THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Feeding a Balanced Ration 
The following analyses are used in figuring rations : 
Feeding Stuff 
Dry Matter 
Fat 
Digestible 
Protein Carbo. 
Feeding Stuff 
Dry Matter 
Fat 
Digestible 
Protein Caibo. 
Corn Fodder, green 
20.7 
.6 
1.0 
and rat 
12.8 
Linseed Meal, O. P. 
90.2 
7.8 
30.2 
and Fat 
47.5 
Corn Fodder, cured 
6?.6 
1.6 
2.5 
37.3 
Hominy Chop 
Buckwheat Middlings 
90.4 
8.0 
6.8 
77.2 
Mixed Hay 
84.7 
2.5 
4.2 
44.9 
87.2 
6.8 
22.7 
61.2 
Red Clover 
84.7 
3.3 
7.1 
41.9 
Brewers’ Crains, dry 
91.3 
6.7 
20.0 
45.7 
86.8 
2.5 
2.8 
45.3 
Gluten Meal 
90 5 
6.6 
29.7 
66.2 
Alfalfa Hay 
91.9 
2.1 
10.5 
42.5 
Gluten Feed 
90.8 
3.5 
21.3 
69.3 
Corn Meal 
85.0 
3.8 
6.7 
72.2 
Oats 
89.6 
4.8 
10.7 
62.3 
Distillers’ Grains, dry 
92.4 
12.2 
22.8 
65.8 
Barley 
89.2 
1.8 
9.4 
75.9 
88.1 
4.0 
11.9 
47.6 
Rye 
91.3 
1.9 
♦ 9.5 
72.1 
Cottonseed Meal 
93.0 
10.2 
37.6 
43.0 
Following are current carload prices on standard feeding stuffs at the places named: 
Bran. Middlings. Corn Meal. 
New York . 23.00@24.00 24.00@28.00 30.00@31.00 
Boston . 22.50@23.50 25.00@28.50 28.00@30.00 
St. Louis . 20.00@22.00 23.00@26.00 27.00@29.00 
Buffalo . 22.00@23.00 24.00@27.50 29.00@30.00 
Cleveland . 22.00@23.00 26.00@28.00 28.00@30.00 
The Week’s Ideal Ration 
A Balanced Ration for Late October 
A balanced ration should be appetiz¬ 
ing, palatable, reasonably bulky, and 
should cost as little as possible. With 
the above ideas in mind the following 
rations can bo recommended at present 
feed prices. The rations have been fig¬ 
ured out on the basis of Armsby’s main¬ 
tenance requirement for 1000-pound cow, 
and Eekles suggested standard for 30 
pounds of 4% to 4.5% milk. The feed 
prices are New Haven (Conn.) quota¬ 
tions, the quotations being made in most 
instances by the 100 pounds. Wholesale, 
carload prices are slightly lower in some 
cases, but they are in the same propor¬ 
tion for the different feeds and hence do 
not influence us to use other feeds than 
given below. 
Ration No. 1— 
30 lbs. corn silage. 
10 lbs. Alfalfa bay. 
Crain mixture. 
300 lbs. wheat bran. 
200 lbs. gluten feed. 
200 lbs. standard wheat middlings. 
200 lbs. ground oats. 
Ration No. 2— 
30 lbs. corn silage. 
10 lbs. mixed hay. 
Grain mixture. 
100 lbs. cottonseed meal. 
200 lbs. gluten feed. 
200 lbs. standard wheat middlings. 
300 lbs. wheat bran. 
200 lbs. ground oats. 
Ration No. 2 is the same as No. 1, 
except that mixed hay is used in the 
place of Alfalfa, and 100 pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal are added to supply the neces¬ 
sary protein which is lacking in the 
mixed hay. The grain ration should be 
fed at the rate of a pound of grain to 
each three pounds milk produced. When 
fed in this manner ration No. 1 will cost 
29 plus cents daily and ration No. 2 will 
cost 31 plus cents daily. 
It will be noted that both rations are 
appetizing and palatable, made so par¬ 
ticularly because they contain bran, oats 
and middlings and a good variety of 
grains. The bran and oats give plenty 
of bulk to the ration. The ration is 
about as economical as possible, with 
present prices. It will be noted that 
cornmeal, hominy and oil meal are left 
out. These feeds will doubtless be cheap¬ 
er a little later. A Winter supply of 
bran, middlings, oats and gluten should 
be laid in at once if you have not al¬ 
ready done so. H. F. JUDKINS. 
Conn. Exp. Station. 
R. N. Y.—As we see, these rations are 
based on New England conditions and 
prices. Next week we shall have one 
from New Jersey. 
Ration for Durham Cow. 
Will you tell me what grain to buy for 
my cow so she will do better? She is 
in very good order and has good pastur¬ 
age and a quart and a half of grain, 
night and morning. I feed her wheat, 
bran, gluten and cottonseed. She is a 
Durham and freshened in July. I get 
about 15 quarts a day, and she ought to 
do better than that. She makes about 
five pounds of butter a week, and there 
are scrub cows around here getting no 
grain that do a good deal better. 
New York. j. f. n. 
If this cow, three months after fresh¬ 
ening and on good pasture and some 
grain, is giving but 30 pounds of milk 
per day it is fair to presume that she is 
doing about as well as she is capable of 
doinsr under the conditions in which she 
is kept. I know of no other grain more 
conducive to milk production than that 
you are giving and the only change like¬ 
ly to increase the milk flow that I can 
suggest is a greater quantity of grain. 
Six pints of grain per day is a very 
small ration for a cow in full flow of 
milk, though, if she is on really good 
pasture, it may be all that it would be 
economical to feed. Double that amount 
of grain would be a moderate Winter 
ration, even where good silage was 
fed, and it may be that an increase 
in the amount of grain fed will be 
accompanied by a corresponding in¬ 
crease in the milk flow, and a profit¬ 
able increase, though the first result does 
not necessarily pre-suppose the latter. It 
is sometimes better to be satisfied with 
a moderate production with little or no 
grain rather than to strive for the maxi¬ 
mum production with heavy feeding. 
Whether your cow will pay a profit on 
more grain is for you to decide with 
scales, pencil and paper. Most cows will 
make good use of a little cornmeal in 
their ration and a good one for your use 
might be made of equal parts, by weight, 
of meal, wheat bran or wheat feed, and 
gluten feed. If the cow shows a ten¬ 
dency to take on fat rather than to give 
milk on this, the meal may be reduced 
and the gluten increased. Cottonseed 
meal, at present prices, is not an econom¬ 
ical food. M. B. D. 
Facts About Soy Bean Meal. 
I note your question about the use of 
Soy bean meal in this country. The 
growing of Soy beans is advocated by 
various authorities so as to raise protein 
at home. In this respect, Soy beans are 
no better than any other form of beans. 
They can all furnish home-grown protein. 
The trouble with growing these on the 
farm is the same as with potatoes. There 
is more profit in selling potatoes than in 
feeding them. Beans are worth from 
three to five cents per pound, we all 
know that, so why should the farmer feed 
anything to his cattle that can be sold 
at from three to five cents per pound 
when anything in the feed line that he 
would want to buy would not average a 
cost of over 1.5 to 1.7 cents per pound? 
If a farmer grew mahogany on his farm, 
there would be no sense in burning it 
when be could burn a cheaper wood, or 
possibly buy coal at only a small frac¬ 
tion of the selling price of any form of 
hardwood such as maple or oak. 
Soy bean meal is not produced in the 
"United States and is not likely to be very 
soon. A little of it produced in Asiatic 
countries reaches the Pacific coast and 
there costs at the seaboard, if I remem¬ 
ber rightly, somewhere between $45 and 
$55 per ton. With the present prohibit¬ 
ory ocean rates, we doubt if any can 
reach this country at all, because it is 
worth more at home to the Asiatic than 
it is to us. We have never seen any 
Soy bean meal reach the Atlantic sea¬ 
board. That which is produced in Eng¬ 
land and the Continent is worth more 
there than it is here. 
Soy bean meal compares in analysis 
about the same as cottonseed meal, and 
as high as cottonseed meal is, Soy meal 
would cost 50 per cent, more, so there 
would be no sense in feeding it. Any¬ 
one who raises beans and feeds them is 
no business man, and is in the same 
position as the man would be who raised 
Alfalfa seed and fed it to his cattle in¬ 
stead of selling it, or asparagus or any 
other high-priced salable article. 
Indiana. r. w. ciiapin. 
R. N.-Y.—Our experience is that both 
Soy beans and cow peas give a much 
larger vine growth than common field 
beans and in most cases a larger yield of 
seed. Thus far the advice to grow Soy 
beans has been based on the value of 
the vine forage rather than on the seed. 
As these beans will grow on a rather 
acid soil and between two other crops 
they are very useful on many dairy 
farms. We find that the meal is quite 
largely exported from Manchuria and 
Japan to England, and before the war to 
Germany. 
Summer Silage or Pasture. 
Has the feeding of cows the whole year 
on silage, hay and grain without pasture 
been a success? Has it shown a larger 
net profit than pasturing the cows 
through the Summer season, where good 
tillable land has to be used for pasture? 
Theresa, N. Y. p. d. p. 
The use of Summer silage is almost 
indispensable on the dairy farm. It has 
been demonstrated that it is more eco¬ 
nomical than the soiling system, but it is 
probably true that a combination of the 
pasturing system, supplemented with sil¬ 
age for Summer feeding, is after all the 
most satisfactory. Instances are very 
common where the cows are fed during 
the entire year on silage and grains, and 
not turned out to pasture during any 
season of the year. In fact this system 
is in vogue at nearly all of the large 
dairies. W here pasture land is cheap 
and does not have a very high value from 
a tillage standpoint, I should say that a 
combination of the pasture system, and 
the feeding of Summer silage would be 
most desirable; but in instances where 
the land is high priced, and it is neces¬ 
sary to use good tillable land for pasture 
purposes, I think it is economy to feed 
silage with Alfalfa hay as the chief basis 
of the ration throughout the year. The 
cost of harvesting corn that is down very 
badly, and of running this through the 
silage cutter is very high, and I believe 
that no less than an authority than H. 
W. Jeffers of the Walked-Gordon Farms 
has recently raised the question as to the 
economy of feeding large amounts of sil¬ 
age when Alfalfa hay is available, and 
can be produced at low cost. 
Answering in the concrete, I would 
say that the system of feeding cows the 
whole year on silage and grains has been 
carried on very successfully, and in cer¬ 
tain instances has shown a greater net 
profit than where pasturing the cows 
throughout the Summer season was prac¬ 
ticed. On the other hand, where the land 
was relatively cheap, and the labor cost 
of growing corn relatively high, it would 
be more advantageous and desirable to 
utilize the pasturing system of feeding. 
There is another point, however, that is 
worthy of consideration. If the herd rep¬ 
resents purebred animals, and they are 
maintained for breeding purposes, the 
pasture system is to be recommended. 
Young growing animals should have the 
run of pasture fields, for confinement in 
the box stalls is ' f ’en times injurious to 
young stock, especially in cases where the 
quarters are unsanitary, and ill-ventil¬ 
ated. Exercise is a very important item 
in growing a group of heifers intended for 
milking purposes. f. c. m. 
Poisonous Leaves. 
Many animals and plants when living 
Contain bodies which consist of two or 
more other bodies loosely joined. When 
life ceases these may spontaneously break 
down, or the break-down may be hastened 
by bodies already present or by some¬ 
thing added. For instance, wintergreen 
leaves and birch twigs develop their oils 
as they wilt. Exactly the same thing 
happens with peach, wild cherry, laurel 
and some other leaves, only, in these 
cases, the very poisonous hydrocyanic, 
prussic, acid is among the break-down 
products, together with an aldehyde, ben- 
zaldehyde, which is harmful. The ker¬ 
nels of the fruits as well as the leaves 
produce these bodies also, and the wilt¬ 
ing may occur in the stomach of an an¬ 
imal. Not every animal which eats wild 
cherry leaves dies, but enough have been 
killed to make it worth while to keep 
such fodder out of reach. In the same 
way, a few cracked peach pits add a 
pleasant flavor to preserved peaches, but 
children have been killed by eating too 
many of the fresh, raw, pits. But these 
compounds are not found in the flesh of 
the peach, only in the kernel within the 
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Ways. Some dairymen mix it with cottonseed meal; others 
With Gluten Feed, Distillers’ Grains, Brewers’ Grains, etc. 
Some use it to improve the roughage, especially where the 
roughage is of poor quality. In the far West it is invari¬ 
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a pure, succulent, vegetable food, it makes a highly 
1 palatable ration. Cows relish these fresh, thinly sliced 
■ dried roots, eat them greedily, thrive on them, pro¬ 
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few not a heating and 
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¥ meal. On the contrary, it 
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the entire digestive system 
— is cooling and relaxing. The 
k bowels are kept in just the 
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— absorbs five or six times it l 
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L It loosens up all the parti- \ 
I c!es of food — makes diges- 
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