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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 26, 1921 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Improving Pig Ration 
I am feeding a few pigs this ration : 100 
lbs. meal: 100 lbs. ground oats; 100 lbs. 
mixed feed; 50 lbs. oil meal. The ground 
oats and mixed feed are the same price. 
$2.20 per 100 lbs. The pigs weigh from 
30 to 75 lbs. Would it be best to feed 
the ones that will weigh 05 to 75 lbs. all 
meal? I want to get them to dress 125 
or so as soon as possible. R. M. 
Vermont. 
The ration that you are feeding to your 
young pigs ought to give you satisfactory 
results, especially if it is supplemented 
with buttermilk. You are reminded, how¬ 
ever. that young pigs weighing from 30 
to 75 lbs. cannot digest a ration carrying 
a high amount percentage of fiber, and it 
might be well to reduce in half the amount 
of ground oats, in view of the fact that 
you are including some mixed feed in the 
combination. Likewise you could reduce 
the oil meal to 25 lbs. instead of 50, since 
the buttermilk that you are providing 
will furnish a sufficient amount of in' 0 * 
tein. 
For the pigs -weighing as much as 75 
lbs. there would be an advantage in feed¬ 
ing them largely on cornmeal. with say 
five per cent of tankage or oil meal as a 
supplement. I should save the milk for 
the youngsters, for they will make better 
use of it (hiring their early growing pe¬ 
riod. You are quite right in your de¬ 
cision to dispose of these pigs as soon ns 
they reach a weight of 125 lbs. It costs 
quite as much to put the third 100 lbs. 
of weight on a fattening pig as it does 
to establish the first 200 lbs. Butchers 
prefer carcasses w eighing from 100 to 1 —.> 
lbs., and are willing to pay a premium 
for prime specimens of this weight. 
On the other hand, if you have oats 
that have 'been produced on the farm you 
could feed the pigs weighing from 75 to 
100 llis. a ration consisting of equal parts 
of corn, oats and the ready mixed feed 
that you have available. The chances 
are that the ready to feed ration contains 
considerable protein, especially il it is 
designed to be one of the so-called corn 
balancers. 
Various Livestock Questions 
1. What can be done to a cow which is a 
very hard milker? We have a small cow 
whose milk comes in a very tine stream. 
She seems to be in good health, and fresh¬ 
ened two months ago. 2. V ould it be 
economical to buy skim milk from a near¬ 
by creamery for 25c per hundred to feed 
to bogs and chickens? 3. W ould it pay 
to feed a dairy fee-l to cows when the 
price of milk is $2.25 per hundred for 3 
per cent milk? At present we are feed¬ 
ing shredded fodder and ground corncob. 
Delaware. J - ,! - 
1. There is nothing that can be done 
to make the cow in question* milk easier. 
Any attempt, to increase the size of the 
opening is likely to result iu infection 
and the final result will be more serious 
than the present condition. I would ad¬ 
vise the fattening and selling of the cow 
if this feature is very objectionable. 
2. Skimmilk at 25 cents per hundred 
would provide a very economical source of 
protein for both pigs and chicks. In fact, 
it lias been demonstrated repeatedly that 
there is no other material equal in value 
to skimmilk as a supplement for feeding 
stuffs generally available on the farm and 
intended for use with pigs or poultry. 
A ration consisting of corn and skimmilk 
is an ideal one for growing or fattening 
hogs. The presence of lactic acid in the 
skimmilk is particularly beneficial for 
young chicks and brooding liens. At the 
present low values of farm grains milk 
at this price would be very cheap. 
3. It certainly is desirable to feed a 
cow in milk something more than corn 
and cob meal and shredded corn fodder. 
Even though the price of milk seems rela¬ 
tively low you cannot afford to keep a 
dairy cow for milk production and deny 
her a well balanced ration. -My sugges¬ 
tion would be for you to go to a respon¬ 
sible feed merchant and ask him to sup¬ 
ply you with one of the best grades of 
compounded feed, one that could be sup¬ 
plemented with the corn and cob meal 
that you have available. It would be to 
your advantage to feed this cow in pro¬ 
portion to her daily production, allowing 
her approximately oue pound of grain for 
each three or four pounds of milk pro¬ 
duced per day. While shredded fodder 
makes a fairly satisfactory roughage, bet¬ 
ter results would follow the use of some 
clover or Alfalfa hay. In any instance 
allow the cow all of the roughage that 
she will clean up with relish twice daily. 
Defective Calf 
I have a well bred heifer calf which 
I would like to bring up and recently 
discovered she is minus one teat. 
New York. G. 0. r. 
You certainly could not afford to de¬ 
velop a lieifer calf that had any deform¬ 
ity of udder. Instances are reported, 
however, where one or more of the rudi- 
mentaries do not show evidence of devel¬ 
opment until the heifer is a year and a 
half or two years old. Tf you are posi¬ 
tive. however, that the deformity exists. T 
should fatten up the heifer and dispose of 
her for beef. 
Exercising Bulls 
Can you give me any information con¬ 
cerning the use of treadmills in exorcis¬ 
ing bulls? We have two herd bulls and 
cannot get the time to walk them enough 
every day to give them the exercise they 
should have. J. A. R. 
New York. 
In theory it is all very nice to provide 
treadmills intended for exercising service 
bulls. In practice, however, it seldom 
works out or solves the problem in hand. 
The so-called treadmills might be com¬ 
pared to a new toy, for it is seldom that 
their use, when once installed, is regu¬ 
larly taken advantage of. I prefer the 
use of paddocks rather than treadmills. 
In case the bulls have been dehorned they 
can be put together in paddocks and 
usually they will take sufficient amount of 
exercise. I do not mean by this that 
strange bulls can be turned in together, 
but rather that it is good practice where 
youngsters are brought up together to ex¬ 
ercise them in this manner. Oue common 
fault in the management of bulls is to 
feed them heavily on coarse feeds, which 
makes them lazy, paunchy and inactive. 
Furthermore, since they are good feeders 
they are apt to he overfed on grain, the 
result of which is an inactive, unservice¬ 
able animal. 
Feeding Holstein Herd 
T have a dairy of 24 large Holstein 
cows, all extra good milkers. Ten of them 
have freshened through December and up 
to present time; eight more to freshen 
soon. 1 am feeding all the green oats 
they will clean up mornings, oats cut in 
the milk 'and extra fine quality. At noon 
I give them about «'* lbs. each of feed 
mixed as follows: 200 lbs. cornmeal. 100 
lbs. gluten. 100 lbs. oilmoal. 300 lbs. bran. 
50 lbs. cottonseed, with about 12 lbs. salt. 
About 4.30 1*. M. we feed all the good 
Timothy and clover-mixed hay they will 
clean up. After milking, or about 0.30. 
we give the milk cows about 0 lbs. more 
of flic same feed. I am getting about 
325 lbs. of milk a day. I have water iu 
front of cows at all times. Is this a 
good ration for milk and the benefit of 
my cows? R- B - C. 
The ration that you are feeding your 
Holstein cows ought to give satisfactory 
results. I would suggest, however, that 
you add 200 lbs. of ground oats and in¬ 
crease the cottonseed meal from 50 lbs. 
to 150 lbs. I am -assuming that you are 
using gluten meal rather than gluten 
feed ; likewise that you are using the best 
grade of cottonseed meal, namely, that 
yielding 43 per cent of protein. In case 
there is a generous amount of clover in 
your mixed ration it would be possible 
to reduce materially the amount of bran 
incorporated in the grain mixture. I take 
it that you are feeding this grain in pro¬ 
portion to the daily production of milk 
and that you are allowing the cows all of 
the roughage that they will clean up with 
relish ouce or twice daily. Sheaf oats 
may take the place of the ground oats, as 
suggested, but in any event I should in¬ 
crease the amount of cottonseed meal. 
For the dry cows I should u.se a ration 
consisting of equal parte of common r . 
ground oats, white bran and oilmoal. 
This, in my judgment, is an ideal com¬ 
bination for cows uot in milk, especially 
if it is supplemented with an abundance 
of leafy roughage. 
