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iShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
>[arch 17, 11M7 
Dr. David Roberts’ 
COW CLEANER 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Improving Deficient Ration 
^'ill you give me a balanced ration 
for a four-year-old Jersey cow weighing 
650 pounds and giving eight quarts of 
milk a day, from the following feeds? 
Bran and shorts, cottonseed meal, mixed 
bay. corn and cob meal. Will you give 
me the balanced ration that is the cheap¬ 
est considering I have to buy my bran, 
shorts and cottonseed meal? T. ii. n. 
We.st Virginia. 
It is impossible to balanee a ration 
using the feeds yoit mention. The mixed 
hay and corn and cob meal are .so low 
in protein it would require the use of 
cottonseed meal, only, to supply the pro¬ 
tein and then only a small amount of 
corn and cob meal could be used. For 
your case it is best to use a ration with 
variety and make a ration as n/'arly bal¬ 
anced as possible with the feeds at hand. 
Feed what hay cow will clean up and 
make grain ration two parts cottonseed 
meal, one part bran, one part corn and 
cob meal, and one per cent. salt. Feed 
a pound of grain to ?>y 2 pounds of milk 
produced daily. h. f. ,t. 
Ration for Heifer Coming Fresh 
1. We have a heifer that will ho fresh 
shortly. I feel she should have a change 
in feed, something more than bran and 
cornstalks. Will you make a suggestion? 
2. Can small potatoes, size of large egg, 
be used for seed potatoes? o. is. n. 
New .Jersey. 
1. You do not state what you have 
for roughage besides cornstalks. It is 
essential to consider this in choosing the 
grain ration. At pre.sent feed prices I 
doubt if you can do better than to con¬ 
tinue the bran feeding until the heifer 
freshens. Bran is the best and safest 
feed to use just before and just after 
calving. If you have mixed hay and 
cornstaks for roughage after heifer fresh¬ 
ens make up grain ration of two parts 
gluten feed, one part cottonseed meal, 
three parts wheat bran and one per cent, 
salt. 2. Small potatoes make poor seed 
potatoes siiioe like has a tendency to 
produce like. Seed potatoes should be 
selected and the best are none too good. 
II. F. J. 
Ration for Fresh Cows 
I have a two-year-old heifer and a five- 
year-old cow bought last Fall. Up to 
Jan. 15 they had never tasted grain. 
I bought them up in the northwestern 
part of the State, five miles from a 
railroad, making grain high and hard 
to get. Stock fed on good hay, good pas¬ 
tures and run of the fields after harvest¬ 
ing. The farmers about here said I 
would get better calves aud cows would 
do better if given a little grain. They 
are due to freshen in three weeks. The 
advice of the farmers was to give two 
quarts (jf shorts morning and night with 
a handful of cottonseed meal. I have 
done so, feeding now two quarts shorts, 
two handfuls cottonseed and good hay. 
I have the best looking cows in this 
section, sleek and glossy, carded twice 
every day. Would you advise a different 
grain ration? Both are grades. I can 
get at the local grain mill shorts, mid¬ 
dlings, ground oats, gluten, oil meal, cot¬ 
tonseed and stock feed. I want to feed 
for best paying i-esults. ,T. K. K. 
Maine. 
The ration you are now feeding.is sat¬ 
isfactory up to and just after time of 
calving. After that make up a grain ra¬ 
tion of two parts gluten feed, one part 
cottonseed meal, one part oil meal, and 
one part middlings. Add one per cent. 
coar.se fine salt to grain mixture in mak¬ 
ing it up. Peed grain at rate of a pound 
to pounds of milk produced daily. 
Feed what hay cows will clean up. 
IT. F. J. 
Fattening Bulls ; Feeding Cow and Sow 
1. Will you give me a balanced ration 
for fattening four mixed breed hulls for 
market, weighing at present about 650 to 
700 lbs.? I have clover bay and plenty of 
cornstalks and fresh wet distillery grains. 
Al.so ration for a young cow coming in 
with calf for first time in April. I have 
been feeding latter about four pounds 
cround corn and cob meal, chopped twice 
a day with 15 lbs. clover hay, hut she 
seems off her feed on this diet. I think 
it is the dry corn and cob meal which 
causes it. 3. I have a sow with eight 
pigs, young, which is very very thin and 
does not seem to relish her feed. It seems 
rather cold to take pigs from her. What 
would you advise? I-. P. S- 
1‘eunsylvania. 
1. To fatten your hulls feied about a 
bushel of the distillery grains and what 
clover hay and cornstalks thyc will clean 
up. Feed more clover hay than corn¬ 
stalks since the cornstalks have too little 
rutriment in them for their bulk. JMake 
grain ration one part oil meal, two parts 
dried distillers’ grains, four parts mid- 
dlhigs. and two parts cornmeal. Feed 
wliat they will handle without going off 
fe*ed. 
2. Feed cow about 10 lbs. clover hay 
and 6 lbs. cornstalks daily and make 
grain ration two parts dried distillers’ 
grains, two parts corn and cob meal, and 
two parts middlings. Fj* until calving 
feed enougti so cow will freshen in good 
condition, probably 3 or 4 llis. daily. After 
calving work cow onto ration gradually 
feeding a pound of grain to Hy^ lbs. of 
milk produced daily. If you can get the 
wet distillery grains at a reasonable price 
these fed with a liberal amount of clover 
hay should save you .some grain. 
3. Try ration of SO parts corn. 10 parts 
middlings, 10 parts tankage for the .sow. 
II. F. J. 
Dairy Ration 
Will you give mo a ration for a two- 
year-old Holstein that is due to calve in 
May or .Tune, perhaps later? T have to 
buy everything. I have never had a cow 
and have never milked one. and would 
like to have a few points. Should I give 
the same ration after she has calved? 
Connecticut. e. e. b. 
Since you have to buy everything try 
to get hold of some clover or Alfalfa hay. 
Make up grain ration of one part dri^ 
distiiler.s’ or dried brewers’ grain >, one 
part cornmeal, one part bran, two parts 
standard middlings. Feed a pound of 
this to four pounfTs of milk produced 
daily. Feed three to four pounds of 
dried beet pulp daily, .soaked in thn^c 
times its weight of warm water. Thi.s 
will make a very palatable ration, and 
one tliat the-cow should do well on. The 
same ration may be fed before and after 
calving. When cow is dry feed just 
enough to keep her in good condition. It 
is a good plan to cut the grain ration out 
a few days jus't before and just after 
calving and fis-d a few pounds of wheat 
bran only. ii. f. J. 
Rye and Oats for Cows 
T have rye and oats and Timothy hay. 
If I grind oats and rye how could I feed 
to give dairy cows a balanced ration? 
I’euusylvauia. m. l. m. 
You cannot balance a ration with Yye 
and oats and Timothy hay. All these 
feeds are low in protein, and Timothy 
hay is the poorest of roughages for feed¬ 
ing the dalrj’ cow. Feed what hay cows 
will clean up. Oet some dried beet pulp 
and feed 2 to 4 lbs. per head per day. 
Soak the pulp in three times its weight 
('f warm water. Make grain ration 2 
parts cottonseed meal, 2 parts dried dis¬ 
tillers’ grains, one-half part oil meal, 1 
part gluten feed, and 1 part oats and rye 
if you cannot sell same. You would 
really do better if possible to sell your 
Timothy hay and buy some Alfalfa, or 
sell your oats and rye and put money 
into jirotein feeds mentioned in above ra¬ 
tion. II. F. J. 
Grain With Poor Hay 
Will you give me a feeding ration for 
my dairy of 20 grade Ayrshires, weight 
runs from 750 to 850, to freshen about 
March 1 to April 1. Milk sold oh test. 
My silage is fed out aud only have late 
cut Timothy with one-quarter to one- 
third clover. Timothy overripe and 
shelled. Give grain ration to go with 
my poor hay. F. M. 
New York. 
It is extremely unfortunate that you 
must feed your cows for two months be¬ 
fore going on pasture on such poor 
roughage. I think it would pay to feed 
2 to 4 lbs. of dried beet pulp daily to 
each cow, soaking the i)ulp in three times 
its weight of warm v.’ater before feeding. 
Feed cows what hay they will clean up 
and make high protein grain ration out 
of 2 parts gluten feed, 3 parts dried dis¬ 
tillers’ grains, and 1 part cottonseed 
meal. Feed this ration at rate of a 
pound to 3^ to 4 lbs. of milk produced 
daily. Add 1% coar.se fine salt to mix¬ 
ture in making it up. II. F. J. 
Feeding Frozen Silage 
The South Dakota Experiment Sta¬ 
tion gives this advie.? about feeding 
frozen silage: 
“At first there is a strong temptation 
to avoid the frozen silage on the outer 
edge and dig down in the center. This 
is just where the mistake is generally 
made. The wise feeder never neglects 
to take a portion of the frosted silage 
each time he feeds. Keep the outer 
part of the silage low, and keep the 
center of the silage high. T>oad the 
cart from ’the center of the silage. Then 
immediately after, witi- a sharp spade, 
throw a portion of the frosted silage into 
the center. A portion of this frozen 
silage will thaw. What does not thaw 
will protect the other suifface silage 
from being frozen. In this manner the 
minimum amount of frozen silage can be 
fed to cows. 
If the silage fs not fed out of the 
silo properly, or if the frosted silage is 
left until Spring, then there will he so 
much frozen silage left that it is im¬ 
possible to feed it up as fast as it 
thaws. When the center has been taken 
away and just the outside rim is left, 
the air gets into it at once when thawed, 
then it becomes merely a heap of manure 
as soon gs warm Spring weather comes. 
Feed a portion of the frozen silage 
daily. 
