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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
September 4, 1915, 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Summer Dairy Ration. 
What should be fed for a balanced ra¬ 
tion for cows on upland pasture? I 
have fed 200 pounds middlings, 200 
pounds cornmeal and 100 pounds oil 
meal, while the cows were fed such hay 
as we have. I have no silo. 1 have con¬ 
tinued this same feed during the pasture 
season, but do not think that I get the 
best results, as I notice that the cream 
lias little specks in it before it is ready 
to skim. I can get brewers’grains or dry 
grain but do not know just what I should 
get. J. B. T. 
New York. 
This ration seems good although for 
the Summer season I would substitute 
some cottonseed meal, 100 pounds mid¬ 
dlings, 100 pounds bran, 100 pounds 
cornmeal, 100 pounds cottonseed and 100 
pounds oil meal. The oil meal makes soft 
butterfat; cotton seed produces a hard 
butterfat. Tbs ration has, I believe, 
nothing to do with specks in cream. I 
could tell of these better if told more of 
color and size, and age of cream. 
Ohio. W. 
Value of Sweet Corn. 
1. What feeding value is there in sweet 
corn for pigs and brood sows when cut 
about two feet high with a good stand 
of vetch growing together? 2. I have 
made the cover crops in the field corn of 
rye and vetch, inoculated the vetch. The 
owner of the farm says rye is no good 
as a cover crop. 3. Are 500 chickens 
raised from 42 hens, a fair showing with 
eggs for owner’s use besides? This is 
for four months ending July 28. N. B. 
Massachusetts. 
1. There is very little difference noted 
in the content of sweet corn at this ma¬ 
turing stage from that found in dent 
corn of the same period of growth. The 
value of an acre of sweet corn for hog¬ 
ging off, where it is supplemented by a 
cover crop of vetch, would depend, of 
course, upon the stand of the corn, its 
growth, and maturity. Pound for pound 
it ought to be worth quite as much as 
field corn, and would, no doubt, be even 
more palatable, and the pigs would clean 
it up with more relish. Calculating then, 
that the sweet corn would yield 35 bush¬ 
els per acre, and assuming that the pigs 
would clean up for the most part the 
stalks and the vetch, a conservative es¬ 
timate as to the value of the forage that 
might thus be obtained would approxi¬ 
mate $50. It might be added, however, 
that the vetch is not very palatable for 
swine, and it is probable that they would 
tramp over it and damage it materially 
until the sweet corn was pretty well 
cleaned out. 
2. The value of rye as a cover crop is 
considerable, due to the fact that it pre- 
vents washing, preserves the valuable 
plant food that might be washed away 
during the dormant season; and if 
1 (lowed in before it reaches maturity it 
adds considerable humus or vegetable 
matter to the soil. As compared with 
vetch it does not have the ability to 
gather nitrogen from the air as it is not 
a legume; but it would be unfair to make 
the statement that rye has no value as a 
cover crop. In sections of this State 
where Crimson clover can not be grown to 
advantage, a mixture of rye and vetch, in 
the proportion of one bushel of rye and 
25 pounds of vetch per acre is often re¬ 
commended, and, as noted above it has a 
real value as a cover crop. 
3. I should say that 500 chickens pro¬ 
duced from 42 hens was a very fair reali¬ 
zation of a season’s activities, consider¬ 
ing the fact that this does not provide for 
the eggs used by the owner; neither does 
it provide, probably, for such eggs as 
may have been sold for market purposes. 
It would seem that this flock had been 
well managed if i.t was operated on a 
general farm where special attention is 
not directed to the poultry flock. 
F. C. MINKLER. 
N. J. Experiment Station. 
Ration for Duroc Hogs. 
I intend to purchase a Duroc sow 
bred to farrow next April. I have about 
two and one-half acres of Blue grass and 
White clover pasture, ; nd intend to feed 
some tankage. It is desired to grow the 
pigs as rapidly sis possible and market 
them at six or seven months of age. For 
a litter of six pigs what grain ration 
would you recommend, and would they re¬ 
quire any other forage in addition to the 
Blue grass and White clover? In what 
proportion should the tankage be fed? 
Pennsylvania. G. L. K. 
Those Duroc-Jersey pigs would require 
a grain ration in addition to the Blue- 
grass and the White clover pasture. A 
useful mixture for brood sows suckling 
pigs, which could be used as well for the 
young pigs until they are weaned and 
until they weigh 100 pounds, is as fol¬ 
lows: 100 pounds corn, 40 pounds stand¬ 
ard middlings, 15 pounds wheat brand. 
10 pounds digester tankage, 5 pounds oil 
meal, two pounds bone meal. With the 
exception of the corn, the ingredients 
may be mixed and fed in the form of a 
thick slop, in such quantities as the brood 
sows and their pigs will clean up with 
relish. The corn may be fed either soak¬ 
ed to the young pigs or shelled after they 
are old enough to eat it with relish. We 
find it a distinct advantage to keep the 
pigs growing vigorously from the very day 
of their birth. Since it costs quite as 
much to put on the third hundred pounds 
as it does to put on the first two hundred 
pounds, it is economical to market the 
pork when it is in prime condition and 
when it will bring the newest dollar. If 
G. L. K. could construct a self-feeder 
and use in this feeder shelled corn, stand¬ 
ard middlings and tankage he would find 
that his pigs would grow vigorously and 
gain economically. It might be well to 
have a crate so situated as to enable the 
young pigs to patronize an individual self- 
feeder so isolated that their mother could 
not bother them when they are hungry. 
The 2*4 acres that you have in pasture 
would much more than supply forage for 
the Duroc-Jersey sow and her litter. We 
find that with the grain ration suggested 
above, each acre of forage in good con¬ 
dition during an average season will pas¬ 
ture conveniently from 1,500 to 2.000 
pounds of live weight pork. As a general 
rule, for growing pigs it is not necessary 
to utilize more than 10 per cent of diges¬ 
ter tankage, even though nothing is fed 
supplementing the tankage except corn. 
The pigs should be weaned when they 
are eight weeks old, and you should not 
be satisfied with less than a pound of 
gain per day after the pigs weigh 40 
pounds. In addition to the grain ration 
suggested above it would be well to keep 
before them at all times a mineral mix¬ 
ture composed of charcoal, air-slaked lime, 
salt and sulphur in equal proportions. 
F. C. M. 
Ration for Milch Cows. 
Will you give me the proportion for 
mixing a balanced ration for milch cows 
from the following grains? Cottonseed 
meal, oil meal, gluten meal, sprouts, dried 
distillers’ grains and bran. I.. X. 
New York. 
You have really more of a variety of 
grains than is necessary to form a well 
balanced ration, so it would be better 
to omit those which are not required and 
add a small amount of cornmeal which 
is necessary to balance the ration, as the 
feeds you mention all contain a high pro¬ 
portion of protein. It is also necessary 
to know what roughage you are feeding 
in order to formulate a proper ration. 
If your cows are on good pasture or have 
plenty of early-cut mixed hay the follow¬ 
ing formula will produce very good re¬ 
sults : Five pounds distillers’ dried 
grains, one pound gluten feed, one pound 
oil meal, one pound cottonseed meal, two 
pounds cornmeal. This ration should be 
divided into two feeds and fed morning 
and night varying the quantity accord¬ 
ing to the requirement of each cow and 
the amount of milk she is giving. 
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