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Mice Eat the Directions 
Some time ago I brought a Rabcock 
tester from a mail order house. I opened 
the box and put it away upstairs. I now 
find that the mice have made a nest in 
the box and destcoj’ed the directions. 
Can you tell me how to mix the milk and 
acid? The tester is marked “New .Jersey 
Babcock.” w. ii. ri. 
Crawford, N. Y. 
The following are the directions for 
carrying out the Babcock test for milk. 
1. Secure an accurate sample of the 
milk to be te.sted. 
2. Bring milk to GO to 70 degrees F. 
Mix .sample by pouring back and 
forth from one sample bottle to another 
several time.s. 
4. With 17.0 c. c. pipette transfer 17.5 
c. c. of milk to test bottle (.1 c. c, sticks 
to jiipette). 
5. Add 17.5 c. c. of commercial su!- 
phnric acid, holding the test bottle at an 
angle, .so as to not pour acid onto bauds. 
0. ,‘^hake bottle in rotary motion to 
ini.x milk and acid until mixture assumes 
dark brown color. 
7, i’lace bottle in tester so it balances 
and whirl for live minutes at required 
Sjiei'd. 
8. 
Fill bottles to 0 mark 
on necks 
witli 
warm water. 
0. 
Whirl two minutes. 
10. 
Fill bottles with warm 
water, so 
Cfduniu of fat comes up in the neck of 
the bottle. 
11. Whirl one minute. 
12. Place bottles in hot water bath, 
temperature PIO to 140 degrees F., for at 
least three minutes. 
IG. Bead fat with dividers, reading 
from bfittom of fat column, to top of 
sag or meniscus in top of fat csdunin. 
ir. F. .T. 
Stable Ventilation ; Dairy Ration 
1. We have a cow stable 00 feet long 
and 20 feet wide; there..are IS .stanch¬ 
ions, but we only keep" from 12 to 15 
cows. The cows all face one way. We 
intend putting in two ventilators.'one in 
each corner of barn, behind the cows, 
for the outlet. I low close to the floor 
.should they be? What size should these 
ventilators be? We would prefer them 
square. For the intake we intend to 
come in just above the two-foot wall 
and confine it almost to the ceiling. As 
the barn is long, how many intakes 
should we have, and would all the in¬ 
takes he in front of the cows, or have 
part of them beliind them? What size 
plan should they be? Would this plan 
of ventilation be all right? 2. We are 
feeding our cows a rotation feed made 
up of dry distillery grains, gluten, cot¬ 
tonseed meal, oil meal, bran and hom¬ 
iny or cornmeal. How would you make 
.a balanced r.ation from that? We have 
silage and clover hay. A. M. L. 
New York. 
1. Figuring on the basis of 18 cows 
you .should have two intakes and two 
outlets each a foot sijiiare. The best ar¬ 
rangement would be to have the intakes 
near the ceiling as you sa.v and behind 
the co\^•s and 20 feet from either end of 
the barn to insure better distributipu of 
air. The outlets should be in front of 
the cows and about six inches from the 
floor near the corners of the barii as you 
suggest. 
2. Feed 80 to 85 pounds of silage and 
10 to 12 pounds of clover hay daily and 
a pound of grain to 8^ pounds of milk 
from the following mixture, one part cot¬ 
tonseed meal, one-half part oil meal, one 
part dried distillers’ grains, one part 
gluten feed, one part bran, one part 
hominy or cornmeal, and one per cent, 
salt. n. F. J. 
Shrink in Milk 
I have a cow v/hich I paid a good price 
for; she was fresh with her second calf 
in .Tilly. She gave about 2.5 (piarts for 
three weeks then the milk flow started to 
lessen till she got dry. This was about 
four mouths after calving. Some dairy¬ 
men tell me that if a cow cuts teeth dur¬ 
ing the calving period it will stop the 
milk flow Is there anything in this, nnd 
is she worth keeping? F. R. G. 
New Jersey. 
There is no truth in the assertion mad”. 
Every young cow cuts teeth when two 
years old up. If milk-tooth crowns do not 
come away promptly a heifer may fail to 
thrive. Shrink in milk might sinqily be 
due to lack of succulent feed (grass) or 
to a change of feed, or to chill. A. s. a. 
The clergyman was nailing a refrac¬ 
tory creeper to a piece of trellis-work 
near his front gate, when he noticed that 
a small boy had stopped and was watch¬ 
ing him with great attention. “Well, my 
young friend.” he said, pleased to see the 
interest he excited, “are you looking out 
for a hint or two about gardening?” 
“No.” said the youth. “I’m waiting to 
hear what a parson says when he ham¬ 
mers his thumb.”—Pearson’s Magazine. 
April 28, 1917. 
Improving a Ration 
I have good silage and mixed hay, dry 
corn fodder, and feed 200 lbs. dairy 
feed, 100 lbs. gluten, 50 lbs. corn on 
cob and about 5 lbs. oil meal, about 10 
lbs. daily to a cow. I think my cows 
should produce more milk than they do. 
Can you give me a better ration? 
Pennsylvania. g. e. a. 
Fe«l 30 lbs. of silage, 8 lbs. of hay 
and 5 lbs. of cornstalks daily. Make 
grain ration 2 parts dried distillers’ 
grains, 2 parts oil meal. 1 jiart cotton¬ 
seed meal and 1 part gluten and 1 part 
dairy feed you mention and 1% salt 
II. F. J. 
Home-grown Dairy Feed 
Is it possible for me to raise anywhere 
near a balanced ration on my own farm, 
consisting of the different grasses, beans. 
pea.s, etc.? I can also raise a good 
crop of oats and barley. I have a silo. 
Would you give me a list, if po.ssihle. 
for say 20 cows? Most of the laud i; 
heavy and in a fair state of cultivatior. 
New York. t. l. >i. 
Roughly speaking for a feeding p, r 
iod of 8 mo, or 240 days you would 
need for 20 cows about 00 ton's of silagt*. 
25 tons of legume hay and eight tons of 
grain. This would mean about six acres 
of silage corn, 12 acres of oats and bar¬ 
ley and 10 acres of clover. It is tno 
late to have Alfalfa come on for next 
Summer, and probably a question as to 
the amount of clover you can get. If 
so I should consider sowing some oats 
and peas for hay and possibility of plant¬ 
ing Soy beaus with the silage corn to 
raise jirotein content of the silage. By 
feeding 85 lb.s. of corn silage and 15 
lbs. of 'Clover or Alfalfa hay daily along 
with 3 or 4 lbs. of mixture of oats and 
barley one Avould have a very well bal¬ 
anced and economical home-grown ration. 
With some Soy beans in the silage the 
same could .be done with oat and pea 
hay and mixed hay with some clover in 
it. You are quite right about grain 
prices. It behooves the farmer to grow 
most of his ration on the farm. 
ir. F. j. 
Improving a Ration 
Can you give me a balanced ration 
for my medium-sized grade dairy cows? 
I hai’e Alfalfa hay and cornstalks for 
roughage and have been feeding bran, 
gluten, oil meal, ground oats and corn 
with the cobs. I have to buy all my 
ffi’aius. ' J. E. ' 
•New York. 
Feed about 12 lbs. of Alfalfa hay and 
8 lbs. of cornstalks daily. Make grain 
r.'ition 2 parts dried distillers grains, 2 
parts middlings or ground oats, 1 part 
cornmeal. 1 part bran nnd salt. 
Feed grain at rate of a pound to 814 
lbs, of milk produced daily. ii. f. ,j. 
Dairy Questions ; Ration for Sow 
1. Can I afford to sell butter at 85 
cents a pound, with grain at present 
prices? 2. What feeds should I use to 
balance a ration for new milch cows 
weighing from 900 to 1100 lbs., tes'ting 
from ,8%% to 5% butterfat? I have 
lilonty of good clover hay. 3. Will 
you give ration for brood sow before 
fan-owing and after? n. C. 31. 
New York. 
1. You cannot afford to sell butter at 
85c a lb. at present production cost. 
2. Feed what clover bay cows will 
clean up and a pound of grain to 3Vi 
lbs. of milk from a mixture of 2 parts 
dried distillers’ grain.s. 2 parts mid¬ 
dlings. 1 part cornmeal and 2 parts 
dried beet pulp. If you wish, the beet 
pulp could be fed separate from the ra¬ 
tion soaked in 8 times its weight of 
warm water. 
8. A good -a-atiou for brood sows be¬ 
fore farrowing is corn 00 parts, tankage 
10 parts and salt ad libitum. After 
farrowing make ration 70 parts corn, 
15 parts middlings, 15 parts tankage and 
salt ad libitum. H. F. J. 
Feeding for Butter 
I am feeding 100 lbs. each of gluten, 
cottonseed, mixed feed and beet pul)), 
with rather poor hay, quality injured by 
getting wet. Is it a good ration for 
butter? W. M. 
Massachusetts. 
The feed has no lasting influence upon 
the amount of butter a cow will produce. 
Certain feeds affect the hardness of the 
butter. The ration which you are feeding 
is Quife well balanced, probably as well os 
yon can do at present feed prices. It is 
unfortunate that your hay is poor. The 
beet pul)) is a fine feed to use where one 
does not have silage or roots. Should 
feed two or three pounds daily soaked in 
throe times its weight of warm water. 
H. F. J. 
Dairy Ration Without Silage 
What are the best feeds to feed my cow 
and get best results? We do not have 
any silo, but have mixed hay; can get 
mostl.v all kinds of feed. R. II. C. 
New York. 
Feed all mixed hay cows will dean up. 
and make grain ration two parts gluten 
feed, three parts dried distillers’ grains, 
one ifart cottonseed meal and 1 per cent, 
salt. Feed a pound of grain to three t'» 
814 lbs. of milk produced daily, H. r. J- 
