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Dried Beet Pulp and Mangels 
How does dried beet pulp compare in 
feed for dairy cows with mangels? I 
have been feeding mangels for some years 
but am short this year. I fed about 30 
pounds per cow at a feed, had no silage, 
when cows gave 20 pounds or over of 
milk. How much pulp should I feed? 
Virginia. j. jx. K, 
One pound of dried beet pulp contains 
about 10 times the weight of digestible 
nutrients of one pound of mangels. Hence 
it would take three to live pounds dried 
pulp to take the place of 30 pounds man¬ 
gels. Soak the pulp in about three times 
its weight hi warm water. When fed in 
this way it supplies succulence to the 
ration admirably. ii. f. j. 
Feeds Low in Protein 
ill you give a ration for grade 
Jersey-Holstein cows, with the following 
feeds? Good silage, corn fodder, corn and 
cob meal. Dried brewers’ grains, .$1.70 
per 100 lbs.; wheat bran, $1.00; wheat 
middlings, $1.90; cottonseed at about 
.$2.25. The last four have to be bought. 
Virginia. e. f. s. 
All your feeds on hand are so low in 
protein that it is actually impossible to 
balance a practical and economical grain 
ration using the feeds you mention. You 
would have to feed almost entirely of 
cottonseed meal to supply the protein. 
Since you have the corn and cob meal 
on hand as a home-grown crop, I should 
not attempt to make an exactly balanced 
ration at pre.scnt feed prices. Use two 
parts corn and cob meal, one part dried 
brewers’ grains, one part bran and two 
parts cottonseed meal. This ration Is 
lacking in protein to some extent, but 
you cannot do better with the feeds 
given. II. F. J, 
Improving a Ration 
Will you give 'a balanced ration for 
my Jersey about six years old, due to 
calve in two months, which has had, up 
to present writing, from former owner. 
Alfalfa hay and silage, and vei-y little 
grain? I have only Timothy hay and 
Red-top, and can get later some clover. 
I shall have plenty of cut cornstalks, but 
one of my cows prefers the hay to the 
stalks. Are they not a good milk-pro¬ 
ducing fodder? They are good clean 
stalks. I have cornmeal, gluten, bran 
and cottonseed, and would like to make 
a balanced ration on that. I have used 
60 lbs. cornmeal, 45 lbs. bran, 30 lbs. 
gluten, 15 lbs. cottonseed, with good suc¬ 
cess. Can you suggest anything better? 
New York. n. c. F. 
Unless one has succulence, such as 
corn silage, or unless one has Alfalfa or 
clover hay, corn stover is of little value 
for milk production. It is a fodder low 
in protein, in fact low in feeding value. 
Since your hay is of the mixed variety 
it is impossible to balance a practical ra¬ 
tion making use of cornmeal. A ration 
of two parts gluten feed, two parts cot¬ 
tonseed meal, and three parts bran comes 
near to making a balanced ration with 
the roughage you have on hand. How¬ 
ever, if you have the feeds you are now 
using on hand _ in any considerable 
amounts I doubt if it is wise for you to 
f(>ed an exact balance, grain feeds are so 
high. The only x-eal economical ration at the 
present time must be made up very large¬ 
ly of clover or Alfalfa hay and corn sil¬ 
age raised on the farm. They are ab¬ 
solutely necessary to efficieut milk pro¬ 
duction. n, F. J. 
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Ration for Freshening Cow 
I have a Holstein cow three years old, 
but do not know when she is due to 
freshen. Is there any way to tell about 
when she will calve? She is giving about 
five quarts per day now. Could I give 
her a balanced ration using gluten and 
cornmeal? If not what grain would do 
to put with it? I would prefer to use 
above grains. If she dries up entirely 
what grain and^ how much would you 
give her? She is not very fleshy and I 
do not believe she is a cow that will ever 
be fat. Just after calving what ration 
should I give her? Would prefer to use 
grains mentioned above if possible. 
Maine. g. n. j. 
Unless you have some idea of when 
your cow was successfully bred there is 
no way of telling when she will calve 
until she dries off and shows visible 
signs of calving. You do not state what 
roughage you have to feed. The kinds 
of grain feeds to use depend entirely 
upon the kind of roughage at hand. If 
you have clover or Alfalfa hay you can 
mjxke a very satisfactory grain ration 
lusing two parts feed named, two parts 
gluten feed, and one part cornmeal. If 
your hay is of the mi.xed variety this 
ration will not supply suflicient protein. 
A ration _ of two parts gluten feed, three 
parts dried distillei’s’ grains, one part 
cottonseed meal would be better. Feed 
cow regular grain ration up to within 
two weeks of calving, feeding enough to 
get her in good condition for calving. 
Just before and after calving feed wheat 
bran. Work onto regular grain ration 
gradually, and feed a pound of grain to 
‘iVz pounds of milk when on full feed. 
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