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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Unthrifty Calf 
A Holstein calf, dropped about Dec. 
1, refuses to eat alone, but sucks well 
when one feeds it with the finger. It 
does not .seem to do well with calf meal 
and separator skim-milk. What ration 
can we feed to fatten it for the butcher? 
Calf was small when dropped, and .also 
scours when it eats all the calf meal, but 
not seriously. f. e. m. 
Stanfordville, N. Y. 
I am afraid you have a losing propo¬ 
sition keeping this calf so long for fat¬ 
tening purposes. It would have been 
better to have let it sucked its mother 
until it was four or five weeks old, and 
then sold it for veal. If it is in fair 
condition I believe it would be better to 
let it go now. You can make a home¬ 
made calf meal out of equal parts by 
weight of cornmeal. linseed oil meal, mid¬ 
dlings and dried blood. Feed about six 
ounces three times a day in three or four 
pounds of warm water, or better yet, 
warm skim-milk. It ought to be possible 
to teach the calf to drink, although some 
of them are so obstinate as to have to 
undergo a semi-starvation process first. 
H. F. J. 
to corn fodder at noon time. Feed about 
15 pounds of beets per head, each night 
and morning, depending on amount on 
hand. You should try to make beets 
last through Winter, even if you have to 
feed only 10 or 15 pounds once a day. 
You will need to buy protein feeds only 
to balance this roughage where you have 
corn and oats. Make ration 100 lbs. 
cornmeal. 200 lbs. ground oats, 200 lbs. 
cottonseed meal and 100 lbs. oilmeal. Add 
one pound of salt to each 100 lbs. of 
feed. H. F. J. 
Oats and Buckwheat for Cows 
Are ground oats and buckwheat._ half 
and half, good feed for dairy cows? If 
so, about how much at a feed? G. N. 
New York. 
Ground oats and buckwheat are good 
feeds for the dairy cow, but they should 
be mixed with other feeds to make a bal¬ 
anced ration. The other feeds to use 
would be determined by the kind of rough- 
age available. If your roughage is mixed 
hay. mix 200 lbs. ground oats and buck¬ 
wheat (half and half), 100 lbs. linseed 
oilmeal, 100 lbs. cottonseed meal. 100 lbs. 
gluten feed. Add 1 lb. salt to each 100 
lbs. feed. Feed 1 lb. mixture to each 3% 
lbs. milk produced daily. A cow giving 
30 lbs. per day would need S to 10 lbs. 
grain. H. F. J. 
Milk Ration 
Will you advise as to a ration for milk? 
We have 30 cows; mixed hay and silage. 
I also have a mill and do my own grind¬ 
ing. How much oats, wheat, barley and 
peas should I use to get best results? 
What other stuff would you purchase to 
make a balanced ration? I wish to buy 
as little as possible, as millers in this 
section only pay $1.50 for wheat, it. m. 
New York. 
Grind your oats, wheat and barley and 
mix equal parts by weight. If you have 
enough peas grind them and use two 
parts by weight, with the oats, wheat and 
barley; any amount can be used, depend¬ 
ing on the amount of peas on hand. You 
will need to buy some protein, since your 
roughage and grain on hand are low in 
this nutrient. I should make the ration 
300 pounds of the oats, wheat, barley and 
pea mixture, 200 pounds cottonseed meal 
and 100 pounds linseed meal. Add one 
pound coarse fine salt to each 100 pounds 
feed when mixing up ration. H. F. J. 
Improving Ration for Milch Cows 
Would you give me a balanced i-ation 
for cows?' At present I feed Red-top 
hay, Timothy, both very poor. For grain 
I give four cows from 20 to 22 pounds 
a day of the following mixture: Crushed 
oats and bran equal parts, and about half 
that amount of mixed feed. I thought 
of using equal parts of crushed oats, 
bran and gluten instead of the mixed 
feed. I give about two bushels of roots 
twice a day. I have started on the silo, 
but they do not take very well to it as 
vet. One of the cows is to come in fresh 
March 4, one about the middle of March, 
one came in fresh the middle of Decem¬ 
ber, the fourth came in fresh in mid¬ 
summer. At present the four give about 
30 to 32 quarts per day. Is that a good 
percentage for the feed I use? w. o. c. 
New Jersey. 
Considering the grain ration you are 
using your cows are doing very well in¬ 
deed. ‘ Feed all the hay the cows will 
clean up three times a day and about 30 
pounds of silage per head per day. Make 
the grain ration 100 lbs. crushed oats, 
100 lbs. bran. 200 lbs. cottonseed meal, 
100 lb' linseed oil meal and 100 lbs. 
gluten reed. Add one pound of salt to 
each 100 lbs. of feed when mixing it up. 
Your present grain ration lacks the neces¬ 
sary protein supplied in the feeds I have 
added. Feed grain at the rate of a pound 
to 1 % to two quarts of milk produced 
daily. - 11 • F. J. 
Dairy Ration 
Will you give me a good dairy ration? 
Roughage consists of mixed hay and corn 
fodder; mangel beets. Grain consists of 
corn and oats. Cake meal costs $3.15 
per cwt. and bran nearly as much. 
Dresher, Pa. e. ic. 
Feed all the mixed hay cows will clean 
up night and morning, and give access 
Ration Lacks Protein 
My hay is mixed; no silage; not much 
clover. Grain, two parts oats, one part 
bran, one part oilmeal. Is that, as good 
dairy feed for milch cows as a mixed feed 
with 22 per cent protein ? o. l. 
Ohio. 
Your grain ration is lacking in protein, 
and could hardly be expected to give as 
good results as a ration containing 22 per¬ 
cent- protein. If you add 100 lbs. of glu¬ 
ten feed and 150 lbs. of cottonseed meal 
to your present mixture it will be greatly 
improved. n. F. J. 
Rations for Cows, Calves and Pigs 
Will you balance a ration for cows? I 
have corn, wheat, oats and buckwheat. I 
have a small feed chopper which is run by 
power, and would like to know in what 
.proportion to mix my grains to get the 
best results for producing milk ; also for 
three heifer calves and 10-weeks-old pigs. 
I have cornstalks and shredder, Timothy 
hav with a light percentage of clover 
mixed. Is oat chaff any good for cows? 
Luzerne Co., Pa. u. M. P. 
There is little nourishment for cows in 
oat chaff. Feed hay twice a day and 
stover once, giving what the cows will 
clean up. You will need to buy some high 
protein feeds, as your roughage and grain 
feeds on hand are low in this nutrient. 
Make grain ration for cows two parts 
corn, wheat, oat., and buckwheat ground 
together in any combination you wish, 
and two parts cottonseed meal, one part 
oilmeal and one part, gluten feed. Add a 
pound of salt to each 100 pounds of feed. 
For the calves make the grain ration 
equal parts ground corn, wheat and oats. 
For pigs make ration 70 pounds corn, 
wheat and oats ground together in equal 
portions. 20 pounds oilmeal and 10 pounds 
tankage. 11 • F. J. 
Feeding Calf Without Milk 
I am raising a purebred heifer calf, 
and am finding it difficult to have enough 
milk for my family, and also skim-milk 
for the calf. The calf is now about 3% 
months old; have been giving lier skim- 
milk morning and night, and whole oats 
with a little bran at noon. This is my 
first experience in raising a calf, and I 
do not know how much she should have 
grown in this time, but other people have 
told me she is growing nicely. Can I 
“graduate” from the skim-milk to some¬ 
thing that will be equally as good for 
her? s. t. I,. 
A calf that is kept in good growing 
condition should gain one to 1.5 pounds 
daily I presume with your treatment 
youi- calf has doubtless made this gain. 
The calf can get along nicely without, 
skim-milk. Either buy one of tbe ready¬ 
made calf meals, or better yet. mix up a 
meal of equal parts by weight of linseed 
oil meal, hominy feed, middlings and dried 
blood. Each night and morning give a 
half pound of this feed in about three 
quarts of warm water. Make dry grain 
February 8, 1919 
one part by weight of ground oats and 
hominy feed and one-lmlf part linseed oil 
meal. Feed a little at noon time. Give 
calf all water it wants and plenty of hay. 
II. F. ,T. 
Dairy Ration Without Silage 
I wish to get a balanced ration for 
milking cows, using as a base the food we 
can raise to best advantage on farm. 
Hay is cut when in bloom and contains 
clover, mostly Alsike. Can also success¬ 
fully raise rutabagas and carrots. Oats 
and buckwheat are best grain for this sec¬ 
tion and would be ground for feed. I do 
not mention silage corn, for although 
some milkmen near Kane have silos the 
corn they grow is never mature or has 
any grain on. We do grow a little eight- 
rowed flint, corn for chicken feed, but corn 
is not a paying crop because of climate 
and elevation, 2.000 feet. K. o. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
Feed all the hay the cows will clean up. 
Give about 25 lbs. of roots daily, say 15 
lbs. rutabagas and 10 lbs. of carrots. 
Make grain ration three parts, by weight, 
of ground oats and buckwheat, one part 
gluten feed, one part cottonseed meal and 
one part, oilmeal. Add a pound of salt to 
each 100 lbs. of feed. n. F. J. 
Feeding Milch Cows 
Will you give me the best formula for 
milch cows? I have in stock good hay, 
mixed clover and Timothy ; corn and cob 
chop, silage, cottonseed meal. W. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
Feed 30 to 40 pounds silage per head 
per day and all the mixed hay cows will 
clean iip. Make grain ration one part 
wheat bran, one part corn and cob meal, 
two parts cottonseed meal, one part glu¬ 
ten feed and one part linseed oil meal. 
Add one pound coarse fine salt to each 
300 pounds of feed in mixing up ration. 
IT. F. J. 
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