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Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Silage for Brood Sows 
f'.Tn .vou advise me regarding well-eared 
corn silage for feeding brood sows? I 
have five sows and would like to know if 
corn silage would be a suitable and profit¬ 
able feed to keep the sows in good breed¬ 
ing condition. C)f course I would expect 
to feed some grain feeds with the silage, 
i but would make the silage the bulk of tlie 
ration. How much silage would a one or 
two-year-old sow consume daily? 
Maine. if. .v. is. 
Henry and ^forrison in “Feeds and 
Feeding’’ have the following to say about 
corn silage for pigs: “f’lover. Alfalfa, or 
other legume hay should generall.v prr>ve 
more satisfactory than silage of any kind. 
Silage from corn is txith too woody and 
to(t low in digestible matter to serve with 
any satisfaction as a feed for swine that 
are being properly maintained. If shotes 
and breeding stock live on a limited al¬ 
lowance of Hell cimcentrates alone, they 
will suffer for lack of projicr bulk in the 
ration. For such pigs silage, and even 
corn silage, will he helpful in distending 
the digestive tract.” ir. F. J. 
Poor Roughage 
T would like to have you balance a ra¬ 
tion for my cows. I'O head, nearly all fresh. 
I had the first of November abiuit .‘50 tons 
of poor silage, no ears and frosted : badly 
mixed hay. Timothy predominating; some 
corn stover. I am feeding at pri'seut 200 
dried distillers’ grains. 200 cottonseed 
meal. 100 bran and lUO gluten, but my 
cows arc not milking well. Would beet 
pulp, say at $2..10 per 100 lbs., help if I 
could get it? The ruling prices for grain 
are: bi'an, .$2.1.1; ground oats. .$2.00; 
gluten, .$2.7.1; oil meal. .$2.S,1; cottonseed. 
.$2.81: corniiK’al. $-1.50: dined distillers’ 
grains. .$.‘1; middlings. .$2.75. F. i*. 
rnnecticut. 
Doubtless the iioor quality of yom* 
roughage is responsible for vonr cows not 
milking as well as they ought. Your silage 
will not last long, and if .vou could get 
some beet pulii at iirice you suggest it 
would be a good plan to feed three lbs. 
per head ])er day soaked in three times 
its weight of warm water or from one to 
three parts could be mixed dry with the 
grain ration. I believe your grain ration 
would be improved by adding KK) lbs. oil 
meal and another 100 of bran to it. Yon 
are fortunate in having the dried distil¬ 
lers’ grains. u. F. .t. 
Sheep and Cows Together 
Is there any reason why cows and sheep 
should not be kept in the same barn? If 
so, why? w. M. 
New York. 
Cow.s and .sheep should not he kejit in 
the .same barn for at least two reasons. 
First, on aeconnt of the strong odor com¬ 
ing from sheej), and second, sheep do bet¬ 
ter in a shed or barn that is ojicn, and 
such a place would be too cold for milch 
cows. IT. F. .T. 
Lice on Cattle 
1. How can I get rid of blue lice mi 
cattle? 2. What is a good grain ration 
for cows for milk? I have Timothy bay 
and some corn fodder; no silo. I have 
oats and wheat that I can grind to feed. 
Cows are grade Holsteins and weigh 
around 1.000 lbs. o. u. it 
New York. 
1. A 4.5 jier cent solution of coal tar 
dip is as good as anything for cattle lice. 
This can be made by placing creolin and 
water together at rate of 12 tahlespoou- 
fuls of cretdin to one gallon of water. 
Clij) the hair from along the back of the 
animal from the poll to the tail—a strip 
three inches wide is enough. Lice are 
found in greatest numbers in this region. 
Apply the solution with a sponge or spray 
pump, but do not rub it in or it ma.v burn. 
Repeat operation in two weeks and once 
a month tliereafter. 2. Since both your 
roughage and grain feed on hand is so low 
in protein, it becomes necessary to pur¬ 
chase high protein fi’eds such as cotton¬ 
seed and oil meal. It would seem unwise 
to grind wheat in tlicse times to feed to 
dairy cows. Yon should be able to sell 
it for human or poultry feed for much 
more than you can get out of it by feeding 
to the dairy cow. Assuming that .vou will 
do this, make grain ration two parts 
ground oats, two parts cottonseed meal, 
one part oil meal and one part wheat 
bran. Add one per cent salt to mixture 
when making it up. ti. f. j. 
Ration for Butter 
I have cottonseed meal, eornmeal and 
wheat brail, and cow-pea hay for rough¬ 
age. In what proportion should I feed the 
meals and bran, with cow-pea hay as 
roughage, to get the most butter from my 
two fresh cows? How much of the meal 
and bran should I feed with corn stover 
as roughage? w. F. 
Alabama. 
Witli cow-pea hay should make grain 
ration four parts eornmeal. one part cot¬ 
tonseed meal and three parts bran. With- 
corn stover, three parts cottonseed meal, 
one part eornmeal and three parts bran. 
If you find you are going to run out of 
cow-pea bay. and have to go on corn 
stover alone, my advice would be to feed 
some stover and .some cow-pea hay and 
make grain ration two parts eornmeal, 
two parts cottonseed meal and three parts 
bran. Shifting from cow-pea hay rich iu 
nutrients to corn stover, which is very 
poor, would be likely to seriously alTect 
tlie milk fiow. ir. F. j. 
Feeding Value of Carrots 
Will yon tell me the food value of car¬ 
rots, compared with oats, at the jiresent 
price, to feed to young .stock? i. n. C. 
.New Hampshire. 
On the basis of total digestible nntri- 
euts, or in <>rlicr words, on a food value 
basis, carrots are alnuit one-seventh as 
valuable as oats. Possibly you can figure 
out from this what you wish, taking yolir 
local prices into consideration. Carrots 
fHuild hardly be compared in this way for 
some purpo.ses. For example, they are 
excellent to u.se in a small way in feeding 
horses and sheep. n. f. .T. 
Dairy Ration 
M'ould yon advise a balanced ration for 
cows? They arc of medium weight and 
medium production. I have corn fodder 
for roughage and corn and oats for grain. 
I would have to haul the corn and oats 
four miles to have it ground. Would it 
pa.v me better to .sell tlie corn and oats 
and buy other feeds? P.y liauling the 
corn and oats four miles I can get ,$1 a 
singli' bushel for the corn and 82e for the 
oats. Ry hauling them four miles I can 
Reproduced from the N. Y. Evening Telegram 
buy oil meal, cottonseed mi'al and gluten, 
each for $5 per cwt. Bran would cost 
me $2.20 per KKi lbs. Owing to tlie i>res- 
eut high prices of feeds is it advisable to 
feed as mucii grain as formerly? 
Ohio. c. K. T. 
One dollar a bnsliel for corn seems very 
cheap, and I .should hang on ro it and sell 
some of the oats and buy some bran. 
Since your roughage is 1 w iu protein, the 
grain must be largely of protein nature. 
I should make ration two parts eornmeal, 
one part bran, two parts cottonseed meal 
and one part oil meal. Add 19^ salt to 
mixture. If you have good producing 
cows, it will pay to grain as usual. < >ue 
should be sure as to the amount of milk 
bis cows are giving and not throw away, 
so to speak, feed on cows that do not re¬ 
spond to it at the pail. ir. F. J. 
Increasing Protein in Ration 
Will you balance a ration for grade 
cows, using nearly half ground oats? I 
have mixed hay for roughage. I would 
like to use iu connection with ground oats 
the following; Wheat bran, wheat mid¬ 
dlings, cottonseed meal and oilmeal. 
W B. S. 
In order to supply the necessary pro¬ 
tein iu your ration the purchased grain 
uui.st be of a high protein nature, since 
your roughage and oats are low in this 
nutrient. Give cows what hay they will 
dean up three to five times a day, rather 
than two large feedings. Make grain 
ration two parts cottonseed, one part lin¬ 
seed. one part middlings and three parts 
ground oats. Add 1 per cent salt to ra¬ 
tion iu making it up. ir. f. j. 
This is quite a good dairy country; 
milk testing 3 per cent. .$3.01 j’ler IW lbs., 
month of December. Hay. from $15 to 
$20 per ton ; potatoes fron'i $1.50 to $1.75 
per bu Cows, to freshen in Spring. $50 
to $75; fresh cows, $75 to $125, accord¬ 
ing to grade. Reef cattle, 15 to 16e per 
lb., dressed. (tats. 85c per bu.; oat 
straw. $8 per ton; rye straw. $10 per 
ton. Horses are cheap. Butter, 45 to 50c 
per lb.; eggs. 50c; pork, 20c. dressed; 
chickens. 20c per lb., live. Ther,' is some 
tobacco raised here, which sold for 27 to 
28e per lb. Cabbage, $20 per ton; apples, 
from $1.50 to $2 per bu. G. T. B. 
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