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1ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
TCHE READY-CATION FOR DAIRY COW, 
DEALERS: Larro j3 
sold on a basis which 
means constantly in¬ 
creasing sales for you. 
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Larro Brings Prosperity 
to the Dairy Farm 
The dairymen who feed Larro are unusually successful because they 
are operating on a certainty . 
There is no chance involved in feeding Larro because the Larro 
guarantee reproduced below means just what it says—you get more 
milk or you get your money back. 
This is the same guarantee of more milk which has stood back of Larro for seven 
years. To the man who is not yet a Larro user it is an absolute promise of better 
results from his cows—to the veteran Larro user it is double assurance that Larro 
today is the same as it was in the beginning—that its quality will never be 
changed. 
If Your Local Dealer Does Not Carry 
Larro Get in Touch With Us at Once 
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F lies Cut Down Milk Yield 
iThere’s no doubt about it. Flies don’t just torment and 
vworry the cows, but they cut down the milk yield and cut 
'into the profits. They make life miserable, too, for those 
^who milk the cows. 
And there’s no doubt about this either. The one way to get rid of 
flies at milking time —and the sure way to get more milk —is to use 
Pratts Fly Chaser 
Spray it on just before milking. PRATTS does not taint the 
milk. PRATTS does not burn or blister the hide. PRATTS 
does not take off or gum the hair. 
Give your cows a chance to give more milk. Give your work 
animals a chance to get their rest. Give PRATTS a trial. 
“ Your Money Back If You Are Not Satisfied ” 
PRATT FOOD COMPANY 
PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO TORONTO 
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August 14, 1920 
Green Rye for Cows 
(Continued from page 1332) 
stopped feeding the rye, and it took a 
few weeks before these cows got back to 
their normal flow of milk again. Early 
last Fall I had a similar experience, only 
in this ease I cut green corn fodder, but 
the more green fodder I fed the less milk 
I got. I asked our local veterinarian, 
and he told me that was just what I could 
expect, as there was too much potassium 
in both to give best results. ir. k. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is true that green rye does not afford 
a very satisfactory soiling crop for dairy 
cows. As you well know, it grows very 
rapidly during the Spring and it is in its 
prime, so far as feeding is concerned, only 
a very few days. If it is cut and fed 
when green it is very washy, and will 
cause irregularities in the digestive sys¬ 
tem ; and when it becomes dry, hard and 
woody it is indigestible and unpalatable, 
and the animals will not eat a sufficient 
amount of it to produce satisfactory re¬ 
sults. In its mature stage it is very in¬ 
digestible, and this, rather than the fact 
that it contains an excess of potassium, 
is responsible for the decrease in milk 
that you experienced. 
So far as the green, corn fodder is con¬ 
cerned, the chances are that you fed this 
excessively at the outset and deranged 
the digestive system. The poor results 
can be explained, perhaps, by the fact 
that you did not take sufficient time to 
accustom them to the change in ration. 
Green corn makes an excellent feed; but 
here again if it is fed too green it is 
rather laxative, and the animals must be 
gradually accustomed to its use. While 
it is true that the chemical composition 
of a growing crop varies very materially 
as the ripening stage advances, the facts 
nevertheless do not warrant the state¬ 
ment that the low feeding value is due 
to the fact that they contain an excess 
of potassium. One cannot recommend 
rye as a soiling crop for cows. In fact, 
green rye has very little value, and it is 
well-nigh worthless when fed in the sheaf 
stage. Excellent results will be obtained, 
however, from the use of corn fodder if 
it is intelligently fed. and provided the 
animals are gradually accustomed to v its 
use. 
Unproductive Cows 
Our 14 registered Jersey cows are not 
now producing or breeding as they should. 
These cows have access to an abundant 
pasturage of meadow grass in which, how¬ 
ever, there is very little clover and I do 
not believe the grass is very nutritious. 
We have as a food basis an abundant 
supply of corn, but nothing else and I am 
anxious to obtain a formula for Summer 
and I have been wondering how it would 
work out to use the corn with some 
ground Alfalfa as a basis for Summer 
food to supplement the meadow hay. For 
Summer food we are using at present 
three parts of bran, two parts of oats, but 
with oats at $1.05 a bushel, the price 
constantly going up, this is rather an ex¬ 
pensive luxury and I have been wonder¬ 
ing whether some equally advantageous 
project could not be substituted for the 
oats. 
The cows, if anything, are overfed and 
it has occurred to me that probably an 
oat diet could be dispensed with under 
the present conditions. w. H. E. 
Pennsylvania. 
It would not be feasible to rely ex¬ 
clusively upon the Alfalfa to provide the 
necessary protein for your 14 Jersey cows 
t hat appear to he run down iii flesh at the 
present time. It is seldom that one can 
expect animals to get much nourishment 
from poor pasture during July and Au¬ 
gust; hence, if I had an abundance of 
cornmeal. rather than buy Alfalfa meal, 
I should get some gluten meal and feed 
my cows a ration of equal parts of coru- 
meal and gluten meal and supply them 
as much as one pound of this grain ra¬ 
tion for each three or four lbs. of milk 
produced per day. If the pasture were 
poor, as you have indicated, then I would 
feed some Alfalfa or clover hay in addi¬ 
tion to the pasture, and I am sure that 
this combination of feeds would give the 
best results. 
I am not convinced that it ever pays 
to grind Alfalfa for dairy cows. While 
we are led to believe that a pound of 
Alfalfa meal is equal in feeding value to 
a pound of bran. I am satisfied that Al¬ 
falfa or clover hay fed as roughage has 
every advantage of the ground Alfalfa, 
and it can be secured in the bale much 
more economically than it can be pur¬ 
chased in the bag. Cornmeal and gluten 
meal make an excellent combination, and 
while there would be some advantage 
in lightening up this mixture by the ad¬ 
dition of oats or wheat bran, it is not 
essential when the cows have access to 
pasture with the resulting laxativeness 
that, tlie grass affords. I am sure that 
this combination will serve your pur¬ 
pose and it ought to carry you along 
very well until Fall when the variety 
should be increased and some provision 
made to supply succulence. 
