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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
April 16, 1021 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Poor Milk Production 
I have a Jersey heifer, well grown, 10 
months old. which freshened recently. I 
kept calf on her three days and started 
to milk her. She gave three quarts, and 
has gradually come up to five quarts at 
a milking, or about 20 lbs. per day. Last 
three days has shown no increase. I 
started her on 2 lbs. ground oats, 2 lbs. 
bran and 1 lb. oilmen]; have gradually 
worked up to the following ration by 
i/, lb. per day increases: 3 lbs. ground 
oats, 2 lbs. bran, 2 lbs. oilmeal, % lb. 
cottonseed meal, 1 lb. cornmeal. 1 lb. 
! gluten. This is nearly 1 lb. grain for 
each 2 lbs. milk. For roughage all I 
have or can secure is baled Timothy hay 
and a very small allowance of popcorn 
stover per day; cannot secure beet pulp. 
Mv heifer has taken on a little flesh dur¬ 
ing the last few days. I would like to 
have her form the habit of “milking off 
more flesh.” She was in excellent con¬ 
dition when she freshened. J. G.v. 
Polk. Pa. 
Twenty pounds of milk per day is 
scarcely enough for a Jersey heifer to 
yield during the flush of her lactation 
period. Possibly she does not come from 
a high producing strain, anjl this may be 
the reason why you havi been disap¬ 
pointed in her production. The chances 
are that'she will come up in her yield 
when she is turned out to pasture, and 
again you might increase the flow by 
giving her an abundance of some leafy 
roughage that is more palatable and more 
nutritious. Timothy hay is ill suited for 
milk production. It is not only bulky 
ar.d high in fiber, but it is difficult to di¬ 
gest, and it frequently detracts from the 
digestibility of other feeds. The ration 
that you have been feeding ought to give 
good results. Possibly the use of some 
mixed feed that offered more variety 
would be more palatable, and moistened 
beet pulp or possibly some product yield¬ 
ing this produce would supply more suc¬ 
culence, which might be a limiting fac¬ 
tor. lleifers frequently fail to produce 
satisfactory yields during their first lac¬ 
tation period. Especially is this true it 
! they have a tendency to put on flesh 
shortly after calving. Much depends 
upon their ancestors and the milk-making 
functions which they inherit. Continue 
feeding considerable grain, even though 
the heifer may soon go out to grass, and 
the chances are that she will increase 
her flow of milk accordingly. If she fails 
to milk generously during this lactation 
period. I would dispose of her and secure 
another cow that would not be disap¬ 
pointing. 
Ration for Heifer 
1. What amount of grain should a 
heifer eight or 10 months of age, bred in 
January, receive per day up to the middle 
of April, ration being 100 lbs. cornmeal, 
100 lbs. bran. 100 lbs. oats? She also 
will receive 25 lbs. of silage per day, with 
clover hay. 2. From the middle of April 
ui> to the first week of May she will re¬ 
ceive no silage, but of the same ration, 
how much grain per day? 3. From the 
iirst. week of May up to October she will 
be on pasture. Should any grain be fed 
during the first three or four months? If 
so, how much, and as she will freshen in 
October, what amount of grain should 
she receive up to that time? M. E. c. 
Dalton, Fa. 
1. I should add 50 lbs. oilmeal to the 
proposed ration and feed the heifer from 
6 to 0 lbs. of grain per day, depending 
ulion her size, condition and breed. I 
like to see youngsters of this age carrying 
generous amounts of flesh, for they will 
lose some of it during the fly season, and 
they should be supplied with sufficient 
digestible nutrients to enable them to 
grow and develop normally. 
2. The chances are that you will not 
turn this heifer out to grass until the 
first week in May. In this instance I 
should feed her substantially the same 
amount of grain, increasing the amount 
of clover hay when the silage is discon¬ 
tinued. 
3. During the period that she has ac¬ 
cess to an abundance of pasture I should 
use a mixture consisting of five parts of 
corn aud two parts of cottonseed meal, 
and would continue feeding her about 
fl lbs. of grain per day. Along in Septem¬ 
ber I would! modify this ration so that 
it would consist of two parts of ground 
oats, two parts of bran and one part of 
oilmeal. I would continue this combina¬ 
tion up to the time of calving. After 
parturition I should allow her 4 or 5 lbs. 
a day of this mixture, provided she had 
access to abundant pasture. 
Inbreeding 
I have registered Jerseys of high qual¬ 
ity. One of my cows has dropped a bull 
calf sired by a Hood bull. Would I do 
any harm to keep this bull for service 
next year? I have only one half-sister 
and its mother related to this bull; the 
rest of my herd is not related. It would 
cost me $250 or more to replace him. 
Lockport, N. Y. a. c. ii. 
Under the conditions you have de¬ 
scribed I would certainly retain the Jer¬ 
sey bull calf for use as a service bull in 
your herd. While incestuous breeding is 
like a two-edged sword, I am inclined to 
believe that it would be justifiable in the 
present instance. Inbreeding, or in this 
instance incestuous breeding, has three 
very serious objections. In the first place 
it is very apt to result in diminution in 
s : ze, it is apt to weaken the constitutional 
vigor of progeny, and frequently impairs 
the breeding propensities of its victims. 
To obviate these possible disadvantages, 
it is important that animals mated in this 
way should be strong and vigorous, espe¬ 
cially well nourished and free from every 
evidence of decline or disease. Further¬ 
more, youngsters resulting from such mat¬ 
ing should be very well nourished during 
their initial growing period, and their 
vigor should be supported and maintained 
throughout their growing and developing 
period. 
On the other hand, close breeding has a 
number of advantages. It is believed that 
matings of this character are constructive, 
since they concentrate blood lines, unify 
type and fix with definiteness the desirable 
characteristics possessed in both parents. 
True enough, it frequently happens that 
the undesirable characteristics are inten¬ 
sified, and weaknesses frequently prevail. 
You realize, of course, that inbreeding 
should'not be carried on extensively in 
your herd, but where only one or two ani¬ 
mals are involved I am satisfied that your 
chances of improvement are more abund¬ 
ant than the danger of decadence. It. is 
important that bull calves be well grown 
and intelligently fed during their early 
career. An abundance of new or skim- 
milk is a requisite, and in addition let the 
youngster have easy access to a generous 
amount of Alfalfa or clover hay. lie will 
begin to nibble away at these choice feeds 
at a very early age, aud they contribute 
essential mineral elements absolutely re¬ 
quisite for normal growth and develop¬ 
ment. Excessive flesh is a disadvantage. 
It prompts inactivity, laziness and inapti¬ 
tude. and is a characteristic possession of 
infertile animals. Excessive service dur¬ 
ing immaturity most certainly incapaci¬ 
tates a herd sire for long and effective 
use in a breeding herd. However, if the 
youngster is well proportioned and well 
grown out during the first year and a half 
of his life, it is often possible for him to be 
continued in service over a long period 
of years. Unfortunately, herd bulls are 
so frequently cha;,^"wnd disposed of that 
the owner of a dairy herd is not permitted 
to do constructive work. This condition 
is popular owing to the fact that the 
owner desires to prevent incestuous mat¬ 
ing and cannot afford to keep several herd 
bulls. Someone has remarked that a good 
sire is half the herd, but an inferior one 
is the whole thing. I am inclined to 
share this belief. If it develops that the 
youngster in question has inherited the 
desirable qualities of his sire and dam and 
is able to evidence and perpetuate his 
prepotency, then it would be well to rec¬ 
ommend him to a neighbor after you have 
used him for three or four years in your 
herd and find that his daughters will pro¬ 
duce more milk during their first lactation 
period than their dams yielded in their 
third or fourth lactation periods. 
When Mark Twain was traveling in 
.ne West he stopped at a creamery to get 
a glass of buttermilk. “What do you do 
with all your buttermilk?” Mark asked. 
“Sell most of it.” “Down where I come 
from we feed it to the hogs,” said Mark. 
“Well, we do, too, sometimes,” replied the 
farmer. “Won’t you have some more?” 
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