1254 
October 16, 1915. 
THE RURAL 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Practical Dairy Ration. 
Wo have a herd of Jersey and Guern¬ 
sey grades. What grains should we feel 
to get best results? We have plenty of 
silage made from well-matured cow peas 
and corn, load for load; can get dried 
brewers’ grains cheap, also feed molasses. 
I would like to know bow much ground 
grain we ought to feed and kind, with 
the silage. We also have plenty of Al¬ 
falfa hay. A. G. 
New Jersey. 
You have the foundation for an excel¬ 
lent dairy ration in your silage made from 
well-matured corn and cow peas, and Al¬ 
falfa hay. With these feeds grown on the 
farm you can produce milk and butter at 
a much lower cost than would be the case 
if all feed had to be purchased. I would 
recommend feeding the silage twice a day, 
morning and evening, with a light feed of 
Alfalfa at noon, just what will be eaten 
up clean in about half an hour. The 
grain ration may be mixed as follows: 
Five pounds dried brewers’ grains, one 
pound cottonseed meal, two pounds corn- 
meal. two pounds molasses. The. grains 
should be thoroughly mixed while dry, 
then the mo , -ss''S should be diluted with 
water so it will mix easily with the grain. 
This mixture is to be divided into two 
feeds and fed after the silage, or with it, 
as is most convenient, varying the quan¬ 
tity for each cow according to her indi¬ 
vidual requirements and the amount of 
milk she is giving. One pound of the 
grain mixture for every three pounds of 
milk a cow gives is usually about right 
for Jerseys and Guernseys. C. S. G. 
Dry Meal or Slop. 
Would you feed mixure of cornmeal, 
cottonseed meal and wheat bran to cows 
dry or sloppy to get most butter fat per 
amount fed? f. s. w. 
Tennessee. 
Tt. is not possible to alter the per cent, 
of butter fat in milk by making changes 
or variations in the rations fed to the 
cows. It is possible to increase the 
amount of milk, and maintain the persis¬ 
tency of the animals by feeding, a ration 
containing sufficient food units in proper 
proportions; but it has been demonstrated 
time and again that the butter fat pro¬ 
duction or test depends upon the individ¬ 
uality of the individuals in the herd, and 
that they are gifted by nature in pro¬ 
ducing milk containing a certain per¬ 
centage of butter fat, and that .man’s in¬ 
fluence in changing this production is not 
effective. A grain ration of 500 pounds 
cornmeal, 200 pounds cottonseed meal and 
100 pounds wheat bran would be a very 
useful mixture for feeding dairy cows, and 
should be fed dry and not in sloppy form. 
The succulence should be obtained by the 
use of silage, moistened beet pulp or for¬ 
age crops, and the roughage, preferably, 
should be Alfalfa or clover hay. One 
pound of this grain mixture for each three 
pounds of milk produced, and giving the 
cow in addition what silage and roughage 
she will clean up with relish, will, 1 be¬ 
lieve, give better results. F. c. M. 
Sows Eat Pigs. 
I am troubled by my old sows eating 
their pigs. I keep them most of the time 
on mixed feed mixed with cold water. Can 
you give me a ration to feed them on be¬ 
fore farrowing that would stop this habit? 
Massachusetts. J. D. 
It is seldom that a brood, sow will eat 
her pigs at farrowing time if she is pro¬ 
vided with sufficient food containing food 
nutrients in the right proportions. Very 
often the care-taker of a brood sow kills 
her with kindness; that is, just before 
farrowing he increases her ration or in¬ 
creases its palatability by changing the 
proportions, and as a result the sow over¬ 
eats; her udders become enlarged and fev¬ 
erish ; she evidences a nervous disposition, 
and as result she tramples and eats her 
pigs. Exercise is fundamental, and brood 
sows should not be confined in small or 
strange quarters at farrowing time. The 
ration should be reduced rather than in¬ 
creased, the material thinned down with 
either water or skim-milk, and we find it 
an advantage to put a tablespoonful of 
Epsom salts in her feed daily for three or 
four days before the brood sow is expected 
to farrow. Again, oftentimes a lack of 
the proper amount of mineral matter in 
the ration causes this craving and excite¬ 
ment. Charcoal, salt, bonemeal and rock 
phosphate should be mixed in equal pro¬ 
portions and kept before the breeding ani¬ 
mal at all times. A very good ration for 
a brood sow previous to and after far¬ 
rowing would be as follows: 100 pounds 
cornmeal, 40 pounds wheat middlings or 
Red Dog flour, 12 pounds tankage, 10 
pounds oilmeal, two pounds bone meal. 
Feed this in the form of. a slop about the 
consistency of buttermilk, reducing its 
consistency as the date of farrowing ap¬ 
proaches. We have found it an advan¬ 
tage to keep Alfalfa hay before brood 
sows at all times, and as we reduce the 
grain ration we find them eating more of 
the Alfalfa, and since it contains an 
abundance of protein and ash, is. bulky 
and at the same time palatable, it is par¬ 
ticularly useful for such feeding. We 
have never used the brand of mixed feed 
mentioned, and in general we find it un¬ 
satisfactory to rely upon x-eady-mixed 
feeds for our rations for live stock. It is 
more profitable and more economical to 
use home-grown products, and in case it 
is necessary to purchase feeds, it is econ¬ 
omy to buy such feeds as I have men¬ 
tioned rather than to purchase, as often¬ 
times prevails, a mixed feed containing a 
mass of undesirable and undigestible ma¬ 
terial that could not be marketed if the 
purchaser had any idea of what he was 
buying. F. c. minkler. 
The Babcock Test. 
Most people seem to think that dairy¬ 
men are as familiar with the Babcock test 
as the average gardener is with the hoe, 
and therefore, no one seems to think it 
worth while to describe the apparatus or 
tell how to use it. During the year we 
have many requests from farmers to tell 
what a Babcock test is—what it is used 
for and how to operate it. It seems to be 
one of those things where those who use 
the test continuously appear to think that 
everyone ought to know all about it. 
The Oklahoma Experiment Station, at 
Stillwater has now issued Bulletin 107, 
which describes this Babcock test fully, 
illustrates the apparatus and makes a 
very good statement of the whole thing 
in a simple and understandable form. 
While this will not be necessary for the 
great majority of dairymen, there are still 
many of them who would be glad to get 
just this plain kind of instruction. 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 
Holstein Sale, Cortland, N. Y., Oct. 
15-10. 
Shorthorns, F. F. & C. R. Pemberton, 
Iowa Falls, Iowa, Oct. 19. 
Shorthorns, .7. I,. Reece, New Provi¬ 
dence, Iowa, Oct. 20. 
The Lenawee Countv 2d Sale, Adrian, 
Mich., Oct. 22, 1915. 
Shorthorns, Elmar Mavne, Galena, Ill., 
Oct. 28. 
Shorthorns, Thos. Brown & Son and 
Wm. Klett & Son, Ollie. Iowa, Nov. 10. 
The 7th Consignment Sale, Syracuse, 
N. Y., Nov. 15-16, 1915. 
The first Earlville Holstein Sale, Earl- 
ville, N. Y.. Nov. 17-18. 
Shorthorns, C. A. Saunders, Manilla, 
Iowa, Dec. 14. 
Holsteins, Madison Square Garden, 
New York, Dec. 14. 
Holstein Sale, Madison Square Garden, 
New York, Dec. 15-16. 
Guernseys, Madison Square Garden, 
New York, Dec. 17. 
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