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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 17, 1917. 
SKIM-MILK outlet 
CREAM OUTLET 
SKIM-MILK OUTLET 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Grain With Silage 
This is my first experience with a 
.‘iiio. I have mixed hay and good ctirii 
fodder. What should I feed for a bal¬ 
anced ration? s. K. A. 
Pennsylvania. 
Feed about 2o pounds corn silage, 
eight pounds hay, four pounds corn sto¬ 
ver per head per day. Make up grain 
ration of two parts distillers’ grains, 1% 
part cottonseed meal, one part oil meal, 
and one part gluten feed. Add one per 
cent, salt to mixture in making it up. 
Cottonseed and oil meal are very high in 
price at present, but with low protein 
roughage which you have, these high pro¬ 
tein concentrates must be used to bal¬ 
ance the ration. Possihlv j'ou could get 
hold of some peanut n tui, at a reason¬ 
able figure, to suhstitiae lu place of cot¬ 
tonseed meal. It. F. J. 
Peanut By-products for Cows 
Will you advise me of the value of 
peanut by-products as a source of pro¬ 
tein for dairy cows? I have an offer of 
a <iuantity of this feed at a fair price 
and do not know Whether it is a suit¬ 
able feed. A. I). A. 
New York. 
There is both high and low-grade pea¬ 
nut meal on the market. Both are by¬ 
products from the peanut oil industry. 
The low grade come-s from unhulled ]>eii- 
uuts, and contains about 27% pmteiu, 
aiul the high grade 3(5%. Tin* high- 
grade meal is a little more valuable tliau 
cottonseed meal, while the low-grade 
meal is slightly less valuable. This feed 
can be successfully used iu feeding dairy 
cows. Some cows may not take to it at 
first but they will learn to eat it. It is 
the chcapc.st source of protein on the 
market at the jiresent time. It is re¬ 
ported that peanut meal has been suc¬ 
cessfully in use for a long time by Fu- 
ropeau fanners. . ii. F. J. 
Ration for Cow, Hogs and Hens 
1. Will you toll me whiit grain I n(M?d 
to balance the following rations? For a 
cow tliat is due t(* calve the last week 
iu Fi'bruary, I am feeding two quarts 
Alfalfa meal and one pint cottonseed 
meal. Feed is so high here that I want 
to reduce my feed bills without dispos¬ 
ing of any of my stock and still keep 
them in good condition. The cow gives 
two (piarts of milk at a milking. I would 
like to substitute beet pulp for the cot¬ 
tonseed meal. Can I do so without great¬ 
ly le.ssening the flow of milk? 2. What 
would you consider the proper amount of 
middlings to feed a 50-lb. hog to be us(>d 
as a breeder when gretwu? I am feed¬ 
ing one quart middlings (brown) and 
one quart Alfalfa meal three times a 
day. I have been told that beets were 
not good for hogs. Is it so? I would 
like to feed Alfalfa meal and beet pulp 
as much as iiossible, and cut out all the 
other grain I can. .3. I am feeding my 
hens both Avith meat meal and some 
corn, I hope to cut out the coru soon, 
though I have been told that you could 
not make hens lay wi'hout feeding them 
corn, but I don’t believe it. p. n, 
Maine. 
1. In all probability your hay is mixed 
Timothy and clover. This being the case 
it would not be wise to drop the cotton¬ 
seed meal from the ration. Unless you 
are securing the Alfalfa meal for about 
the same price or a little less than for 
what you can buy wheat bran, you 
would do better to feed bran iu place of 
the Alfalfa meal. Beet pulp would_ l>e 
good to put into the ratiou. You might 
well feed one part bran, one part Al¬ 
falfa meal, one part beet pulp, aud one- 
half part cottonseed meal. Feed enough 
daily to keep the cow in good coiulitioa 
for calving. 2. Your hog should have 
1% to two quarts middlings per day. 
Beets fed with other feeds are excel¬ 
lent for hogs, particularly breeding stock 
and you would do well to feed some beet 
pulp with the middlings, 8oak the beet 
l)ulp in hot water, add the middlings aud 
skim-milk or .slop as the case may be. .3. 
An excellent dry mash for hens is one 
jiart corumeal, one part middlings, one 
part bran, and one iiart meat scrap. A 
scratch feed can be made up of equal 
parts of cracked corn, oats and barley. 
u. F. J. 
Dairy Ration Without Silage 
I have gluten _ feed, mixed feed 
(wheat) and corn iu the ear. Can yon 
suggest a balanced ration from above? 
Shall I have the corn aud cobs ground 
up, or shell the corn? Cows are IIol- 
steins giving 40 pounds 3.6 milk; have 
no silage, but about a peck of mangels 
every night. Hay is mixed, portions 
practically all clover. E. A. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Unleiis yonr hay is clover for the most 
part, it is difficult tu_ balance a ration 
K'om feeds you moutiou and get suffi- 
cieut protein in it. This is probably 
the case since you say portions of it are 
all clover. Feed what hay cows will 
clean up together with mangels as you 
suggest aud then make up grain ration 
of equal parts gluten feed, mixed feed 
aud corn aud cob meal. Add one per 
cent, coarse fine salt to •mixture when 
making it up. Feed grain at rate of a 
pound to 3% to four pounds of milk 
produced daily. ii. f. .t. 
Dairy Ration 
AVill you figure a balanced ratiou for 
my cows? I have good silage and mixed 
hay; have been feeding molasses feed, 
distillers’ grain and some sprouts. Glu¬ 
ten .$1.95 i)er cwt.; sprouts .$1.70; dis¬ 
tillers’ grains $2; molasses feed $1..“0; 
cottonseed meal $2.25. H. J. V. w. 
New Y'ork. 
Feed 80 pounds silage aud 10 pounds 
mixed hay per head per day. Make up 
grain ratiou of two parts dried distil¬ 
lers’ grains, two parts gluten feed, one 
part malt sprouts, one-half part cotton¬ 
seed meal and one per cent. salt. Feed 
grain at i-ate of a pound to 3% pounds 
milk produced daily. ii. F. J. 
Sweet Corn for Silage 
Can you give me any information as 
to the use of sweet coru for the silo? Are 
there any good reasons for not using it. as 
well as the other varieties? Will it keep 
as well as the other kinds if put iu .silo at 
proper time aud iu condition? s. J. 
Sweet corn would make good silage 
when properly handled, but unless it is 
1 lacked Avell in the .silo there will lie 
trouble. It contains more sugar than 
lield coru. This cause.s extra fermenta¬ 
tion, which is more likely to produce a 
low quality of silage. If the silage is 
RGCiVMt feUL^S 
Johnny presents a “Feeding Problem ” to Mother 
(Roiiroduced from N. Y. Evening Telegram.) 
thoroughly stamped dowu .a good <(uality 
of feed can be made from sweet corn, hut, 
generally speaking, more and better silage 
could be made from .some variety of field 
corn which ripens well in the locality. In 
some cases the ears of sweet corn are big 
and sold for the niiirket and the stalks 
cut into the silo. This usually gives good 
satisfaction when the stalks are thor¬ 
oughly packed. 
Ration for Fattening Cow 
• Will you give me .an economical ration 
for fattening an eight-year-old cow weigh¬ 
ing about 1,2(K)? I would like to fatten 
her as soon as possible; 1 have plenty of 
coru silage aud mixed hay. Other feeds I 
mu.st buy as follows: Cornnieal. $2.2.5; 
linseed meal. $2.7.5; cottonseed meal, 
.^^..aO; bran, $1.99. j. M 
New York. 
I can give you a fattening ration from 
the list of f(‘eds given, but I doubt very 
much if 3 'ou can make an economical gain 
at the present high feed prices. I should 
take what I could get for the cow as she 
now stands and not fatten her. How¬ 
ever, if you wish to try it the first prob¬ 
lem is to get the <'ow to eat all the com 
silage she will. To do this cut the hay 
dowu to four or five lb.s. a day. Then 
make up gi’aiu ration of one part oil meal, 
one pai-t cottonseed meal, four parts bran, 
three parts corjimenl and 1 per cent. salt. 
Feed 8 to 10 lbs. of grain daily. H. F. j. 
Ration for Freshening Cows 
Please give me a balanced ration for 
milking cows, average weight. They 
have good .silage with but few ears and 
good Timothy ha.v. They will fre.sheu, in 
Februaiw or March. L. 3i, Y. 
New York, 
Since you have Timothy hay to feed 
with silage the grain ratiou must be 
made up of high-proteiu feeds iu order 
that the ratiou may be balanced or 
nearly so. good ration would consist 
of equal paits of dried distillers’ grains, 
cottonseed meal aud gluten feed. Feed 
about one pound of grain to each 3 €o 
3^ lbs. milk. Feed about two bushels 
of silaire daily aud what hay cows will 
clean uii. n. f. j. 
