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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 0, 1920 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
/ When Your 
Silage Gives Out 
The grain ration must be changed to combine with 
the available roughage so that the amounts of 
digestible protein, carbohydrates and other nutri¬ 
ents are supplied in the same quantities, if shrink¬ 
age in milk is to be avoided. 
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production is maintained when changes in roughage 
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Too Much Protein 
I am feeding the following ration to 
my Holstein and Guernsey cows: 5(>0 
lbs. corn and cob chop. 400 lbs. wheat 
bran, 200 lbs. oilmeal. O. P.; 000 lbs. 
cottonseed meal. GOO lbs. gluten feed. 
For roughage I have volunteer wheat in 
Alfalfa; wheat is about one-third amount 
of hay : also corn stover and also a poor 
grade silage. Would you criticise this 
ration? E. d. 
Maryland. 
It is evident that you have included 
rather extravagant amounts of protein, 
due to the fact that your silage and rough- 
age are both of low grade. I very much 
doubt the wisdom of including as much 
as GOO lbs. of gluten feed in this combina¬ 
tion. especially if it is gluteu meal rather 
than gluten feed. Otherwise your combi¬ 
nation is a good one. The only criticism 
that the mere observation of this ration 
would suggest is that it is inclined to be 
concentrated, and I should prefer includ¬ 
ing some buckwheat middlings or buck¬ 
wheat bran to replace half of the gluteu 
feed. 
Give the cows all of the silage that they 
will clean up twice daily, and if your 
roughage is not particularly palatable, 
they should be given as much of the vol¬ 
unteer wheat and Alfalfa as they would 
clean up with relish once daily. 
oats 
than 
feed 
Ration with Sheaf Oats 
I am feeding my cows sheaf oats once 
a day and one-half bushel of silage, two 
quarts of mixed feed, and all the gool 
clover hay they can clean up. Is there 
any milk in oats fed in the straw? My 
cows look well, but they seem to be very 
J scurfy, and they rub themselves. I have 
doctored them for lice, but don't find any 
on them. I feed salt and sulphur. Would 
this make them itch? Is there any harm 
in it. or is there any great good in it? 
Vermont. L. B. 
( tats fed in the sheaf or bundle would 
make good roughage for dairy cows, and 
it is scarcely possible that they are re¬ 
sponsible for the scurfy condition that 
you describe. However, the sheaf 
Would be better suited for horses 
for dairy cows. The ready mixed 
that you identify is not a balanced ration 
in itself, and it would be well if you would 
supplement this material with some corn 
and cottonseed meal, using ”>00 !bs. of 
your ready-mixed ration, 800 lbs. of corn 
and 250 lbs. of cottonseed meal. It is 
possible that your cows are infested with 
lice or vermin. Take four quarts of raw 
linseed oil, add one quart of gasoline and 
apply this concoction with a rice root 
brush over the back line, coating such 
parts as evidence irritation. The trouble 
will probably disappear. There is no 
harm in feeding salt and sulphur, and the 
latter ought to thin down the blood and 
cool off the system. It might be well to 
feed some glauber salts, say a quarter of 
a pound a day for three or four days to 
thin down the blood still further. 
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Tioga Mill & Elevator Co. 
Waverly, N. Y. 
probably could sell our entire stock at 
$G.50 apiece. We have had no experience 
in hogging corn and Soy beans, and wish 
your opinion ns to about how many head 
would be required for the three acres. 
We want to turn them in September 1 
and feed for eight weeks, with plenty of 
water and tankage in a self-feeder. The 
young pigs will be on good Alfalfa pasture 
all Summer and fed a little corn along 
to help balance the i*ation. G. b. 
Your proposal to plant Soy beans with 
corn intended for hogging down purposes 
is an excellent one. Assuming that the 
area will yield 75 bushels of corn to the 
acre, you would harvest from it the equiv¬ 
alent of 225 bushels. At the least cal¬ 
culation 450 lbs. of corn harvested in this 
way ought to yield you 100 lbs. of pork. 
On this basis your pigs ought to gain 
8.100 lbs. in weight from this area. If 
the pigs have been pastured on Alfalfa 
and supplied only a limited amount of 
grain, say 2}£ lbs. daily for each 100 lbs. 
of live weight they will probably weigh 
approximately 125 lbs. when they are 
ready to turn into the field of corn and 
Soy beans on September 1. As a matter 
cf fact, this is the most desirable weight 
of pig to use for such harvesting. I 
would figure on using 20 or 25 hogs to 
clean up this area, which they ought to 
do iu 35 or 40 days. 
Ration with Clover Hay 
What is your opinion of the following 
ration for milch cows: 200 lbs wheat 
bran, 100 lbs. ground oats. 200 lbs. corn- 
meal. 200 lbs oilmeal and 200 lbs. •gluten 
feed, 1 lb. grain to each •”> V» lbs. milk 
produced, the grain made into a mash 
with hot water, not sloppy and a little 
more moist than crumbly? E. sc. s. 
New York. 
There is nothing to be gained by mois¬ 
tening the grain ration supplied to dairy 
cows. It is a false idea to conclude that 
the mere moistening of dry grain will 
provide succulence or will create the same 
condition that is obtained through the 
use of silage or beet pulp. As a matter 
of fact, it lias been demonstrated that di¬ 
gestion is less complete where the grain 
is moistened than where it is fed dry. 
So far as your mixture is concerned, I 
would suggest that the amount of oats 
be increased t>> 200 lbs. and that you add 
200 lbs. of buckwheat middlings. You 
could, no doubt, increase your production 
substantially through the addition of 
moistened beet pulp which has been sat¬ 
urated with molasses water. Feed the 
animals in addition to the grain ration 
suggested all the roughage that they will 
clean up, consisting of clover hay aud 
corn fodder. 
Milk-making Ration 
Will you give me a ration for grade 
Jerseys of the following feeds: Ilomiuy. 
bran, ground oats, cottonseed meal aud 
beet pulp, to be fed with clover Alfalfa 
or pea hay? A, L. T. 
Tennessee. 
It is assumed from your inquiry that 
you have no silage and that you contem¬ 
plate using moistened beet pulp as a 
[source of succulence. If this is correct, 
mix your grain ration in the following 
proportion: 400 lbs. of hominy. GOO lbs. 
of ground oats, 300 lbs. of cottonseed, 
200 lbs. of oilmeal. 100 lbs. of bran. Sat¬ 
urate 100 lbs. of beet pulp about 12 hours 
previous to feeding. Feed a cow yielding 
30 lbs. of milk per day 15 or 20 lbs. of 
the moistened beet pulp and 7 or S lbs. 
of the grain mixture. In addition, give 
her all of the clover hay or roughage that 
she will clean up with relish. 
Feeding Guernsey Calves 
T have two registered Guernsey calves, 
one bull and one heifer, about 10 months 
old. Have plenty of mixed hay, mostly 
clover, but am short, of corn fodder. What 
grains would be best to use with hay to 
make a balanced ration for them, and 
how much ? g. w. M. 
Clover hay could he relied upon ex¬ 
clusively as a roughage for calves 10 
months old: in fact, I should prefer this 
material to auy other substance except 
second cutting Alfalfa hay. As a grain 
ration I should use equal parts of ground 
oats, wheat bran, eornmeal and oilmeal, 
•ind would feed 5 or G lbs. of this mixture 
per calf per day. I would feed half of 
the grain iu the morning aud half at 
night, aud allow the youngsters free ac¬ 
cess to clover hay during the reminder of 
the time that they were in the stable. 
Ration for Calves 
Crops for “’Hogging Down” 
We expect to plant a three-acre patch 
to corn and Soy beaus and hog it down 
in the Fall. ii: the season is favorable 
this land ought to produce GO or 70 bn. 
to the acre, possibly 75 bu. We have 
five O. 1. <4f&bmod sows, four of which 
will farrow the hist of February, so the 
pigs are ready to wean about April 10 
to 15. ,We have a good market here for 
early Spring pigs at six weeks old. and 
Would you give me a ration for raising 
a heifer calf eight weeks old? I have 
Hour middlings, bran, eornmeal, gluten 
feed, Alfalfa hay and corn stover. Give 
quantity to be fed at each feeding. 
Wyandanch, N. Y. e. j. 8. 
Several years ago the Indiana Experi¬ 
ment Station reported excellent results 
from feeding calves from birth up to six 
months of age a mixture consisting of 
equal parts of hominy, oilmeal. red dog 
Hour aud bloodmeal. It would be appro¬ 
priate to add 1 lb. of this mixture to each 
5 or G lhs. of milk fed twice daily. Iu 
addition I would keep clover or Alfalfa 
hay before the calve*? at all times, aud 
let them nibble away on a dry grain ra 
tiou consisting of equal parts of ground 
oats and wheat bran. 
