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Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Mdy 5, 1917. 
“America Prepared and America Efficient” means 
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—Modern labor saving methods in factory and farm. 
The big army of EMPIRE users is prepared to *‘do its 
bit and more, regardless of the shortage of men that 
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bom germs, flies and stable air — safeguard the 
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you for bigger and better production in this time 
of national stress. 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
A Well-balanced Ration 
Will you give me a biilaneed ration 
from the following feeds, which I am 
u.siug? I have a dairy of 15 cows prin¬ 
cipally llol.steins. I am feeding 5 lbs. of 
brewers’ grain.s, 3 lbs. of cottonseed. We 
use a pint of molasses for each cow, dilut¬ 
ed, and put on the grain ; 20 lbs. of silage 
twice a day; clover hay in the morning 
and at noon, and all the cornstalks the,v 
will eat up at night; 2 quarts of salt for 
the 15 cows daily. I have a tank heater 
and give them warm water on cold days; 
11 cows are giving three cans of milk; 
have been fresh about three or four 
months. J. u. 
New York. 
As near as I can figure it your ration is 
almost exactly balanced as you are feed¬ 
ing it. The grain ration is not very de¬ 
sirable from the standpoint of variety and 
palatabilit.v, but. of cxmr.se, inolas.ses helps 
out some in this respect. If you have 
these feeds on hand, as I judge you have, 
in some considerable amounts, continue to 
use the same combination. Ii. F. .T, 
Horse Meat for Hogs 
I can obtain fresh horse meat at one 
c<mt per pound. It would .seem that if 
this meat was cooked it would be more 
valuable feed for pigs than tankage, 
(lould you advise how it should be fed, 
and also how young pigs could be fed ou 
itV s. H. R. 
T.owell, Mass. 
The best way to do with such meat is 
to boil it down into a thick soup, along 
with small potatoes and other waste veg¬ 
etables, and have it thickened up with 
cornmeal or middlings. Handled in this 
way the boiled horse meat will prove more 
valuable than tankage. It would be a 
mistake, however, to attempt to feed it 
raw, or to fe<‘d it alone, but when cooked 
with the vegetables or cheap grain into a 
soup it will make a good feed for your 
hogs and prove jirofitahle. Do not get too 
much of it at a time, so it will grow sour 
and putrid. If there is any danger of 
that, and you have too much of the horse 
meat on hand, it would pay you to get 
some large cans, cook the meat thor¬ 
oughly, and can it as you would fruit or 
vegetables so as (o hold it over. Do not 
feed this soup to the little pigs until they 
are about 10 weeks to three months old. 
Improving a Limited Ration 
Will you give a good dairy ration for 
cows, grains and how much for goocl 
results? We have no Alfalfa or pulp 
of any kind. All we have is yellow meal, 
line feed, middlings and hay. We have 
the coarse grains that we feed onr poul¬ 
try. Our COW’S are all young stock. 
’I'hey have the best of care and are do¬ 
ing better than others hereabout. 
Maine. F. w. 
It is impossible to balance a dairy ra¬ 
tion from mixed hay, cornmeal and mid¬ 
dlings. Feed all hay cows will clean up 
and a pound o'f grain to .31/4 Ihs. of milk 
from the following grain mixture: 2 
parts gluten feed, 3 parts dried distil¬ 
lers’ grains, and 1 part cotton.seed meal. 
If middlings and meal are the only feeds 
you can get, then feed 2 parts middlings 
to one of meal and feed as jier above 
rate. ii. F. J. 
Balancing a Ration 
We have grade Holstein cows that are 
coming fresh, and would like to have a 
balanced ration to feed for the best milk 
supply. Last year the corn crop was 
quite poor, but we have a good supply of 
oats. Can you give me a ration to feed 
with my ground oats? Tell how’ to mix 
it and also how to feed it. We have 
good mixed clover and Timothy hay. 
New York. J. K. 
It is difficult to balance a ration using 
mixed hay and oats. Both these feeds 
are relatively low in protein, and require 
high protein concentrates in large 
amounts to balance them. A grain ra¬ 
tion of three parts dried distillers’ grains 
and two parts cottonseed meal, two parts 
ground oats and 1% salt about fills the 
bill. Feed all hay cows will clean up. 
u. F. J. 
Ration for Run-down Cows 
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Will you advise me what to feed to 
high-grade .lerseys that are run down 
from underfeeding of previous owner, 
that is, in what proportion to feed the 
following: Corn silage, clover (Timothy) 
mangels, carrots, and beets, in addition to 
grain ; of the latter I am feeding a varied 
diet of mixtures of cornmeal, gluten, cot¬ 
tonseed meal, ground oats, linseed oil 
meal and bran. G. w. ii. 
Vermont. 
Feed 20 to 25 lbs. silage, 10 to 15 lbs. 
of roots, and 10 lbs. hay daily. If you 
have the grain feeds which you mention 
on hand make grain ration two parts corn¬ 
meal, one part gluten feed, one part oil 
meal, one part cottonseed meal, two parts 
bran and 1 per cent. salt. Feed a pound 
of grain to 3^ lbs. of milk produced 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
833 W. 30th St., New York 
City 
