling the silo, 
including growing the crop, and also the 
returns from the milk. A cylindrical 
silo nine feet in diameter and 20 feet 
high will hold an ample supply of silage 
for six cows, but a better size would be 
seven by 30 feet. c. L. if. 
Fish Meal For Feeding. —In Ger¬ 
many feeders of beef cattle and hogs have 
been experimenting for sometime with 
fish meal as a feeding stuff. This meal 
is a ground-up residue from the extrac¬ 
tion of oil from fish. This oil is forced 
out by pressure after thox-oughly cook¬ 
ing the fish. The residue comes in the 
form of hard cakes, which are ground up 
into a meal and used for feed. For a 
time it was thought that this meal might 
prove injurious, especially when fed to 
dairy cattle, as it was thought likely 
that milk and butter would taste. This 
has apparently been overcome, and es¬ 
pecially for beef cattle and pork-making 
the use of the meal now seems to be 
growing rapidly. It is hardly likely that 
this method of feeding will develop very 
fast in this country, although we shall 
probably come to it eventually. All over j 
Europe the demand for cheap feeding 
products is constantly growing in excess 
of the supply, and European feeders are 
scouring the earth in the hope of ob¬ 
taining new and cheaper products. The 
ocean contains an almost inexhaustible 
supply of food for man, for beast and for 
plant. It is largely a matter of learning 
how to take out this plant food and 
make it available. 
“P’taters is good this mornin’, ma¬ 
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How is it that them you sold me last 
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of the basket than at the top?” “Waal,” 
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