The RURAL '.EW-YORKER 
341 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minklei 
Ration with Beet Pulp 
I have Holstein cattle; would like to 
know what would be the best ration for 
milk. I have fine hay, June grass and 
beet pulp for feed. c. R. S. 
New Hampshire. 
The roughage that you have available, 
namely. June grass, is not suited for feed¬ 
ing milk cows. We all know that this 
material is low in feeding value and par¬ 
ticularly low in digestibility. Much bet¬ 
ter results would follow the use of corn 
fodder, either cut or shredded, or if this 
is impossible feed whole corn fodder. 
Beet pulp is a carbohydrate carrier 
and similar in feeding value to cornmeal. 
It is more digestible than most carbohy¬ 
drate carriers and contributes the added 
quality of .succulence when moistened in 
rations containing this product. At pres¬ 
ent prices cornmeal is cheaper than beet 
pulp. A ration containing this product 
could be compounded by utilizing 150 lbs. 
beet pulp, 200 lbs. cornmeal. 200 lbs. 
cottonseed meal. 100 lbs. middlings, 100 
lbs. gluten, 60 lbs. oats, 40 lbs. oilmeal 
and 20 lbs. salt. There would be an ad¬ 
vantage from moistening the pulp 12 
hours before feeding, and you will find 
that 1 lb. of beet pulp will require 5 lbs. 
of water for complete saturation. By 
mixing the dry grain with the moistened 
beet pulp at the time of feeding, you will 
increase the palatability of the mixture. 
If it is impossible to obtain the gluten 
or the linseed meal at reasonable prices 
you could increase the amount of cotton¬ 
seed meal slightly. You are reminded, 
however, that any ration carrying ex¬ 
travagant amounts of cottonseed meal is 
very apt to lead one into trouble, par¬ 
ticularly if it is continued for any great 
length of time. Much would depend upon 
the available roughage. 
Beans for Hogs 
M 'll you tell me the feeding value of 
red chila beans for hogs? j. n. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
We do not know just what, you refer 
to as red chila beans. Possigly you mean 
the ordinary red horse hean that is fre¬ 
quently imported and oftentimes avail¬ 
able for use in feeding live stock. We 
had an interesting experience in the New 
Jersey Station several years ago. Find¬ 
ing that it yielded a relatively high per¬ 
centage of protein we felt that it might 
be used profitably in rations for growing 
and fattening pigs. There was no deny¬ 
ing of the fact that the protein was there 
all right, but it was another problem to 
get this necessary material inside of the 
pig; in other words, rations carrying 
even small amounts of ground horse bean 
meal were not palatable, and the pigs 
absolutely refused to eat their feed. We 
tried soaking the bean meal and resorted 
to several other practices, but without 
avail. Finally we cooked the bean meal 
and added some salt to the mixture. In 
this way we were able to mix it with 
cornmeal and molasses and disposed of 
the product by mixing the cooked material 
with corn and molasses in the proportions 
of 10 parts of corn, four parts of molasses 
and six parts of the cooked bean meal. 
We were not satisfied with the gains re¬ 
sulting from this mixture, and finally 
hauled the bean meal out on the field and 
used it as a fertilizer. If you have a 
quantity of th» same material I have 
sympathy rather than advice for you if 
you undertake to use it in a ration for 
pigs. 
Rye Bread for Hogs 
I have considerable rye bread on hand. 
Is it. a good feed for hogs? The bread is 
first soaked in water and later added to 
the cooked swill. I am feeding this bread 
to brood sows and young shotes I can 
buy th's rye bread at P/%c arid the mid¬ 
dlings at 214c and 2%o. Which is the 
cheaper and better to feed to the brood 
sows and shotes? The sows are due to 
farrow in March and April. e. j. 
New Jersey. 
Generally speaking refuse or stale bread 
has about one-half the feeding value of 
standard middlings or red-dog flour for 
use in feeding pigs. It serves, however, as 
an excellent supplement for hominy meal 
and cornmeal, provided from four to six 
per cent of digester tankage or from seven 
to 32 per cent of oilmeal is incorporated 
in the thick mash. There is nothing to 
he gained by feeding this product in a 
thin swill, for literally under such con¬ 
ditions a pig would starve to death on a 
full stomach. Young pigs at this age re¬ 
quire concentrated feed, and while the 
stale bread is more bulky than the red- 
dog flour it- serves a useful purpose when 
combined with corn and tankage, as sug¬ 
gested. For the brood sows due to far¬ 
row in March and April I should use 
largely clover and Alfalfa hay for rough- 
age. this to be supplemented with either 
ear corn and tankage or hominy meal, 
ground oats and tankage. I should not 
use very much of the stale rye bread or 
swill in feeding brood sows. The leaves of 
clover and Alfalfa hay are rich in pro¬ 
tein and ash. and supply the necessary 
nutriment for hone and muscle develop¬ 
ment. It is important that brood sows 
be kept gaining regularly during their 
gestation period, hence it is advised that 
they be given all of the legume hay that 
they will consume and sufficient grain in 
addition such as will enable them to gain 
from three-quarters of a pound to a pound 
per day. There is nothing like skim-milk 
or buttermilk to start the young pigs on 
their way' toward early maturity, and 
likewise it adds materially to the effi¬ 
ciency of a ration intended for brood sows. 
Not Enough Protein 
I have cornstalks, clover hay, cattle 
beets and corn. The cows are in fine 
condition, but do not produce as much 
milk as I think they should. T. G. R. 
New York. 
No doubt if you have been feeding the 
material mentioned, namely, cornstalks, 
clover hay, cattle beets and corn to your 
cows, they present a fine appearance, but 
there is one good reason why they have 
not produced satisfactory amounts of 
milk. It is due to the fact that you have 
failed to provide a complete ration. It 
would be impossible for a 'high-producing 
cow to obtain enough protein from clover 
hay alone to balance a ration consisting 
of cornmeal as a concentrate and corn¬ 
stalks as roughage. Better results would 
follow the use of a commercially com¬ 
pounded feed carrying from IS to 24 per 
cent protein, or if you would prefer to 
mix your own ration the following would 
give average results: 200 lbs. cornmeal, 
50 lbs. bran. 50 lbs. middlings, 150 lbs. 
gluten, 200 lbs. ground oats, 150 lbs. cot¬ 
tonseed meal, 100 lbs. buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings. SO lbs. linseed meal, 20 lbs. salt. 
Feed this grain in proportion to the 
daily production and allow the animals 
all of the cornstalks and clover hay that 
they will clean up with relish twice daily. 
New York Apples at Retail 
(Continued from page 331) 
do not push their fruit? Surely, with 
a little enterprising advertising they 
should not be obliged to be so generous 
with their fruit as to give it away or let 
it rot on the ground, which latter must 
be most disheartening. 
If I had read that statement elsewhere 
I might have said, like the Scotchman: 
“I hae me doots.” But in The It. N.-Y.. 
never—we take for gospel all we read 
therein. F. G. taylor. 
New Jersey. 
The statement was absolutely true, as 
hundreds of growers will testify. Our 
great trouble is not in production. We 
can handle that as individuals. Where 
we lose out is in unorganized distribu¬ 
tion. We need to get together and stand¬ 
ardize our fruits and sell them through an 
organization. The longer we delay doing 
this the stronger our organized competi¬ 
tors will become in our markets. 
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