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May 12, 1917. 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Heifer Refuses Grain ; Growing Oats and 
Peas 
1. I have just purchased a 10 months- 
old heifer. She eats mixed hay and corn 
fodder, but does not eat any grain. I 
have tried her with wheat bran, corn and 
cobs ground and crushed oats with a litcle 
salt. She is in good flesh, but I feel 
anxious because she does not eat any 
grain. Could you advise me on this? 
When heifer goes out to pasture should 
she rec(‘ive any grain v/hen she comes in 
at night. If so, how much should _ be 
given her and about what kinds of grain? 
I wish to put in an acre of oats and Can¬ 
ada field peas to he cut for hay. Will 
you tell me how and where they are to be 
put in and amount of seed of each per 
acre? E. M. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. You need not feel anxious about your 
heifer if she is in good condition. A short 
time before she freshens feed her some 
bran and follow this up with a hot bran 
mash after freshening. ’Work her on to 
grain gradually. 2. Sow two bushels of 
oats and one of field peas to.the acre. 
They may be drilled in together with seed 
drill, or peas may be sown by hand and 
disked in and a w’cek Iflter oats may be 
sown and brushed or harrowed in lightly 
with spike-tooth smoothing harrow. Oats 
and peas should be sown as soon as the 
land is workable in the Spring. II. F. J. 
Grain With Timothy and Alfalfa 
Will you give me the most economical 
balanced ration from the following feeds? 
Middlings ifl.tio per cwt.: bran .$1.75; 
dried distiller.s’ grains .$2.30; cottonseed 
meal $2.40; gluten $2.20. Timothy hay 
$20 per ton; Alfalfa hay _ the same. 
(k)ws are high grade and registiu’ed Jer¬ 
seys giving about 5% milk. B. r. w. 
Connecticut. 
Alfalfa hay at $20 per ton is a great 
bargain at present time. It is, however, 
impossible to balance a ration from the 
foods given without using about 10 parts 
Timothy hay and five pjarts Alfalfa hay 
daily. Feed with this a ration of three 
parts bran, four parts middlings, one 
part dric'd distillers’ grains, two parts 
gluten and 1% salt. Feed a pound of grain 
to three pounds milk produced daily. I 
believe you would get much better re¬ 
sults to feed Alfalfa entirely and buy 
some corn and dried beet pulp to mix 
with bran and middlings to_ balance it. 
Alfalfa is so high in protein that the 
concentrates you mention will not bal¬ 
ance it, and it is unfortunate to have 
to use as poor a dairy feed as Timothy 
hay to do this. n. F. J. 
Crops to Improve Ration 
On page 208, under title of “Cheapen¬ 
ing a Ration,” several feeding combina¬ 
tions ai’c given. The best one, entitled, 
“Hay and Beet Pulp,” interests me. This 
is considered a balanced ration, namely 
Alfalfa hay and beet pulp, but I have no 
Alfalfa, and would like to omit the beet 
pulp and rely on home-growm fodder and 
silage. I have on hand plenty of good 
corn silage and mixed hay. In order to 
eliminate all grain and at the same time 
keep lip milk flow in my Holstein l ord, 
will you advise which proportions of foods 
to use in connection with my standard 
crops? I have in mind Japanese millet, 
Soy beans. Canada field peas and oats. 
Hcav would Sweet clover figure in? I 
am interested in cro])S which will show 
tendency to improve the land. w. s. 
New York. 
If you cau grow Sweet clover it will 
take the place of Alfalfa very nicely both 
as a food foi' dairy cows and as a soil im¬ 
prover. By feeding 35 lbs. of silage and 
18 lbs. of Sweet clover hay or by using 
30 lbs. of corn silage and 15 lbs. of Sweet 
clover hay and 1 lb. of corn and cob meal 
and 2 lbs. of standard middlings you have 
a balanced ration. With silage and 
mixed hay high pi’otein feeds would be 
necessary to balance such as the use of 30 
lbs. silage, 12 lbs. mixed hay, 2 lbs. dried 
distillers’ grains, 2 lbs. cottonseed meal, 
1 11). gluten feed, and 1 lb. wheat bran. 
A very satisfactory ration could be made 
by using 35 lbs. coim silage, 14 lbs. of the 
mixture of oat and pea and Soy bean hay, 
1 lb. gluten feed, 1 lb. dried distillers’ 
grains, and 1 lb. wheat bran. Of course, 
this ration without any grain would pro¬ 
duce a good flow of milk, but it is proba¬ 
ble that cows producing heavily would 
produce more efficiently if supplied some 
grain. It is not advisable to grow .Tap- 
anese millet for hay, simply as a Summer 
soiling crop. _ ir. F. J. 
Hard Churning; Dairy Ration 
I. What is the proper temperature for 
cream to churn to butter promptly? Some¬ 
times it does not take me long and again 
at othei’s it seems as though it will never 
churn. 2. Could you give me a balanced 
ration for a four-year-old Jei’sey cow? 
New .Tersey. A. J. 
1. It is difficult to state a churning tem¬ 
perature that will apply under all condi¬ 
tions Some of the factors that determine 
the churning temperature to he used are 
the season of the year, the locality, the 
richness of the cream, the stage of lacta¬ 
tion and the feed given the cows. In gen¬ 
eral the churning temperature falls be¬ 
tween 54 and 58 degrees in Summer and 
58 and G5 degrees in Winter. Bower 
churning temperatures prevail in the 
South than in the North, where weather is 
colder. A higher churning temperature is 
required for thin cream_ than for rich 
cream. If the cows are in the last stage 
of lactation the cream churns with great 
difficulty because the fat globules are verv 
minute at this stage. If cows are fed on 
dry feeds with no succulence in the ration 
a higher churning temperature is required 
to get butter to come. ii. f, j. 
2. You do not state roughage you have 
on hand, but assuming it to be mixed hay 
a good ration for your cow is 18 lbs. 
mixed hay daily and a pound of grain to 
3 lbs. of milk from the following mixture: 
1 part oil meal, 2 parts bran, 2 parts 
gluten feed, 1 part cottonseed meal, 2 
parts dried beet pulp. The beet pulp may 
be soaked with three times its weight of 
warm water or mixed w'ith the other 
grains and fed dry. Add one per cent, 
coarse fine salt in making the grain 
ration. ii. f. j. 
Wet Brewers’ Grains 
I was able to get wet brewery grains 
which cost 17 cents per bushel, and we 
must haul it about six miles on a good 
road. Do you consider it a good feed 
at this price? We got the first load a 
couple of days ago and at the first meal 
the cows ate of it very sparingly. The 
next few meals they ate it up better and 
it looked as though they had acquired a 
taste for it, but now they refuse to taste 
it. Can you suggest some way to get 
them to eat it with more relish? We 
put a little salt on it and after they 
refused it put some dry feed on it, but 
oven then many rcru'Jcd their new feed. 
I low .should this wet grain be kept or 
stored and about how long will it keep 
without .spoiling this time of year? How 
much should be fed to a 1,000-lh. cow 
giving 30 lbs. of 4 per cent, milk? At 
the above price and the haul would this 
feed he profitable for a hog feed? 
I*enn.sylvania. A. ir. s. 
At present prices of grain wet brewer.s* 
grains at 17c per bu. make a fairly good 
buy for cattle or hog feeding. A bushel 
weighs about 50 lbs. This means 40 bu. 
to a ton at a cost of $6.80. If you can 
haul two loads a day, a ton and a half to 
a load, hauling would cost $2 a ton. This 
is figuring time for man and team at $6 
per day. The grains should be fed within 
two or three days particularly in hot 
weather. If by chance your grains had 
not spoiled I cannot suggest anything you 
have not tried to get the coivs to eat them 
better. A good daily ration for a cow 
giving .30 lbs. of 4 per cent, milk is: 10 
lbs. mixed hay 20 Ib.i. silage, 25 lbs. wet 
brewers’ grains, 1 lb. hominy or corn- 
meal, 1 lb. bran, 1 lb. middlings, 1 per 
cent. salt. ir. F. J. 
Balancing Wheat and Rye 
I have a lot of ivheat mixed with about 
one-third rye, to be ground for cow feed. 
What should I buy to balance ration? 
I have good silage and mixed hay for 
roughage, can get any kind of feed here, 
but all high in price. J. F. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
Feed 30 lbs. silage and 12 Ihs. mixed 
hay daily. Since this roughage is of a 
carbohydrate nature, and the wheat and 
rye being the same make-up, the rest of 
tiie grain mixture must be of high protein 
feeds and the wheat and rye in the 
minority. Try two parts dried distillers’ 
grains, two parts cottonseed meal, one 
part gluten feed and one part wheat and 
rye. If you have more ii%eat and rye on 
hand than would be used, the ration will 
not be materially unbalanced by dropping 
one of cottonseed and adding another part 
of wheat and rye. ir. f. j. 
A Georgia Dairy Ration 
Will you balance a ration of the fol¬ 
lowing feeds for Jersey cows weighing 
800 to 900 lbs. each, milk and cream 
wanted for private family. Cottonseed 
hulls, cottonseed (ground meal), bran, 
roughage, peavine hay. Cows are out 
all diay and night amongst large woods, 
also on pasture (very bare) of Bermuda 
grass. J* B. 
Georgia. 
A 'balanced ration for .Jersey cows 
made up of the feeds mentioned would be 
12 to 15 lbs. of peavine hay daily and 
a grain ration of 3 parts cottonseed meal, 
3 parts 'bran, 8 parts cottonseed hulls 
and 1% salt. _ n. f. j. 
Age To Breed Heifers. —An inquirer 
asked lately about the best age to breed a 
heifer. I have made it a practice to 
breed them so they will be about 20 or 27 
months old when they drop their first calf. 
We have one now, a nice big heifer almost 
full grown at 27 months. She dropped a 
nice fat calf a month ago, and is giving 
15 quarts of milk a day now on very or¬ 
dinary feed. I left the calf with her a 
week or till it was sold, and she didn’t 
seem to miss it very much then; in fact 
she worried less than if I had done as 
many do, take it away at once. Feed 
them well uud they will do just as well 
bred early. V. T. L. 
Massachusetts. 
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