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‘Jbt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration with Clover Hay 
Will you balance a ration for me from 
the following feeds available here? Prices 
are: Oilmeal, $4 per cwt.; gluten meal, 
$3.40; cornmeal, $3.25; ground oats, 
$2.95; hominy, $3.45. I have only clover 
hay and good corn fodder. These cows 
are Ilolsteins and have been fresh since 
April and July. Of the feeds mentioned 
I have my own corn and oats that I can 
grind. Would it be cheaper to sell some 
of my corn and buy oats, as I have more 
corn that oats? Price of corn, $1.55 per 
bu.; oats, 80c. This last question, I wish 
to know, as it is intended for feeding 
horses and get the ration as cheap as pos¬ 
sible. My horses are now getting two- 
thirds oats and one-third bran. H. K. 
Pennsylvania. 
Using the feeds mentioned at the prices 
quoted and knowing that the corn and 
oats that you have are home grown, I 
would use the following combination : 400 
lbs. cornmeal, 300 lbs. ground oats, 300 
lbs. gluten meal. With an abundance of 
corn you do not need to purchase hominy; 
and gluten meal at $3.40 per cwt. is more 
economical than oilmeal at $4. This will 
enable you to utilize the bulk of the grain 
that you have, and the gluten that I have 
included will supply a sufficient quantity 
of protein. For the sake of palatability 
and for loosening up the mixtures, the ad¬ 
dition of 100 lbs. of bran or 100 lbs. of 
buckwheat feed would increase its use¬ 
fulness ; but with plenty of hay and corn¬ 
stalks you will not have any difficulty in 
this respect. 
As far as the horses are concerned, I 
would use some of the corn on the ear in 
feeding them. While a ration of two- 
thirds oats and one-third bran is useful, it 
could be improved, particularly during the 
Winter, by one-third corn, one-third oats 
and one-third bran. As Spring approaches 
I would add 10 per cent of oilmeal in or¬ 
der to make sure that the horses would be 
in the best condition for the Spring work. 
Dairy Feeds with Good Silage 
Will you suggest a balanced ration for 
my cows? I have good silage, but not 
many ears in it, good clover and Timothy 
hay. I can get cornmeal, gluten, mid¬ 
dlings and bran. J. P. s. 
New York. 
With silage and clover hay I would 
feed a grain ration consisting of 300 lbs. 
cornmeal, 200 lbs. gluten, 100 lbs. mid¬ 
dlings, 100 lbs. bran. The addition of 
buckwheat middlings would increase the 
usefulness of this mixture. Feed the cows 
all of the roughage that they will clean 
up with relish, and feed them'; approxi¬ 
mately 1 lb. of the above mentioned grain 
mixture for each 3 or 4 lbs. of milk pro¬ 
duced per day. . 
Feeding Rye Straw 
’Is it advisable to feed rye straw to 
Cows and heifers, using stock molasses 
with same, if roughage is scarce? I have 
a silo and some stalks, but not enough of 
the latter to carry me through ; also have 
clover hay. The price for rye straw is $8 
besides pressing. J. A. D. 
New York. 
plies ash and mineral matter that is so 
essential for young growing animals. 
Hominy is a by-product of corn and is 
not dissimilar in feeding value from corn¬ 
meal. Gluten is still another by-product 
of corn, and consists largely of the out¬ 
side kernel of the corn, and is considered 
an economical carrier of protein. When 
flaxseed is ground and the oil removed 
the residue is put on the market as oil 
cake or oilmeal. The oil removed is 
known as linseed oil and is used in the 
manufacture of paints. 
Feeding Barley and Oilmeal 
I can buy a ration composed of barley 
and flaxseed for $2.80 per cwt., analysis 
18 per cent protein. I intend to use corn 
fodder for my roughage. Would you 
advise me to buy this feed? If not, give 
me a ration to use with this roughage. 
Michigan. E. E. W. 
The combination of barley and flaxseed 
ought to make a useful combination for 
feeding milch cows, yet if the analysis 
shows only IS per cent of protein it is 
very probable that there are other ingre¬ 
dients incorporated in the mixture. There 
are not very many feeds on the market 
today that can be purchased for $2.80 
per cwt., and I should be inclined to give 
this product a trial before laying in any 
amount of the feed. In any event, I 
would add to the mixture some cornmeal 
and gluten, using perhaps 400 lbs. of the 
mixed feed, 200 lbs. of cornmeal and 100 
lbs. of g’uten. Flaxseed is high in pro¬ 
tein, while barley is practically equal to 
cornmeal as a carrier of carbohydrates. 
The addition of 100 lbs. of buckwheat 
middlings would still further add to the 
variety and increase the palatability of 
this mixture. 
The Lights of Home 
(Continued from page 1880.) 
heart! she had asked him to eat with her— 
but it hadn’t really been necessary. He 
hadn’t played fair. “I’m sorry I made a 
mistake,” she said, her anger flaming in 
her eyes, and rising from the table she 
put on her coat and made her way out 
through the restaurant into the snowy 
street. Silently he followed her. “Child,” 
he said finally, “I know you are angry 
with me, and you have a right to be, 
but I want you to forgive me if you can. 
This afternoon you did me the greatest 
service one person can do another. I told 
you that life hadn’t given me a square 
deal, and I meant what I said. I was 
sick of it. I didn’t want to live any 
longer. I stopped in at the Institute to 
take a last look at my picture, “The 
Lights of Home.” In that picture I tried 
to put all that I had missed of home. It 
was my idea of what a home ought to be 
like. And there I found you—and now—• 
oh! child, I don’t even know your name— 
but you’ve given me back my faith in 
man and God. 
The girl looked at him with wondering 
eyes. “I can’t believe,” she said, “that 
I did anything for you. I just couldn’t 
bear to see you so hopeless and tired when 
December 27, 1910’ 
life holds so many possibilities, and-■** 
he added shyly, “I honestly thought you 
were poor and hungry. Your cuffs, you 
know, are all ragged on the edges, and 
they make you look very poor.” 
He laughed then, a genuine hearty 
laugh, but looked somewhat ruefully at 
the offending cuffs. “Bless you, I never 
think about my cuffs. I suppose they are 
shabby. I’ll get some new ones.” 
They stood together in the fast-deepen¬ 
ing snow as she waited for her car. “You 
have given me the best Christmas gift in 
the world,” said the man, “You have 
made me want to live.” 
“But you,” said Margaret have given 
me more than that. If I am ever suc¬ 
cessful, if I ever paint really worth-while 
pictures, it will be all because of you.” 
After she had left him he stood for a 
long while in the snow unaware of the 
eager hurrying crowds about him. When 
he finally reached his studio, he sat down 
and wrote her a letter which he did not 
send to her. Some day he would give it 
to her. 
“Dear Child,” he wrote, “after awhile 
you will realize that fame and fortune 
and ambitions realized arc not everything. 
Y'ou will come to know as I have, that 
‘The Lights of Home’ are the only real 
things in the world and that fame cannot 
buy happiness. When that day comes, I 
shall be waiting to show you this and to¬ 
gether, you and I will light those lights 
and keep them burning, please God, for 
many years. Merry Christmas to you, 
my dear, and good night.” 
milk makes most money for dairymen. 
CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS makes richer milk and lowers the feed¬ 
ing cost at that. 
CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS is the one feed guaranteed to increase 
milk flow or butter fat content “or money refunded.” 
You could not afford to buy rye straw 
at $8 a ton for use in feeding your cows 
and heifers. They would not eat very 
much of the rye straw unless starved to 
this material; and it is so indigestible it 
would not provide sufficient food nutrients 
to justify its use. Rye straw serves its 
beet purpose as a bedding for horses, and 
it does not deserve consideration as a 
feed for dairy animals. Of course if the 
rye straw could be cut and then saturated 
with molasses diluted in warm water it 
might be possible to prevail upon the ani¬ 
mals to consume as much as 4 or 5 lbs. of 
the straw per day, yet even this amount 
would not justify its use. If you have 
silage, clover hay and cornstalks, I am in¬ 
clined to believe that you will get better 
results if you do not undertake to feed 
any of the straw. Actually it would be 
better to sell the straw at $8 a ton and 
purchase Alfalfa or clover hay at $30 a 
ton. The heifers should be given some 
grain in addition to the materials men¬ 
tioned, and there is nothing any better 
than a ration consisting of equal parts of 
ground corn, oats and bran, to which 10 
per cent of oilmeal or gluten has been 
added. 
Feeding Calves 
Will you tell me what kind of ration 
would be best to feed to my calves? They 
are four and five months old. They have 
had good grass, mixed clover and Red-top. 
I would like to feed a grain ration, one 
that will make them grow. What are 
hominy, gluten and oilmeal? What kind 
of grain are these made from? J. K. A. 
West Virginia. 
For a calf four or five months old I 
would provide a grain ration consisting 
of equal parts of cornmeal, wheat bran, 
ground oats and oilmeal, and feed 3 or 4 
lbs. per day. In addition to this grain 
mixture they should be given all the 
Alfalfa and clover hay that they will 
consume, for this class of roughage sup- 
Make This Four Weeks’ Trial At Our Risk 
Feed one cow—any cow—her usual ration four weeks. Then feed her 
CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS with ordinary roughage four weeks. If chart doesn’t 
show profitable increase with CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS money will be refunded 
without question. You keep the records. You judge. 
CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS is all feed. Official tests show it 
repeatedly exceeding 1 the guaranteed analysis shown on sack. 
Fed with roughage, it is a perfectly balanced ration, according 
to expert opinion. 
CE-RE-A-LIA SWEETS is well named. Made up of high protein 
cereal products, sweetened with pure cane molasses rich in 
carbohydrates. Cows relish it. Digests well. Its US3 wiU 
positively increase receipts from your herd. 
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