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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 7, 1921 
How Much Would Perfection Save You? 
Tl/TANY Perfection owners 
1 A save enough in a year to 
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cows. Most owners save enough 
on wages in less than a year 
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One man with a Perfection 
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you can easily milk 24 to 30 
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men do you use in milking 
and what’s your hourly aver¬ 
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figure out the time and wages 
Perfection would save you in 
a year. Worth while isn’t it? 
You are paying for a Perfection 
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Best of all, cows like the 
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flow in their herds. Cows can’t 
distinguish the natural and 
gentle actions of the Perfec¬ 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Poor Roughage 
I have six cows ami am feeding them 
•Tune grass and the following grain ra¬ 
tion : 200 lbs. cornmeal, 200 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed. 150 lbs. gluten, 150 lbs. oats. 50 lbs. 
bran. 50 lbs. middlings. 50 lbs. oilmeal. 
25 lbs. salt. Is this all right, and how 
much should I feed per pound of milk? 
Would you advise feeding the grain to 
cows before they freshen ? A. N. 
.Tune grass is a very undesirable rough¬ 
age to use in feeding milk cows. While 
the only difference between .Tune pasture 
and Juno grass hay as far as wo know is 
water, it is needless to say that the real 
difference is .appreciated when one com¬ 
pares the production of milk that the cow 
yields on .Tune pasture with that resulting 
when Red-top hay supplies the roughage. 
Therefore, if it is possible for you to ob¬ 
tain either Alfalfa or clover hay to sup¬ 
plement the grain ration you are now 
feeding, I dare say the results will be 
more pleasing. 
I should not criticize the combination 
of grain that you are now using. As to 
the amount of grain to feed daily, it is 
generally agreed that one pound of grain 
should produce approximately three and 
should be required to subsist on Timothy 
hay, cornstalks and water during her dry 
period has long since been abandoned by 
successful dairymen. 
Potatoes for Freshening Heifers 
I have some heifers due to freshen 
within the next two months. I had 
started feeding them ground oats. A 
neighbor told me oats are not good for 
such cattle, and that after they freshen 
they will not do so well. ITe advised me 
to cut oats and feed potatoes. Another 
neighbor said he has tried it and there 
is nothing in it. I have plenty of pota¬ 
toes, and they are only worth 70e per bu. 
I have plenty of silage and good hay; am 
feeding 200 lbs. wheat feed. 200 lbs. 
gluten. 100 lbs. oilmeal. 100 lbs. eotton- 
seed and about 3 qts. to cow morning and 
night. Can you give me any better ra¬ 
tion? H. S. B. 
New York. 
You certainly have been ill-advised by 
the neighbor who suggests that potatoes 
be substituted for ground oats in a ration 
for heifers about to become mothers. The 
chances are that he never owned or fed 
a heifer, or lie would not be volunteering 
A Very Prolific Sow 
Some time ago I wrote asking your 
opinion of a sow that had farrowed 17. 
10 and 17 full-sized live pigs in three 
litters within about one year and a half. 
Since that time she has farrowed a litter 
of 22 full-sized live pigs. I am enclosing 
her picture, I bred one of her daughters, 
and her first litter was 15. She has just 
come in again within litter of 18 full- 
sized live pigs. Is not this a remarkable 
record, and should these gilts bring a 
fancy price for breeding purposes? They 
grow to enormous size. I butchered one 
last Fall 14 months old weighing 410 lbs. 
Staten Island. frank i*. begg. 
Ii. N.-Y.—That is a fine sow. It is 
the best record we have had yet. Many 
breeders believe that this habit or ability 
to produce large healthy litters is heredi¬ 
tary. They select sows from such fami¬ 
lies if possible. We once had a sow that 
produced litters of only two and three 
pigs, and her daughters had the same 
habit. 
one-half pounds of milk. This moans that 
you should feed a cow in milk one pound 
of grain daily for each three and one-half 
pounds of milk produced per day. Natur¬ 
ally, high producing cows will be more 
responsive to increased amounts of grain, 
and there is a limit to the amount that 
can be profitably fed. This can only be 
determined by the feeder who measures 
his feed and weighs his milk and draws 
his own conclusions as to whether the 
cow is being fed for maximum production. 
It is quite as important that a cow be 
given some grain when she is dry, as it 
is essential that she be fed grain during 
her lactation period. The combination 
should be modified, however, and a useful 
combination would consist of equal parts 
of cornmeal, ground oats, wheat bran and 
oilmeal. A cow weighing 1.200 lbs. should 
be fed from (5 to 10 lbs. of this mixture 
daily, the amount depending, of course, 
on her condition and the degree of flesh 
that she in carrying. In my opinion, a 
dairy cow should be making milk or its 
equivalent 205 days out of the year, liven 
though her lactation period might be lim¬ 
ited to 10 months out of the 12. it is 
nevertheless true that during the two 
months she should be storing on her back 
a surplus amount of flesh that would vir¬ 
tually melt away and provide milk-mak¬ 
ing constituents during the early period 
of her lactation. The old idea that a cow 
advice of this character. There is very 
little of digestible nutrients in potatoes, 
so far as live stock feeding is concerned, 
and while they might serve as appetizers, 
they cannot be relied upon for mainte¬ 
nance. The potatoes might better be sold 
at their present market value rather than 
tucked under the skins of heifers about 
to freshen. Oats provide a splendid base 
for stock feed. By themselves they do 
not provide a complete ration, but mix¬ 
tures of grains properly supplemented 
with protein-carrying by-products are 
clearly the most nutritious. A ration 
consisting of five parts of oats, three parts 
of corn, two parts of bran and one part 
of oilmeal would give good results, or if 
you do not have these products that have 
been grown on the farm, ask your dealer 
to supply you with one of the popular 
brands of mixed feeds, and you will ar¬ 
rive at the desired goal. 
The neighbor that you consulted with 
the second time is level-headed. He prob¬ 
ably has tried potatoes and demonstrated 
their shortcomings. As far as your own 
grain ration is concerned, you need more 
variety and more protein, and likewise 
that you should feed more pounds per 
cow per day. The combination that you 
are now using is relatively narrow, and 
would be improved upon in case you 
would add some cornmeal and ground 
oats. 
