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March 8, 1010 
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'Vs 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Cull Beans for Cows 
I have several bushels of beans which 
are not marketable. Could I feed to 
grade Jersey cows if ground? I have 
cornstalks, hay and roots on hand, other 
feed I have to buy. M, C. o. 
New York. 
I take it that you refer to white beaus 
an# not to Soy beaus. If so, they are 
not very useful or palatable as a feed 
for dairy cows. It will be necessary for 
you to grind these beans and. inasmuch 
as they are high in protein and fairly 
rich in carbohydrates, it would be neces¬ 
sary to mix them with other feeds so as 
to insure their pulatability. For Jersey 
cows I would suggest the following mix¬ 
ture: 1 T»0 lbs. comment, 100 His. ground 
oats, 100 lbs. cottonseed meal, 100 lbs. 
cull beaus. 
Give the cows all the roughage or corn¬ 
stalks that they will clean up once or 
twice daily and. for a row giving about 
no lbs. of five per cent milk, she could 
have as much as nine pounds per day 
of this mixture with silage and some 
legume hay. I am assuming of course 
that you have some silage, or beet pulp, 
or mangel beets to supplement this grain 
ration, and you know it would he im¬ 
proved materially if you have clover or 
Alfalfa hay. 
Improving a Ration 
In your reply to m.v inquiry about ra¬ 
tion for a cow. you criticize my ration be¬ 
cause it contains bran and middlings at a 
high price. My Alfalfa hay is half or 
more Timothy, and while I am aware that 
Alfalfa contains about as much protein as 
middlings, that also depends on the Al¬ 
falfa and how much is shattered out in 
the handling and curing. Unless just 
right, it is ray opinion it a greatly over¬ 
rated feed. ' * H.H. 
Indiana. 
My only thought in criticizing your ra¬ 
tion on account of it containing such a 
high percentage of bran and middlings 
was in the hope that you might be pre¬ 
vailed upon to purchase less of these ma¬ 
terials and more of the basic materials, 
such as corn and oats, and possibly some 
cottonseed meal or oilmen). I doubt very 
much the wisdom of including very much 
bran or middlings costing as much as .$50 
or $00 a ton, when for the same expendi¬ 
ture, corn, or cottonseed or oilmen! can 
be purchased at the same price per ton. 
Bran does very well for use in feeding 
breeding animals toward the end of their 
gestation period, and is always a safe 
feed. 
I gathered from the inquiry that econ¬ 
omy was quite as important as efficiency. 
However, if you have middlings and bran 
on hand and want to use them as the basis 
for your ration for dairy cows, use them 
in the following proportion : 200 lbs. 
middlings, 200. lbs. cornineal, 100 lbs. 
ground oats, 200 lbs. wheat bran, 200 lbs. 
•cottonseed meal. I suggested buckwheat 
middlings because there seems to he a 
generous supply of this feed this Win¬ 
ter, and wc are feeding it with a great 
deal of success at BriarolilT, and. in car- 
loud lots, the best grade of buckwheat 
middlings have cost us $44.50 a ton. 
Living in New York State where this ma¬ 
terial is produced and appreciated, it 
served a very useful part in our daily ra¬ 
tion for mil<4i cows. 
Ration for Heifers: Ownership of 
Manure; Alfalfa Seeding 
1. Gould you tell me how near I am 
right on the following ration for milch 
cows and two-year-old heifer due in one 
month, also yearling heifers? All I have 
for fodder is cornstalks and bean pods, 
and I am mixing together 100 lbs. of oil 
meal. $5.50 per cwt.. 55 per cent protein, 
100 lbs. gluten. $2.00 per cwt., 100 lbs. 
buckwheat middlings, $2.50 per cwt.. and 
200 lbs. of good wheat bran. $2.75 per 
cwt. I also am feeding 20 lbs. of beets, 
what are called half sugar beets, to my 
cows. We cannot buy cottonseed meal 
here. 
2. A rents a house and farm from B. 
A keeps a horse and furnishes all his 
own feed and bedding. Who lias manure 
that is made on that place? Whose is it 
by law? Can A move it off the place? 
Is there any law to govern that, or is it 
just a matter of what kind of n deal they 
have made? 
5. I am Intending to seed some Alfalfa 
in the Spring on an east side-hill. In 
1017 this was in tough Timothy sod. I 
manured it well, plowed i and raised a 
good crop of beans. In 1918 I sowed it 
to oats and limed it with 500 pounds of 
what they call shell lime, or the waste 
of a button factory, where they make 
buttons out of shells. I do not think I 
used enou r lime, and I also sowed my 
oats too thick. I seeded Alfalfa with 
I he oats but I am very sure I shall not 
have any, as it was too spindling last 
Fall, and did not grow any. Now I in¬ 
tend to plow in Spring and sow on nearly 
two tons of ground limestone. Would 
that be too much, or not enough? Then 
fit it well and sow one bushel barley to 
the acre. How much Alfalfa should I 
sow to the acre? I would inoculate my 
seed. I intend to let the barley get ripe 
and then cut it and haul it in the barn. 
Which would he the better, cover seed 
shallow or deep, and why? We do not 
raise very much Alfalfa here, but they 
are sowing some here now. w. j. 
New York. 
1. The ration that you are feeding your 
two-year-old heifers that are about due 
to freshen is faulty in that it contains too 
much protein and not enough energizing 
food. The addition of 400 pounds of 
cornineal or hominy meal would bring it 
tip to a useful standard. I would use 
indr* of the buckwheat middlings and not 
so much of the wheat bran. Buckwheat 
middlings at $2.50 per hundred is far 
more economical than wheat bran at $2.75 
per hundred'. The ration then, as cor¬ 
rected, is: 400 lbs. cornineal, 100 lbs. 
oil meal, 100 lbs. gluten, 500 lbs. buck¬ 
wheat middlings, 100 lbs. wheat bran. It 
is not necessary to feed cottonseed meal 
if you have both oil meal and gluten. 
Cornmeal is about the best and only 
necessary supplement to the “A" grade 
of standard mixed feeds. 
2. Unless A specifically reserved the 
right to haul the manure from the barn 
rented to B it is clear that all such ma¬ 
terial rightfully belongs to the owner of 
the property, and A has no right to re¬ 
move such manure without the consent 
of B, unless provision was made in the 
lease reserving for him the use or distribu¬ 
tion of the voided manure. 
5. The application of 500 pounds of 
lime, per acre, would not he sufficient for 
Alfalfa, and it is never advisable to at¬ 
tempt to distribute such a small quantity 
of lime. Under average circumstances I 
would not apply less than two tons of 
ground limestone, per acre, or one ton 
of the burned lime, for it is not easy to 
distribute small amounts over the field in 
anything like a satisfactory manner. It 
ought to he possible for you to secure a 
satisfactory stand of Alfalfa by using 
barley ns a nurse crop, although in this 
section of New York State very good re¬ 
sults have been reported from seeding 
Alfalfa with oats in the early Spring. I 
should use 25 pounds of Alfalfa seed to 
the acre, and would surely take tin* pre¬ 
caution of inoculating the seed by mean-* 
of the culture method. This task is a 
simple one, and you cannot afford to seed 
Alfalfa without either distributing soil 
from an old Alfalfa field, or taking ad¬ 
vantage of the culture method of seed 
inoculation. Alfalfa seed should not be 
drilled in very deep, although it is essen¬ 
tial that the surface be firmly compressed 
in order to promote rapid germination. 
If the seed is. buried rather deeply the 
moisture present will germinate the seeds, 
but the shoots are unable to reach the 
surface of the ground with ease, and as 
soon as direct sunlight strikes the weak¬ 
ened plants they wither and fade away. 
Of course the nurse crop of barley would 
protect the plants, but I would not use 
more than one bushel of barley to the 
acre. In certain sections of New York 
State Alfalfa fields have been fairly well 
established by means of seeding a mixture 
of grasses rather than relying exclusively 
upon the Alfalfa. A season that is not 
favorable to this plant would result in the 
entire wastage of the whole seeding, 
which condition does not prevail when 
some Timothy and clover is included at 
tli»' time of seeding. Combination mix¬ 
tures for Spring seeding are far more 
satisfactory than the use of any one va¬ 
riety. 
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