H74 RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Dairy Ration 
Will you givo me a ration for a cow 
giving to 3S lbs. milk? I have ground 
oats and can buy bran, cornmeal, gluten 
meal and oil meal here; have mixed hay 
for roughage. J. n. c. 
New York. 
Feed all the mixed hay the cows will 
clean up. Make the grain ration two 
parts ground oats, one part gluten feed 
and two parts oil meal. Add one pound 
of salt to each 100 lbs. of feed when mix¬ 
ing it up. Feed a pound of grain to each 
to four lbs. of milk j)roduced daily. 
This means about 10 lbs. of grain daily 
for your cow at the present time. 
II. J. F. 
Ration and Pasture Questions 
1 . I would like a little information on 
two subjects, as I am new at farming, 
lieing a disabled soldier and a New York 
City man. My brother and self wish to 
get the mo.st out of cow’S and land, milk¬ 
ing a mixed herd of eight to 10 cows. 
We have some Timothy and clover hay 
(most Timothy); will have cornstalks, 
also buckwheat and oat straw. Me are 
selling cream for butter, also making but¬ 
ter. \Vould you balance a ration for me, 
having to buy the grain? I can get cot¬ 
tonseed meal, gluten, oil meal, bran, wheat 
middlings. 2. I have a pasture lot which 
1 intend to plow up this Fall and sow_ to 
buckwheat next Spring, and the following 
season reseed it wdth oats_ for jiasture. 
Q’he ground, I think, lacks lime. 1 would 
like to know when lime would be best to 
apply to land, whether lime with biick- 
wlieat ami .some commercial fertiliser 
with oats, or fertilizer with buckwheat 
and the lime with oats? 3. Cive me a 
good grass mixture for pasture to seed 
with oats. This is a hill farm in Scho¬ 
harie Co., N. Y. H. 
New York. 
1. The cows should clean up two feeds 
of hay a day and one of_ cornstalks, nib- 
l)ling at the straw ad libitum. This sort 
of roughage requires considerable protein 
in tlie gj’ain ration for milk production, 
and of the feeds you mention should make 
the grain ration two parts cottonseed 
meal, one part oil mpal. one part gluten 
feed and three parts bran. Add a pound 
of salt to the hundred in mixing up the 
ration and feed a jiound or there.abouts 
for each pound of milk produced daily. 
2 . TIse ground limestone or hydrated 
lime for the land in question. You will 
probably get ground limestone. Put this 
on at the rate of 1% to two tons to the 
acre. It may be applied any time this 
Fall or Mlnter if the land be fairly level 
so it will not wash badly, or it may be 
applied before plowing in the Spring. If 
you have no manure for the land put 
on 200 lbs. to the acre of a mixture of 
HO lbs. of nitrate of soda or equivalent 
and 150 lbs. of phosphoric acid. Before 
.sowing oats the following Spring disk in 
300 or 400 lbs. more per acre of the .same 
kind of fertilizer, but no more lime. 
3. A good pasture grass mixture to sow 
with the oats is Timothy 15 lbs., Ken¬ 
tucky Blue grass 10 lbs., Meadow fescue 
2 lbs., Alsike clover 0 lbs. and lYhite 
clover 2 lbs. n. f..t. 
Ration For Milch Cows 
Henry’s “Feeds and Feeding'’ gives the 
following as an ideal ration for milch 
cows: Corn silage, 40 lbs.; clover hay. 
15 lbs.; ground corn, 3 lbs.; cottonseed 
meal, 1 lb. This is given in the 1910 
edition. I would like to know if this is 
still considered an ideal ration. Could 
you suggest .a better one? I have corn 
silage, oats and barley that I could have 
ground, and corn and cob meal, also corn¬ 
stalks and a limited amount of medium 
quality Timothy hay. IVould like to use 
what I have without buying, except what 
is absolutely needed to balance the ration. 
Would it pay to buy clover hay and cot¬ 
tonseed meal, or would it be more profit¬ 
able to u.se my own grain with some slight 
addition? A. M. c. 
New Y’ork. 
The nature of your available roughage 
makes it difficult for you to balance an 
economical ration that is conducive to the 
production of a good flow of milk. If 
you could sell your Timothy and buy 
some clover or Alfalfa hay you would be 
much better fixed. About the best you 
can do with the feeds on hand is to feed 
,35 to 40 lbs. of silage per head per day 
and what hay the cow will clean up. 
Make grain ration two parts corn and 
cob meal, one part ground oats and bar¬ 
ley. two parts cottonseed meal, one part 
linseed meal and one part gluten feed if 
available. The oats and barley and corn 
and cob meal are of the same general 
compo.sition, and may be changed about, 
depending on the amount of each feed on 
hand. M’'ith these feeds you will need 
protein, and cottonseed and lin.seed meal 
and gluten feed will .supply it. If you 
had legume hay three or four parts of 
your corn and cob meal and oats and bar¬ 
ley could be u.sed with one part cotton¬ 
seed meal and one-half part linseed meal 
to better advantage. This would make 
you a cheaper ration and one that should 
produce more milk. ii. f. j. 
Frosted Corn Fodder 
M'ould corn fodder improve in quality 
if it is cut after a light frost, or would 
you advise to cut before frost? A. p. 
Sewickley, Pa. 
Cut before frost if possible. The freez¬ 
ing will not do much harm if the corn is 
promptly cut into the silo, but dry frosted 
corn will lose considerable of its value. 
Frosted Sorghum Silage 
Will sorghum cane that has been frosted 
before being put in the silo injure stock? 
M"ill it make the milk taste if fed to 
dairy cattle? o. w. 
Indiana. 
Sorghum that is quite mature makes 
good silage in spite of its being frosted. 
There will be no injurious effects in feed¬ 
ing it if it is thoroughly packed so it 
keeps. It will be no more likely to flavor 
the milk than any silage. The best time 
to feed silage to avoid this possibility is 
jn.st after milking. ii. F. .1. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Bloat 
Early in Summer I lost two pigs about 
eight weeks old; a))parently all right at 
night, in the morning found them lying 
in lot dead and quite badly bloated. They 
were fed on fresh separator milk. Y'es- 
terday I lost another of same litter, now 
about four month.s old; conditions appar¬ 
ently the s.amc; feed fresh milk from 
separator; large lot to run. All right at 
night, in the nu.ruing found it was dead 
and badly bloated. Can you give me any 
information as to what the trouble is and 
how to overcome same? R. s. 
Such cases are too commonly met with 
in hogs. Usually they are to be at¬ 
tributed to too fast drinking of too large 
a quantity of skim-milk fed too cold or 
without removal of the froth from the 
.separator. By feeding less milk oftener 
and having it frothless and warm such 
Ios.ses may be prevented. A pig never 
should be allowed to drink all of the 
cold, sour or frothy skim-milk it cares to 
take when very hungry. Care also should 
be taken to feed from clean utensils. 
Similar losses often are caused by sud¬ 
denly turning very hungry or partially 
starved pigs into rank green clover. 
Alfalfa or other green crop, especially 
when it is wet with rain or dew. 
Blood in Milk 
I have a very promising Holstein 
heifer, fresh in January, 1918, her first 
calf. She did finely until May; she 
began giving traces of blood in the two 
hindmost teats, and about July 1 the 
same was noticeable from one or both of 
the front teats. She had no hurt that we 
know of; gives an excellent flow of milk. 
Can there be anything done to cure the 
trouble? c. c. o. 
Virginia 
M’e think that examination or handling 
will show that growths are i)resent in the 
milk ducts of the teats and that the bleed¬ 
ing is caused by irritation of the growths 
by the act of milking. If the growths 
are high up in the teats treatment, other 
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than removal of the growths through an 
incision made in the wall of the teat, 
will do no good and may aggravate the 
condition. (Irowths at the tip of a teat 
may be removed by ojieration if the sur¬ 
geon is expert. Where growths cannot 
be discovered as the cau.se it is well to 
bathe the udder three times daily with 
cold water and mix one dram of powdered 
copperas and three of common salt in the 
feed each evening, provided the cow is 
not advanced in gestation. Also lessen 
rich feed. 
Rickets 
I have two pigs; one of them has a 
swelling on his hind leg at knee joint. 
One is a little lame and sits down a lot; 
he is about five months old, and is fed 
middlings and has dry quarters. Could 
you tell me what to do? B. A. c. 
New York. 
M’e suspect that the pig is affected 
with rickets which is induced by malnu¬ 
trition or incomplete or unsuitable ra¬ 
tions. or intestinal worms. The pig may 
improve if you swab the joint once daily 
with tincture of iodine until the .skin be¬ 
comes blistered, at which stage discon¬ 
tinue the_ treatment for a time, but re- 
.sume it, if nece.ssary, when the skin has 
recovered. Gi%’e the pig free range on 
pasture, mix limewater freely in its milk 
or slop and feed dry digester tankage fi"om 
a self-feeder as part of the ration. If 
worms are seen in the ficces, give treat¬ 
ment for worms, often prescribed in these 
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