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I'lnltC KUKAt NEW-YORKER 
November 27, 1915, 
Feeding a Balanced Ration 
Live stock foods arc roughly divided into four classes of substanceB--protein. or lean meat or muscle makers; carbohydrates, 
which arc starch or fat formers ; pure fat; and fiber, the latter be in# tough, indigestible matter. The protein cannot take the 
place of carbohydrates and fat, and the theory of a balanced ration is to combine the two classes of food so that there will be 
the least waste and still give the animal what it needs. The " nutritive ratio" means the ratio between protein and combined 
carbohydrates and fat. One part of protein to three of the other would be a ‘ narrow ratio, while one part to eight would be a 
‘ 4 wide’’ ratio. , 
. :■ = The following analyses are used in figuring rations : - 
Feeding Stuff 
Digestible 
Dry Matter Fat Protein Carbo. 
and Fat 
Feeding Stuff 
Digestible 
Dry Matter Fat Protein Carbo. 
and Fat 
Corn Fodder, #reen 
20.7 
.6 
1.0 
12.8 
Corn Fodder, cured 
67.6 
1.6 
2.6 
37.3 
Mixed Hay 
84.7 
2.6 
4.2 
44.9 
Hod Clover 
84.7 
8.8 
7.1 
41.9 
Timothy 
86.8 
2.6 
2.8 
45.3 
Alfalfa Hay 
91.9 
2.1 
10.6 
42.5 
Corn Meal 
86.0 
3.8 
6.7 
72.2 
Distillers’ Grains, dry 
92.4 
12.2 
22.8 
65.8 
Wh -at Bran 
88.1 
4.0 
11.9 
47.6 
Cottonseed Meal 
93.0 
10.2 
37.6 
43.0 
Linseed Meal, O. P. 
90.2 
7.8 
80.2 
47.6 
Hominy Chop 
Buckwneat Middlings 
90.4 
87.2 
8.0 
6.8 
6.8 
22.7 
77.2 
51.2 
Brewers’ Grains, dry 
91.3 
6.7 
20.0 
45.7 
Gluten Meal 
90.6 
6.6 
29.7 
56.2 
Gluten Feed 
90.8 
3.6 
21.3 
59.3 
Oats 
89.6 
4.8 
10.7 
62.3 
Harley 
89.2 
1.8 
9.4 
75.9 
Kyc 
91.3 
1.9 
9.5 
72.1 
New York ... 
Boston . 
Baltimore .... 
Philadelphia . 
Pittsburgh ... 
St. Louis .... 
Milwaukee ... 
Current carlot prices for standard feeding stuffs: 
Bran. 
22.50@23.25 
23.00@23.50 
23.00@23.50 
22.00@22.50 
22.00@23.50 
20 . 00 @ 21.00 
20.00@20.50 
Middlings. 
24.00@26.00 
25.00@27.00 
25.00@28.00 
24.00@27.00 
24.00@27.00 
23.00@26.00 
21.00@23.00 
Red Dog. 
29.00@29.50 
30.00@31.00 
29.00@30.00 
28.50@29.50 
29.00@30.00 
28.00@29.00 
25.00@26.50 
Corn Meal. 
30.00@31.00 
30.00@32.00 
29.00@30.00 
30.00@31.00 
29.00@30.00 
23.00@25.00 
25.00@27.00 
Cottonseed 
Meal. 
36.00@37.00 
37.00@S8.00 
36.00@37.00 
36.00@36.50 
34.00@36.00 
33.00@35.00 
35.00@36.00 
LOCAL PRICES. 
Chardon, 0., middlings, ton, $26 to $33; bran, 
$25; com meal, $32; hominy, $30; distillers’ 
grains, $33; linseed meal, $40; cottonseed meal, 
$38. 
Catawissa, Pa., middlings, 100 lbs., $1.45; 
bran, $1.40; gluten, $1.55; cottonseed meal, $2; 
linseed meal, $2. 
Bethel, Conn., middlings, 100 lbs., $1.90; 
bran, $1.70; corn meal, $2. 
Corbettsville, N. Y., middlings, ton, $25; 
bran, $25; corn meal, $29. 
Deposit, N. Y., middlings, 100 lbs., $1.40; 
bran, $1.30; corn meal, $1.60; gluten feed, ton, 
$27. 
Homer, N. Y., middlings, ton, $30 to $35; 
bran, $26 to $27; corn meal, $31; gluten, $27. 
Afton, N. Y., middlings, 100 lbs., $1.50 to 
$1.60; bran, $1.30; hominy, $1.55; gluten, $1.45; 
corn meal, $1.60; linseed meal, $2. 
Guilford, N. Y., middlings, ton, $28 to $29; 
bran, $26; gluten, $27; corn meal, $29; linseed 
meal, $40. 
Greene, N, Y., middlings, 100 lbs., $1.30 to 
$1.60;" bran, $1.25; hominy, $1.50; distillers’ 
grains, $1.65; brewers’ grains, $1.40; malt 
sprouts, $1.30; beet pulp, $1.40; corn meal, $1.50; 
cottonseed meal, $1.75. 
An Ideal Dairy Ration for Southern N. Y. 
That depends somewhat upon one's 
ideals ; those of the farmer whose dairy 
must support his family may reasonably 
differ from those of the agriculturist 
whose cows, first of all, must inject no 
jarring note into the general harmony 
of the landscape and may then pay for 
their pedigree, if they can. With most 
of us, the ideal ration is the ration that 
pays the most profit, and that is the ra¬ 
tion the greatest part of which can be 
raised upon the farm, and which requires 
the least frequent trips to the mill to 
supplement its lack of expensive protein. 
This ration will vary from time to time 
with the food produced and the market 
price of that which has to be purchased. 
In my own locality, clover and mixed 
hay, corn fodder, oat straw and silage 
are produced by practically all dairy¬ 
men, most of whom raise, in addition, a 
limited amount of corn for grain, some 
oats and buckwheat. A large part of the 
grain food has to be purchased, however, 
and the kind and amount used is gov¬ 
erned largely by the market. At present, 
buckwheat middlings ($1.25) are the 
cheapest source of protein and they are 
followed by gluten feed ($1.40). Prac¬ 
tically all other standard grain foods 
and by-products are also available. From 
these, a very nearly ideal ration might be 
made up by giving a cow in full flow of 
milk from 30 to 40 pounds daily of corn 
silage, in two feeds, and as much clover 
or mixed hay or corn stover at one feed 
as she would eat up with relish, perhaps 
15 to 25 pounds; with good clover hay, 
less may be fed or the amount of grain 
proportionately reduced. 
For the grain ration equal parts by 
weight of cornmeal ($1.00), mixed 
wheat feed ($1.50) and buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings ($1.25) would make a good mix¬ 
ture, to be fed in the proportion of one 
pound to each three to four pounds of 
milk the cow is giving. Gluten feed may 
well be substituted for the buckwheat 
middlings, if desired, and, if the silage 
contains considerable corn in the ear, a 
part of the cornmeal may be replaced by 
higher protein foods, the tendency of the 
cow to gain or lose in flesh serving as an 
index here. Supposing a thousand-pound 
cow, giving 36 pounds of milk daily, to 
eat 15 pounds of mixed hay, 35 pounds of 
silage and nine pounds of the above 
grain mixture, she will get in her daily 
ration 2.78 pounds of digestible protein, 
4.33 pounds digestible fibre, 11.64 pounds 
nitrogen free extract, and .87 pounds fat; 
making a nutritive ratio slightly wider 
than one to six. A ratio a little narrower 
than one to six would, perhaps, be better 
as being less fattening, but one to six is 
not far from the ideal proportion between 
protein and carbohydrates. M. B. d. 
Ration for Holsteins. 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
grade Holsteins? I am making butter, 
have buckwheat middlings (30 per cent, 
protein), buckwheat bran (22 per cent.), 
gluten, cornmeal, wheat bran, cottonseed 
and oil meal, also silage. a. c. b. 
Ghent, N. Y. 
For making butter buckwheat bran and 
buckwheat middlings may be economically 
used as a part of the ration if the prices 
are reasonable and the cows do not ob¬ 
ject. It is usually necessary to begin 
feeding a very small amount, and grad¬ 
ually increase as the animals become ac- 
eustomed to them. A good grain mixture 
may be made up as follows from the feeds 
you mention : 1 pound buckwheat bran, 
one pound buckwheat middlings, two 
pounds gluten, two pounds cornmeal, 
four pounds wheat bran, one pound cot¬ 
tonseed or oil meal. With this you can 
feed all the silage your cows will clean 
up in about 20 minutes morning and 
evening, with a light feed of hay at noon 
if possible. The recent advances" in the 
prices of cottonseed and oil meal natural¬ 
ly turn our attention to other feeds for 
the larger part of the ration. Under your 
conditions you will probably find that 
feeding one pound of grain for every 
three pounds of milk produced will be 
about right. c. s. G. 
A Rhode Island Ration. 
We mix our grains for dairy cows as 
follows: 200 pounds bran, 100 pounds 
gluten, 100 pounds cornmeal without cob, 
50 pounds linseed meal, 50 pounds cotton¬ 
seed meal. This makes, as we are aware, 
a richer feed than is neeessar 3 r . We al¬ 
ways buy coarse bran to get the bulk, 
and for the same reason use a larger 
quantity. Linseed meal is more expen¬ 
sive than cottonseed meal, but it keeps 
the cows in better trim, and we have less 
trouble from caked bags than when we 
use the cotton alone. Of that mixture we 
feed each cow from three to five quarts 
twice daily, according to her work at the 
pail. For roughage we feed once a day 
silage all the cows will clean up without 
waste, and once a day hay, either mixed 
or oat and pea hay. We are working so 
as to raise more clover hay and eliminate 
almost entirely the Timothy hay. As 
soon as we can do this and feed as rough- 
age silage and clover hay, we expect to 
reduce our grain ration. 
Rhode Island. A. perregaux. 
Feeding Cabbage. —The only thing to 
be careful about in feeding cabbage to 
dairy cows is to feed after milking. In 
this vicinity the refuse, i. e., the poor 
heads, lower leaves and stumps above the 
ground, are fed, and these usually are not 
chopped. After vetting the cows accus¬ 
tomed to these some of our dairymen feed 
their cows all they will eat twice per 
day, with no bad effects on the milk. To¬ 
bacco shears are the best for cutting the 
refuse, tipping two rows into one as they 
are cut. When there is enough of the 
refuse to last until freezing weather it 
is thrown into heaps containing from five 
to 10 bushels. In this w°- it freezes but 
little; freezing hurts it very little pro¬ 
vided it is not fed when frozen. 
TIAROLl) F. IIUBBS. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Raised Without Milk! 
Her name is Daisy” and her owner, W. A. 
Riddle, of Chapin, Iowa, raised her on Blatchford’s 
Calf Meal, which costs less than half as much as milk. 
Blatchford’s Calf Meal 
A useful preventive of scouring. Calves 
raised "The Blatchford’s Way” are heavier, bigger- 
boned and healthier. Known as the complete milk 
substitute since the year 1875. Sold by your dealer 
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Blatchford’s Pig Meal insures rapid, sturdy growth 
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DRIED BEET PULP is not only nutritive and milk producing in itself, but in 
addition it provides the entire ration with greater lightness, bulk and succu¬ 
lence. Its tempting root-like flavor coaxes the cow’s appetite; she enjoys all 
her food more keenly—she does not tire of it. It has a tonic effect upon her 
health—makes her entire ration more palatable—promotes digestion—releases more nutri¬ 
ment from the other food she eats with it—gently relaxes the bowels—tends to prevent 
udder troubles, and actually increases the milk yield in many cases from 2 to 5 lbs. a day. 
Insures Perfect Digestion 
When DRIED BEET 
PULP goes into the 
cow’s stomach it swells— 
absorbs 5 to 6 times its 
own bulk of moisture, loos¬ 
ening the entire mass into a 
easily digestible condition. _ 
digestive juices flow more freely 
and act upon the loosened 
particles in a way to get a larger 
amount of nutriment out of the 
entire ration. This greater 
amount of nutriment is almost 
immediately apparent in the in¬ 
creased flow of milk. The results 
are really ‘‘like June pasture the 
year ’round.” 
8EET 
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No Off-Feed Conditions 
Prof. Eckles, Dairy Hus¬ 
bandman, University of 
Missouri, says: ‘‘DRIED 
BEET PULP makes it im- 
. possible for the feed to be- 
come a solid mass as is other- 
wise the case.” The food moves 
freely in a pulpy mass through the 
digestive tract.The whole system 
is toned up and the bowels gently 
relaxed over-coming off-feed 
conditions. The voidingsdo not 
have undigested particles nor 
show over-heated body condi¬ 
tions. Unlike Corn Meal, it is cool¬ 
ing—not heating. The milk prorinc- 
tion is stimulated naturally—healthily 
and without forcing or endangering 
the animal. 
TRY DRIED BEET PULP-TODAY III 
, 
The new 1915 crop is ready. Orders are pouring in from 
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