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Live Stock Matters 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
An Economical Ration 
Would you advise me as to a balanced 
ration consisting ’of the following feeds 
for cows: Wheat bran, ground oats, 
corn-and-eob meal, cottonseed meal, silage, 
clover hay and corn fodder? F. A. M. 
Maryland. 
You have named the most economical 
sources of digestible nutrients for use in 
feeding dairy cows, and I would assemble 
them in the following proportion : 300 
lbs. of corn-and-eob meal, 1500 lbs. of cot¬ 
tonseed meal, 200 lbs. of ground oats, 100 
lbs. of wheat bran, 100 lbs. of oilmeal. 
Feed the cows all the silage that they 
will clean up morning and evening and 
give them all the clover hay that they 
will eat during the middle of the day. 
A cow yielding 30 lbs. of milk should 
be fed approximately S lbs. of this grain 
mixture. If you have an abundance of 
oats that have been produced on the farm 
the amount could be increased to 300 lbs., 
in which event I would reduce the amount 
of cottonseed 25 lbs. 
Grain Without Silage 
I feed cornstalks and Alfalfa twice a 
day and bean pods at noon, feeding all 
they will eat up. I have no silo. Have 
corn and oats of my own ; can buy bran, 
middlings, oilmeal and gluten, and would 
like to know how to balance the ration. 
Docs it pay to feed molasses at $40 per 
barrel? F. l. p. 
New York. 
With cornstalks and Alfalfa hay as a 
roughage and in addition Soy beans, 
which must provide some protein, I should 
use the following grains: Corn and cob- 
meal. 300 lbs.; ground oats, 300 lbs.; 
gluten, 300 lbs. You could substitute oil¬ 
meal for the gluten meal, depending upon 
the relative cost of these two materials. 
One ton of oilmeal will yield you 1,558 
lbs. of digestible nutrients, while one ton 
of gluten meal will yield you 1.680 lbs. 
Molasses is a carbohydrate carrier, and 
one ton of the brand known as “black 
strap." or cane molasses, will yield 1.184 
lbs. of digestible nutrients, as comnar d 
with 1.714 for dent corn and 1.408 for 
ground oats. Molasses serves its best 
purpose as an agency for saturating beet 
pulp where silage or mangel beets are not 
at band. 
Mineral Matter for Hogs 
l have 20 shotes. six brood sows and 
one boar, and give them ashes from hard 
coal, which they seem to relish, cleaning 
up everything but unburned coal and 
dust. Breeding stock as well as pigs each 
have a run of about one acre. I feed a 
balanced ration to all stock from self- 
feeders : give shotes all the corn on ear 
they will eat and all the warm water 
they will drink. They are thrifty. No 
day so cold they do not roam around if 
not stormy. What benefit or harm may 
there be in feeding coal ashes? I have 
been taught coal ashes were of no value 
only as a soil lightener or to put around 
trees for same purpose. After burning 
eight tons of coal I have no ash pile. 
Pennsylvania. o. u. m. 
You are correct. Coal ashes do not 
contribute any digestible nutrients to a 
ration intended for either growing or 
mature hogs. Nevertheless they are rel- : 
ished by pigs simply because they provide 
a little mineral matter and satisfy a 
craving that pigs have for something 
rather secure to chew upon. If this habit 
becomes extravagant it indicates that the 
ration supplied to the pigs is not properly 
balanced and that you are omitting some 
constituent that they require for normal 
growth and development. I would sug¬ 
gest that you mix with the coal ashes 
(wood ashes would be even more desir¬ 
able) equal parts of bone meal, rock 
phosphaU ground limestone, with some 
sulphur and copperas in addition. This 
will make sure that they are provided 
with the necessary phosphates for normal 
hone development. It used to be an old 
saying that coal ashes and wood ashes 
are relished by pigs because they keep 
the digestive system relatively free from 
parasites. An old timer, once told me 
that he never knew pigs that had free 
access to wood or coal ashes to be in¬ 
fested with worms. You do not state 
whether you are supplying the pigs with 
any animal matter. Many hog men be¬ 
lieve that tankage or meat meal is neces¬ 
sary for normal development, and if you 
will take 100 lbs. of tankage or meat 
meal and 100 lbs. of corn germ oilmeal 
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