‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Feeding Problems 
Grain for Cows 
Would you advise me if a combination 
of ground' barley, ground oats and corn- 
meal will be suitable mixture, together 
with corn dilage and bay, for milch cows, 
and, if so. in what proportion should the 
grains be mixed, and how much per cow 
would you recommend ? *'• 
Massachusetts. 
The grain feeds you mention are all 
low in protein, and no matter what kind 
of hay you feed with the silage, you will 
need some high protein feeds to balance 
them. Presumably you refer to a grade 
of hay from the mixed grasses. If is 
the case, make up a grain mixture of UK) 
lbs. each of ground barley, corn and oats, 
200 lbs. of cottonseed meal and 100 lbs. 
of linseed oilmeal. Add 1 lb. of coarse 
fine salt to each 100 lbs. of feed. n. F. J. 
Rations for Cows and Pigs 
1. Will you tell me how to feed my 
milking cows for the best results/ I have 
at home oats, rye and corn. 1 can buy 
brewers* grains, cocoanut meal, oilmeal, 
molasses feed, sometimes bran. How 
many of these shall I mix and in what 
proportions? IIow much shall I give each 
cow V We milk about 5 o'clock, morning 
and night; we are now milking six cows; 
sometimes we milk 10. W hen shall grain 
be fed? When Alfalfa hay, when stalks/ 
How much milk should a fairly good cow 
give that has been milking six months? 
2. How can I make pigs grow with 
profit from weaning to slaughtering? ^ 
New Jersey. L - v - K> 
1. Feed a feeding of Alfalfa hay after 
milking and chords in the morning and 
another after supper, with cornstalks 
given ad libitum during the day. The best 
rule for feeding hay is to give what, the 
cows will clean up. Make a gram mix¬ 
ture of two parts ground oats, one part 
ground rye, one part cornmcal, one pai l 
brewers’ grains, one part cocoanut, one 
part oilmeal. Add one pound coarse fine 
salt to each 100 lbs. feed. The grain may 
be fed just before or just after, preferably 
just after, milking. Feed one pound grain 
to each three and one-half pounds of milk- 
produced daily, depending on bow cows re¬ 
spond. A ifairly good cow that has 
milked six months would be giving about 
eight quarts per day at present, time, and 
would need five to six pounds of the above 
grain mixture. v. 
2. The most profitable time to grow 
pigs is to have them coihe in Spring. 
After weaning, get them Suit into good 
Alfalfa or clover and later some rape pas¬ 
ture, and feed a slop of skim-milk, 40 
parts eornmeal. 50 parts middlings, 10 
parts tankage or oilmeal. To finish hogs 
in the Fall there is nothing like corn, self- 
fed. Pigs corning in the Fall must de¬ 
pend more on the slop, although they can 
be more economically grown if Alfalfa 
or clover hav is fed to them ad libitum in 
the Winter. Here in Iowa, the banner 
hog State, during the Fall we see 
the corn going into the hogs in all sorts 
of ways, varving from getting it direct 
from the stalk in the field, “hogging it 
down.” it is called, to gathering it up by 
the wagonload after the farmers have 
shoveled it out to them on the ear. 1 he 
main thing in Summer is pasture. Pigs 
run everywhere here, and one has to he 
careful not to run over them tvhen out au- 
tomobiling. - J> 
Breed of Cow 
1 I have- bought.a cow and calf; calf 
is raised from the bucket with mother’s 
milk. I was- told cow was a Guernsey ; 
now I am told she is not, as a Guernsey 
is vellow and white, while mine is all 
red; no other color. What breed is a 
red cow? 2. I have bought another cow 
which comes in this month: What feed 
and how much do you advise/ I have 
never kept cattle before. mks. w. d. 
New York. 
In all probability your cow is a grade; 
that is, mixed blood of various breeds. I 
should suppose that the Shorthorn breed 
prevailed, as red is the common ^ Short¬ 
horn or so-called Durham color. Feed all 
the hay the cow will clean up three times 
a day and make up a grain ration of two 
parts, by weight, of wheat bran, two parts 
cottonseed meal, oue part gluten and oue- 
half part linseed oilmeal. Add a pound 
of COW salt to each 100 lbs. of feed made 
up. Feed a pound of grain to each 1%. to 
two quarts of milk produced daily, giving 
half in the morning and half at night, 
after milking. Feed the grain dry. and 
until the cow freshens in February, give 
her about 3 lbs. a day of a mixture of two 
parts bran, one part gluten feed and one 
part linseed oilmeal. H. F. J. 
Improving Dairy Ration 
I have fed my cows a dairy, ration for 
throe years. The protein is 24 per cent. 
Will so much protein hurt my cows after 
a while? I have no silo; only mixed hay 
to feed. They have water three times a 
day and hay three times. My cows are 
grade Holsteins, and give from 40 to 50 
lbs. of milk when fresh. Would you mix 
a little bran with the feed, or would you 
feed it alone? Not having a silo, can I 
feed as much grain as if I were feeding 
silage? I have fed a little bran with it, 
and I thought they handled more feed 
with the bran in it. I feed a pound ol 
grain to 3 and 4 lbs. of milk. I would 
rather get. less milk if feed too high in 
protein will injure a cow after a while. 
New York. g. b - a. 
A ration running IS to 20 per cent di¬ 
gestible protein, which is probably about 
what the 24 per cent crude protein would 
run, is none too high where tin* roughage 
is mixed hay. It would pay you to figure 
a hit on using a home-mixed ration con¬ 
taining about 20 per cent digestible pro¬ 
tein, using known feeds. It most cer¬ 
tainly should be cheaper. If you can get 
some dried beet pulp and mix .100 lbs. 
with each 4(H) or 500 lbs. of feed. I be¬ 
lieve it would be a paying proposition 
since you have no silo. If you can get a 
mixture of 200 lbs. bran, 200 lbs. dried 
beet pulp. 200 lbs. cottonseed meal, 100 
lbs. linseed oilmeal and 100 lbs. gluten 
Milk-producing Ration 
Will you formulate a milk-producing 
ration from the following feed? Equal 
parts ear corn and oats, ground, bran, 
cottonseed meal and oilmeal; rough feed 
consists of good corn stover. M. B. 
Ohio. 
Have cows eat all the corn stover they 
will clean up; some good hay would help. 
I'sing the feeds you mention, make the 
grain ration 100 lbs. of corn and oats 
ground together. 100 lbs. wheat bran, 200 
lbs. cottonseed meal and 100 lbs. oilmeal. 
Add a pound of coarse fine salt to each 
100 lbs. of feed. H. F, J. 
Dairy Ration 
Will you give me a balanced ration to 
he fed with corn fodder and silage, com¬ 
posed of wheat bran, hominy, dairy feeds, 
gluten, cottonseed meal and dry brewers’ 
grains if they can be got? ii. n. N. 
Delaware Co., Pa. 
Feed 30 to 40 pounds of silage per 
head per day and all the corn fodder the 
cows will clean up. Make up a mixture 
using brewers’ grains as fo'lows: 200 lbs. 
dried brewers' grains, 100 lbs. of hominy 
February 15. 1010 
feed. 100 lbs. of gluten feed, 100 lbs. of 
cottonseed meal and 100 lbs. of bran. 
Without the brewers’ grains make it 300 
lbs. bran, 100 lbs. hominy, 200 lbs. cot¬ 
tonseed meal and 100 lbs. of gluten feed. 
In either case add one pound of coarse 
fine salt to each 100 lbs. of feed. 
H. F. J. 
Improving Dairy Feed 
I have plenty of corn fodder and mixed 
hay, oats and cob corn. Can I get a 
cheaper feed for cows (milking) by mix¬ 
ing my own feed, oats and corn, and some 
Other kind, bought, than the already 
mixed feeds now bn the market? It seems 
to me such feeds are high, now selling at 
$67 per ton. J. a. m. 
Maryland. 
Feed hay and corn fodder as you are 
now doing, and make up a grain ration of 
200 lbs. of corn and cob meal, 100 lbs. of 
ground oats, 200 lbs. of cottonseed meal, 
100 lbs. of linseed oilmeal and 100 lbs. of 
gluten feed. If you can get peanut or 
cocoanut meal, use 100 lbs. of each in 
place of the cottonseed meal. Add 1 lb. 
of coarse fine salt to each 100 lbs. of 
feed. n. F. J. 
feed for less money than the one you are 
now using I should give it a try. H. F. J. 
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