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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
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Mixing a Grain Feed. 
W HAT would be a proper ration for 
a milch cow, 1000 pounds weight, 
fairly good condition with the fol¬ 
lowing feeds: Mixed hay, some clover, 
corn stalks, good quality of ships, Inter¬ 
national sugar feed, dried brewers’ grains, 
beet pulp, cottonseed meal and corncob 
meal. «l K - B - 
A good mixture would be three pounds 
cottonseed meal, two pounds brewers’ 
grains, two pounds corn and cob meal 
and one pound beet pulp. The beet pulp 
will be worth more if you wet it before 
feeding, then mix the other grains with 
it. c. L. M. 
Balanced Dairy Ration. 
W OULD you balance a ration for cows 
just freshened averaging from 1000 
to 1100 pounds, and milking from 
35 to 40 pounds daily? I have corn sil¬ 
age and mixed hay with very little clover. 
I have on hand cottonseed meal and 
wheat mixed feed; can buy bran at $30, 
gluten $35, ground oats $40 and distillers’ 
grains $38 per ton. R. a. j. 
New York. 
Cottonseed meal and mixed wheat feed 
in equal parts, by weight, will go very 
well with the roughage you have, though 
the addition of an equal amount of gluten 
feed would probably be an advantage. 
Feed about 10 or 11 pounds daily, prefer- 
ablv at two feedings, and with silage. 
C. L. M. 
the prices given: Gluten, per ton, $30; 
distillers’ dried grains $32; cottonseed 
meal $35; oil meal $38; cornmeal $31; 
wheat feed $30; sugar feed $25. 
c. E. H. 
For the grain ration mix three parts, 
by weight, of cottonseed meal, two of 
distillers’ dried grains, three of wheat 
feed and one of cornmeal. Feed grain 
with silage, about one pound to three or 
four pounds of milk. The relative quan¬ 
tities of hay, straw and silage will de¬ 
pend on your supply of each. Oat straw 
is not the best roughage for milk produc¬ 
tion, but a little may be used without de¬ 
triment. C. L. M. 
Grain With Peavine Silage. 
I AM feeding a grade Jersey cow that 
freshened Sept. 27 and a registered 
Jersey that freshened this week. I 
feed peavine silage from canning factory 
night and morning, what they will eat 
up clean. Noon feed, give hay cut from 
old meadow, hay is fine and has just a 
little small clover in it. I am feeding 
11/» pound of cottonseed meal night and 
morning with what parings, etc., come 
from house. What can I do to better 
this ration? I have pea silage to last 
till middle of March and have engaged a 
ton of Alfalfa to use when silage is gone. 
I can get bran and middlings at nearby 
mill for $1.65 per hundred. The grade 
Jersey averages about 19 pounds of milk 
per day. She gained about six pounds 
per day when I began feeding cottonseed 
meal about a month ago. On page 114, 
C. L. M. gives number of pounds to feed. 
Does that mean at one feed or to be fed 
during a day? Where can I get dried 
brewers’ grains? o. G. M. 
New York. 
Your ration will be improved by mak¬ 
ing it half cottonseed meal and half bran 
and middlings. Feed three pounds night 
and morning, and if this makes enough 
gain to warrant it, it may pay to increase 
the amount. When feeding Alfalfa hay 
make cottonseed meal one third of the 
grain ration. The ration referred to on 
page 114 was for one day. Any whole¬ 
saler in feeds can supply brewers’ dried 
grains. Your local feed dealer can prob¬ 
ably get them if he wishes. Distillers’ 
dried grains have about the same value. 
c. l. M. 
Thriftless Pigs. 
C AN you tell me what is the matter 
with my sow and pigs? I had a sow 
that had 10 pigs April 5; when the 
pigs were about four weeks old the 
mother got in the habit of catching young 
ducks. I moved the bunch to the lower 
end of the barn, in a pen about one- 
quarter acre in size, and they did nicely 
until last Fall. I put them in a small 
pen with plank floor. They seem to be 
hungry but will not eat what I give 
them; fine cornmeal. I give them as a 
grit coal ashes (soft coal) sulphur, salt 
and am trying some cattle powder now; 
cannot give them enough grit. A. D. 
New Jersey. 
We have 10 sliotes that will not eat 
enough feed to fatten them. We have fed 
different kinds of powders, but none 
have done any good. Flease tell me what 
to do? c. w. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Give the pigs their freedom. Confine¬ 
ment is causing the lack of thrift. Feed 
slop of milk, or hot water, middlings, 
cornmeal, oatmeal, and a little oilmeal. 
Add 10 per cent, of tankage after the 
pigs are eating and thriving well. Tank¬ 
age slop must be fed just after mixing. 
Soured slop of this sort is deadly in 
some instances. If worms are seen in 
the droppings, and they are to be sus¬ 
pected in such cases, mix copperas in the 
slop for five consecutive mornings, allow¬ 
ing one dram of it to every hundred 
pounds of body weight of pigs. Indeed 
it would be well to give them copperas 
in this way, on general principles. 
A. S. A. 
Ration for Holsteins. 
W ILL you give the most economical 
balanced ration for the production 
of milk, for grade Holsteins which 
freshened in September and October from 
the following feeds? I have mixed Tim¬ 
othy and clover hay, oat straw and corn 
silage, having to buy all the grain at 
Increasing Milk Flow. 
I AM feeding a ration consisting of two 
parts wheat bran, one part wheat mid¬ 
dlings, one part gluten, one part beet 
pulp. We are feeding cottonseed not 
mixed with this other feed to a cow that 
gives 18 pounds of milk at a milking; 
we are giving 1% pound cottonseed, feed¬ 
ing one pound of grain for three pounds 
milk. For roughage we feed shredded 
corn fodder twice a day and all the good 
hay they will eat up clean, yet the cows 
are shrinking on the milk. What is need¬ 
ed? w. E. T. 
New York. 
It will be advantageous to mix the cot¬ 
tonseed meal with the other grain, or else 
scatter it on the shredded corn fodder, 
as it is a very heavy, sticky feed, and is 
digested and assimilated better when 
mixed with something bulky. Your ra¬ 
tion at present is not far out of the way, 
but I believe it will be improved by add¬ 
ing two parts cottonseed meal, instead of 
feeding the cottonseed separate. c. L. M. 
The County Agent a Busy Man. 
A N ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure, and had one of the 
live Indiana county farm agents of 
today been placed over in rien Coun¬ 
ty, Mich., at the outbreak of the foot- 
and-mouth disease, it is the opinion of 
Chief Geo. M. Rommel, of the Animal 
Husbandry Division, Washington, that 
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