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February 21, 1920 
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Comparing Rations 
How do the following grain rations bal¬ 
ance with oat hay, one feed, and mixed 
stock hay, two feeds per day? The stock 
hay is mostly Red-top and Timothy. 
(1) Milking cows—200 lbs. gluten, 200 
lbs. cottonseed, 100 lbs ground oats, 100 
lbs. corn and cob meal, 200 lbs. good bran, 
lVj lbs. salt to 100 lbs. grain ; 1 lb. grain 
to 4 lbs. milk. (2) Dry cows and year¬ 
lings—100 lbs. bran. 100 lbs. ground oats, 
100 lbs. cobmeal, 50 lbs. oilmeal. (3) 
Calves—1 part bran, 1 part ground oats, 
1 part cobmeal. 1 part oilmeal, fed in sep¬ 
arated milk. At present I am feeding 
mangels to milch cows, but will have to 
use something else very soon. How much 
beet pulp should I wet for each cow?? 
Massachusetts. c. E. B. 
I would criticise Ration No. 1 inas¬ 
much as it contains an excessive amount 
of protein and scarcely enough carbohy¬ 
drates. The following mixture would give 
you better results: 200 lbs. of gluten. 
100 lbs. of cottonseed meal, 400 lbs. of 
corn and cob meal, 100 lbs. of ground 
oats. 100 lbs. of bran. I dislike the idea 
of mixing salt with the grain, for the rea¬ 
son that some cows do not like the salt 
in combination with grain, and it would 
be better to go along with a measure full 
of salt once a day and throw a little be¬ 
fore the cows and let them lick up what 
they crave. 
Your Ration No. 2. intended for dry 
Cows, is a very good one. For the calves, 
or Ration No. 3. I would eliminate the 
corn and cob meal and favor the follow¬ 
ing proportions: 10 lbs. of bran, 15 lbs. 
of ground oats. 5 lbs. of cornmeal. 10 lbs. 
of oilmeal. 5 lbs. of wheat middlings. 
It is generally believed that a pound 
of beet pulp is equivalent in feeding value 
to a pound of cornmeal or hominy meal, 
yet when it is soaked with water it pro¬ 
vides succulence, and. in addition, there 
is reason to believe that it makes other 
materials included in the ration more di¬ 
gestible. Three lbs. of dried beet pulp 
will absorb 15 lbs. of water, hence I 
should feed from 12 to 18 pounds of 
moistened beet pulp per cow per day. Of 
course, you can increase this amount with 
safety, but it will add substantially to the 
cost of your ration. 
Feeding Cows and Pigs 
1. I find your feeding articles very in¬ 
teresting and am therefore asking you for 
some help in regards to feeding cows and 
fattening pigs. I have five cows, four 
Jerseys and one Guernsey. They are 
giving about 70 lbs. of milk, testing 4.5 
to 5. I have had them on fairly good 
pasture daytimes aud in the stable at 
night. I would like to have a balanced 
ration for Winter. I have quite a lot of 
corn fodder (cornstover), which I would 
like to feed first, and enough well-cured 
Timothy hay to finish out the Winter. I 
also have three to four tons of good clover 
hay which I would like to feed just be¬ 
fore turning out in the Spring; a few 
mangels and some small potatoes. Of 
home-grown feeds I have a limited quan¬ 
tity of oats and plenty of corn on the cob. 
I am so situated that I can procure any 
feeds to balance the ration. 2. Would it 
be advisable to build a hoghouse of con¬ 
crete blocks? Could you give me dimen¬ 
sions and a general building plan for a 
hoghouse for two to three pigs? Would 
you give me a balanced ration to fatten 
pigs? Is it possible to fatten two to three 
pigs by the use of a ^-acre pasture and 
a self-feeder? I have no skim-milk or 
Alfalfa hay and am not able to get tank¬ 
age. w. M. 
New York. 
1. Corn fodder is about, equal in feeding 
value to Timothy hay as a feed for milch 
cows. In fact, if the fodder is bright and 
well cured I would prefer it to Timothy 
hay that was cut late in the season. It 
would be well to start with the corn 
fodder, then feed some of the Timothy 
hay, and use the clover as you have in¬ 
dicated to feed the cows just previous to 
turning them out to pasture in the Spring. 
The mangels and potatoes could be used 
intermittently, although you must not ex¬ 
pect unusual results from the use of po¬ 
tatoes in feeding dairy cows. While they 
carry as much as 90 per cent of water 
they are not particularly useful as a suc¬ 
culent feed. Since you have an abundance 
of corn and considerable oats I would 
suggest the following grain mixture: 400 
lbs. of corn-and-cob meal; 200 lbs. of 
ground oats; 200 lbs. of gluten ; 100 lbs. 
of buckwheat middlings; 50 lbs. of wheat 
bran. Feed this in proportion to the daily 
milk production, allowing approximately 
1 lb. of this mixture to 3*4 lbs. of milk 
produced per day. Feed the animals all 
the roughage that they will eat. The 
addition of beet, pulp when your mangels 
are exhausted would, no doubt, keep up 
the milk flow, yet you cannot afford to 
buy beet pulp if you have an abundance 
of corn. 
2. If I had only two or three pigs I 
would construct the so-called A-type col¬ 
ony hog house. This little building is 
8x8 ft. on the ground and 8 ft. to the 
peak. It is built on skids so it can be 
moved from place to [dace. I would put 
a floor in the building and locate it in 
some protected spot where it would have 
a southern exposure. This would be less 
expensive than any permanent building 
and would give you better results. So 
far as feeding these pigs is concerned you 
will find that a third of an acre will .sup¬ 
ply an abundance of green forage for the 
number of pigs you desire, and I would 
seed the area with a mixture of oats. 
Dwarf Essex rape, and Red clover. For 
the one-third of an acre I would use half 
a bushel of onts. 3 lbs. of Dwarf Essex 
rape, and 5 lbs. of Red clover. I would 
seed the area as early in the Spring as 
possible aud turn the pigs in when the 
plants are 8 or 9 in. high. The self- 
feeder could be used to advantage under 
such conditions, and I would use shelled 
corn, ground oats, wheat middlings and 
digester tankage for such feeding. Do 
not mix the feeds but place each ingredi¬ 
ent in a separate compartment and let the 
pigs have access to an open feeder at all 
times. 
Rations for Cows and Calves 
Will you give me a good ration for a 
heifer one year and seven months old, 
coming in with her first calf end of May, 
and for a big-boned Holstein cow with her 
second calf in middle of May? I am feed¬ 
ing Red-top hay, all they want to clean 
up. I also feed the heifer ground oats 
and cornmeal, two quarts to each meal, 
and the cow two quarts of cow feed twice 
a day, but they do not look right to me; 
their coat is rough looking. I would like 
to have a good growing grain ration for 
calves six and three months old; I have 
little milk. They like the Red-top hay 
very much, but I would like to put them, 
in good condition. mbs. a. o. 
Bethel, Conn. 
Red-top hay is palatable, and the cows 
will eat it with relish, but actually there 
is no substance to this, and it contributes 
very little digestible material. It would 
provide bulk, but very little else. The 
prepared feed will not in itself provide a 
satisfactory ration for your dairy cow, 
and I would advise feeds known to 
produce flesh and milk. The heifer a 
year and seven months old, due to freshen 
in May, I would feed equal parts of 
ground oats, wheat bran, corn and cob 
meal and oilmeal. and I would feed her 
from 6 to S lbs. per day. The Holstein 
cow that is due to freshen with her second 
calf later in May should be fed from 7 to 
10 lbs. of the same combination. You will 
find that the oilmeal will contribute suffi¬ 
cient protein to sleek the coat and smooth 
the hair, and that this combination will 
yield sufficient energizing material to en¬ 
able the cow to freshen in good flesh. If 
you have good Red-top hay of course you 
must make use of it; hut there would be 
many advantages in feeding either some 
corn fodder or some mixed hay containing 
some clover or Alfalfa. 
For the calves varying in age from 
three to six months I would use the fol¬ 
lowing mixture: 100 lbs. grouud oats, 50 
lbs. wheat bran, 50 lbs. of cornmeal or 
hominy, 50 lbs. middlings, 50 lbs. oilmeal. 
Feed them 2 or 3 lbs. per day of this mix¬ 
ture, either dry or mixed with the milk. 
This ration will supplement milk, or. if 
they do not have access to milk, it would 
be possible to grow them on this combina¬ 
tion in case you have availnbh some 
roughage, such as clover or Alfalfa hay. 
It would be safe to give the young calves 
as much of this grain ration as they 
would clean up with relish, and there 
would be no harm in keeping a small 
amount of this grain before them at all 
times. 
Feeding Calves and Cows 
Will you give me a good ration for 
young calves? I have ground oats, corn¬ 
meal and wheat middlings—a limited 
amount. I wish a ration for milch cows, 
having plenty of good silage and a limited 
amount of clover hay for roughage. I 
have my own ground oats and cornmeal; 
can get oilmeal at $4.25 per cwt., cotton¬ 
seed at $4.50, wheat bran at $2.50 and 
a limited amount of buckwheat middlings 
at $3. w. j. F. 
Assuming that the young calves in 
question are being fed skim-milk and 
some second cutting Alfalfa or clover hay, 
the following combination of grain would 
give good results: 50 lbs. of ground oats, 
50 lbs. of middlings, 25 lbs. of wheat 
bran, 25 lbs. of oilmeal. 10 lbs. of corn¬ 
meal, 10 lbs. of bloodmeal. As your 
white middlings are limited, you could in¬ 
crease the amount of oats in the mixture 
as the calves grow older. 
For milch cows, where you have plenty 
of good silage aud some clover hay, utiliz¬ 
ing your own ground oats and corn, you 
will find the following proportions use¬ 
ful : 300 lbs. of cornmeal, 300 lbs. of 
ground oats. 300 lbs. of gluten. 200 lbs. 
of buckwheat middlings, 50 lbs. of peanut 
meal. 50 lbs. of oilmeal. If the cows are 
in good flesh it might he good judgment 
to increase the amount of oilmeal to 100 
lbs., provided silage contains a generous 
amount of well-matured grain. This 
should be governed by the condition of the 
animals aud their degree of flesh and 
finish. 
