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•Pre RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 8, 1920 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Would you suggest a proper ration 
for a grade Holstein heifer with second 
calf and just fresh, milking about 35 lbs. 
a day? Roughage consists of first and 
second crop Timothy hay and cornstalks. 
I have mangels to give 5 to 10 lbs. a day 
for few months. Grain is priced as fol¬ 
lows: Gluten. $3.70; cottonseed. $4.30: 
yeast grains. $3.50; cornmeal, $3.50; 
ground oats, $3.25; hominy. $3.30; bran, 
$2.00. c. F. N. 
Wycombe. Pa. 
While you are fortunate in having 
some mangels to feed your grade Holstein 
heifer she will fail to obtain very much 
actual nutrition from as small a quantity 
as 5 or 10 lbs. per day. Of course, this 
small quantity will put an edge on her 
appetite and provide succulence that is 
very essential for milch cows. Timothy 
hay offers a very poor argument when in¬ 
tended to establish milk production. The 
second cutting would be better than the 
first, for the chances are that this might 
contain some clover. Based upon the 
prices you have quoted. I would mix the 
grain ration as follows: 30 lbs. of yeast 
grains. 50 lbs. of hominy, 25 lbs. of lin¬ 
seed meal, 15 lbs. of gluten. 25 lbs. of 
ground oats, 10 lbs. of bran. 
If she is yielding 35 pounds of milk a 
day I would feed her from 10 to 12 lbs. 
of this mixture. If your mangel beets do 
not hold out, I would secure some beet 
pulp and saturate with molasses water. 
If you will communicate with some whole¬ 
sale dealer in Philadelphia you will be 
able to buy a barrel of blackstrap molas¬ 
ses at a reasonable cost, and this will add 
succulence to your ration and establish 
a condition in your heifer that will be 
pleasing and attractive, and likewise en¬ 
able her to yield perhaps an increased 
flow of milk. 
Shrink in Milk 
We have on our place 13 cows, I-Iol- 
stein-Friesian, Holstein grades and two 
Jersey grades. From the first of Septem¬ 
ber nine of them freshened before Dec. 4. 
They had been fair cows and considered 
profitable for the present season. The feed, 
silage, etc., was in, stock and all bade fair 
Oct. 1 for a good season’s milking. Oct. 
12 the stock well, which has always been 
good and sufficient, was pumped dry by a 
near-by city’s pumping station near us. 
It has destroyed the wells on a dozen or 
more farms about us. so we knew it would 
be our turn and had tried to provide a 
well for emergency use in a place near 
the house. The cattle had had free ac¬ 
cess to water to which they were accus¬ 
tomed and were doing well in milk, of 
course increasing steadily in flow as each 
additional cow freshened After they 
were obliged to come to the house well for 
water, only twice a day, as it was neces¬ 
sary to herd them there, they fell away in 
milk rapidly. The water was cold, sandy 
and strong of sulphur and iron. They 
did not drink freely of it and. of course, 
did not eat well. The milk supply dropped 
off a third in the herd in just a few days, 
and one of the young cows that had been 
of good promise with her first calf went 
dry soon after the water supply was 
changed. We felt that for the 54 days 
(Oct. 12-Dec. 4) we got rather less than 
two-thirds of our normal supply. Could 
those cows by proper care and feed be 
brought back profitably to a full season’s 
flow of milk? • M. A. w. 
Michigan. 
As a rule, in such cases, lush green 
grass in Spring is the only feed that with 
certainty brings back a full flow of milk. 
When the time before grass is available 
extends to several months, changes of re¬ 
stored yield become poor. Some improve¬ 
ment may result if you feed warm, sloppy 
mashes of mixed meals, cut hay. pulped 
roots and blackstrap molasses, but cows 
should gradually be accustomed to such 
food. Roots or good silage will do fairly 
well. A somewhat loose condition of the 
bowels must be maintained, therefore, 
bran and oilmeal should be freely fed. 
Cleaning Stable; Feeding Pigs; Family 
Pig 
1. It being so cold in my henhouse last i 
Winter it was necessary to keep the hens ! 
in the barn, where I had kept a cow. I 
What would be your advice as to clean¬ 
ing in order to put a cow back in this 
place again? 2. I am going to purchase 
three pigs, eight weeks old. What would 
you feed, and when can I feed green 
stuff? 3. In buying a family cow what 
would you advise in regard to kind and 
age? I have a Jersey seven years old. 
Portland, N. Y. G. F. w. 
1. If this stable is well broom-cleaned 
and the interior is then whitewashed, it 
should be in suitable condition for use 
as a cow stable again. If additional pre¬ 
caution against lice is desired, the in¬ 
terior may be sprayed with a solution of 
one of the coal tar disinfectants to be 
purchased at any drug or general supply 
6tore. 
2. There is nothing else equal to skim- 
milk for young pigs when it can be had 
in sufficient quantity for their needs. 
Lacking this, or in addition to a limited 
amount of it. a slop made from ground 
grains may be used. Red dog flour and 
flour wheat middlings are commonly used 
to make a slop with skim-milk and water 
or water alone for weaned pigs. The 
following mixture is recommended by the 
Wisconsin Experiment Station for pigs 
from weaning time up to the period when 
they are to be prepared for fattening by 
an additional amount of corn: 32 lbs. 
each of cornmeal. wheat middlings and 
ground oats, to which mixture 4 lbs. oil- 
meal should be added. Flour wheat mid¬ 
dlings, not the modern kind, composed 
simply of reground bran, should be used. 
3. I can think of nothing more desir¬ 
able in the way of a family cow than a 
good Jersey seven years of age. A 
younger cow would, of course, last 
longer, but in what you have, you have 
about reached the pinnacle of family cow 
excellence. It only remains to secure a 
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Preventing Milk Fever 
On page 273 W. F. A. says not to 
give a cow any grain for 10 days after 
calving. Do you consider this correct? 
I have always given my cows light bran 
mashes, just bran and hot water after 
calving, and have had no ill effects from 
it. A Swedish farmer near me told me 
to give a cow one quart of rye steeped 
in hot water for several hours imme¬ 
diately after calving. He said he always 
did and never had a case of milk fever. 
What do you think abo t it. f. h. f. 
Minnesota. 
It is unnecessary to deprive a cow of 
all grain or meals for 10 days after 
calving, but during that time she should 
be lightly fed a laxative ration and 
should be protected against chilling. Rye 
will not prevent milk fever. The impor¬ 
tant thing in that.connection is not to 
milk, a cow out clean for three or four 
days after calving, or to let the calf 
suck. The disease also will be less lia¬ 
ble to happen if the cow is “dried off”, 
fed a light laxative ration and made to 
take outdoor exercise daily for six weeks 
or more before calving. Hot, badly ven¬ 
tilated stables also should be avoided. 
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