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The Cow and Her Care 
Improving Dairy Ration 
Could you advise me about increasing 
the milk flow of a Jersey cow seven years 
old? She freshened the first of Decem¬ 
ber. We left the calf with her until sold 
at six weeks old, putting the cow in three 
times a day. After the calf left she 
milked about eight quarts daily, five in 
the morning, three at night. She seems 
to be decreasing now. I am feeding equal 
parts by weight of gluten, standard mid¬ 
dlings and corn-and-cob meal, all the hay 
she wants and cornstalks. The hay is of 
poor quality, but she seems to like it and 
eats it up clean. Would it be better to 
feed the stalks in the morning alone, giv¬ 
ing the hay at noon and night? She 
drinks a normal amount of water during 
the day. This cow's dam was a heavy 
milker, milking 1G quarts when fresh. 
This cow has never milked over 10 quarts. 
New York. H. E. P. _ 
Cows frequently do not give down their 
milk readily at first. This cow apparent¬ 
ly was not born to do as well as her dam. 
It is questionable if you can increase her 
production much now, although a change 
in ration should keep her from dropping 
off as rapidly as she has done. The ra¬ 
tion you are now using is very unbal¬ 
anced, and does not contain enough pro¬ 
tein to make it a good milk producer. 
Presumably you have corn on hand for 
corn-and-cob meal, so that will be left in 
the following mixture: One part by 
weight of bran, one part corn and cob- 
meal, one part gluten feed, one part lin¬ 
seed oilmeal and one part cottonseed meal. 
Add a pound coarse fine salt to each 100 
lbs. feed in making it up. I should feed 
hay morning and night and cornstalks 
the middle of the day. H. F. J. 
Ration for Good Grade Stock 
1. My old cow (10 years old) is half 
Guernsey and half Jersey, and since she 
freshened April 10 has given me more 
than 7,000 lbs. of milk. The largest quan¬ 
tity of grain she had was 7 lbs. per day. 
She is now giving about 1G lbs. per day 
on 3 Y 2 lbs. of grain and some roots, with 
what hay she will eat up. One of her 
daughters, two years old next April, is 
due next May. All of my breeding is to 
Guernsey. I also have a two-year-old 
heifer that is half Guernsey and the other 
largely Ayrshire. She had a heifer calf 
in October by a Guernsey bull. Is it 
considered profitable to raise such stock? 
2. Ought a cow to be given mixed dairy 
feed or some other kind of grain after the 
milk flow is reduced and before freshen¬ 
ing? 3. Daisy has quite short teats, and 
I am unable to get her udder clean enough 
with a piece of burlap to keep the milk 
clean. She looks clean, but there is a 
fine dirt that goes through two thicknesses 
of fme cloth. Is there any way to pre¬ 
vent it? C. M. s. 
Massachusetts. 
1. You certainly have some good grade 
foundation stock. Always use a good 
purebred Guernsey bull on this stock and 
you should get along nicely. You will, 
of course, need to keep on keeping records 
and selecting the best cows for breeding 
stock. 
2. You will find you can mix your grain 
ration more cheaply than you can buy it 
ready mixed. A good grain ration to feed 
a cow before freshening is two parts by 
weight of bran, one part cornmeal. one 
part gluten feed and one part linseed oil- 
meal. It is a good plan to mix the cows’ 
salt supply with the grain at the rate of 
a pound of salt to each 100 lbs. of feed. 
3. The most practical method to pre¬ 
pare a cow for milking is to brush the 
hind quarters with a stiff brush to get off 
coarse dirt and then wipe the udder and 
teats with a damp piece of cheesecloth. 
Of course, if udder is soiled badly with 
mud or manure, it becomes necessary to 
wash it. h. F. J. 
Increasing Protein Feed 
What feeds do I need to get the best 
results from Jerseys and Guernseys that 
have been milking several months? I have 
plenty of cornmeal, mangels, mixed hay 
and corn stover on hand. H. H. B. 
Connecticut. 
All the feeds you have available are 
very low in protein. It is this nutrient, 
therefore, that should be purchased. Get 
some cottonseed meal, linseed oilmeal, 
gluten feed and bran and make the ration 
two parts, by weight, of bran, two parts 
cornmeal, one part cottonseed meal, one 
part gluten feed and two parts linseed 
oilmeal. Add 1 lb. of salt to each 100 lbs. 
of feed. H. F. J. 
Mold in Silo Feeding 
On my small dairy farm of six to eight 
head of cows I have a silo, sound, tight 
and good, 12x24 ft. It is filled with ex¬ 
cellent corn in perfect condition, two 
vigorous men tramping during the filling, 
early in September. We take off 2 in. or 
more daily, yet pink mold forms about 
th(> center and causes a lot of waste. 
What can be done to stop this? A. H. w. 
Massachusetts. 
Unless this pink mold is very abun¬ 
dant the silage will not hurt the cows. It 
is reported that this is much less harmful 
than ordinary gray mold. If the mold is 
all through the silage it would seem that 
