328 The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Freshening Guernsey 
Will you tell me the proper feed* for 
a Guernsey cow, due to calve April 7. at 
present milking about 4 lbs. daily? What 
is the proper feed for a Guernsey cow 
fresh October 27, 1919, milking about 15 
lbs. ? J. R. E. 
New Jersey. 
If your registered Guernsey cow is due 
to calve April 7 it would be well for you 
to dry her off at once, in order that she 
may rest during February and March. If 
she is only producing 4 lbs. of milk per 
day at this time it will be relatively easy 
to dry her off. Take all of the grain 
away from her for three or four days and 
feed her nothing but Timothy hay and 
water. Milk her out once a day for three 
or four days and at the end of this time 
milk her out every other day. The chances 
are that by the end of the fifth day she 
will be entirely dried off. Then commence 
giving her some grain. The best mixture 
that I know of for feeding a dry cow con¬ 
sists of equal parts of cornmeal, ground 
oats, wheat bran and oilmeal. 
It might seem that this amount of oil- 
meal is extravagant, but there is an 
abundance of evidence to establish and 
justify the use of a generous amount of 
oilmeal during the dry period. It puts 
on flesh that easily melts off when the 
cow returns to her flow of milk after 
calving, and it furnishes digestible pro¬ 
tein in an economical form. and. further¬ 
more, is believed to aid materially in the 
digestion of other feeds. The important 
thing in this instance is to dry off this 
cow at once, as she will produce an in¬ 
creased amount of milk when she freshens 
as a result of this rest period. She should 
be fed all the roughage that she will con¬ 
sume, preferably Alfalfa or clover hay. 
I would feed the same ration to the 
grade Guernsey cow that freshened Octo¬ 
ber 27, and is now milking about 15 lbs. 
a day. I would add. however, some beet 
pulp in order to supply succulence. Take 
5 or 6 lbs. of the beet pulp and moisten 
it with 4 times its volume of water. Let 
this soak for 12 hours and you will have 
a very succulent substitute for silage. If 
the cow is in high flesh it would be quite 
as well to reduce the cornmeal by one- 
half and replace with oilmeal. Likewise 
it would be just as well to cut down the 
bran by one-half six weeks after calving. 
Feed 1 lb. of this grain ration for each 3 
or 4 lbs. of milk produced. The amount 
of grain to feed the registered cow after 
she has clearly dried off would approxi¬ 
mate 8 lbs. per day. 
Testing Milk 
1. Will you tell me how I can test milk 
as to its purity? Are there any other 
ways 'besides the lactometer? 2. How 
much milk would you expect from a heal¬ 
thy and well-fed Jersey cow fresh five 
weeks? 3. What is the average price of 
a nice three-weeks-old Jersey bull calf? 
Connecticut. A. G. 
1. The testing of milk by means of the 
Babcock tester is a simple procedure, pro¬ 
vided one is careful and accurate in his 
methods. The detection of adulteration 
in milk is a more difficult operation, not 
because it is more tenehnical. but simply 
because one lead or difference suggests a 
still different procedure. Perhaps the text 
that is most generally used in the milk 
testing laboratories is entitled “Milk and 
Its Products,” by Wing, $1.60; and "Mod¬ 
ern Methods of Testing Milk,” by Van 
Slyke, $1.25. Either of these can be se¬ 
cured through the office of The Rural 
New-Yorker. 
2. The production of Jersey cows varies 
with individuals, yet it would be reason¬ 
able to expect a mature Jersey cow in 
good condition to produce from 12 to 15 
qts. of milk per day five weeks after 
freshening. On the basis of 12 qts. of 
production you would probably obtain 7 
qts. in the morning and 5 qts. at night, 
this varying and depending, of course, 
upon the length of time between milk¬ 
ings. Naturally the milk yielded at night 
would test higher than the morning’s 
milk, largely because the quantity would 
be less. 
3. Your third question must likewise 
have an indefinite answer. The price of 
bull calves depends not only upon the in¬ 
dividuality and breeding of the calf itself, 
but upon the production records of its 
immediate ancestors and the popularity 
and prepotency records of the sires. Nat¬ 
urally certain families of Jerseys are pop¬ 
ular because their value is based upon in¬ 
dividual merit and a maximum produc¬ 
tion. If the calf in question is a pure¬ 
bred and out of a cow without a registry 
of merit it might be worth $25. If its 
parents were well known and the cow 
herself in the registry of merit the calf 
ought to bring anywhere from $100 to 
$000. It takes two things to establish a 
market for a Jersey bull; one is a buyer, 
and the other is a calf rich in breeding 
and tracing directly to popular families 
that are noted for maximum production. 
On the other hand, if this calf is to be 
sold to the butcher for veal at three or 
four weeks of age, its value will va~y 
from $6 to $12. 
Feeding a Calf for Growth 
I have just bought a grade Holstein 
four months old that has not been started 
just right. I wish to grow it into a good 
frame. Will you advise the best grain 
ration to feed? I have some rowen, no 
clover in it. and some oat fodder. 
Massachusetts. p. f. g. 
A four-months-old calf would enjoy eat¬ 
ing 4 or 5 lbs. daily of a mixture con¬ 
sisting of equal parts of cracked corn, 
ground oats, and wheat bran, to which 
has been added 10 per cent of old process 
oilmeal; in other words, a mixture of 30 
lbs. corn. 30 lbs. ground oats. 30 lbs. 
wheat bran, 10 lbs. oilmeal should be as¬ 
sembled. There is very little feeding 
value in the rowen. and you ought to 
have some Alfalfa or clover if you are 
anxioqs to develop a sturdy frame. Keep 
the calf growing and gaining, even 
though it seems necessary to increase the 
amount of grain over and above the 
amount suggested. If the calf will drink 
skim-milk, and you have an abundance 
of it. this will likewise help to develop 
a well-proportioned frame. 
Beans for Sheep 
How do weevil beans at $30 per ton 
compare with oats at $1 per bushel to 
feed sheep? WM. n. c. 
New York. 
I take it that you refer to the common 
navy or field bean that is grown so ex¬ 
tensively in your district. Cull beans are 
fed whole in large quantities to sheep, and 
it is claimed that they will produce a 
firm flesh of good quality. At $30 a ton 
they would be a great deal more econom¬ 
ical than oats at a $1 a bushel, which 
would be equivalent to $60 a ton. You 
are reminded that 100 lbs. of navy beans 
February 14, 1920 
yield 18.3 lbs. of digestible protein ; 54.3 
lbs. of digestible carbohydrates, or a total 
of 74.4 lbs. Oats yield only 9.7 lbs. of 
digestible protein ; 52.1 of carbohydrates, 
or a total of 70.4 of digestible nutrients. 
As a matter of fact, the beans at. $30 a 
ton, even though they were weevil cut, 
would supply a pound of digestible nutri¬ 
ent at about half the cost of oats at the 
prices named. 
I am inclined to believe, however, that 
if you would mix your cull beans in the 
proportion of five parts of beans to two 
parts of oats you would have a combina¬ 
tion that would be more palatable and 
that would give you much better results 
in feeding sheep. If you purchased any 
additional grains to supplement these two 
materials I would add 1 lb. of bran to 
this combination, making the mixture 5 
lbs. of beans, 2 lbs. of oats and 1 lb. of 
bran. 
Ration for Cows and Horses 
I am feediug ground feed to dairy and 
horses in proportion of two parts oats, 
one part barley, one part rye and one part 
buckwheat. If wrong, what proportion 
and what ration is better? I have good 
grade of mixed hay and corn fodder for 
roughage. p. L. A. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
You will find it advantageous to com¬ 
bine different mixtures of feed for use in 
feeding horses and dairy cattle. For 
horses I would not use any of the rye and 
very little of the buckwheat, the combina¬ 
tion rather being five parts of oats, two 
parts of barley and one part of ground 
buckwheat. 
For dairy cows in milk I would use 200 
lbs. ground oats, 200 lbs. ground barley, 
100 lbs. rye, 200 lbs. buckwheat, 300 lbs. 
gluten or oilmeal. You are reminded that 
practically all of the materials you have 
identified are carbohydrates, and what 
you need is some concentrate high in pro¬ 
tein to baance this combination for milch 
cows. Make sure that your rye is free 
from mildew or ergot, and that it has not 
heated unduly in the bin. It has been 
known to cause digestive disturbances 
when constituting only a small portion of 
the ration. 
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wife who played the violin or one who 
played the piano?” Brookes: “I would 
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“Because a violin you can throw out of 
the window, and a piano you can’t.”— 
Melbourne Australasian. 
Where 90 lbs.= 100 lbs. 
/^ROUND grain Weighing go pounds has been 
^ found by actual test to do the v?ork of 100 
pounds of unground feed. Think what this 
means in added profits on your farm! 
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y)ou to put your cattle and horses in prime con¬ 
dition—will put all of your stock on a balanced 
ration. Makes fine fattening foods—grinds corn, 
oats, barley for poultry feeds—produces fine meal 
for calves, lambs, pigs, cattle and horses. 
5 Quality built “G" Feed Grinders are money-makers. 
See them at y>our dealer; arrange to put one at 
%tfork on y>our farm and watch the results that follov?. 
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