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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 9, 1920 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Cow with No Pasture 
How should I feed a cow that has no 
pasture? We feed a ruined feed, but 
would like to mix our own feed for her. 
What mixture would be best when she 
comes in fresh this month? The hay is 
Alfalfa, Timothy and clover mixed, and 
corn fodder. She is in good condition and 
is not milking now but we want to feed 
to have good supply of milk when she is 
fresh. i. Ji. s. 
New Jersey. 
Your family cow that does not have ae- 
4 <its. milk and 6 qts. hay tea daily ; 5 qts. 
of the mixture to a meal, morning and 
night; besides I keep dry middlings and 
hay and water before her all the time. I 
have her on pasture and she seems to 
thrive very nicely. Am I feeding her 
right? L. c. 
New York. 
We would suggest that you continue 
the use of skim-milk and hay tea in the 
proportion you are using until the calf is 
at. least six months old. If skim-milk is 
abundant at that time you could continue 
Value of Clipped Oats 
1. Do you consider that unclipped oat s 
are not as good as clipped oats for feeding 
to chickens? 2. My man wants to chop 
up mixed clover hay, corn fodder and oat 
straw to feed to the horses this Winter. 
He wants to add a little salt and wishes 
to know if you think it would be a good 
idea to mix a little molasses with it. 
New York. i. f. 
1. The only reason why clipped oats 
are usually recommended as a scratch feed 
for chickens is due to the fact that there 
is a trifle more concentrate in them and 
that they will weigh a f 'w pounds more to 
the measured bushel. Whole wheat might 
be mixed with the oats and barley to ad¬ 
vantage ; likewise during the Winter 
months equal portions of cracked corn 
bushels of large cattle beets and 100 
bushels of parrots. I want a ration to 
feed before and after freshening. The 
cow will Leshen in February. g. e. r 
New York. 
You will get the best results in feeding 
your family cow if you will allow her 
all the clover hay and grain she will 
clean up with relish twice daily, and feed 
her a ration consisting of 5 lbs. of eorn- 
and-cob meal, 3 lbs. of oilmeal and 2 lbs. 
of ground oats. This mixture would do 
very well during the period when she is 
dry, and I should withhold the beets and 
carrots until she freshens, feeding her these 
after she comes to a flow of milk. The 
beets are more valuable than the carrots,as 
they contain more succulence and are more 
palatable.,, After she freshens I should 
feed her equal parts of cornmeal, ground 
oats and oilmeal, feeding 1 lb. of the 
grain for each 3% lbs. of milk produced 
per day. The beets or carrots should be 
distributed along so that she will have 
some during the entire Winter, and you 
could feed as much as 25 lbs. per day 
with safety. 
Pigs Without Milk 
Is there any profit in raising pigs if 
one has no milk for them? Is there grain 
or anything that one can plant in the 
Spring or during the Summer in which 
the pigs can be turned to pasture and 
thrive? m o 
Yates Co., N. Y. 
Success or failure in growing young 
pigs for market does not depend exclu¬ 
sively upon whether one has or has not 
skim-milk for such feeding. This con¬ 
tributes some protein usually so vital to 
young, growing animals, but there are 
substitutes that can be provided. How¬ 
ever. skim-milk would improve any ration 
for pigs that could be compounded. By¬ 
products from slaughter houses, such as 
meat meal or digester tankage, or residual 
products, such as oilmeal, or peanut meal, 
can be fed to provide protein, and used 
to supplement Such ordinary grains as 
corn. oats, rye or barley. Generally 
speaking, young pigs should be fed from 
five to 10 per cent of digester tankage. 
At the prevailing market prices tankage 
is expensive, but if it carries 50 or 60 
per cent of protein and can be purchased 
for five or six cents a pound, it is an 
economical supplement for ground oats 
or barley, even at this figure. 
As to forage suitable .for feeding pigs 
.the recommendation is oats, rape and 
clover, the proportion being a bushel of 
oats, 4 lbs. of rape and 6 lbs. of Mammoth 
nr Red clover. This mixture can be 
seeded early in tin* Spring on plowed 
land that has been provided with a fine 
seed bed. The various seeds should be 
mixed and broadcast, and the pigs can 
be turned in when the plants are six to 
eight inches high. This mixture will yield 
more green forage than any other combi¬ 
nation. with the possible exception of Al¬ 
falfa. It is possible to seed rye in the 
field for use as a forage during tin 1 early 
Spring, but its period of pasturing is rel¬ 
atively short as compared with the oats, 
rape and clover combination. 
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Grand Champion and Gold Medal by the State of Massachusetts for the Best Dairy Cow in the State. 
cess to pasture and is now dry should be 
given all of the roughage that she will 
clean up with relish, which might include 
Alfalfa and mixed hay that you have 
available; likewise the corn fodder could 
be used for this purpose. As a grain ra¬ 
tion. take equal parts of cornmeal. ground 
oats, wheat bran and oilmeal, and feed 
her from 5 to S lbs. of this mixture per 
day. Reduce the amount of grain fed 
during the week of parturition, adding 
some beet pulp and an additional amount 
of bran to lighten her ration and add to 
its succulence. 
After the congestion is out of the udder 
following calving you will find that the 
following grain mixture will give you de¬ 
sired results : Beet pulp. 50 lbs.: ground 
oats. 50 lbs.; gluten, 40 lbs.; oilmeal. 40 
lbs.; bran. 20 lbs. 
Feed from 7 to 12 lbs. of this grain 
mixture per day, depending upon the 
amount of milk produced. If the beet 
pulp could be moistened for 12 hours be¬ 
fore feeding you would add substantially 
to the succulence and palatability of the 
mixture. More heet pulp than suggested 
might be fed to advantage in case you do 
not have any mangels. 
Fattening Pig 
Can you give me a ration for a 70-lb. 
Chester White pig? I am feeding stock 
feed now as it. was all I could get at that 
time and the pig relished it so I gave it to 
him, scalded, three times a day. I have 
him in a pen 6x6 ft. as I am not fixed for 
anything better at present. i„. w. B. 
Connecticut. 
We are assuming that the 70-lb. pig is 
intended for fattening purposes, and 
would suggest that he be given all of the 
following grain ration that he will con¬ 
sume in two feedings, morning and night. 
The feed should be moistened to about the 
consistency of buttermilk and made into 
a thick slop. Care should be taken to 
make sure that the pig cleans up all of 
his feed with relish. The mixture is as 
follows: 100 lbs. of shelled corn or corn¬ 
meal, 30 lbs. of ground rye, 20 lbs. of 
ground oats. 150 lbs. of oilmeal. 10 lbs. of 
digester tankage. lie will consume from 
4 to 6 lbs. per day of the dry feed, and 
should be given all that he will clean up 
with l’elish if it is desired to make the 
most economical gains in the shortest pos¬ 
sible length of time. 
Feeding Dairy Calf 
feeding it. not to exceed S qts. per day, 
for the next three months, or until the 
calf was taking readily to the grain ra¬ 
tion and the roughage that is being sup¬ 
plied. 
Rather than use middlings alone I 
would suggest a mixture of ground oats, 
wheat middlings, with 15 per cent of oil¬ 
meal added to the combination. This 
mixture might be kept before the calf at 
all times, as she will not overeat. There 
is very little to be gained by pasturing 
calves under six months of age, for they 
must rely largely upon the nourishment 
supplied by the milk and grain. Make 
sure that she has access to Alfalfa or 
Clover hay, for the additional protein and 
ash that these products supply are very 
essential for normal growth and early 
maturity. 
After the milk is discontinued I should 
add some cornmeal to the mixture, and 
the combination at the end of nine months 
would be equal parts of ground corn, 
ground oats, wheat bran and oilmeal Four 
or 5 lbs. of this mixture could be fed to 
advantage at that age. 
could also be added to the scratch feed. 
2. There would be an advantage in add¬ 
ing some molasses to the chopped feed 
mixture intended for feeding idle horses 
during the Winter. Generally, speaking, 
molasses is equal in feeding value to 
cornmeal. and, when diluted with water 
and sprinkled over chopped feed of this 
sort, it increases the palatability of the 
mixture and likewise increases the carbo¬ 
hydrate or energizing units. I should 
limit the amount of molasses, however, so 
that you would not be feeding more than 
2 lbs. of the blackstrap molasses per ani¬ 
mal per day. It might be necessary to 
feed some corn or oats in addition to this 
mixture, the amount depending upon the 
amount of work that the horses would do, 
and the degree of flesh that they carried 
when going into Winter quarters. 
Feeding Family Cow 
Will you give me advice about feeding 
a cow for Winter? I shall have plenty 
of corn stover and clover hay for fodder. 
Which is better, corn ground with or 
without cob? I shall have about 15 
I have a heifer calf, Guernsey and Milking Shorthorn Coin Pansy Buttercup 237609. 
Ayrshire, two months old. Am feeding 
Born September 23, 191A. Second Prize Aged Coiv New England Fair, 
1920 
