THE HUH-A.L, NEW-VO KEEK 
1419 
Various Feeding Problems 
Feeding Young Pigs. 
I have 13 young pigs. What ration 
is advised for making them grow fast 
for market use? They are weaned at six 
weeks. I can never make my pigs grow 
properly; they never grow fast; we have 
standard middlings, cornmeal, bran and 
dishwater, not much milk. Give me an 
idea how to feed. K. H. 
Esopus, N. Y. 
A useful ration for pigs at weaning 
time intended for animals of approxi¬ 
mately eight weeks of age would be as 
follows: 100 pounds cornmeal, 100 
pounds red dog flour, 100 pounds hominy, 
50 pounds molasses, 50 pounds digester 
tankage. 
Feed this in the form of a thick slop 
in such quantities as they will clean up 
with relish four times daily. Immedi¬ 
ately following weaning reduce the num¬ 
ber of feeds to three when they are 12 
weeks of age, and reduce the number to 
two per day when they weigh 100 pounds. 
They should be given in addition all the 
water that they will drink, and if milk 
is available they should not be fed more 
than four pounds of milk for each one 
pound of dry grain that they will con¬ 
sume. Care should be exercised so that 
external as well as internal parasites 
are eliminated, and that they have a 
clean place to eat and a dry place to 
sleep. Too much dish-water should not 
be fed, as it contains very little dry mat¬ 
ter and thus very little nutrients in such 
waste products. The slop should be fed 
thick rather than thin in order to make 
sure that the pigs are receiving sufficient 
food to enable them to grow with thrift 
and vigor. Standard middlings can be 
substituted for red dog flour, although 
it is less digestible and more expensive 
considering its content, for very often 
standard middlings are nothing other 
than bran ground finely. It is not wise 
to use bran extensively in a ration for 
pigs at this time, for it is not only too 
bulky but too expensive. F. c. M. 
Brewers’ Grains. 
What ration would you advise for 
milch cows to get the best profits? I 
have a milk business in city, and need 
buy all the feed. I have been feeding 
mixed hay, gluten, bran and wet brewers’ 
grains; the latter last 12 cents a bushel 
and hauling. H. v. I,. 
Quincy, Mass. 
If you are getting good results from the 
ration you are feeding and if your cows 
are keeping in good health and flesh I 
see no reason for making any particular 
change in feed. If, however, your cows 
are milking heavily and losing flesh grad¬ 
ually, it would be advisable to add about 
a pound of cornmeal to the ration for 
each cow for the purpose of keeping them 
in proper condition to produce the best 
results. c. s. G. 
cottonseed meal and gluten will be best to 
feed with the pomace. As is the case 
with silage, the pomace is better for feed¬ 
ing cattle than for other kind of stock. 
Small quantities of it may be fed to hogs, 
sheep or poultry, but we should feed the 
greater bulk of it to the cows, and in 
fact handle it in all respects as we would 
silage. There is a good deal of feeding 
value in it, and immense wastes have 
occurred by failure to use this product 
of the cider mill. We are sure that 
sooner or later all this material will be 
considered valuable, and it will be han¬ 
dled eventually like other feeding wastes. 
Ration With Cob Meal. 
I have considerable corn on hand, and 
wish to make a balanced ration for milch 
cows using as much corn cob meal as 
possible. I also use four pounds dried 
beet pulp each feed, with hay and grain. 
Following, are present prices on grain to 
be used, in whole or part, as you may 
suggest: Mixed feed $1.(50 per hundred; 
ground oats $1.80; gluten $1.55; oilmeal 
$2.10; cottonseed meal $1.85; corn cob 
meal on hand. Give a combination and 
about the proper amount for each feed 
with beet pulp for two-can cows. 
Massachusetts. c. w. c. 
Assuming that the hay spoken of is 
mixed hay, we are confronted with the 
fact that the feeds available on the farm 
are all low protein feeds. It is evident, 
therefore, that our grain ration other 
than corn and coh meal must be composed 
of high protein feeds in order to balance 
the ration. It has been assumed that the 
cows in question average to weigh 1100 
pounds and give 30 pounds of 4% milk 
daily. This being the case, each cow 
would require 2.7 pounds protein and 
14.67 pounds carbohydrate and fat daily. 
The following ration comes very close to 
balancing: 12 pounds mixed hay daily, 
four parts dried beet pulp, four parts corn 
and cob meal, two parts gluten feed, two 
parts cottonseed meal, two parts dis¬ 
tillers’ grains. 
The simplest way to feed the beet pulp 
woxxld be to mix it in with the other 
grain feeds. Feed one pound of this 
grain mixture containing the beet pulp 
for each two to 2% pounds milk pro¬ 
duced daily; that is, the cow giving 30 
pounds milk would get 14 pounds of the 
mixture daily. If the distillers’ grains 
cannot be secured, dried brewers’ grains, 
mixed feed or bran could be used in their 
place, although neither of these feeds 
would supply as much protein. With the 
present high prices of cottonseed and lin¬ 
seed meal, it is indeed difficult to balance 
a cheap ration unless one has Alfalfa or 
clover hay and silage of some kind. 
ir. F. JUDKINS. 
Fred had been permitted to visit a boy 
friend on the strict condition that he re¬ 
turn home not later than five o’clock. lie 
arrived sit seven to find his mother very 
angry. He insisted, how.ever, that he had 
not loitered on the way home. “Do you 
expect me to believe,” demanded the 
mother, “that it took you two hours to 
walk a quarter of a mile?” “Yes, mam¬ 
ma,” blubbered the boy. “Charlie gave 
me a mud turtle—and I was afraid—to 
carry it—so I led it home.”—Ladies’ 
Home Journal. 
Results Speak for Themselves 
DUTCHLAND COLANTHA AAGGIE CORNUCOPIA, No. 110176 
Owned by D. W. Field Farm Co., Brockton, Mass. 
(Xtra-vim used in her Test Ration) 
( 676.5 lbs. milk, 34.76^bs. butter in 7 days 
OFFICIAL ) 2763.7 “ “ 134.97 “ “ “ 30 
TEST ) 5278.7 “ “ 252.84 “ “ “ 60 “ 
( Milk in one day 104.6 “ 
A daughter of Colantha Johanna Lad’s, who^now has 23 daughters that average 
601 lbs. milk in 7 days. Twenty-one average 28.10 lbs. butter in 7 days, a record 
unequalled by the daughters of any other sire living or dead. 
Xtra-vim is NOT a protein and 
TINCTLY NOT THAT. Xtra-vim 
properly fed in conjunction with 
accomplish better results. 
Worcester, Mass., July 15, 1915. 
Gentlemen:— 
We have been using your molasses feed 
for the past year with the very best results. 
Every horse we own has improved since 
we started feeding it, in tact one horse has 
gained 140 lbs in the last ten months. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) DOHERTY COAL CO. 
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Feeding Value of Apole Pomace. 
A short time ago I saw in Tiie R. N.- 
Y. that pomace from a cider mill was 
nearly equal to silage. Is it safe to feed 
to milch cows, and about how much 
should be given each day? How about 
hogs and poultry? I can obtain all I 
wish for drawing it away, and if there is 
any feeding value I would like to make 
use of it. What would be a good dairy 
ration for cows, composed of the follow¬ 
ing feeds, wheat feed, bran, middlings, 
etc., cornmeal, cottonseed meal, brewers’ 
grains and rye bran and middlings? I 
have plenty of dry cornstalks and enough 
clover hay to give one feeding a day dur¬ 
ing the Winter. G. Y. s. 
New Jersey. 
We have had a number of practical 
articles about feeding apple pomace. 
When reasonably fed the pomace has 
given good satisfaction. In some locali¬ 
ties its value is so well known that farm- 
ei’S readily buy it. In some cases it is 
shipped by freight 25 miles or more, and 
considered a good bargain. The chemists 
consider that a good quality of apple pom¬ 
ace is about equal to a fair quality of 
corn silage. The following table shows 
the comparative value of apple pomace 
and silage of reasonably good quality. 
This means the digestible nutrients in 
100 pounds. 
Carbo- 
Proteln. hydrates. Fat. 
Apple pomace. 0.9 15 0.6 
Corn Silage. 1.1 15 0.7 
Thus it will be seen that the corn sil¬ 
age is a little stronger in protein, but 
the two are not far apart in actual feed- j 
ing value. Experiments show that it is 
safe to use the apple pomace just about ! 
as we would silage, and in figuring on 
quality and the proper feeds to go with 
it, we should consider the two feeds 
practically equal. Such grains as bran, 
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