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"Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 12, 1918 
MAKE the OLD STAVE SILO 
.N EW. 
BEFORE 
1-0111 notiial photo. Stave silo. T'visted, Icaii- 
iiitf, roadj- to oollapse and a menace to 
nearby liulldings. 
AFTER 
Same silo rebuilt -with Crainelox coverinpr- 
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endeavored to prevent it from again blowing down by guying the silo to the barn. Jn 
February when empty, the wind blew one side of the silo in, and in a few days it was flat. 
The silo is now erected and covered with Craine Patent Covering, and I am confident it 
will not blow down again. Craine Patent Covering, while it makes the silo much stronger, 
also makes it warmer, absolutely airtight, and much more attractive in appearance. 
(]\Ir. Colvin bought another Craine Triple Wall Silo in 1915 and still another in 1917.) 
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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Dairying on Nantucket Island 
1. Since our Guernsey cows get no 
good pasture and the weather is colder, 
they dropped from 60 to 30 quarts of 
milk. We have given them half cornmeal 
and bran, one per cent salt, good hay 
feed in morning and a bushel of silage 
and grain ration at night. Our hay con¬ 
sists of not much clover, mostly good 
Timothy and Red-top. Our tile silo was 
not finished on time, and we cut with 
only lower ends of stalks a little green, 
but a goodly number of matured ears. 
We ran in considerable water, and the 
cows clean it up well. I imagine we are 
short on concentrates and would like your 
advice on the subject. We raised a lot 
of Canada field corn and have a mill to 
grind it. 
2. We have a nice two-year-old Hol¬ 
stein bull and heifer. What should the 
bull’s ration be with and without good 
pasture? The heifer is about to drop a 
calf. She has had fine pasture all the 
season and is in good order. Should we 
grain her any yet? W^e would like ad- 
I’ice on general care and feed for the cow 
during all periods of the year; also for 
the calf. Ought we to warm the cow’s 
water at all times? 
3. We are working into registered Hol¬ 
stein stock and wish to know the best 
practice to advance with the breed in 
both physical and productive improve¬ 
ment. There are two other farmers here 
who own Holsteins. Wihat should we do 
to get better stock? We have started 
with Star Farm Segis King 192.340, son 
of King Hartje, who is from a 30-ll>. 4i/^- 
year old. The heifer is Mutual .Tohanna 
Lass II, 307058, a daughter of King I’on- 
tiac Mechthilde De Kol and ^lutual Jo¬ 
hanna Lass, who has 75 per cent the same 
breeding as a 33-lb. 3^^-year-old. The 
heifer was sired by Prince Walker Co- 
lantha, whose two nearest dams are .30- 
Ib. cows. The bull weighs about 1,200 
lbs. and has a fine coat and pink skin, and 
is all white. We presume if the heifer 
lias a bull calf we should raise it for sale. 
Do you consider we have got a fairly good 
start with the quality of this stock? 
Where should we make our ne.xt move to 
improve it? If we crossed the bull with 
our grade Guernseys, would we not in¬ 
crease the milk flow of the offspring with 
a fair percentage of butter fat? Our fat 
is now about 4.70, but the stock is not 
profitable, being poor milkers. w. T. s. 
Nantucket Co., Mass. 
1. I’liere is no question that your ration 
is deficient in protein. I should make the 
ration two parts cornmeal, one part bran, 
two parts cottonseed meal and one part 
oilmeal; should feed silage and grain 
night and morning, half bushel of silage 
at each feed. ’The hay should be fed in 
early forenoon and aftei' milking at night. 
2. I should feed the bull the same ra¬ 
tion, giving him three or four pounds of 
the grain daily ; just enough to keep him 
in a growing condition. When cows are 
on pasture less protein need be supplied 
in the grain ration, and one part cotton¬ 
seed should be dropped from the above. 
The cows need about half grain ration on 
pasture, depending on the quality of the 
pasture. When heifer freshens give her 
a moderate amount of a mixture of equal 
parts corn, bran and oilmeal and then 
work her on to above ration. 
3. The crossing of your Holstein bull 
on the Guernsey cows is an uncertain 
proposition. The milk flow might be in¬ 
creased, but the fat test would doubtless 
be appreciably lowered. However, since 
Guernseys are grades, I believe I should 
use the Holstein bull at hand. Y^ou have 
a good foundation heifer and bull and if 
you wish to launch out a little more 
should try to find cows or heifers closely 
related to heifer you now have. If the 
daughters of this bull come good there is 
no objection to breeding the bull to his 
daughters. You should subscribe for at 
least one of the breed papers and keep in 
touch with Holsteiu breeders. It is pol¬ 
icy to grow all of the feed you can at 
home. However, if you grow oats and 
corn for the grain you should grow some 
protein in the form of clover. Alfalfa or 
oat and pea hay. In this way you can 
I balance a ration on home-grown feed, 
i Soy beans in the silage will also help and 
seem to be very practical. n.F. J. 
Dairy Ration 
I have several cows. Jerseys and Guern- 
sevs. and would like you to give me a bal¬ 
anced ration. For rough stuff I have 
corn fodder and clover hay; also have 
considerable rye which they can pasture. 
I can purchase wet brewers’ grains for 
20c a bushel, and would like to use con¬ 
siderable of this if you think it all right. 
I can purchase nearly all ground grains 
on the market. K- K- 
New Jersey. 
Feed about 15 pounds of hay per head 
per day and what corn fodder cows will 
clean up. Feed 25 pounds wet brewers’ 
grains per head per day. This about one- 
half bushel. Feed dry grain made of equal 
parts cottonseed, gluten and bran at rate 
of a pound to about six pounds of milk 
produced daily. n. F. J. 
Feeding Rye to Pigs 
I have about a ton of chopped (groundi 
rye. How can I use that to the best ad¬ 
vantage in feeding horse, four cows and 
five pigs? Can I fatten five l(K)-lb. 
pigs on this ground rye? If so, how 
much should I use to a feeding for eaoli 
pig? II- u- 
New Jersey. 
Your rye could be used to best advan¬ 
tage when mixed with other feeds. If 
you can get hold of any corn without pay¬ 
ing too much for it, should feed equal 
parts corn and rye to pigs, about 8 lbs. a 
day, fed in slop. The best rule, however, 
is to feed all they will clean up without 
leaving considerable in the trough. If 
you cannot get corn, use 75 parts rye and 
25 parts wheat middlings. For cows the 
rye could be worked in with such feeds as 
gluten, cottonseed meal and bran. The 
kind of roughage you have on hand 
would determine the proportions to use. 
If you have mixed hay or mixed hay and 
silage, a ration of one part each bran, 
rye and gluten with two parts cottonseed 
meal would be good. If you have clover 
hay, drop cottonseed to one part and 
raise rye to two parts. ii. F. .i.. 
Low Protein Feeds 
I would like a ration for Holstein 
cows. Hay is poor; have corn silage, 
peas and oats; hay and cornstalks for 
roughage; grain, corn and cohmeal, oats, 
wheat bran, buckwheat middlings, beer 
grains. J- 
New Jersey. 
It is impossible to balance a ratimi 
from the feeds you mention, in that all 
the feeds, with the exception of the brew¬ 
ers’ grains, are low in protein. About 
the best you could do would be to feed 
cows 35 to 40 pounds silage daily ; two 
small feeds of hay aufl what cornstalks 
they will clean up. Then make grain ra¬ 
tion two parts of brewers’ grains and one 
part each of other feeds you have on hand. 
Add one per cent salt to mixture in mak¬ 
ing it up. Feed grain at rate of about 
one pound to four pounds milk produced 
daily. ii. f. J. 
Cottonseed Meal for Cow# 
A neighbor contends that cottonseed 
meal is a very dangerous feed and should 
be used vei-y sparingly, as it has a ten¬ 
dency to cause abortion. I argue that 
abortion is a disease and is not caused by 
feed; also fail to see why a feed so high 
in protein can be dangerous. This i.s in 
cow feed, mixed 200 lbs. bran to 100 lbs. 
cottonseed, fed two to three quarts twice 
daily. Also can abortion be caused in 
any way than the disease, as by falling 
or chased by a dog, at any time during 
the period of gestation? B. M. ii. 
Pennsylvania. 
There is much, argument about the use 
of cottonseed meal in large amounts for 
dairy cows. In the South it is used in 
such amounts as astonish many of ii3 
here in the North. Ordinarily, we recom¬ 
mend that not more than a third of the 
ration be cottonseed meal. Contagious 
abortion is caused by « germ and there is 
no authoritative proof that cottonseed 
meal will cause abortion. Sometimes a 
cow may slip or get hooked and lose her 
calf from this cause, but this is rare. 
Most premature births are real abortions. 
Feeding cottonseed as you are should pro¬ 
duce no harmful effects whatever, 
H. F. J. 
Soft Corn for Swine 
Will you suggest a supplementary grain 
ration for soft corn, for quick growth, to 
be fed to young, thrifty pigs weighing 
about 30 lbs. each? I have been feeding 
a mixture of equal parts of gluten and 
brown middlings, costing ,$3 and $2..35 
respectively per hundred, but they do not 
seem to like it very well. I cannot get 
tankage in the local market, but can get 
it in Philadelphia at 4c per lb. for 40% 
and 45% protein goods, and in Allentown 
for ,$5.10 and $4.35 per cwt. for 60% and 
40% goods. I. L. A. 
I’ennsylvania. 
Try a ration of 50 parts corn, 25 iiurts 
middiings. 10 parts linseed oil meal and 
15 parts tankage. Gluten is not very well 
liked by pigs. I should advise the 60% 
tankage at $5.10 per cwt. ii. F. j. 
