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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 6, 1915. 
Feeding a Balanced Ration 
The following analyses are used in figuring rations : 
Feeding: Stuff 
Corn Fodder, green 
Corn Fodder, cured 
Mixed Hay 
Keel Clover 
Timothy 
Alfalfa Hay 
Corn Meal 
Distillers’ Grains, dry 
Wheat I ran 
Cottonseed Meal 
Digestible 
Digestible 
Dry Matter 
Fat 
Protein 
Carbo. 
and Fat 
Feeding Stuff 
Dry Matter 
Fat 
Protein 
Carbo. 
and Fat 
20.7 
.5 
1.0 
12.8 
Linseed Meal, O. P. 
90.2 
7.8 
30.2 
47.5 
57.6 
1.6 
2.5 
37.3 
Hominy Chop 
Buckwheat Middlings 
90.4 
8.0 
6.8 
77.2 
81.7 
2.5 
4.2 
44.9 
87.2 
6.8 
51.2 
81.7 
3.3 
7.1 
41.9 
Brewers' Grains, dry 
91.3 
6.7 
20.0 
45.7 
83.8 
2.5 
2.8 
45.3 
Gluten Meal 
90.5 
6.6 
29.7 
56.2 
91.9 
2.1 
10.5 
42.5 
Gluten Feed 
90.8 
3.5 
21.3 
69.3 
83.0 
3. S 
6.7 
72.2 
Oats 
89.6 
4.8 
10.7 
62.3 
92.4 
12.2 
22.8 
65.8 
Barley 
89.2 
1.8 
9.4 
76.9 
88.1 
98.0 
4.0 
10.2 
11.9 
37.6 
47.6 
43.0 
Rye 
91.3 
1.9 
9.5 
72.1 
Following are current carload prices on standard feeding stuffs at the places named: 
Cottonseed Meal. Bran. Middlings. Corn Meal. 
New York ... 35.00@37.00 23.00@24.00 24.00@28.00 30.00@31.00 
Boston . 36.00@36.50 22.50@23.50 25.00@28.50 28.00@30.00 
Philadelphia . 34.00@36.00 22.00@24.00 24.00@27.00 30.00@32.00 
St. Louis . 31.00@32.00 20.00@22.00 23.00®26.00 27.00@29.00 
Buffalo . 34.00fa)35.00 21.2£@22.50 23.00@28.00 29.00@30.00 
C.eveiand . 33.00@34.00 21.00@22.00 24.00@27.50 28,C0@30.00 
The Week’s Ideal Ration 
Ideal Dairy Ration for New Jersey 
In selecting the ingredients for an ideal 
dairy ration there are six important fac¬ 
tors to be taken into consideration, name¬ 
ly. availability, palatability,. bulkiness, 
succulence, analysis and cost. While these 
/factors may be enumerated separately 
they must all be considered in their 
proper relation to each other in each in¬ 
gredient and their effect on the ration as 
a whole determined. 
The perfect ration has not been found 
for the reason that there are so many 
different conditions and circumstances 
under which dairying is carried on and 
no two animals are exactly alike, so we 
simply have to use our best judgment 
applied to our particular location and 
conditions. I would consider the follow¬ 
ing balanced ration is about right for 
cows in full flow of milk and under av¬ 
erage conditions after Winter feed lias be¬ 
gun : 
Dry Carboliy- 
matter Protein Crates Fat Cost 
s; 
5 lbs. 
silage... 
7.315 
.315 
4.095 
.245 
i: 
2 lbs. 
clover liar 10.20 
.924 
4.44 
.168 
5 
lbs. (Tried brewers 
grains . 
4.r>75 
1.04 
1.515 
.30 
.075 
4 
lbs. 
dried beet 
pulp 
3.744 
.272 
1.610 
.124 
.06 
1 
11». 
cottonseed 
meal 
.918 
.355 
.218 
.124 
.0175 
2 
lbs. 
cornmeal.. 
1.70 
.12 
1.286 
.07 
.035 
28.453 
3.02G 
13.170 
1.031 
.1875 
Nutritive ratio, 1: 5.1. 
This ration is sufficient for large cows 
giving 30 to 40 pounds of milk per day, 
and the cost is very moderate compared 
with its efficiency. The silage and clover 
hay are home products, so no price is set 
on them. The silage and dried beet pulp 
furnish a liberal supply of succulence. 
The brewers’ grains form the necessary 
bulk, and together with the cottonseed 
meal furnish a sufficient amount of pro¬ 
tein. while the cornmeal helps to keep the 
animals in good flesh and able to produce 
results. Although the cost of a ration 
containing more concentrated feeding 
stuff, like gluten and cottonseed meal, 
would be less when compared with their 
chemical analyses, they could not be ex¬ 
pected to produce milk at any greater 
profit. C. S. G. 
Profit in Pork Making. 
Can I buy pigs paying from $3 to $5 
per head, from six to eight weeks old and 
feed them ration given on page 1148. and 
make anything in my deal, by putting , 
them on market gross at about six months 
of age? If not. can I raise my own pigs 
and make anything? I know very little 
about feeding hogs, but two years ago I 
had a purebred Duroc. He was the runt. 
I bought him at six weeks of age and at 
Sy 2 months old he weighed 320 pounds 
net. I fed him mixed rations. K. E. s. i 
Tennessee. 
There are two factors that would limit 
the profits with swine in case you follow 
the plan proposed. The first one would 
he the cost of feed, and the correspond¬ 
ing market price of pork in your com¬ 
munity; and the second would be the 
type of pig that you would be willing to 
purchase at from $3 to $5, and the par¬ 
ticular conditions as far as management 
is concerned on your own farm. Under 
average conditions it is more economical 
to produce one’s own pigs than to pur¬ 
chase them at the price noted, and again 
if one makes it a business of going around 
through a community purchasing pigs of 
different ages and types he is very apt 
to introduce into his herd hog cholera, 
and this would, of course, mean an ex¬ 
pense for serum or loss of animals from 
the disease. The margin of profit in any 
event that would result in purchasing 
the pigs and all of the feed, would be 
slight, for the overhead charges would be 
correspondingly high, and there would 
be a lack of uniformity in the pigs se¬ 
cured. I would say that the hazard 
would be too great to engage extensively 
in such a proposition. In any event if 
an attempt was made to produce pork 
under such circumstances, I would state 
that It. E. S. should start in a relatively 
small way with a few pigs, and event¬ 
ually get into the breeding business, and 
grow his own youngsters for fattening 
purposes. f. c. m. 
Cottonseed Meal. 
F. W. Erode & Co., large dealers in 
cottonseed products state that cottonseed 
meal should be lower after this month. 
Crushing will soon become heavy, and 
larger quantities of meal will go on 
the market. There will be smaller ex¬ 
ports, and buyers for fertilizers will soon 
bo through. The crop is shorter than 
last year. At the mills last year cotton¬ 
seed meal brought $1!) per ton, this year 
823. On the face of the situation these 
prices ought to go down. 
When to Feed Cabbage. 
We feed our cows cabbage right after 
milking. By that way we get away from 
tainting the milk. As our feeding bunk 
in continuous, we go along with a shovel 
and cut them up some, but where the 
bunks have partitions there is no great 
need of cutting them up. Of course we 
do not make a practice of feeding good 
cabbage unless they are very low in price, 
say under $5 per ton, but we do feed all 
the refuse, drawing it from the lot about 
as we use it, never put in up in large 
piles, as it will spoil, but put it in small 
hunches like a cock of hay. If it freezes 
the cows will eat it just the same. 
We feed about a bushel basket of the 
refuse to a cow, heaping full, and when 
we do feed cabbage from six to eight 
heads to a cow. Cabbage is a short crop 
through this country; I do not think over 
a third of a crop, whole fields going to 
pieces with stump-rot, and some plowed 
up and seeded to wheat, although the gov¬ 
ernment report says full crop. 
The dairying business never will be 
what it ought to be from the farmers’ 
standpoint until they are organized, for 
as you know we are dealing with a trust, 
but everybody is hoping that prices will 
be better sometime. If they keep on 
grinding down the farmer on the price of 
milk we will have to let the cows go, 
for there is no great money in the busi¬ 
ness at present. j. p. c. 
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