1524 
IA« RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 25, 1920 
Honor and 
100 LbS. 
unicorn 
MIRV RAT] 
TRADE 
CUARANTEED ANALYSIS 
PROTEIN 24% FAT 45 % 
CARBOHYDRATES 50% FIBRE 10% 
BCFD. BY 
CHAPIN & CO. 
HAMMOND, INI 
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Profit for Mr* Dayett 
We have said that a large number of 
leaders in cow testing associations are 
Unicorn users* 
j* Irvin Dayett is one of these* He is 
a member of the Diamond State Cow 
Testing Association of Delaware* 
For the year ending August 1, 1920, 
his herd stood first in average yield of 
both milk and fat for less than ten cows: 
Milk.12,271*0 lbs. 
Fat .*.... 416.4 lbs. 
Average profit per cow, $186.63 
His herd contained the champion 
producers of both milk and fat: 
Milk Fat 
Cow No. 7 * * 15,101 488.2 
Cow No. 9 . . 13,691 519.1 
Mr* Dayett feeds Unicorn and gives 
it much credit for his success. Credit 
is equally due to his good cows and to 
his skill in feeding* 
From the annual report of the Asso 
ciation we copy the following: 
“The question of whether or not it pays 
to feed cows heavily when the price of 
grain is so high has been answered 
through this year’s work . In every 
case where heavy feeding has been 
practiced a good profit has resulted” 
It pays to feed Unicorn to your cows. 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Grain with Pasture 
I wish a balanced grain ration for my 
dairy. I have cottonseed and oilmeal on 
hand, and would like to use all that is 
possible of these in the ration. Can buy 
gluten feed, bran, middlings, cornmeal 
and sometimes can get hominy meal. My 
cows are on pasture, which is not very 
good at present, and) am feeding after¬ 
growth of clover, green, once a day. and 
Timothy hay once a day. b. p. 
Perhaps the most satisfactory ration 
that you can feed to your dairy cows on 
pasture, would consist of equal parts of 
cornmeal, oil meal, gluten meal, and 
ground oats. As soon as they are 
brought in from pasture your ration 
should be modified, and. assuming that all 
of the grains are purchased aud that you 
do not. have silage, the following combina¬ 
tion would prove .useful: 300 lbs. of cot¬ 
tonseed ; 300 lbs. of oil meal; 400 lbs. of 
hominy; 400 lbs. of oats; 200 lbs. of bran. 
If hominy is lees expensive than corn¬ 
meal it could be substituted pound for 
pound for this material, and if gluten is 
less expensive than oil meal it could re¬ 
place this product. However, since you 
have cornmeal and cottonseed meal on 
band, you will fiud it perhaps less ex¬ 
pensive than any other protein feeds that 
are available. Timothy hay is not very 
well suited for feeding milk cows on ac¬ 
count of its coarseness and low digesti¬ 
bility, and you would get much better re¬ 
sults from the use of mixed hay or al¬ 
falfa hay. I would not include any mid¬ 
dlings intended for milch cows. 
Feeding Brood Sows 
Will you tell me what to feed Duroc- 
Jersey brood sows due to farrow in Sep¬ 
tember? One probably weighs around 
400 pounds. One breeder feeds middlings, 
ground oats and bran in equal parts in a 
slop at noon, but he does not say how 
many quarts to feed. Would yoii feed 
one quart of each in the thick slop or 
more or less to her? This party feeds 
three or four ears of corn morning and 
night. I have left from last year’s crop 
about two tons corn, and after thrashing 
will have 200 or more bushels rye and 
new corn in the Fall. Would my farm 
horses do well on equal parts corn and 
rye, with or without oats? o. b. 
We are assuming that your Duroc- 
Jersey bred sows are in good flesh and 
that they weigh in the neighborhood of 
400 pounds each. Under such conditions 
a mixture of equal parts of corn, mid¬ 
dlings and oats, with five per cent of 
meat meal or digester tankage, would 
make a useful combination. I should not 
include any of the rye in this mixture 
intended for broods sows previous to the 
date of farrowing. After the pigs are 
10 days or two weeks old the brood sows 
can be fed considerable rye; in fact, it 
can constitute as much as 40 per cent of 
the ration. They may ho fed their grain 
in two feedings morning and night, and 
the 400-pound sow should be fed six 
pounds, of grain daily, three pounds of 
this mixture twice daily. The material 
should be mixed and moistened to the 
consistency of buttermilk. In addition, 
the sows should be given plenty of fresh 
water, so that they may have access to 
it at all times. If you have some ear 
corn you could reduce the amount of 
mixed feed fully one-half, and give the 
brood sows one feeding of mixed feed and 
one feeding of ear corn daily. It is im¬ 
portant that brood sows should gain from 
a pound to pounds a day during the 
period previous to farrowing, aud this 
enables them to produce more milk for 
the pigs after they require it, and they 
will not lose flesh so rapidly during the 
nursing season. 
Concerning the feeding of work horses, 
a mixture consisting of equal parts of 
corn, rye aud oats would be acceptable. 
It lias been demonstrated many times 
that rye is ill suited for feeding work 
horses. A mixture of five parts of oats, 
three parts of corn aud two parts of 
bran would be more palatable and would 
give you better results. The rye is best 
suited for feeding market pigs. Of course 
during the Winter months the grain ra¬ 
tion for horses can he materially reduced 
and the amount of roughage substantially 
increased. Timothy hay or oat and pea 
liay is perhaps best suited for supi lying 
roughage for work horses. 
