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Feeding a Balanced Ration 
The following analyses are used in figuring rations : 
Feeding Stuff 
Corn Fodder, green 
Corn Fodder, cured 
Mixed Hay 
Red Clover 
Timothy 
Alfalfa Hay 
Corn Meal 
Distillers’ Grains, dry 
Wheat Bran 
Cottonseed Meal 
Dry Matter Fat 
Digestible 
Protein Carbo. 
and Fat 
20.7 
57.6 
84.7 
84.7 
86.8 
91.9 
85.0 
92.4 
88.1 
93.0 
.5 
1.6 
2.5 
3.3 
2.5 
2.1 
3.8 
12.2 
4.0 
10.2 
1.0 
2.5 
4.2 
7.1 
2.8 
10.5 
6.7 
22.8 
11.9 
37.6 
12.8 
37.3 
44.9 
41.9 
45.3 
42.5 
72.2 
65.8 
47.6 
43.0 
Feeding Stuff 
Linseed Meal, O. P. 
Hominy Chop 
Buckwheat Middlings 
Brewers’ Grains, dry 
Gluten Meal 
Gluten Feed 
Oats 
Barley 
Rye 
Dry Matter Fat 
90.2 
90.4 
87.2 
91.3 
90.5 
90.8 
89.6 
89.2 
91.3 
7.8 
8.0 
6.8 
6.7 
6.6 
3.5 
4.8 
1.8 
1.9 
Digestible 
Protein Carbo. 
and Fat 
30.2 
6.8 
22.7 
20.0 
29.7 
21.3 
10.7 
It 
47.5 
77.2 
61.2 
45.7 
66.2 
59.3 
62.3 
75.9 
72.1 
A Ration for Cows at Pasture. 
Assuming cows at the present time to 
be on rather luxuriant second growth 
pasture, supplemented by some good hay 
and silage toward the latter part of the 
month a somewhat heavier grain ration 
could be used than later in the 11 inter. 
On the basis of Binghamton wholesale 
quotations—Ajax flakes, $32; choice 
Winter bran, $24 ; choice yellow gluten, 
$27.20; choice pearl hominy, $30.80, and 
yellow bolted cornmeal. $27.50. I should 
consider an ideal grain mixture at the 
present time: 
100 pounds bran, $1.20; 100 pounds 
gluten, $1.36; 100 pounds cornmeal, 
$1,374. Average 100 pounds mixture, 
$1.31 1-G. 
For cows giving 4% milk or better, 
one pound of the above mixture to each 
three pounds of milk. For cows giving 
milk of 3.6% or less, one pound of the 
grain mixture to each 4—4*4 pounds of 
milk. H. II. WING. 
Prof, of Animal Husbandry, Cornell. 
R. N.-Y.—As will be seen this is a 
ration for cows at pasture also receiving 
some hay and silage. It costs about one 
and one-third cent per pound and 
would analyze about as follows. As we 
see Prof. Wing suggests varying the 
amount of the grain not only according to 
the amount of milk but also as to its 
Carbohydrates 
Feeding Stuff. 
Dry Matter. 
Protein. 
and Fat. 
Wheat bran. 
. .. 88.1 
11.9 
47.6 
Gluten . 
... 90.5 
29.7 
56.2 
Corn meal.. 
_ 85.0 
(>.7 
72.2 
263.6 
48.3 
176.0 
Nutritive Ratio 1:3.4. 
Ration for Breeding Pigs. 
What ration would you advise for pigs 
to grow on, that are being kept for 
breeding purposes? The pigs are 3*4 
months old. I have plenty of ground rye 
that I am feeding exclusively except 
waste from house. They run on grass. I 
have 10 young pigs and old sow together 
in same field. What age would young 
sows breed? J. B. 
Bangui), N. Y. 
Your pigs which are 314 months old, 
will grow better on a ration composed 
of one-half rye and one-half wheat mid¬ 
dlings or middlings and ground oats 
mixed, equal parts, than they will on au 
exclusive ration of ground rye. AN here 
rye is fed to pigs as an exclusive grain 
for a loug period it is liable to cause in¬ 
testinal trouble, and the pigs usually be¬ 
come very tired of it. Pigs which are 
intended for breeders do not require as 
heavy feeding as those which are to be 
marketed. Breeding sows should be in 
a good thrifty condition without carrying 
an excessive quantity of fat. It is cus¬ 
tomary to breed them at about eight 
months of age. but some breeders of pure¬ 
bred stock prefer to wait until they reach 
the age of one year. c. s. G. 
Feeding Cotton-seed Meal. 
In a recent issue G. P. of New York 
describes an ailing heifer. He speaks 
of giving her cottonseed meal—-apparent¬ 
ly to stop the diarrhoea. It is a well- 
known fact, experiment stations to the 
contrary, notwithstanding, that an excess 
of cottonseed meal in the feed will cause 
scours in cows. My personal observation 
shows that it will do the same with poul¬ 
try, yet in moderation it is a good feed 
arid is generally used with no ill effects. 
It is very probable that this man is 
seriously aggravating the trouble by feed¬ 
ing this heifer cottonseed meal, for I 
imagine it is not in general use in the 
North, and is not well understood; be¬ 
lieving it to be a constipating food, he 
probably is loading the animal, and likely 
using just cottonseed meal, probably the 
dark fertilizing kind, which is cheaper, 
and is not fed here. The bright or feed¬ 
ing meal is used for stock food and costs 
a little more, but whether based on fact 
or fancy the dark is looked on as unsafe 
to feed. A - p - 
Alabama. 
It is a well-known fact to all experi¬ 
ment station workers and stockmen that 
an excess of cottonseed meal, or cotton¬ 
seed, or a combination of meal, seeds and 
hulls will cause scouring in cattle. This 
excess also may cause mammitis (gar¬ 
get) while long continued it tends to pro¬ 
duce paralysis or great debility asso¬ 
ciated with an acute inflammation of the 
eyes. Our correspondent may be correct 
in thinking that the cottonseed meal is 
aggravating the condition present. 
A. S* A. 
Value of Green or Ripe Oats; Milk 
Variation. 
1. Can you give me the relative feeding 
value of an acre of oats cut green, and 
the same allowed to ripen—thrashed—and 
the grain fed with the straw? 2. With 
cows on pasture and a sample of milk 
saved every day and tested once a week, 
how much variation should there be in 
points? 3. Can you give me any infor¬ 
mation with reference to yellow (hop?) 
clover ? a. u. 
Savannah, N. Y. 
1- The chief difference between a for¬ 
age crop fed in its green stage, and the 
same crop ripened and thrashed, is largely 
a matter of succulence and palatability. 
I presume that A. B. refers to oats or 
oats and peas used as a forage crop for 
cattle, and while it is impossible to give 
in the form of dollars and cents the differ¬ 
ence in feeding value, as it is scarcely a 
practical question, the results would de¬ 
pend upon the particular conditions that 
prevail in your correspondent’s dairy. If 
he has silage that is available for use dur¬ 
ing the Summer months, the cutting of 
oats and peas as a green forage is rela¬ 
tively expensive. On the other hand, if 
he does not have any other succulence, the 
oats and peas fed in the form of gre°n 
feed is almost indispensable. The cutting 
of oats green is not very practical with 
horses, unless they are cured as hay, and 
if sheaf oats are fed to idle horses during 
the Winter months it is the experience cf 
practical horsemen that this forage gives 
better results than where the oats are 
thrashed and fed, and the straw used for 
roughage. 
2. The accumulation of a dairy sample 
should check within five-tenths of a point 
with the samples that are taken daily. In 
fact with Advanced Registry testing work 
it is their policy to take samples covering 
one or two days during the month, and es¬ 
timate on this basis the total amount of 
butter fat that is produced by that indi¬ 
vidual for each month. For ordinary pur¬ 
poses in a dairy herd it is not necessary 
to take a daily sample of milk for test 
purposes, for the testing of a sample once 
a week, or twice a month would be quite 
sufficient to ascertain accurately the 
amount of butter fat that is being pro¬ 
duced by the entire herd, or individuals 
within the herd. 
3. I am not familiar with the crop 
known as yellow (hop) clover. F. C. M. 
Various Questions. 
1. Is raw field pumpkins good food for 
laying hens? 2. Will the seed hurt them 
when eating fresh from the pumpkin? 
3. Is air-slaked lime injurious to chickens 
when powdered on the dropping boards 
daily after cleaning them? 4. Do wood 
ashes make good dust baths for hens 
during Winter? 5. Some of our hens 
have black specks on their comb, wattles, 
and are losing feathers near the eyes and 
comb. Is this sorehead, and how should 
they be treated? 6. We have a young 
heifer that has warts on its head and 
neck about the size of a common grape. 
How should they he treated? 7. Are 
green sunflower stalks good to feed to 
idle horses? c. B. Y. 
New York. 
1. Raw pumpkins will not hurt hens, 
though if made to eat them to the exclu¬ 
sion of sufficient grain, the egg yield 
would suffer. I have never known of any 
injury from the seeds but cannot speak 
from experience in feeding them. 2. 
Ground limestone would be preferable to 
air-slaked lime for dusting the dropping 
boards, though gypsum, or land plaster, 
would be still better. Any active form of 
lime added to manure diminishes its value 
by setting fx-ee the nitrogen of the latter. 
The lime in wood ashes has the same 
effect and this should not be mixed 
with hen manure. 3. I have never known 
of any injury from the use of wood ashes 
in the dusting baths of liens but would 
prefer dry road dust or loam. 4. Rub 
some simple grease, like lard or vaseline 
into the bare spots on the chicken’s heads 
and necks; the loss of feathers is prob- 
abl.v due to the depluming mite. 
5. Rub castor oil into these warts at 
intervals of several days; if they do not 
disappear after this treatment, they may 
be ligated by tying a fine silk thread 
about the base of each wart. 
6. I cannot advise as to feeding sun¬ 
flower stalks to horses. M. b. n. 
