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Ear Corn for Cows 
We husked a good deal of soft corn last 
Fall and have been feeding it on the ear 
to our cows. They eat it all right, hut 
now that we have stopped feeding the 
corn, cows have fallen off on the milk. 
Can you tell me if I did right in feeding 
this corn, or the cause of drop in milk? 
Connecticut. w. a. b. 
It has been observed that any changes 
that are to be made in feeding rations in¬ 
tended for milch cows should be gradually 
introduced if one wishes to avoid a de¬ 
crease in the flow of milk. Soft corn, 
provided it is supplemented with cotton¬ 
seed meal, gluten meal, or, in fact, any 
of the available concentrates rich in pro¬ 
tein, makes an excellent ration for dairy 
cows. It takes some little time to accus¬ 
tom them to this mixture, and if your 
cows were fed for some time with this 
combination and the corn was suddenly 
denied them, it is but natural that they 
should drop in their milk flow. The 
thing to do is to resume the feeding of 
corn, gradually reducing the amount in¬ 
cluded in the mixture and replacing it 
with some such material as hominy, corn- 
meal or beet pulp. 
Too Much Millet and Rye 
About seven weeks ago I purchased 
seven fresh cows that averaged 20 quarts 
of milk a day. I fed them four quarts of 
ground oats and two quarts of ground 
rye mixed, morning and night, in addition 
to this all the millet hay they would oat. 
After feeding them this for about five 
weeks I fed them one morning, and not 
one of them would eat any feed or hay. 
This continued for about three days, al¬ 
though I tried different cows feeds. The 
same morning the milk dropped down to 
about half the usual amount, and although 
I have used different feed have been un¬ 
able to get them back. Am uow feeding 
wheat middlings, bran and molasses, corn¬ 
stalks and millet. I had the veterinarian, 
and he could fiud nothing wrong with the 
feed. They all stood around as if doped 
for a couple of days. Now they have a 
good appetite again. Let me know kind 
and amount of feed I might use iu order 
to get them back in their milk. w. F. 
New Jersey. 
You used poor judgment in feeding 
milch cows millet hay and ground rye in 
combination. No doubt the rye was moldy 
and contained ergot, and probably the 
millet was well advanced and the seeds 
were hard and shelly, and you developed 
what is commonly known as forage pois¬ 
oning. Musty rye is the very worst thing 
that one can utilize in feeding milch cows. 
Millet hay, on the other hand, is very 
likely to dry up cows, especially if they 
are fed generous amounts of this hay 
that is well matured before it is har¬ 
vested. It is indeed a problem to bring 
a cow back to her usual flow of milk in 
case the flow has been checked, as you 
have indicated. At best it is slow process 
and discouragement may follow. 
I should remove all of the rye from the 
ration and a large percentage of the mil¬ 
let. If possible I would secure the fol¬ 
lowing combination of feeds: 300 lbs. of 
eorumeal or hominy. 200 lbs. of barley, 
200 11)6. of oats. 200 lbs. of bran, 200 lbs. 
of beet pulp, 200 lbs. of gluten. 200 lbs. 
of oilmeal, 100 lbs. of buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings. 
I would start with 5 lbs. of this mix¬ 
ture, increasing a half pound a day. until 
the animals were being fed 10 lbs. of this 
combination. If the milk flow increased 
in proportion I would increase the ration 
12 or 14 lbs., always making sure that 
the cows’ appetites were never entirely 
satisfied, but rather kept distinctly on 
edge. For forage I would get some 
Alfalfa or clover hay. and would not use 
the millet unless absolutely necessary, and 
surely not more than 30 per cent of the 
roughage should be made up of millet. 
The rye would best be fed market bogs 
intended for fattening. 
Feeding Red Polled Cow 
I have a Red Polled cow three years old 
giving about eight quarts per day. I have 
as feed millet, sweet corn fodder, oats in 
the straw, corn chop, hay, shorts and 
Alfalfa meal with molasses. Will you 
tell me just how many pounds of each to 
feed? My cow will weight about 1,000 
lbs. ' v. w. B. 
Nebraska. 
A 1.000-lb. cow yielding eight quarts 
of milk per day could be fed 7 lbs. per 
day of the following grain mixture: 30 
lbs. of corn chop, 30 lbs. of shorts. 20 lbs. 
of Alfalfa meal. 10 lbs. of bran. 20 lbs. 
of oilmeal. I should feed very little of 
the millet, for it is not adapted for feed¬ 
ing milch cows. I would give her all of 
the sweet coru fodder that she would 
.clean up with relish, which would be 
from 10 to 12 lbs. per day. and I should 
give her 5 lbs. of the sheaf oats. You 
could add 10 or 15 lbs. of molasses to the 
grain mixture, as it will increase its 
palatability; or you could take 1 lbs., 
of the molasses and dilute it with 5 or 6 
lbs. of water and oour it over the gram 
mixture, and thus provide some succu¬ 
lence and increase the palatability of the 
mixture. 
As a general rule a cow should be fed 
all of the roughage that she would clean 
up with relish, and then be allowed 1 lb. 
of grain per day for each 3 or 4 lbs. of 
milk produced; or, if the milk is tested, 
she should be fed as many pounds of 
grain per day as she produces of butterfat 
in a week. 
Feeding Holstein Cow 
I have been trying out cows all the 
Fall and finally lauded on a Holstein, 
fresh, with calf, giving a milk test of tt 
per cent butterfat. But this cow, my 
farmer neighbors tell me, has been fed 
on silage, and will not do on dry feed; she 
is thin and will not seem to pick up; she 
is crazy for green stuff, but does not 
much like fodder and meadow hay. I am 
going to stick to this cow and try to make 
her come around. I intend to use beet 
pulp (dry) to take the place of silage, and 
want to feed it heavily, if possible. I have 
ground corn and oats, bran, millings, beet 
pulp, cottonseed meal, meadow grass hay 
and corn fodder. This is supposed to be 
the cow’s third calf. j. h. p. 
Maryland. 
It is unusual to find a Holstein that 
would yield milk testing as much as 6 per 
cent butterfat. Usually the test is nearer 
3 per cent. The mere fact that the cow 
has been accustomed to silage should not 
discourage you, and. by taking a little 
time, it will be possible to prevail upon 
her to be quite as fond of the following 
combination of feeding stuffs: 10 lbs. 
ground corn, 7 lbs. ground oats, 4 lbs. 
wheat bran, 4 lbs. cottonseed meal, 1 lb. 
oilmeal. Saturate 5 or 6 lbs. of dried 
beet pulp with water and you will find 
that 1 lb. of dried beet pulp will take up 
4 or 5 lbs. of water. Add 2 lbs. of black¬ 
strap molasses to the warm water pre¬ 
vious to pouring it over the moistened 
beet pulp, and you will have a substitute 
for silage that will provide the necessary 
succulence. Feed the moistened beet pulp 
in two equal feeds morning and evening, 
adding 1 lb. of the grain mixture suggest¬ 
ed above for each 3 or 4 lbs. of milk pro¬ 
duced per day. Of course you can feed 
more of the moistened beet pulp if you 
desire, and when combined with molasses 
you will find that 1 lb. of the dried beet 
pulp is equal in feeding value to 1 lb. of 
cornmeal. If you could get hold of some 
Alfalfa or clover hay you could perhaps 
prevail upon the cow to consume more 
roughage; but if she has access to the 
shredded corn fodder and the mixed hay. 
she will soon take to it and eat all that 
will be necessary to supply the necessary 
hulk. You ought to get good results from 
this combination. 
Home Grinding of Feed 
I have arrived at the point where I am 
tired of buying ready-ground feed. I have 
one of the best grinders made, and a good 
gasoline engine, and have been thinking 
of grinding and mixing my own. What 
kind of grain and proportions shall I use? 
A. T. B. 
You have reached a sensible conclusion. 
It is possible to combine home-grown feed¬ 
ing stuffs that you have available into a 
mixture that will be well suited for feed¬ 
ing dairy cows. It would be well to 
grind the corn, cob and all. into a rather 
coarse meal. The oats likewise would be 
crushed or ground. With silage and good 
clover and Timothy hay for roughage. I 
would suggest the following concentrates: 
400 lbs. corn and cob meal, 300 lbs. 
ground oats, 200 lbs. oilmeal, 100 lbs. 
gluten meal. 100 lbs. wheat bran. If the 
hay were mostly Timothy this combina¬ 
tion should include an additional 100 lbs. 
of either gluten or cottonseed meal, but, 
with clover or Alfalfa hay available, you 
would probably have enough pi’otein in 
the combination. Feed all the silage that 
the cows will eat twice daily, and deter¬ 
mine the amount of grain to feed by the 
amount of milk produced by each cow; 1 
lb. of this grain mixture for each 4 lbs. 
of milk produced per day is a fairly accu¬ 
rate basis. Gluten, if it can he obtained, 
is perhaps more economical than linseed 
meal, although the oilmeal would be best 
suited for yeur conditions. 
Dairy Ration with Good Silage 
What is the best dairy ration I can feed 
for the production of milk, and at the 
same time keep the cows in good condi¬ 
tion? Cows are being fed good silage 
with the grain on it, well glazed when 
cut. and also good hay, cut early. M. B. 
Connecticut. 
With plenty of good silage and hay that 
was cut and cured early. I should feed a 
cow yielding 40 lbs. of milk per day from 
10 to 12 lbs. of a grain mixture of the 
following proportionsFour parts corn 
or hominy meal, two parts ground oats, 
three parts gluten meal, one part wheat 
bran, one part oilmeal. This will keep 
the cows in good condition and at the 
same time give them a well-balanced ra¬ 
tion, well adapted for milk production. 
