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<Pk RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Drying Off Cow 
I would like to know when it is time to 
let the cow go dry. As my cow is due 
around the end of March. I am milking 
her now once a day. I get two quarts at 
a time. I was told by my neighbors not 
to milk her at all. Would you advise me 
whether to milk or not? My cow is Hol¬ 
stein. 4 years old. s. J. C. 
New York. 
Your Holstein cow should have a dry 
period varying from six to eight weeks if 
it is desired to obtain the best results 
when she freshens. If she is only yielding 
two quarts of milk per day it would be 
well for you to deny her all grain for the 
next four or five days, and the chances 
are that by the end of this period the milk 
flow will have ceased and, by milking the 
udder out once every two or three days, 
you will not experience any difficulty. 
After it is evident that the cow is thor¬ 
oughly dried off I should begin feeding her 
some grain, making a mixture of equal 
parts of corn, oats and bran, to which 10 
per cent of oilmeal has been added. I 
should also feed her Alfalfa or clover hay 
during this dry period, as this will supply 
a generous amount of ash so essential in 
the formation of young animals. Further¬ 
more. if you are only milking the cow 
once a day the chances are that the milk 
will be scarcely fit to use. and it is by all 
means best to dry her off as has been sug¬ 
gested. 
Feed for Grads Holsteins 
Will you name grain ration for grade 
Holstein cows that weigh from 1.000 to 
1,500 lbs. that are dry now and in good 
flesh? They will freshen in six weeks. 
These cows are very heavy milkers and 
are fed a milk ration all the time they 
are milked. Their roughage is mixed hay, 
mostly clover. At present I have silage, 
but am not feeding it since cows were 
dried off. We have a quantity of corn on 
the cob and oats, and can buy other grains 
that are needed to make the best ration. 
We have a mill at home that will grind 
the corn, cob and all. Is the cob worth 
grinding? „ w. A. G. 
New York. 
If we follow the practices of our most 
successful dairymen we will see that they 
find it profitable to carry their cows 
through the dry period by supplying them 
rather generous amounts of grain. You 
are wise in eliminating the silage during 
this dry period, as it is much better to let 
them have roughage and grain rather than 
silage during their dry period. Neverthe¬ 
less. I am sure that if you can feed 7 or 8 
lbs. a day. of a ration consisting of equal 
parts of corn. oats, bran and oilmeal dur¬ 
ing the dry period your cows will respond 
more generously when they do come into 
milk. 
Assuming that you have an abundance 
of silage and that you have available some 
Alfalfa, clover, or mixed hay, I would 
suggest the following grain ration to be 
fed the cows after they freshen : 300 lbs. 
of corn and cobmeal. 200 lbs. of ground 
oats, 200 lbs. of gluten meal. 100 lbs. of 
cottonseed meal. 50 lbs. of oilmeal. 100 
lbs. of wheat bran. Feed the cows all the 
silage they will clean up with relish twice 
daily, and allow one pound of the above 
grain mixture for each 8 or 4 lbs. of milk 
produced per day. 
As to whether there is any feeding value 
in corncobs depends largely upon the na¬ 
ture of your ration. Actually they do not 
supply any digestible material, but prac¬ 
tically they do add bulk to the combina¬ 
tion, and it is on this basis that they are 
included in the above ration. Of course, 
it i.s not necessary to feed gluten, cotton¬ 
seed meal and oilmeal in the same ration, 
for either of the protein carriers will sup¬ 
ply a pound of digestible nutrients at a 
more economical rate per unit. I like the 
idea of variety, however, and, generally 
speaking, oue is as economical as the 
other, as the prices of all of them are 
based upon their protein content. 
Feeding Cows and Colt 
Will you give me a ration for grade 
cows? I feed corn fodder mornings, 
bean fodder and straw noon and shreaded 
common fodder at night. We have corn¬ 
cob meal, barley and oats. Can get hom¬ 
iny. oilmeal. gluten feed, cottonseed meal 
and bran. I wish ration for a 9-months 
colt weighing 700 lbs. His coarse feed is 
clover hay. W. B. 
Stanley, N. Y. 
Concerning your dairy herd, with corn 
fodder and bean straw as roughage. I 
should buy only gluten meal, and would 
mix my ration in the following propor¬ 
tion : 400 lbs. of cornmeal, 300 lbs. of 
barley, 300 lbs. of oats. 400 lbs. of gluten, 
100 ibs. of bran, 50 lbs. of oil meal. I 
should favor the use of gluten meal rather 
than gluten feed, for it is possible for the 
feed dealer to dispose of any product with 
a little gluten in it as gluten feed, while 
the trade name gluten meal repreesnts 
only the corn by-product rich in protein. 
It is very important in feeding young 
growing animals that they should be sup¬ 
plied generously with feeds rich in ash 
and mineral matter. There is nothing 
any better in this respect than clover or 
Alfalfa hay, and tin 700-lb. colt should 
have access to as much of this material 
as he will clean up without waste. Great 
care should be exercised, however, not to 
let him have clover hay that has heated 
in the mow or that shows dust or mold 
when it is put into the manger. If the 
hay is damaged the quantity should be 
limited to 5 or G lbs. per day. As a grain 
ration I should use 5 parts of crushed 
oats. 3 parts of bran. 1 part of shelled 
corn and 1 part of oil meal, and would 
give him 1 lb. of this grain per day for 
each 100 lbs. of live weight. It is an old 
rule among producers of draft horse's that 
a colt should reach at least half his ma¬ 
ture weight when he is’a year old. In 
other words, if a colt weighs 800 lbs. 
when he is a year old he stands an excel¬ 
lent chance of developing, if properly fed, 
into a mature colt that would weigh 1.S0O 
lbs. I know of no materials that are bet¬ 
ter suited for growth and vigor than the 
ration suggested. 
Feeding Cow and Calf 
1. Four weeks ago my Jersey cow 
calved. After two weeks we took the calf 
away from the mother, but we do not 
know what kind of feed to give to her. 
We would like to keep the calf, therefore, 
we want the best kind of feed for her. 
The miller has no calf feed, and I could 
not obtain any in the neighborhood. Will 
you kindly let me know what kind of ra¬ 
tion to give to the calf? 
2. Will you also give me advice regard¬ 
ing next year’s crop. I have an eight- 
acre farm of fair sandy loam. I have 55 
young apple trees that I planted last Fall, 
about 23 Kieffer pears, 10 quinces. 10 
cherries, all of which I planted last Fall. 
Also 50 peach trees that had their first 
crop last Summer. I have a horse, a cow 
and calf, nine pigs and 65 chickens. I 
would like to plant feed for my animals 
with some garden truck for the house. 
New Jersey. E. s. 
1. A suitable ration for feeding to your 
dairy cow in milk would consist of: 30 
lbs. of cornmeal. 30 lbs. of bran, 30 lbs. of 
ground oats. 30 lbs. of oilmeal or cotton¬ 
seed meal. If she produces 25 lbs. of milk 
per day give her S lbs. of this mixture and 
all of the roughage that she will clean up 
with relish. As for the calf, recently 
weaned, there is nothing better than skim- 
milk supplemented by a grain ration con¬ 
sisting of equal parts of hominy, Tied Dog 
flour, oilmeal and ground oats. The calf 
should be fed on new milk until it is three 
weeks old. at which time it should be 
gradually transferred to skim-milk, util- 
February 2S, 1920 
iziug another week in the transfer. Dur¬ 
ing this interval one pound of skim-milk 
should be added and one pound of new 
milk deducted from the daily allowance. 
Usually calves are fed too much skim- 
milk ; likewise it is supplied in pails that 
are unclean and, as a result, digestive dis¬ 
orders are encountered. If you will limit 
the C;’ c to five quarts of skim-milk per 
day to ' h a pound and a half of this 
meal has . added you would get results 
that would 1 satisfactory. In addition, 
it would be w II to keep before the calf at 
all times a dry grain ration consisting of 
three parts of oats and two parts of wheat 
bran. You will find that fh" 1 calf will 
commence to nibble at Alfalfa or clover 
hay at an early age. and it shorn! be pro¬ 
vided if possible. 
2. So far as your crops for next year 
are concerned, you will find that the or¬ 
chard will require considerable of your 
time, and we shall consider in this de¬ 
partment only the crops necessary for 
feeding your live stock. You ought to pro¬ 
duce enough corn to supply the bulk of the 
feed that your horse, cow, pigs and chick¬ 
ens consume, and I should say that two 
acres of corn would provide a generous 
amount. It would also be prudent if you 
would plant some forage crops for your 
pigs. I would devote half an acre to this 
purpose, and would seed it early iu the 
Spring with a mixture of oats and rape, 
using a bushel and a half of oats and 4 
lbs. of Dwarf Essex rape on a half acre. 
It might be well ro seed two acres of oats 
to be used for either roughage or green 
forage, and you will find that oat hay 
would be well suited for feeding your 
horse and cow during the Winter. 
“What a wonderful linguist that man 
is! Is there any tongue lie hasn’t mas¬ 
tered?’’ “Yes; his wife's.”—Baltimore 
American. 
Jfyour cows 
could talk: 
sa/ 
The dairy cow responds more quick¬ 
ly to a proper diet than any other 
animal. Give her the wrong kind of 
feed and the milk flow drops off. Give 
her the right feed and the milk flow 
is increased. . . 
When you feed a ration that is im¬ 
properly balanced, the cow eats more 
of it in order to get the elements of 
nutrition her system craves. This in¬ 
creases your feed costs. That’s bad 
for you. 
When you feed Happy Cow Feed you 
get a rightly balanced, high protein ration 
which gives you more milk than you have 
ever gotten from a ration composed of 
low-grade materials. You save on feed 
and make more on milk. That’s good 
for you. 
Happy Cow Feed is composed of wheat 
bran, cottonseed meal, cocoanut meal, 
velvet bean feed, unhulled peanut oil feed, 
rice bran and alfalfa meal. It is the best 
Dept. 132 
Edgar-Morgan Co, 
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