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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Feeding Young Cow 
I have a heifer with a month-old calf, 
my first attempt sit live stock. The 
farmers tell me with my rich pasture the 
COW needs no other feed, apd she lias had 
none. On page 840 I notice si ration for 
milking cows. I have only wheat mid¬ 
dlings and corn on the cob. What should 
1 I buy t«» feed her? How often and how 
much should I feed? What is an average 
milk yield for a grade Jersey with her 
first calf? j. H. L. 
New York. 
We have repeatedly pointed out in 
these columns the importance of feeding 
dairy cows a grain ration to supplement 
even abundant pastures. You have been 
ill-advised by the neighbor who has sug¬ 
gested that your Jersey heifer, just 
fresh, does not need any grain while 
foraging in the pasture lot. Practical 
and successful dairymen have demon¬ 
strated beyond all possible doubt the im¬ 
portance and necessity of feeding cows 
some grain during every day of the year. 
Particularly do dairy cows need grain 
during their dry or rest period, especially 
if they were thin in flesh when the lacta¬ 
tion period ceased. While it is possible 
for them to live on and look prosperous 
without the use of supplemental feeds, 
nevertheless carefully kept records of 
production more than justify the practice 
of putting a lot of flesh on a cow's back 
during the rest period in order that she 
may have an abundance of energy and 
sufficient vitality to continue her milk 
flow uninterrupted through an extended 
lactation period. Tn the case of heifers 
with their first calf it is doubly impor¬ 
tant that they be well nourished during 
their first lactation period. Especially is 
this true if they were not fed any grain 
during the gestation period. If you have 
wheat middlings and corn on the colt I 
would suggest that you purchase gluten 
feed or mixed feed and mix equal parts 
of this compounded feed with your corn 
and middlings and feed the heifer 'from 
•> to 8 lbs. per day of this combiuatiqp. 
If she is relatively thin in flesh and is 
milking rather extensively she should he 
fed generously, and a safe rule to adopt 
is to allow cows on good pasture 1 lb. of 
a suitable grain ration for each 3 1 / £ <>r 4 
lbs. of milk produced per day." The 
months of July and August and early 
September are especially trying on milk 
cows. Frequently the pastures are dry 
and the grasses are unpalatable. The 
flies, are very annoying, and heifers with 
an inclination to milk heavily are very 
apt to lose flesh during these trying times. 
The least that one can do would be to 
allow sufficient feed to maintain her 
vigor and condition, and thus extend her 
lactation period, Tf her first lactation 
period is brief the later ones are apt to 
l>e equally brief, and instead of having a 
profitable milk producer you will have a 
regular and persistent boarder. 
Corn or Silage 
Which will pay me the most money— 
to raise silage for my cows, or raise 
Whitecap corn for chickens and horses, 
and feed the corn fodder to cows dry? 
Would my cows give me enough more 
profit to pay for raising both? c. F. c. 
Rockfall, Conn. 
That silage provides an excellent suc¬ 
culence for dairy cows is undisputed. 
Whether or not it would he profitable for 
you to erect a silo would depend primarily 
upon the number of cows that constitute 
your herd. If you maintain loss than 
eight or 10 cows it is doubtful whether 
you can afford the 
silo filling and silo 
any number of cows 
has been 
profitable 
expense incident to 
construction. For 
above this figure it 
demonstrated that silos are 
and that silage substantially 
increases the production of milk and very 
materially reduces the cost of production. 
That an acre of corn will yield more 
pounds of actual dry matter suitable for 
feeding purposes than any other farm 
crop is generally admitted. Where the 
corn is cut and stored in silos all of its 
feeding value is retained and conserved. 
Your other alternative is to rely upon 
some such product as beet, pulp or man¬ 
gels to provide the succulence necessary 
for feeding milk cows. Well-cured corn 
fodder is superior to Timothy hay for 
feeding dairy cows, and when fed in con¬ 
junction with Alfalfa or clover hay it 
gives a good account of itself. 
If present prices r>f feeding stuffs pre¬ 
vail it is clearly evident that one can 
purchase feeding stuffs for feeding farm 
animals more economically than he can 
produce them on his home farm. This 
holds true in your territory, where labor 
costs are necessarily high and yield per 
acre correspondingly low. The cost of 
assembling equipment essential for con¬ 
structing and actually filling, small silos 
is frequently out of proportion to that 
prevailing on the farms where a great 
deal of corn is produced, where all of the 
crop is run into the silo. Tn this con¬ 
nection it is interesting to observe that 
silos have invaded corn belt territory, 
and it is the exception now to find a 
dairy farm in the Middle West that does 
not support silos. On the other hand, it 
has been noted that in many sections 
throughout the East, where the size of 
the dairy herds has been reduced or re¬ 
stricted. many of the silos are empty and 
unused. Frequently a silo is selected 
possessing too great diameter for use in 
storing silage intended for feeding a 
small herd of dairy cows. 
Ration for jersey Cows 
I am milking a herd of Jersey cows. I 
feed them 1 lb. of mixed feed for every 
2 lbs. of milk produced, and also % lb. of 
cottonseed to each feeding, per cow. I am 
told that I am feeding too heavily. Will 
you give me information as to the proper 
amount to feed per pound of milk? Could 
you suggest a better milk producing ra¬ 
tion? CONSTANT READER. 
New York. 
Tf you are feeding your Jersey cows 1 
lb. of mixed feed for each 2 lbs. of milk 
produced per day. and in addition feeding 
y 2 lb. of cottonseed meal per cow per day, 
there is no doubt ibut that you are feeding 
extravagantly. It is seldom necessary to 
feed more than 1 lb. of grain for eacli f* 
or 3*4 lbs. of milk produced per day. pro¬ 
vided the cows are supplied with the 
right kind of feed, supplemented with an 
approved roughage material. The com¬ 
pounded feed that you are using is very 
extensively used in your section. Better 
results would follow the addition of corn- 
meal to this mixed feed rather than more 
cottonseed meal, particularly if the cows 
are on pasture. It is not necessary to 
feed as narrow a ration with grass as 
one should feed during the Winter months 
when the grain ration is to bo supple¬ 
mented with silage and roughage. I 
would suggest that you mix 30 lbs. of 
corn or hominy meal with 70 lbs. of tin* 
mixed feed that you are now using and 
feed 1 lb. of this mixture for each 3 lbs. 
of milk that your Jersey cows are pro¬ 
ducing per day. Supplement this with 
either Alfalfa or clover hay, fed once a 
day, even though the cows may have ac¬ 
cess to good pasture. There may be a 
slight decrease in the flow of milk inci¬ 
dent to the change in the amount of feed, 
but this will only he temporary. There is 
such a thing as feeding milk cows too 
narrow a ration during the Summer 
months. T like to see cows put on some 
flesh during the warm weather, and have 
always felt that under such conditions 
they are more apt to keep up their flow 
of milk during the forthcoming Winter 
season. 
Board Floors for Poultry Buildings 
In a recent issue there was an inquiry re¬ 
garding floors for brooders and henhouses. 
My experience with concrete floors has 
been such that T prefer the board floor. 
The scratching litter keeps in much bet¬ 
ter condition on boards than it does on 
concrete, even if the concrete floors are 
laid according to the best plans. I also 
believe that in many cases a double board 
floor can be made more cheaply than one 
of concrete, especially if sand and gravel 
have to be hauled a long distance and are 
not of good quality. A house with a 
board floor can be moved to fresh ground 
each season, thereby providing the best 
growing conditions for young stock. 
I willingly admit that concrete, prop¬ 
erly used, is one of the best rat-excluding 
forms of floor and foundation. The 
usual advice given is to clean up the 
premises and use concrete floors and foun¬ 
dations in all outbuildings. This advice 
is good, but few people can see their 
way clear to putting concrete floors under 
buildings already in use and accept this 
advice with the mental reservation that 
they will use concrete the next time they 
build. Some compromise by making the 
brooder houses rat-tight and put up with 
rats in the other buildings, consoling 
themselves with the thought that the rats 
will not kill the hens or other stock, ig¬ 
noring the fact that rats are one of the 
worst carriers of disease and parasites 
that can come on a farm. They also 
find great solace in telling about the good 
old days when the big maltese oat was 
alive and no rat dared come on the place. 
We have all owned that cat at various 
times. She can never be replaced, as she 
was the only one of her day and genera¬ 
tion. When last heard from she bad 
just left Hope Farm. 
If the henhouses are made with double 
board floors well up off the ground, and 
the feed room is made tight, there will be 
no rats in the place, provided trash is not 
allowed to accumulate in piles and boxes, 
and coops are piled so as not to afford 
hiding places. It is useless to try to clear 
a place of x - ats unless all rubbish is 
burned and junk of all kinds carried 
away, with nothing loft directly on the 
ground for rats to hide or burrow under. 
There should be tarred paper between the 
upper and lower layers of the floor, and 
the board's should be tight and well nailed. 
The sills should rest on piers, the top of 
the shortest of which should he not less 
than 10 inches above the level of the 
ground. The open space under the house 
should be boarded in on the north, east 
and west sides, and have wire netting on 
the south, so that nothing can be stored 
under the house, and loaves and other 
trash cannot blow in. GEORGE eaton, jr. 
