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January 10, 1920 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Swiss Boys and a Bull 
The picture on this page shows a photo¬ 
graph taken in Switzerland, and sent ns 
by Mr. Henry Baumann—one of our sub¬ 
scribers. The two little Swiss boys, five 
and six years old, are holding the big 
Brown Swiss bull, and they certainly make 
a pretty picture. We question the wis¬ 
dom, however, of ever permitting chil¬ 
dren to take such chances with an animal 
of this sort. The bull may be thoroughly 
gentle and tractable, hut any bull is a 
dangerous animal, and he ought to be 
handled with that thought in mind. We 
never like to see these pictures of little 
corn on the ear and oats, and I would 
like to feed as much of these as possible. 
I can get wheat bran at .$55; cottonseed 
meal at $80; gluten at $80; buckwheat 
bran at $80; oilmeal at $80 per ton. 
Fodder consists of corn stover morning 
and night, mixed hay at noon. Also 
give grain ration for young pigs. I have 
no milk. L. A. p. 
New Jersey. 
For a dairy of Holstein cows in milk 
the following ration combines the ma¬ 
terials mentioned in a mixture that 
ought to give satisfactory results. It is 
unfortunate that you have no silage or 
succulence, and that you do not have 
Alfalfa or clover hay. The mixture fol¬ 
lows: 500 lbs. eoru-and-cob meal, 350 
A Brown Swiss Bull in 
children occupying such a position with 
bulls or big hogs, or ^>ig animals of any 
kind, for the child is worth too much 
to make such chances worth while. No 
doubt there is some one close by. not 
shown in the photograph, who stands 
ready to give protection, hut we still 
believe it to be a mistake to encourage 
children in handling breeding animals 
after this manner. The hull pictured 
does all the labor of a draft animal on 
this Swiss farm. 
Corn Chop for Steers 
Will you advise me on feeding corn 
chop to steers? Which gives the better 
results, feeding it ground fine or coarse? 
I have my own mill and was grinding it 
fine and was advised to grind it coarse, as 
I would get better results. I am feeding' 
one part bran to five parts corn chop and 
plenty of clover hay and cornstalks and 
free access to salt and water. Is this all 
right? w. A. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
You have been correctly advised. There 
is nothing to be gained beyond a certain 
point in grinding corn products very 
fine, especially if they are intended for 
feeding and finishing steers. It has been 
observed that cattle will masticate their 
food with greater relish in case it is rath¬ 
er coarse in texture. Experience prompts 
the suggestion that it is not necessary to 
include any bran in a ration intended 
for finishing steers. It is not an econom¬ 
ical source of either protein or carbohy¬ 
drate, and mature animals do not require 
the ash or mineral matter that bran is 
best suited to provide. A 1.000-lb. steer, 
having access to silage and shelled corn, 
should be fed approximately 2 His. of cot¬ 
tonseed meal per day. and I would there¬ 
fore suggest that you supplement your 
corn chop with cottonseed meal rather 
than with wheat bran. Without silage 
it would he necessary to feed an increased 
amount of corn, and if the steers are to 
he finished for the Lancaster market you 
will find that their consumption of both 
hay and cornstalks will be very light, pro¬ 
vided they are given a full feeding of corn. 
Even with silage our steers here eat less 
than 5 lbs. of hay per day, and it is 
choice Alfalfa hay at that. It is well 
enough to include some bran in feeding 
mixtures intended for young stock, but I 
am sure that you can eliminate this from 
any ration intended for growing or fat¬ 
tening steers. 
Grain for Dairy Cows 
Will vou give me a grain ration for 
dairy •' mostly Holstein? I have 
Home Surroundings 
lbs. ground oat*. 200 lbs. buckwheat 
bran. 300 lbs. gluten, 100 lbs. oilmeal. 
While the ground oats make an excellent 
base for your mixture it would be neces¬ 
sary for you to secure some concentrate 
rich in protein, and gluten and oilmeal 
would best serve this purpose. At the 
present market value, however, you ought 
to be able to secure glutou at $70 a tou, 
for it is repeatedly quoted considerably 
below cottonseed meal and oilmeal. 
For feeding young pigs intended for 
market I would suggest the following: 
100 lbs. ear corn or shelled corn, 100 lbs. 
ground oats. 50 lbs. ground rye. 25 lbs. 
digester tankage or oilmeal. Feed the 
materials in the form of a thick slop, 
giving the pigs access to either Alfalfa 
or clover hay, and providing plenty of 
fresh water. 
Winter Rations for Cattle 
Are the following Winter rations all 
right? If not, how can they be improved? 
The silage contains a fairly large per¬ 
centage of well-developed ears. The hay 
is mixed clover and Timothy, mostly 
Timothy. I intend to feed the milch cows 
such grain as will balance the ration: 
Milch cows, 85 lbs. silage, 9 or 10 lbs. of 
hay, and 1 lb. of grain for each 3*4 or 4 
lbs. of milk daily; dry cows, 20 lbs. of 
silage, 0 or 10 lbs. of hay daily; 18 to 20- 
months-old heifers (not expected to 
freshen until uext Summer), 20 lbs. of 
silage, 8 lbs. of hay daily : 10-months-old 
calf, 15 lbs. of silage. 0 lbs. of bay, and 
3*4 or 4 lbs. of bran and wheat mid¬ 
dlings daily. Would ground outs be better 
than bran middlings in this case? How 
many tons of silage will a 10 ftx24 ft. 
silo contain? IIow many when there are 
14 feet of well-settled silage in this silo? 
New York. it. w. T. 
Your plan for feeding your dairy herd 
is open to criticism in view of the fact 
that you do not propose to feed your dry 
cows anything hut silage and hay. I 
deem it quite as important to feed the 
dry cows some grain during their rest 
period as it is to feed milch cows grain 
during their lactation period. I would 
surely feed from 5 to 8 lbs. per day of a 
mixture consisting of equal parts of 
ground oats and oilmeal. The 18 to 20- 
months-old heifers should also he fed 
some grain, and. furthermore, I would 
increase the silage to 30 lbs. a day if I 
had an abundance of it. I would feed 
the heifers equal parts of ground oats 
and buckwheat middings, to which 10 per 
cent of gluten or oilmeal were added. So 
far as the 10-months-old calves are con¬ 
cerned. you will find that they will 
scarcely eat 15 lbs. of silage as you have 
indicated, and your grain ration would 
be improved if you included some ground 
oafs in the combination of bran and mid¬ 
dlings, and provided further that you put. 
in as much as 10 per cent of oilmeal. A 
silo 10 ft. in diameter and 24 ft. high, 
filled and refilled, will hold 34 tons of 
silage. If there are 14 ft. in this silo 
at the present time you would be safe in 
assuming that it would yield 18 tons. 
