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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 3, 1020 
Over Forty Years Ag< 
the De Laval Cream Separator came to the aid 
of the dairy farmer. It eliminated a great deal 
of the drudgery from dairying and made possible 
a world-wide advance in the dairy industry. 
The De Laval Milker is also an important in¬ 
vention and comes to the dairyman’s aid to do 
away with the drudgery of hand milking. It has 
been thoroughly tested and has proved highly 
satisfactory, in practical operation on cows of 
every breed for the past three years, and has been 
put on the market with the confidence that it will 
add new r impetus to the dairy industry and further 
enhance the world-wide prestige of the name 
DE LAVAL. 
The De Laval Milker is a distinctly different 
type of machine, both as to design and operation, 
positive and uniform in action from day to day; 
and faster, more economical and more reliable 
than any other method of milking. The sanitary 
features are of special importance and will be much 
appreciated by dairymen in their efforts to produce 
milk having the highest market value. 
An additional insurance of lasting satisfaction 
to users of De Laval Milkers lies in the De Laval 
Company’s well-known facilities and reputation 
for service. 
The Milker you have hoped for. 
Write to nearest De Laval office for Milker 
Catalog, mentioning number of cows milked 
The De Laval Separator Co. 
165 Broadway 
New York 
29 East Madison Street 
Chicago 
61 Beale Street 
San Francisco 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Value of Middlings and Bran 
How niucli middlings should I mix with 
bran to make a mixed wheat feed, 16 
per cent? The bran is 14 per cent. 
New York. A. K. o. 
What the manufacturers term “stand¬ 
ard middlings" nowadays vary somewhat 
from that used in establishing standards 
of analysis. As a matter of fact, standard 
middlings differ very little in composition 
from wheat bran. Wheat shorts will 
carry as much as 17!-> per cent of crude 
protein as against 15 or 16 per cent for 
wheat bran. Some years ago a number 
*of the mills put out a feed known as 
“wheat feed.” which consisted of mid¬ 
dlings and bran that yielded an average 
analysis of 16.8 per cent of crude pro¬ 
tein. Assuming that, your wheat bran 
yields 14 per cent and that the middlings 
yield 1714 per cent, you would require 
875 lbs. of bran and 1,125 llxs. of mid¬ 
dlings to provide a mixture that would 
yi^ld a wheat, feed carrying 16 per cent 
protein. 
Feeding Calves 
We have twin bull calves, born Febru¬ 
ary 2. They are growing nicely, but I 
would like to have them fatten, as I be¬ 
lieve they do not get. enough milk from 
the cow. We only have one cow; she 
is a good cow. but her milk is no.t very 
rich. Is there anything we could give her 
that perhaps would make the milk richer? 
I now feed her ground mash, hay, corn 
fodder and beet pulp. We do not give 
the calves anything hut the milk they 
get from her. K. o. 
New York. 
It is not possible for you to increase 
the butterfat content* of the milk pro- 
duced by this mother of twin calves by 
modifying the ration. The ability to 
produce milk high or low in butterfat is 
a quality inherited by the individual, and 
is not subject to modification by the 
feeder. Of course, cows in high flesh 
during the early stages of their lactation 
will yield milk of higher quality than will 
prevail later in their lactation period, 
when their flesh tissues are firnjer and 
less soluble. You do not* state what 
constitutes your grain mixed feed: but. 
assuming that it is corn, and that you 
are feeding corn. hay. corn fodder and 
beet pulp, it is clearly evident that this 
ration lacks blood and muscle-making 
constituents, and that you should by all 
means add some oilmeal or gluten meal or 
cottonseed meal. A useful combination 
would be 800 lbs. ground corn. 200 lbs. 
beet pulp. 800 lbs. gluten. 100 lbs. oil- 
meal. 100 lbs. bran. It would be well t<> 
teach the calves to eat some grain in ad¬ 
dition to the milk, and if you will take 
equal parts of ground oats, wheat bran, 
wheat middlings, and oilmeal. and keep 
small amounts of this mixture before the 
calves in a convenient box at all times, 
they will learn to nibble away at this 
feed at a very early age. After they have 
finished nursing their dam, rub it little of 
this meal on their moistened noses, and 
they will lick away at their chops and 
soon hunt around for the source of sup- 
nly. Of course, if the calves are intended 
for market purposes, they should not have 
very much grain, and perhaps the way 
to obtain more fat on the calves’ bodies 
would be to increase the grain ration fed 
'lie cow in order that she might produce 
more milk. I dare say that the ratiou 
suggested above will result in establishing 
this condition. 
Watering a Lonely Cow 
We have had a discussion and disagree¬ 
ment upon the feeding and watering of 
our cow : whether she should have all the 
water she will drink soon after milking 
in the morning, or one bucket at that 
time and all she will drink at noon; 
whether she should have more hay as 
soon as she finishes that given her after 
the morning milking or wait until noon 
for it. We have had her four months, 
and she moos almost continually. 8 I 10 
will go dry in June. She has been in 
a herd but now is alone. Will you 
tell me what you consider the correct time 
to give her hay and water and the 
amount. She 1ms her grain during milk¬ 
ing. H. M. w. 
Rhode Island. 
Carefully conducted experiments de¬ 
signed to determine the amount as well 
as the most appropriate time for water¬ 
ing cows lead us to believe that perhaps 
more attenttion is given to this factor 
than it deserves. Usually cows prefer 
to drink water after feeding, and they 
should be allowed all th > water that they 
will drink whenever it is convenient to 
give It to them. Nothing could he gained 
by limiting the amount of water given 
the cow after the morning feeding to one 
bucketful, and then permitting her to 
have all that she would drink at noon. Of 
course during cold weather it would be 
unite as well to give her some water in 
tlie morning and the balance at noon, 
which would prevent undue chilling of 
the system that might result from drink- 
iue an excessive amount of cold water 
early in the morning. There is nothing 
to suggest, however, that any fatal results 
would follow the practice of giving a cow 
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