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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January IS, 1919 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
(Continued from page 96) 
with the different breeds. Is it practical 
to do this? I have heard that to cross the 
Holsteins with Jerseys was too severe 
and that the results would favor beefy 
cows, to the detriment of milk. Is this 
true? I have seen some very good grades 
and wonder whether it would be all right 
to cross on to a half-blood Jersey. Would 
it be more likely to succeed than the first 
cross with the full-blood Jersey? I do 
not care especially about purebred Hol¬ 
steins, but would like to know if it would 
be better for me,- as I am situated, to sell 
some of my cows and buy purebred ones 
as a foundation for a new herd. My cows 
are good ones. C. w. 
New York. 
If I wished to establish a herd of dairy 
cows the production of which would be 
greater than that of the average Jersey 
and the quality of which would be su¬ 
perior to that yielded by the average Hol¬ 
stein, I would not go about it by breeding 
my Jersey cows to a Holstein bull. In 
theory it sounds plausible, but in prac¬ 
tice the desired results are never deliv¬ 
ered. You cannot combine in any one ani¬ 
mal, especially by means of crossbreeding, 
the superior qualities of both breeds. The 
heifers resulting from this cross would 
be just as likely to inherit the quantity 
production of the Jersey and the quality 
production of the Holstein, and more espe¬ 
cially after the first cross was completed ; 
you have very little to work with and the 
process of improvement would be slow 
and discouraging. Crossbreeding has its 
virtues when it comes to production of 
meat-making animals intended strictly for 
market purposes. The infusion of new 
blood often rejuvenates herds where in¬ 
breeding has been more or less indulged 
and where size and constitutional vigor 
have been depleted. If I still maintained 
the herd of Jersey cows I would select a 
Jersey bull to mate them with and would 
attempt to bring about definite improve¬ 
ment in this manner, rather than release 
the prepotent agencies that have accumu¬ 
lated by making a radical cross that 
would surely molest any consistency that 
might have been established. 
If I wanted to get into the Holstein 
business I-would buy a few Holstein 
heifers, grow and develop these speci¬ 
mens until they were mature, then grad¬ 
ually reduce my Jersey herd accordingly. 
If I wanted to produce milk of a higher 
quality I would still rely upon my Jer¬ 
seys for butterfat and'the Holsteins for 
quantity, mixing the milk after it had 
been milked, rather than attempt to modi¬ 
fy the quality and quantity by any cross¬ 
breeding activities. . Disappointment is 
sure to follow any attempt to improve a 
herd by crossbreeding in the belief that 
you could combine the virtues of each 
breed in the progeny and then perpetuate 
this feat by continuation of the practice. 
The achievement of our most successful 
breeders of dairy cattle does not record 
indiscriminate matings of this kind. By 
weighing the feed and milk and by choos¬ 
ing a sire that has been tried and known 
to increase the dairy instincts of the re¬ 
sulting heifers, improvement would he 
consistent and quite natural. 
Feeding Holstein Heifer 
What would he a suitable gra n ration 
for Holstein ' fresh recently, when 
the roughage fed is clover hay, night and 
morning, cornstalks at noon, and mangels 
sufficient to allow 15 to 20 pounds daily? 
Grain prices are: Gluten, $2.90; hominy. 
$2.95; cottonseed, $3.40; linseed, $3.25; 
cornmeal, $3.50; bran, probably $2.75; 
none on hand at present. c. F. N. 
Pennsylvania. 
I would suggest the following grain 
mixture for a Holstein heifer, assuming 
that she is fresh with her first calf and 
that she is milking 40 pounds per day. 
With clover hay as roughage, what corn¬ 
stalks she will clean up in the middle of 
the day, and 10 pounds of mangels fed 
twice daily, the mixture would be: 15 
pounds hominy meal, 15 cornmeal, 10 glu¬ 
ten, 5 oilmeal, 5 wheat bran. It would be 
appropriate to give 10 pounds of this 
grain mixture daily in addition to the 
roughage available, provided the produc¬ 
tion is as much as I have assumed. I 
would feed the grain on the cut mangels, 
and follow this ration with clover hay, 
morning and evening. The cornstalks 
should be fed during the middle of t ho 
day, giving her all she would clean up 
without wastage. 
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Testing a Dairy Herd 
Will you advise me how to select the 
best four animals in a dairy of 20 cows? 
There is no opportunity for weighing the 
milk or testing for butterfat, the only 
method being a physical examination of 
the individual animals. The herd is most¬ 
ly grade Holsteins. o. A. w. 
Masstna, N. Y. 
It would be a simple matter for you to 
obtain a pair of milk scales that would 
make it possible for you to weigh the milk 
from each cow, weighing once a week, and 
in this way determine accurately the in¬ 
dividual production of each animal. There 
is nothing as dependable as this proced¬ 
ure, and it is absolutely impossible to 
pick out the profitable from the unprofit¬ 
able cow in your dairy in any other man¬ 
ner. Naturally the experienced herdsman 
emphasizes capacity, constitution, vigor, 
dairy conformation, and also pays a great 
deal of attention to the texture and devel¬ 
opment of the udder. A dairy cow must 
be looked upon as a milk-making machine. 
It is her business to convert farm and 
grain products into milk or butter at a 
profit, and the only way that one can de¬ 
termine accurately whether his milk-mak¬ 
ing operation is yielding a new dollar for 
an old one is to weigh the feed fed to the 
animals, weigh the milk produced by the 
animals, make a generous allowance for 
labor and overhead charges, and calculate 
from the difference whether or not a profit 
or a loss is the result. It is not neces¬ 
sary to weigh all the feed that is con¬ 
sumed daily, but one should be able to es¬ 
timate at the end of each month, approx¬ 
imately, the quantity of grain and rough- 
age that has been fed ; likewise he ought 
to know the relative production of each 
cow. In this way it will be possible to 
pick out the good cow from the poor one 
and to determine which animals are pay¬ 
ing their board. Experience is the only 
school that will educate one to select 
useful dairy cows. First, one must have 
healthy animals; they must he backed up 
with some breeding; they must be well fed 
and given quarters that will he conducive 
of contentment and enable the caretaker 
to give his animals regular care and real 
feed. 
Raisin Seed Meal 
Please advise me regarding raisin seed 
meal. I can get it at $1.60 per 100 
pounds, but there is no analysis on the 
bags, but it is claimed to run 12 per cent 
fat. Is it good for dairy cows and horses 
if fed in small quantities like oil meal, 
etc.? w. ir. o. 
New York. 
Raisin seeds are rich in fat and pro¬ 
vided they are ground rather finely and 
freshly ground and not rancid the meal 
can be used to the extent of 20 per cent 
of the ration for horses, cattle or fatten¬ 
ing swine. At $32 per ton it would be cheap 
feed, and for dairy cows I would suggest 
the following combination: Hominy or 
corn and cob meal, 400 pounds; buck¬ 
wheat middlings, 200 pounds; continental 
gluten. 100 pounds; raisin seed meal, 100 
pounds. 
For horses, the chances are that this 
material would not be palatable and if 
fed at all it should be fed with oats and 
bran and the roughage fed in combinat.on 
with this mixture should be Timothy hay. 
If Alfalfa hay or clover hay were used 
there would be encountered a laxative 
condition that would be annoying. 
As far as' swine feeding is concerned, 
there is a distinct advantage in feeding 
pigs concentrated feeding stuffs rich in 
fat. This is why Soy bean meal and pea¬ 
nut meal have been used extensively in 
this connection. The objection, however, 
is that owing to their high content of 
free oil and non-soluble fat, the material 
is likely to become rancid through fer¬ 
mentation. Hence care must be exercised 
in selecting the supplementary feeds and 
in making sure that the materials are 
fresh and recently prepared. For market 
hogs weighing 150 pounds I would sug¬ 
gest the following: 500 pounds shelled 
corn or cornmeal, 200 pounds ground rye, 
200 pounds raisin seed meal, 75 pounds 
digester tankage. Feed in a thick mash 
twice daily. Skim-milk would add value 
to this ration. 
