Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1717 
10 lbs- P 01 ’ cow? About how long 
will my feed last me? w. n. d. 
If you have 480 tons of silage you have 
a great sufficiency to feed your cows from 
*{5 to 40 lbs. per day through a portion 
of seven or nearly eight months. If you 
have 20 tons of the mixed feed and 10 
tons of bran on hand, together with a 
quantity of corn and cob meal and ground 
oats, figuring a minimum of 10 lbs. of 
grain per day, it will require approxi¬ 
mately six tons of grain per calendar month 
to feed the 40 cows. You do not state 
how much of the corn and cob meal you 
have available; but on this basis, and 
figuring through a seven-months’ period, 
you will require approximately 42 tons 
of feed. 
If you have 20 tons of mixed feed, 10 
tons of wheat bran and eight tons of corn 
anfi eob meal, six tons of oats and two 
tons of oilmeal, you would have quite 
enough grain to carry you through seven 
and possibly eight months. It would 
scarcely be necessary to feed as much 
wheat bran as you have indicated, and it 
might be well to replace some of the wheat 
hr an with oilmeal. There is nothing any 
better for mixing with the feed you men¬ 
tion than ground oats, bran and oilmeal, 
in about the proportions suggested. I 
should feed them all of the clover hay 
that they would clean up with relish, and 
allow them about 1 lb. of grain for each 
lbs. of milk produced per day. 
Feeding a Family Cow 
I have a grade Jersey about seven years 
old. I have mixed hay, can get cornmeal, 
bran, gluten feed, ground oats and man¬ 
gels. She is due to freshen next May; 
will let her go dry about the middle of 
March. How many mangels can be fed 
a day, and how near to freshening time 
can they be fed? I am feeding hay and 
green cornstalks. Grass does not amount 
to much now, so feed three quarts twice 
a day of equal parts bran, cornmeal and 
gluten feed. I only get eight quarts of 
milk a day, but she cleans out the grain 
so thoroughly that I think she needs more 
grain. H. o. p. 
Your Jersey cow now milking and ap¬ 
proaching the end of her lactation period 
is doing fairly well if she gives eight 
quarts of milk per day. It would be ap¬ 
propriate for you to increase slightly the 
grain ration, so that she would be getting 
1 lb. of grain daily for each 3% Ibe. of 
milk produced per day. From the list of 
available feed materials that you identify 
I should mix a ration in the following 
proportion: 50 lbs. ground oats. 20 lbs. 
wheat, bran, 40 lbs. gluten, 20 lbs. oilmeal, 
25 lbs. cornmeal or hominy. Let her have 
all of the mixed hay that she will clean 
up with relish, and feed her from 2.5 to 50 
lbs of the mangel beets per day, the same 
being supplied in two equal amounts 
morning and evening. 
If you find that increasing the amount 
of grain ration increases the milk flow 
you could supply feed as much as 10 or 
12 lbs. per day if the cow is giving as 
much as 26 or 40 lbs. 
You are quite right in plauuiug to give 
this cow a rest period. She should have 
at least eight and preferably 12 weeks, 
and during this time she should he fed 
some grain in order that she may come 
into her flow of milk at her next freshen¬ 
ing period carrying considerable flesh. 
Perhaps the best grain ration that you 
could use during this period consists of 20 
lbs. corn, 80 lbs. bran. 20 lbs. ground oats, 
10 lbs. oilmeal. This should be fed in 
quantities varying from 5 to 8 lbs. per 
day, depending upon the condition or 
amount of flesh that the animal is car¬ 
rying. Concerning your question as to 
how close to freshening time the mangel 
beets can be supplied, l should say that 
if you limit tin* amount to 10 lbs. per day 
during the dry period they could be sup¬ 
plied up to within a week of calving. The 
grain ration should be slightly reduced 
during this interval, and tin* beets could 
be continued if congestion did not evi¬ 
dence itself in the udder. 
Ration for Jerseys 
What kind of ration should I give my 
two Jersey cows, and also a heifer of 20 
months and two calves seven mouths old? 
I have oats, buckwheat and rye. If I 
ground it all up what shall I add to it for 
a proper ration? T have also good clover 
hay, mixed with Timothy. O. K. 
With the three home-grown produets, 
oats, buckwheat and rye, it would be nec¬ 
essary for you to purchase some protein- 
carrying concentrate in order to bring 
these materials into balance if they are 
intended to he fed to Jersey cows in milk. 
Rye is not very good grain to utilize in 
feeding cows. It is apt to hi* musty and 
not palatable; but if you have a consid- 
crahit' quantity of it on hand it could be 
used in the following grain ration : 400 
lbs. oats, 2(10 lbs. buckwheat middlings 
200 lbs. ground rye, 200 lbs. oilmeal, 200 
lbs. gluten, 200 lbs. buckwheat bran. Al¬ 
low the cows to have all the clover and 
mixed hay that they will consume with 
relish, and feed 1 lb. of the grain mixture 
daily for each 3% lbs. of milk produced 
per cow per day. 
Fur the 20 months old heifer and like¬ 
wise for tin* two calves I would utilize a 
mixture consisting of 20 lbs. ground oats, 
r” lbs. wheat bran, 10 llxs. ground rye, 20 
1 oilmeal and 20 lbs. gluten. If the 
Joiing calves do not take kindly to this 
grain ration, feed them a ration consist- 
mg of equal parts of oats, bran and wheat 
middlings, to which you will add 10 per 
” f of oilmeal or gluten meal 
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