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Tte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 24, 1919 
Alternates. Like Milking With Hands 
"My sister and 12-ycar-oid brother 
handle our Universal as easily as I 
do. It milks perfectly and is easy to 
beep clean." O'OKA BROWN. 
Wapakoueta, Ohio. 
R. R. No. 1. Box 121. 
Feeding Value of Barley 
There has been quite a little printed 
in the last few months about the groat 
loss to the farmer in the coming prohibi¬ 
tion. The argument is that brewing is 
the only profitable use to which barley 
can be put, so that when beer-making is 
stopped the barley will be thrown back 
on the market 1 . Some careful experiments 
conducted at the Wisconsin Experiment 
Station show that beef can be made from 
barley at greater profit to the farmer 
than when it is turned into beer. Very 
few of our farmers seem to have realized 
the feeding value of barley grain. The 
demand for malting purposes, especially 
in Wisconsin, has been heavy, and barley 
was therefore a cash crop, the same as 
wheat. 
Corn is also a cash crop with many 
farmers, although the majority rank it as 
a feeding crop, and expect that their live 
stock will pay them the price for grow¬ 
ing the grain. With the coming of pro¬ 
hibition, barley will pass from a cash 
crop into a feeding crop, and in many 
cases this change will be to the advantage 
of the farmer. Many Wisconsin farmers 
did not appreciate the high value of barley 
for stock feeding. The experiment sta¬ 
tion, therefore, began a thorough system 
of experimenting largely with the view of 
comparing ground barley with corn. The 
results have been • quite surprising, for 
the barley has given better results than 
the corn when fed with tankage to hogs, 
or when fed in connection with silage to 
steers. The figures of this experiment 
are most interesting, and they clearly 
show that barley, pound for pound, is a 
more profitable feeding grain than corn. 
One experiment with hogs made a very 
striking showing. The hogs were self-fed. 
In one case shelled corn and tankage was 
given, while with a companion lot ground 
barley and tankage were provided. Briefly 
stated, the feed cost of 100 lbs. of pork 
was $10.55 with the corn and tankage, 
and $9.50 with the barley and tankage, 
and about this comparison seems to run 
all through these feeding experiments. It 
is shown that barley is considerably 
richer in protein than corn, since 100 lbs. 
of barley contain 9 lbs. of protein, while 
corn contains 7*4 Thus the hogs in 
the experiment, when fed on the barley, 
consumed less of the expensive tankage 
than when they were feeding on the corn. 
In experiments nrade with steers, a ra¬ 
tion composed of silage, ground barley, 
oilmeal and hay gave very good returns. 
For a 1-lb. gain it was necessary to feed 
11.62 lbs. of silage, 5.81 lbs. of ground 
barley, .39 lb. of oilmeal, and 1.15 lb. 
of hay. In this figuring silage was quoted 
at $S a ton, oil meal $61, and hay $25, 
with barley at 90 cents a bushel. These 
figures show that barley can be used to 
great advantage in stock feeding. Many 
of our poultrymen have learned that bar¬ 
ley can be substituted in whole or in part 
for wheat, and our dairymen are finding 
that ground barley can be used to great 
advantage in making up a standard ra¬ 
tion. We have long believed that on most 
Eastern farms barley will give a more 
profitable crop than Spring wheat. While 
the actual yield per acre in a good barley 
crop would be less than a first-class corn 
crop, when we consider the cost of grow¬ 
ing the two the advantage will usually be 
with the barley, in fact we believe that 
instead of proving a calamity, the loss 
of the barley market for brewing purposes 
is likely to prove a blessing to many of 
our farmers, as it will introduce them to 
a grain crop unknown before, which prom¬ 
ises to give splendid results in feeding 
value. 
Grain with Alfalfa 
What kind of grain do I need to feed 
with Alfalfa hay to a Jersey cow? 1 
have been feeding wheat bran, about two 
quarts twice a day. She gives about 10 
quarts at a milking. She made 53*4 lbs. 
butter in a month. A. L. w. 
New York. 
Feed all the Alfalfa hay cow will clean 
up and make a grain ration of two parts 
by weight of wheat bran, one part corn- 
meal and one part gluten feed. Add a 
pound of salt to each 100 lbs. of feed. 
Feed a quart of grain to about two quarts 
milk produced daily. H. F. J. 
Trouble with Milk Test 
I am having trouble with my milk. In 
the morning the total solids is low. The 
night’s milk is O. K. Can you tell me 
how to bring the milk up to standard? 
Am feeding the following ration, twice a 
day, also silage and hay. Cows have 
water also before them at all times. We 
are milking 31 cows, and of those six are 
new milch', mostly Ilolsteins, a few Guern¬ 
seys : 500 lbs. mixed feed, 800 lbs. glu¬ 
ten, 600 lbs. hominy, 400 lbs. oilmeal. 400 
lbs. cottonseed meal, 600 lbs. bran, 200 
lbs. middlings, 100 lbs. salt. If you think 
the fault is with the ration, give me a 
better formula. w. E. B. 
Massachusetts. 
There is in all probability nothing about 
your ration to cause the low per cent of 
solids not fat in your milk. I note that 
the per cent of salt in the ration is 3.6. 
The common practice is to feed about 1 
per cent of salt in the ration. That is 
about 1 lb. of salt to each 100 lbs. of 
grain. It has been found out that this is 
about what the cow will take if fed freely. 
This is the only change I would suggest 
in the ration. I do not think this has 
anything to do with the composition of 
the milk. 
This is the season of year when it is 
very hard to keep milk up to the standard, 
with a Holstein herd, both in per cent of 
fat and solids not fat. I note, however, 
that your fat test is plenty high, which 
would indicate that you must already have 
considerable Guernsey or Jersey blood in 
the herd. The average per cent of solids 
not fat in 3.8 milk is about 8.8, this 
making the per cent of total solids 12.6. 
It has been found, however (Storrs, 
Conn., Bulletin 94), that in Spring and 
Summer, while both the per cent of fat 
and solids not fat decrease, the normal 
relation between the two seems to be up¬ 
set to the effect that the solids not fat 
diminish more than the fat. For instance, 
it was found that a mixed herd of Ilol¬ 
steins, Guernseys, Jerseys and Ayrshires 
for the entire year of 1915 averaged to 
test 4.13 per cent fat and 8.84 per cent 
solids not fat, 12.97 per cent total solids, 
in the month of June got down to 3.S8 per 
cent fat and S.37 per cent solids not fat, 
12.25 per cent total solids. The Holstein 
herd alone dropped from S.99 per cent 
solids not fat in January to 8.17 per cent 
in April. This is just what you are up 
against, and so long as your milk is up 
to 3.8 per cent fat and so close to 12 per 
cent total solids, no kick should be com¬ 
ing. if the facts stated above are under¬ 
stood. There is no practical way for you 
to remedy this trouble and comply with 
the law without having a total solid de¬ 
termination made on the morning’s milk 
of each of your cows, then get rid of the 
very low ones and put some high testers 
in their places. As I say, this is not prac¬ 
tical, because in cold weather I am sure 
you will have no trouble, and, take it 
over a year’s period, your herd undoubt¬ 
edly averages well above the standard for 
both fat and total solids. It has been 
pretty well demonstrated that milk nor¬ 
mally tests a little higher at the night 
milking, H. F, j. 
Silo in Barn 
Is a square silo built in a barn prac¬ 
tical. and can it be extended, say, six 
feet in the cellar? My idea is a square 
of about seven feet and 22 feet deep, for 
about five or six head. I much prefer to 
have it in barn on account of size, as it 
seems to me one so small would freeze 
solid in cold weather, and one of that 
size could have hay on three sides in 
barn. I thought to build concrete to 
barn floor and then two thicknesses of 
matched boards with roofing between, and 
a 4x4 split diagonally in the corners. 
It seems to me with care in filling silage 
would keep in it. h. e. j. 
Massachusetts. 
For five or six cows I would make silo 
eight feet square and 22 feet deep if 
possible. This should hold 20 to 25 tons 
of silage. < Your plan of building is all 
right and if silage is well packed at filling 
time it will keep in good shape. H. F. j. 
Controlling Warbles in Cattle 
Some one inquired on page S03 about 
warbles in you^g cows. On this dairy 
farm we have had lots of trouble with 
warbles or larvae of the ox warble fly. I 
have found a good method of removing 
the grub which docs not hurt the hide for 
tanning purposes. I use a sharp pointed 
squirt oil can filled with separator oil. I 
force the point of the oil can in the grub 
hole and squirt in the oil, and in 24 to 36 
hours the grub’s head comes out so that 
it is easily removed. Then I put in the 
hole a little more oil. which keeps the 
insects and flies off and gives the wound 
a good chance to heal, thus preserving the 
hide for tanning purposes. I also find 
that by dipping the young animals’ tails 
in a pail of the oil it keeps them free from 
cattle lice. jim meadows. 
Pennsylvania. 
“That was a great speech you made the 
other day,” exclaimed the admiring friend. 
“I’m afraid,” replied Senator Sorghum, 
sadly, “that I am getting to be one of 
these silver-tongued orators. A number 
of people have told me it was a great 
speech, but none of them seem able to re¬ 
member what I said.”—Washington Star. 
A Dozen Hands Are Better Than Two 
One person, with the Universal 
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cows in less time than it requires 
to milk one by hand. 
Today farm labor is scarce. 
The Universal will do your milk¬ 
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help—and a boy or girl of twelve 
can operate it. 
It is easily attached, and milks 
in nature’s way, with a gentle 
suction and massage similar in 
action to the calf’s tongue. 
It alternates, milking two 
teats at a stroke, allowing the 
other two to rest and refill. 
It is sanitary and easily 
cleaned. 
Once you use the Universal 
you would not do without one. 
The rubber lined Universal teat 
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