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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 25, 1919 1 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Supplementing Poor Pasture 
With Holstein cows on poor pasture 
supplemented with Timothy hay and 
green corn morning and evening is a ra¬ 
tion of three parts bran, one cottonseed, 
one gluten satisfactory? Will this be 
all right with silage in Winter? 
New York. P. w. B. 
It is not necessary to include as much 
bran in the grain mixture as you have 
included I should prefer a mixture con¬ 
sisting of 400 lbs. of hominy, 100 lbs. of 
cottonseed, 200 lbs. of gluten and 100 lbs. 
of bran. This is to be fed in combination 
with green corn morning and evening, or 
with silage and hay diming the Winter 
months. Wheat bran is an expensive 
source of feed nutriment, and thus during 
these times, should be added to a ration 
primarily to increase its palatability or to 
increase its bulk, rather than as a source 
of economy. At the present moment, 
gluten is more economical than cotton¬ 
seed meal and hominy costs less than 
cornmeal. If you have ground oats or 
ground barley, 100 lbs. of each of these 
grains can be added to the mixture with 
good results. 
Identifying Cattle 
Is there a registered breed of .Terseys, 
solid color, reddish hue, having neither 
black tongues nor tail tip black, nor black 
switch? I have purchased a pair of calves 
from Canada and the above is a descrip¬ 
tion of same. I have Jerseys well bred, 
but not bred to registered sires. These 
have a lighter color, black tail tips, black 
tongues, and black switch. Am I entitled 
to a statement as regards tubnrcular test 
of herd and registration papers, also 
cream and butter test of the calves’ re¬ 
spective dams? C. A. M. 
Nova Scotia. 
From the description of the cattle in 
question, one might conclude that they 
are ordinary Jerseys, or, coming from 
Nova Scotia, they might be representa¬ 
tives of the breed commonly known as 
“French Canadian.” Surely the man from 
whom you purchased these cattle ought 
to identify them, as far as breeding is 
concerned, and certainly if they were rep¬ 
resented as being purebred, he should 
transfer to you through the proper regia 
tration association, the necessary breeding 
papers. Likewise, the seller should in¬ 
form you as to the production records of 
the dams, and the achievements of the 
breeding sire. A responsible breeder 
takes pride in identifying the animals he 
sells and he cannot long exist as a rep¬ 
utable breeder if he fails to disclose all 
of the facts relating to the individuality, 
breeding and production of his animals. 
If you will give us a more complete de¬ 
scription of the animals in question, it 
will be possible no doubt to identify them ; 
although long distance identification is not 
as dependable as that resulting from an 
inspection. If I were you, I would ask 
some live stock breeder in your section 
to identify the animals, as far as breed is 
concerned, if you fail to secure the de¬ 
sired information from the seller. Fail¬ 
ing to secure the necessary facts from 
either of these sources, I would com¬ 
municate with the American Jersey Cattle 
Club at New York, and ask them if this 
particular owner has recorded any Jersey 
cattle with their association, or if he is 
listed on their records as a breeder of 
Jersey cattle. 
Balancing Corn and Silage Ration 
I have milking cows, heifers to freshen 
in April, and growing heifers not bred. 
I have on the farm good silage, corn 
stover, and corn on the ear. How can I 
balance the ration? J. G. H. 
Pennsylvania. 
If I had an abundance of silage and 
dent corn on the ear, and wanted to pur¬ 
chase additional feeding stuffs to balance 
a ration for dairy cows, I would try to 
obtain some buckwheat middlings and 
gluten meal. I would feed’ the cows all 
of the silage they would clean up with 
relish morning and evening, which would 
be about 35 lbs. per cow, per day; I 
should feed them all of the shredded corn 
fodder that they would clean up during 
the day, and when they were confined in 
yards during the Winter months, I should 
prefer to feed them hay once a day at 
toon giving them from 8 to 12 lbs. per 
day. I should mix the cornmeal, buck¬ 
wheat middlings, and gluten meal in the 
following proportions: 200 lbs. of corn- 
and-cob meal; 200 lbs. buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings, 300 lbs. gluten meal, and if I could 
secure wheat bran at reasonable cost, it 
would be well to add 100 lbs. of this 
material to the mixture in order that the 
mineral contents and the palatability of 
the ration may be improved. This com¬ 
bination mixture would be quite as well 
for all your 2-year-old heifers due to 
freshen in the Spring, and they should be 
fed a sufficient quantity of this mixture 
to keep them in good, fleshy condition. 
A dairy cow, producing as much as 35 lbs. 
of milk per day should be fed 10 lbs. of 
this grain mixture, and a heifer in good 
flesh would be given from 5 to 7 lbs. As 
a general basis in determining the amount 
of grain required for dairy cows in milk, 
one is very accurately guided by feeding 
one pound of the grain for each 3% lbs. 
of milk produced per day. Alfalfa or 
clover hay would very materially im¬ 
prove this ration, for both are rich in 
ash and mineral matter, so essential for 
growing and breeding animals. There is 
nothing to be g.uned by permitting dry 
cows or heifers coming in with their first 
calves to go through the Winter on rough- 
age alone, nor should they be permitted 
to lose flesh and appear in the Spring in 
a thin or emaciated condition. Flesh is 
quite as important on breeding cows due 
to be freshened as it is on beef cattle in¬ 
tended for market, if one is to secure the 
most satisfactory yields through the next 
lactation period. 
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