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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 3, 1917, 
Summer Pasture 
All Winter Lon^ 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Ration for Butter Cows 
I have two cows (grade .Terseys) ; one 
will be fresh the end of December, the 
other in May. I am getting two gallons 
of milk a day from the cow which will 
be fresh in the Spring. I have corn 
and hay, mixed Timothy, clover. Alfal¬ 
fa and weeds. I feed four ears of corn 
and a quart of bran morning and night 
to each cow; have to pay $1.75 per hun¬ 
dred for bran. ^Yould it be cheaper for 
me to use the feed at ,$2.10 per hundred 
plus 25c freight instead of the bran? 
If not advise me as to the best feed to 
use with m.v corn to get the milk. Cows 
give very rich milk, which is what we 
want, for we make butter. How much 
butter from one gallon ? a. L. t. 
Ohio. 
Since yon have corn on hand feed it 
as you have been feeding it. Feed what 
hay cows will clean up readily. You 
will then be feeding a much more bal¬ 
anced ration, and one that .should give 
hotter results if you use the commer¬ 
cial feed rather than bran. Feed grain 
at rate of a pound to three to 3^ pounds. 
The amount of butter you could get from 
a gallon of cream would depend on the 
butterfat test of the cream. Butter con¬ 
tains about 82.5% fat on the average. 
Assuming that your cream tests 35% a 
gallon of it would weigh 8.2 pounds and 
would contain 2.87 pounds of butterfat. 
Dividing this figure b.v 82.5 gives 3.4 
pounds of butterfat that could be made. 
Since this is about the amount you state 
you are getting from a gallon of cream 
I judge your cream must test around 
35%, _ II. F. J. 
Poor Milk Flow 
We have a small Jersey cow four 
years old. She had her second calf five 
months ago. When she was fresh she 
gave eight quarts of milk a day. Now 
she only gives three quarts of milk a 
day. We feed her 10 pounds of mixed 
clover and Timothy hay; same corn¬ 
stalks ; five pounds of beets, and five 
pound of meal, a mixture of equal parts 
bran, corpmeal and middlings a day. 
What is the cause of this drop? L. E. 
New Jersey. 
After studying your ration I judge 
your cow must be a little too fat. The 
ration you are feeding is very low in 
protein, and is not supplying the ingre¬ 
dients necessary to the manufacture of 
milk. This is probably why the cow 
shrunk so badly in her milk flow. Feed 
about 15 pounds hay and five pounds 
corn stover daily and make up a grain 
ration of high protein feeds, namely, two 
parts cottonseed meal, two parts gluten 
feed, three parts bran, and one per cent, 
salt. Feed beets each day in most any 
amount above five pounds, the idea being 
to make them go as far as possible. 
Feed grain at rate of a pound to three 
pounds of milk produced daily. 
II. F. J. 
Dairy Ration Without Silage 
Could you give me a good balanced 
ration for my cows? They weigh from 
700 to 1,000 pounds. I have distillers’ 
grains, cottonseed meal, corn and oats 
ground and hay, part clover. K. S. 
New York. 
Feed about 20 pounds of hay per 
per head per day. Make up a grain ra¬ 
tion of three parts dried distillers’ grains, 
two parts cottonseed meal, two parts 
corn and oats, and one per cent, fine 
salt. Feed grain at rate of a pound to 
three to 3i/^ pounds milk produced daily. 
II. F. J. 
Ration for Dry Cows 
I am trying to “farm” at long range, 
and have 10 cows going dry. Will you 
give me a ration? My corn Avas a fail¬ 
ure ; have plenty of hay. Distillers’ 
grains cost $42 per ton ; cottonseed meal 
$47; gluten $40; bran $33; middlings 
$37. w. ir. s. • 
Now York. 
Feed about 20 pounds of hay per 
head per day and a pound of grain to 
three pounds of milk from the follow¬ 
ing grain mixture: Two parts gluten 
feed, three parts dried distillers’ grains, 
one part cottonseed meal, and one per 
cent, salt added in mixing up ration. 
H. F. J. 
Ration for Milch Cow 
1. Will you give me a ration for 
milch cow? I haA’e corn and cob meal, 
and can buy a variety of grains. 2. Is 
corn and cob meal good horse feed mixed 
with oats? Should the oats be ground? 
What proportion would they be mixed? 
3. Will ice keep well in a cellar of an 
old house that is well drained, but is 
not ventilated? F. G. 
New York. 
1. Since you do not state what kind 
of hay you haA’e, or whether you have 
silage I will assume you have mixed hay 
only. This being the case, feed cows 
all they will clean up and make up a 
grain ration of three parts distillers’ 
grains, one part cottonseed meal, one part 
oil meal and two parts corn and cob meal. 
Add one per cent, salt to mixture in 
making it up. Feed grain at rate of a 
pound to 3% to four pounds milk pro¬ 
duced daily. 2. Either corn fed on cob, 
ground and fed with oats or oats also 
ground and fed with corn and cob meal 
will make a satisfactory feed for horses. 
Feed about two parts oats to one part 
corn and cob meal. 
3. Ice should keep well in an old cel¬ 
lar if it is carefully packed and well 
covered, sides and top, with plenty of 
straw or sawdust. ii. F. j. 
Vermont Dairy Ration 
Will you make out a balanced ra¬ 
tion from the following grains which we 
can buy here? Brewers’ and distillers’ 
grains, gluten, cottonseed, bran, mid¬ 
dlings. Our cows will be fed clover hay 
for roughage. We have no silage this 
year, as the corn crop was a total fail¬ 
ure owing to wet Spi’ing. M. c. H. 
Yei’mont. 
With a high protein feed like clover 
hay it is practically impossible to bal¬ 
ance a ration using such feeds as dis¬ 
tillers’ grains, cottonseed meal and glu¬ 
ten feed. You really need some cornmeal 
or dried beet pulp to make a balanced 
ration. Beet pulp is quite reasonable in 
price, and would work in particularly 
well, since you have no silage to feed. 
Feed what hay cows will clean up in 
good shape and a pound of grain to three 
pounds of milk from this grain mixture, 
one part dried brewers’ grains, two parts 
bran, two parts middlings and two parts 
dried beet pulp. The beet pulp may be 
mixed in with the other grains and fed 
dry. In making up ration add one per 
cent, fine salt. il. F. J. 
Ration for Jersey Cows 
Will you suggest a balanced ration for 
.Jersey cows weighing about 700 pounds? 
I have available corn stover, silage and 
mixed hay. R. ii. R. 
Massachusetts. 
It is unfortunate that your roughage 
is all of low-protein nature. To balance 
a ration with this roughage means to 
us high-protein feeds, which are very 
high in price at the present time. A 
balanced ration follows; Twenty-five 
lbs. corn silage, 8 lbs. hay and 4 lbs. 
corn stover per head per day. Grain 
ration to be made up of 2 parts dried 
distillers’ grains, IY 2 parts cottonseed 
meal, 1 part oil meal, 1 part gluten feed, 
and 1% coarse, fine salt. Feed grain at 
rate of a pound to 3^/^ lbs. milk produced 
daily. II. F. J. 
Ration for Guernseys]^ 
Will you balance a ration for grade 
Guernseys averaging 2 lbs. milk per day? 
I have good silage and a good grade of 
clover two-thirds and Timothy hay. I 
have corn and cob meal on hand, and can 
get cottonseed meal, bran and dried 
brewers’ grains at reasonable prices. 
Maryland. V. B. w. 
Feed 30 Ihs. silage and 12 lbs. mixed 
hay daily. Dlake up a grain ration of 2 
jiarts cottonseed meal, 1 part dried brew¬ 
ers’ grains. 1 i)art bran, and 2 jiarts corn 
and cob meal. Feed grain at rate of 1 lb. 
to 3t/^ lbs. milk produced daily. In mak¬ 
ing up grain mixture it is a good plan to 
add 1 per cent, coarse fine salt. H. F. J. 
A Wisconsin Ration 
I just read the article on “The Young 
Cow Mother,” on page 1481. I expect 
to put Holstein cows on A. R. O. test 
in the Spring and would like information 
as to their preparation and feeding for 
the 7-day test. How long before calv¬ 
ing should one begin to prepare the cow, 
and how. and is not the third week after 
calving the best time to run the test? 
Wisconsin. c. G. P. 
To got in shape to make a good seven- 
day record, a cow should have at least 
two months’ rest. Dui’ing this time a 
good ration to feed is made up of one 
part ground oats, one part gluten feed, 
one part dried distillers’ grains, one part 
oil meal and one per cent. salt. Suffi¬ 
cient grain should be fed to keep the 
cow in good, plump fat condition. As 
a rule a cow is in lietter shape to make 
a seven-day record three weeks after 
calving than immediatel.v after. It is 
quite a common fault to telephone the 
experiment .station for an official tester 
to come almost as soon as a cow calves, 
and then to get all wrought up because 
he cannot get there that soon. Take 
your time and get the cow going on 
her test ration full swing before the test 
begins. 
For the test ration you should have 
Alfalfa or clover hay and corn silage 
or roots. For three or four days after 
calving feed the cow four or five pounds 
of her fitting ration, then change to fol¬ 
lowing; 2% parts distillers’ grains; 
parts gluten feed, two parts bran, two 
parts hominy, one part oil meal, one 
part cottonseed meal, one per cent. salt. 
Increase grain one-half to one pound 
every other day being careful not to get 
cow off feed. Feed what silage and hay 
cow will clean up. Give cow all water 
she will drink. If both silage and beets 
are at hand, it is a good plan to feed 
about 15 pounds of beets at two of the 
milkings and silage at the other two 
milkings. Grain is usually fed on the 
beets and silage. n. F, J. 
