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Live Stock and Dairy 
MODEL DAIRY BARN. 
F IGS. 630 and 631 show a New York 
State barn which is considered by 
the farmers in the neighborhood as an 
ideal one for a 120-acre farm. As shown 
by the lay-out, it has stanchions for 34 
cows with two box stalls which can be 
used for calves, or cows when calving. 
The stable is equipped with modern 
swing stanchions and water buckets be¬ 
tween every; two cows. The rows of 
cows face each other, which is the most 
convenient arrangement for feeding; the 
manure carrier runs on track behind each 
row of cows and is dumped directly into 
the manure spreader in barnyard. 
It will be noted that the feed room is 
most conveniently located for feeding 
both horses and cows. The silo opens 
into the alley at the other end of barn 
and the hay comes from above directly 
in front of the cows. A block and tackle 
is used to hoist the feed into the bins 
above the feed room. 
This main barn has cement floors 
throughout, the cement floor being 
planked over for the horse stalls only. 
This plan of barn with variations to suit 
individual requirements might well be 
taken as a model by those having build¬ 
ing problems to solve. W. D. 
Breeders Have Greater Weight than Breed. 
£<TT7TIICII breed is best?” This ques- 
VV tion was put to Holstein, Jersey, 
Guernsey, Ayrshire, and Brown Swiss 
men at the National Dairy Show. A 
stock answer which came from unpre¬ 
judiced men was: “They are all good.” 
One Holstein man declared: “It is lit¬ 
tle difference whether you keep Ilolsteins 
or Jerseys, Guernseys or Ayrshires, or 
Swiss as far as the man himself is con¬ 
cerned, but the man who tries to keep 
one breed when his market demands the 
product of another breed, is in a situa¬ 
tion which may run the milk producer 
aground in the dairy business. A man 
must be in harmony with public senti¬ 
ment. and in our town it was for Jer¬ 
sey milk. No other milk would be con¬ 
sidered in the local trade, but we now 
have several good Holstein herds of wide 
reputation for breeding in the city limits, 
and by breeding for butterfat, we have 
turned sentiment in favor of our breed. 
It took time, and the advertising of our 
herds, sales of our stock and 
our annual sales, were indirect ad¬ 
vertising which turned people our way. 
Our city papers gave our pure¬ 
bred activities frequent mention and our 
milk has become equally popular with 
that of the Island cattle. A man with 
less money starting in the dairy business 
should secure cows noted for richness of 
cream, if this is demanded in his locali¬ 
ty, and if any particularly breed is fav¬ 
ored he should make that his choice. He 
cannot afford to attempt to divert public 
sentiment in favor of his chosen breed.” 
Another prominent dairyman said: “I 
would take a rough cow census. If the 
locality in which I would engage in the 
business might be a center in which 
great cows of a certain breed were de¬ 
veloped, and sires of note were produced, 
that would be the breed I would keep, 
even though I might have some prejudice 
in favor of some other breed. If I found 
that Guernseys were popular cows in the 
community, and that people were develop¬ 
ing them as grade herds I would go with 
the crowd. There is nothing in it for the 
man who stands alone championing a 
breed altogether different from that one 
adopted by his community. Holstein 
buyers will ignore his Island stock, 
while they pick up car lots among his 
neighbors. The lonely breeder is out of 
the game when it comes to hold a live 
stock sale of the predominant breed in 
his locality. If he should attempt to 
keep Guernseys in a Holstein center, he 
would be losing a vast amount of valua¬ 
ble advertising which his locality has ac¬ 
quired for its favorites.” 
From another source came the sugges¬ 
tion : “The progressive policy of the 
breed in which I might be interested, 
would have some weight in my choosing 
or rejecting it. I would consider the 
possibility of whether or not the breed 
is backed by aggressive officers and mem¬ 
bers, and I would carefully consider the 
activities of the breed association in 
popularizing the animals I had under 
consideration.” W. J. 
THE RURA.lv 
FEEDING PROBLEMS. 
Ration for Heifers. 
1 WOULD like a feeding ration made 
from rough hay worth $10 a ton. oil 
meal and cottonseed meal $1.65 per 
cwt., hominy $1.40, corn $1.60. leaving 
out the corn if you can or using instead 
of hominy and would like to know dif¬ 
ference if good Timothy is used at $15 
a ton or even bought Alfalfa at $21 to 
$22. This is for heifers. F. w. K. 
Ohio. 
For a grain ration to use with the 
rough hay give a mixture of three parts 
26 ft. 
^ Tool Room 
Barn Floor 
26 ft. 
26 ft. 
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ration containing less succulence and 
more indigestible fiber. The grain ra¬ 
tion which you are feeding your cows 
should produce good results, but there 
is not much milk in over-ripe hay and 
silage made from poorly-eared corn. To 
make the best silage the corn should be 
well eared and just beginning to glaze. 
When put into the silo in this condition 
and -properly packed it furnishes one of 
the best Winter feeds for milk produc¬ 
tion. It has been found, however, that 
by the addition of about four pounds of 
dried beet pulp, soaked with all the 
water it will absorb at least eight hours 
before feeding, and mixed with the grain 
Manure Carrier 
Wagon House 
Cement F/oor 
24 ft. Door 
4 Horse 
St a!Is 
h 
3 
3 Feed Bins 
above 
6 X 12X !4 ft. 
Chutes toFeed Room. 
Feed Room 
to ft. 
Box 
\Slall 
Door 
62 ft. 
Door 
MfF 
!7 Stanchions 
Water Buckets 
Cement Water Dank in Hay Loft above 
10ft. 
S Box 
5 Stall 
£ 
Door Door lt8 ft. 
GROUND PLAN OF MODEL DAIRY BARN. Fig. 630. 
by weight of hominy feed, two parts bran 
and two parts oil meal. I do' not know 
just exactly what your rough hay is, but 
if it consists of wild grasses cut in good 
condition it is probably cheaper than 
Timothy at $15 per ton. If the Alfalfa 
is of good quality and well cured it is 
probably about an even thing whether 
you use Alfalfa or the rough hay at the 
prices quoted. In feeding Alfalfa leave 
out the oil meal from the grain ration. 
Feed three to five pounds of grain daily. 
C. L. M. 
ration just before feeding time, the milk 
flow can be materially increased. 
"Whether it will pay to go to the extra 
expense or not must be determined by 
each person individually as circum¬ 
stances and conditions may seem to war¬ 
rant. Under ordinary conditions, if it 
pays to feed a cow at all it pays to feed 
her well, and if by adding the beet pulp 
you can decrease the amounts of some 
of the other equally expensive feeds 
somewhat it is reasonable to expect that 
this change would prove to be profitable. 
C. S. G. 
Ration for Butter Making. 
W ILL you balance a ration for dairy 
cows, grade Ilolsteins? I am feed¬ 
ing, for roughage, about 10 pounds 
corn stover at morning, 10 pounds hay 
(mixed Timothy) noon, one bushel corn 
Many of our readers appear interested 
in building pit silos. As we all know, a 
pit silo is a hole in the ground plastered 
or bricked up and then filled with chopped 
corn or other crops, the same as any other 
silo. In some parts of the country these 
pits are quite satisfactory, but the 
ground has to be dry, with a low water 
DAIRY BARN FOR 120-ACRE FARM. Fig. 631. 
silage at night. For grain I have corn 
and cob meal, oats, barley and buck¬ 
wheat; can buy nearly any commercial 
feedstuff in this locality. I am making 
butter. c. E. w. 
A good grain ration to feed with the 
above roughage would be four pounds 
cottonseed meal or oil meal, two pounds 
corn and cob meal, and one pound each 
of ground oats and barley. 
level, in order to make them worth while. 
The North Dakota Farmers’ Institute No. 
3 for March, 1914, has issued a very good 
bulletin on this pit silo. There are plenty 
of pictures and a very sensible statement 
of conditions. It is published at Fargo, 
N. D., and is an interesting pamphlet for 
those who want to know about the sub¬ 
ject. 
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Ration for Dairy. 
W ILL you give me a balanced ration 
for cows? I have oat and pea hay, 
but it was very rainy at the time it 
was ready to be cut, and it is matured 
more than desirable. I have about 15 
tons of good mixed hay, about 140 tons 
of silage, not matured and eared lightly; 
the ears were in tlie dough when put in 
the silo. I pay tlie following prices per 
100 pounds: Ground oats $1.00: meal 
$1.90; bran $1.50; union feed $1.90; mid¬ 
dlings $1.55; mixed feed $1.65; cotton¬ 
seed $1.80 ; gluten $1.75 ; oil meal $1.90; 
hominy $1.80. I can also get dried brew¬ 
ers’ grain or distillers’ grain at about 
these prices. These cows are all grade 
Guernseys weighing from 800 to 1.000 
pounds. I have been feeding a mixture of 
bran, middlings, gluten, hominy, oil meal, 
cottonseed and union feed; this 1ms 
worked well with soiling, but since I be¬ 
gan to feed silage and oats or hay they 
have shrunk. F. P. w. 
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