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Feed doesn’t change 
your cow’s requirement 
Your cow must have a certain amount of protein and heat 
and energy food. Her requirement does not change when 
you feed ensilage, as roughage, which is low in protein 
compared with heat and energy food, or clover hay which 
is high in protein compared with heat and energy food. 
It is plain, therefore, that the grain feed must be selected 
to supply what the roughage lacks and that it must be 
changed when the roughage changes in order to maintain 
the nutritive requirement of your cow. 
It is plain too, that any one feed cannot form a bal¬ 
anced ration with more than one group of roughage, and 
necessitates a feed to fit each group. 
To maintain the uniformity required by your cows, 
and utilize all classes of roughage, 
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a change from one roughage to another can be made, without affect¬ 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Dairy Rations 
You sent me recently a ration for my 
Guernsey cow as follows: oO lbs. corn- 
meal. 50 lbs. oats. 40 lbs. bran. 30 lbs. 
oilmeal, 40 lbs. gluten. Would corn and 
cob meal do. or should I shell my corn 
before having it ground; May I have 
you advice about the feeding of my 
heifer? She is part Jersey and part 
Ayrshire, two years and eight months old. 
She calved July 1. and gave about 18 lbs. 
milk when fresh. Now, after six months 
milking, she is giving 12% lbs. She .is 
a small cow, weighing about 5oO lbs. 
(estimated). I do not think that I ga’ve 
her enough protein during the years be¬ 
fore she calved to allow for proper de¬ 
velopment. I should like to give her a 
ration which would allow her to make 
further growth herself, to continue her 
flow of milk, and to give nourishment to 
the expected calf. For roughage T have 
mixed hay (mostly witch grass) and corn 
fodder. I am giving some beet pulp. 
Framingham, Mass. j.ii.c. 
The combination of grains intended as 
a' ration for your Guersey cow. consist¬ 
ing of cornmeal, oats, bran, oilmeal and 
gluten, recently suggested, will be equally 
as efficient if corn and cob meal is used. 
In fact, there would be no advantage in 
shelling the corn and grinding the shelled 
corn. > 
Your Jersey heifer was evidently under¬ 
fed during her early growing period, and 
particularly during her first lactation 
period. It is doubtful whether you will 
be able to obtain desired results until the 
heifer goes into her next dry period. It 
would seem appropriate, therefore, to 
suggest that the heifer he permitted to go 
dry at a relatively early date, and that 
an. effort be made to stimulate growth arid 
development during such period. A suit- 
1 able ration for such use would result 
from mixing together the following: 50 
lbs. corn and cob meal. 50 lbs. ground 
oats. 50 lbs. wheat bran. 40 lbs. oilmeal, 
40 lbs. gluten feed meal. 50 lbs. beet pulp. 
40 lbs. cottonseed meal, 5 lbs. salt. Feed 
this in conjunction with Alfalfa or clover 
hay, taking particular pains to supply all 
the roughage that she will dean up with 
relish. After the cow goes dry. the ra¬ 
tion might be simplified and reduced to 
a straight combination of 50 lbs. corn 
and cob meal. 30 lbs. wheat bran. 50 lbs. 
ground oats, 10 lbs. oilmeal and 2 lbs. 
salt. Here again it is important during 
this growing period to feed her a generous 
amount of legume hay, in order that she 
may he abundantly supplied with the 
necessary ash and hone-forming materials. 
Where silage is not available, it is well 
t > utilize beet pulp. 
Cows Hold Up Milk 
I have 40 head of stock, of which 15, 
five Holstein and 10 Jerseys, are fresh. 
The barn is clean and comfortably warm, 
with no drafts; sprayed with disinfect¬ 
ant. and the cows are cleaned every day. 
I use a milking machine, which is kept in 
perfect sanitary condition. I am feeding 
mixed hay, Timothy and Alfalfa, all the 
cows will dean up. twice a day, oue 
ounce of salt each per day and all the 
wafer they will drink twice a day. The 
dry feed is a mixture of 200 lbs. gluten, 
I 200 lbs. wheat feed. 150 lbs. hominy, 50 
lbs. cottonseed meal, allowing 1 lb. for each. 
3 lbs. of milk produced. With this each 
cow gets 1 lb. of beet pulp, dry weight, 
soaked 12 hours, anti oilmeal as needed. 
Still some of the cows are holding part 
of their milk. None of the cows has 
been fresh over 50 days, and they are 
never abused. Can you give me any rea¬ 
son or cure for this, and also suggest a 
grain ration if mine is not right? I can 
buv anv kind of feed hero. c. B. S. 
Delhi, N. Y. 
The condition that you described is 
frequently encountered where milking ma¬ 
chines are in use; particularly it is rep¬ 
resentative of a condition frequently re¬ 
ported where cows previously milked by 
liaud are switched over to milking ma¬ 
chines. It is my observation that the best 
results have followed the use of the milk¬ 
ing machine from the very outset of u 
heifer’s first freshening period. 
There are two or three suggestions that 
might help solve your problem. The first 
one is that the cows be fed just previous 
to milking, in which event there might be 
less holding up of the milk. Personally. 
I do not like this practice, and^ much 
prefer to milk the cows first and let them 
he fed following milking. The other sug¬ 
gestion concerns a modification in the 
grain ration you are feeding. It not only 
lacks variety, but it lacks hulk and pro¬ 
tein. In fact, it is my judgment that the 
proteins already available do not come 
from sufficiently variable sources. The 
following combination will, no doubt, give 
you better results: 200 lbs. hominy, 20o 
lbs. ground oats. 200 lbs. gluten. 100 lbs. 
wheat bran. 100 lbs. cottonseed meal. 25 
lbs. bone meal and 15 lbs. kalt. Feed this in 
conjunction with Alfalfa or mixed hay. 
and in the absence of silage I would sup¬ 
plement it still further with beet pulp. 
Since you have obtained satisfactory re¬ 
sults from the use of a commercially 
mixed ration, your problem might he 
solved through the addition of some corn- 
meal. oats and oilmeal with the mixed 
feed. It is important that cows be milked 
regularly every day at nearly the same 
hour, and, of course, the best results will 
not follow any system that does not in¬ 
volve’the stripping out of the cows after 
the milk is drawn by means of the milk¬ 
ing machine. 
Protein Ration 
Is the grain (tag for which I am en¬ 
closing) too rich in protein? I have been 
feeding 8 lbs. per day to cows giving 50 
lbs. of milk. I notice the rations advised 
in The R. N.-Y. are lower in protein than 
this grain. I am feeding corn fodder, 
uncut, morning, and mixed hay ut night. 
I have no silo. f. E. H. 
Norwich, Conn. 
The compounded feed referred to sched¬ 
ules 24 per cent of protein and 10 per 
cent of fiber. This is not an excessive 
amount of protein, especially for cows 
that are producing 15 quarts of milk per 
day. There are dairymen, however, who 
prefer to use combinations carrying a 
small percentage of protein, oue that 
would yield perhaps a high percentage of 
total digestible nutrients. Results are 
the things that determine successful prac¬ 
tices. As a general rule, many dairy 
farmers have low-producing cows, and 
can ill afford the extravagant amounts of 
protein commonly advised. It is impor¬ 
tant to remember that protein is oul.y one 
of the factors embodied in a dairy ration 
for milk cows; that after all it is a ques¬ 
tion of energy value or the total amount 
of digestible material that is available for 
milk production after maintenance re¬ 
quirements have been satisfied. Since 
the price yf corn is relatively low at t-he 
present time, it might he to your advan¬ 
tage to add some of this carbohydrate 
carrier to the present combination and 
compare results. If your cows maintain 
a satisfactory degree of flesh and finish as 
a result of the ration you are now feed¬ 
ing. and provided further you are not 
experiencing any udder trouble, the 
chances are that your ration is complete. 
Popcorn for Cows 
I wish a ration for four grade Jersey 
cows. I am able to obtain popcorn; that 
is, corn that has been popped and remains 
unsold that day, and,the corn that does 
not pop. I have ice cream cones, broken 
in the making. They are made of No. 2 
wheat flour, sugar and a little lard and 
water. To 100 lbs. of flour they use 
about 25 lbs. of sugar. The popcorn and 
cones cost nothing but the freight. The 
cows are very fond of these cones and the 
popcorn. What other graius should 1 mix 
with the cones and popcorn to make a 
balanced ration? I have been feeding 
bran and oilmeal with them. a. l. t. 
Ohio. 
Surely you have suggested a rare com¬ 
bination, and we are wondering k~ you are 
not feeding aristocratic cows. I doubt 
whether even a cow could obtain very 
much nutriment from stale popcorn. The 
grains that have refused to pop ought to 
he ground if it is desired to utilize them 
to the best advantage. The refuse from 
the ice cream cones would provide some 
bulk, and since they are palatable might 
serve a. useful purpose. I should make 
sure, however, that I added these to a 
basis ration, rather than utilize these two 
products as the main grain ration. I 
would suggest the following combined 
mixture: 300 lbs. of ground popcorn. 200 
lbs. cones. 200 lbs. ground oats. 300 lbs. 
cottonseed. 100*lbs. bran. In addition I 
should make sure that they got some suc¬ 
culence. aud all of the legume hay that 
they would clean up with relask, 
