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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Mr. J. M. Hackney, owner and de¬ 
veloper of several World’s Champion 
three of which are shown on this 
cows, _ 
page, has proven the importance of feeding\ a 
ration which will furnish cows adequate main- 
tenance, without which no cow can produce maxi¬ 
mum flow. 
Mr. Hackney has found out by experience that too 
much protein is injurious—that to secure maximum 
milk, production cows must be kept at top-notch 
physical condition — the ration must be a health 
builder, strength and vitality giver. That’s why Mr. 
Hackney likes his cows to have • 
SCHUMACHER FEED 
AND 
BIG"tt"DAIRY RATION 
Owners of cows holding world’s rec¬ 
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MACHER FEED, the great mainten¬ 
ance ration. 36 World’s Champion 
Cows have been helped to make their 
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as a part of their maintenance ration. 
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SCHUMACHER it supplies just the right amount 
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The Quaker Oats (ompany 
Address: Chicago, U. S. A. 
J. M. Hackney, Owner 
St. Paul, Minnesota 
The Quaker Oats Co. January Third, 1920 
Gentlemen—I must say to you frankly that in ray 
letter to you concerning feeding of Holstein Friesian 
Cows on my Arden Farms, I overlooked the most im¬ 
portant factor, which I wished to bring out. I do not 
believe in a high protein ration. After the experience I 
have had, it is my judgment that breeders do not place 
enough importance upon the maintenance part of the 
ration of a cow. To secure a maximum yearly production 
means that a cow must be kept in good physical condi¬ 
tion, nothing must be done to tear down the structure. 
It is my judgment that too much protein is injurious. 
There is good chance for argument as to just how much 
protein a cow should have, but I do not wish to engage 
in a discussion of the fine points, but I believe that a 
small amount of protein is better than too much, if one 
expects to have cows go on year after year and main¬ 
tain their good health and produce their maximum ot' 
butter and milk. We mix most of our feed ourselves 
with the exception of SCHUMACHER FEED and BIG 
“Q” DAIRY RATION, with which we have been very 
successful. Yours very sincerely, 
(Signed) J. M. HACKNEY. 
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and let this mixture constitute 10 per 
cent of the grain fed your ration will be 
improved. I have known brood sows to 
eat extravagantly of coal ashes or even 
cinders when ’confined in small pens or 
yards following the weaning of a litter 
of pigs. Of course the piss root over and 
distribute the cinders, and they disappear 
in this manner perhaps more frequently 
than they do from actual consumption. 
Increasing Concentrates in Dairy Ration 
I am keeping a few cows, not so much 
for the direct profit as to furnish fer¬ 
tilizer for the vegetables and skim-milk 
for the poultry. I am short of fodder; 
no clover and not enough mixed hay for 
a full ration, and buying hay is out of 
the question, but I wish t«» feed so as to 
maintain the health and condition of the 
cows, and keep them giving as much milk 
as possible. It occurs to mo that u ration 
of grain that is bulky and low in protein 
might be fed more freely than the ordi¬ 
nary balanced ration. If I mix equal 
weights of c-ornmeal. ground oats and 
i bran, with perhaps a little gluten, can I 
not safely feed considerably more than 
the usual 1 lb. to 3*4 lbs. of milk, and 
so make up the deficiency of liav? If so, 
how much gluten shall I use, if any and 
I how much can I safely feed? s. s. C. 
j A' rmont. 
Your suggestion is a practical one. Tt 
is possible to feed more generously of a 
ration of highly concentrated feed, made 
up as you suggest of equal parts of corn- 
meal. ground oats, wheat bran and gluten 
meal. It must be evident, however, that 
your proposal to feed grain in excess so 
as to make up for the deficiency in hay 
is faulty, owing chiefly to the fact that 
cows require a generous amount of rough¬ 
age. and that ordinarily roughage is more 
economical than concentrates. Even if it 
is not possible for you to purchase hay. 
it might be possible for you to get hold 
of some oat straw, or even corn fodder, to 
provide the necessary bulk. Of course the 
fact that manure resulting from the feed¬ 
ing of concentrates has a greater value 
than that obtained from the feeding of 
roughage is in your favor. While it might 
not be necessary to feed as much gluten 
as I have indicated, and perhaps cotton¬ 
seed meal would be even better than the 
gluten on account of its higher protein 
content, and the consequent increased 
amount of nitrogen that would be avail¬ 
able from the manure, I am inclined to 
believe that you would be justified in 
feeding as much as I have suggested. 
Feeding Duroc Swine 
1. T wish a balanced ration for pure- 
! bred Duroc brood sows, and also for fat- 
tening their pigs for market, using as a 
! base odds and ends from macaroni fac- 
i toriee, good quality, and molasses popcorn 
\ just a little stale. 
2. I have about five acres of rye on 
which I thought of sowing clover early in 
Spring, both for hay and hog pasture. 
Would this be advisable and. if so. what 
variety would you suggest and how mueli 
to the acre? I wish to harvest the rye 
and pasture the clover later. 
3. Do you consider Dwarf Essex rape 
as valuable for hog pasture as the clover? 
Rockland Co., N.Y. G. w. s. 
1. The odds and ends from macaroni 
factories would naturally include the 
sweepings, and one might consider them 
equal in feeding value to the low-grade 
wheat flour, such as standard middlings 
and floor sweepings. Just how much feed¬ 
ing value one might expect to obtain from 
stale molasses popcorn would be hard to 
determine, for I do not know of any in¬ 
stance where this material lias been used 
extensively for feeding pigs. For the 
brood sows, however. I would suggest the 
following combination ; 200 lbs. of maca¬ 
roni sweepings. 100 lbs. of craekerjack. 
100 l!i>. of cornmeal. ”>0 lbs. of ground 
I oats. 10 lbs. of digester tankage. For the 
| fattening shotes I would mix together 
equal parts of the macaroni, craekerjack 
and cornmeal. aud give them all that they 
would clean up with relish of this com¬ 
bination. The brood sows should have 
au amount sufficient to enable them to 
gain a pound a day during their gesta¬ 
tion period. I should include some stand¬ 
ard middlings with theso refuse materials, 
largely because l have had no experience 
in feeding macaroni or craekerjack. 
2. You would get very little feeding 
value from clover seeded with rye during 
the early Spring. The better plan would 
be to harvest the rye if it is not to be used 
! as a green feed or forage crop. Plow the 
ground and reseed it with a mixture of 
Dwarf Essex rape, oats and sweet clover, 
using a bushel aud a half of oats. • > Ho. 
of Dwarf Essex rape and 6 lbs. of t 1 • 
white Sweet clover. It would be possible 
to pasture this forage crop when the 
plants are 8 or 9 inches high, aud it would 
jield you more forage than would be af¬ 
forded you by utilizing the Spring seeded 
clover. 
3. T consider Dwarf Essex rape by all 
odds the best forage crop for swine that 
can be seeded in the Spring, and it it is 
not pastured too severely you will find 
that it will supply succulence over 
longer period than any other crop excepr 
Alfalfa. However. I should always seed 
rape in combination with some o'lmr 
nurse crop, such as oats, barley or Can¬ 
ada field peas, for variety in forage cm o- 
is quite as essential as variety in a g” ;ii 
ration. 
