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Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Boarding Dry Cows 
A man wants me to keep 20 dry cows 
for him. November 1 to March 1. I to 
furnish the roughage that they eat. bed¬ 
ding, care. etc. I shall have oats, straw, 
hay. dry corn and silage. How much 
hay will they eat. about, or. if they have 
silage morning, hay and straw at night, 
about how many pounds per cow per day? 
In other words, wlmt is it worth to feed 
and care for them for that period? These 
are big TIolsteins. dry cows, that will 
freshen during March. Owner will fur¬ 
nish some grain to condition them. 
New York. f. p. l. 
If it is desired to feed and care for the 
dry cows in a manner that will put them 
in condition for maximum milk produc¬ 
tion when they freshen, it would not be 
good judgment to attempt to winter them 
on oat straw, dry hay and silage. The 
owner should provide, in addition to these 
roughages, a suitable grain ration and 
eornmoal properly supplemented with 
wheat bran and gluten feed might serve as 
a basis for such a combination. If the 
cows are large, well-developed Ilolsteins, 
they will consume about 30 lbs. of silage 
apiece per day, and from 12 to 15 lbs. of 
roughage. In addition to these coarse ma¬ 
terials they should be allowed from 5 to 
12 lbs. of the grain mixture per day, the 
quantity depending, of course, upon the 
degree of flesh that they are carrying and 
the condition that the oTvner desires them 
to present at freshening time. I believe 
that dry cows should be comfortably quar¬ 
tered during their rest period, especially 
if it occurs during the Winter months, 
which means that they should be given 
roomy quarters that are well bedded and 
sanitary. It would be well to allow them 
all of the roughage that they would con¬ 
sume with relish. The silage should he 
fed twice daily, and the cows should be 
given as much mixed bay as they would 
clean up with relish during the middle of 
the day. If they have the free run of 
an exercising yard, the oat straw or the 
dry corn fodder could be kept before them 
in such quantity as would allow them to 
exercise their own judgment .as to the 
amount consumed each day. 
Assuming that the owner provides the 
grains and that you provide the rough- 
age and the silage, and that you are to 
have the manure voided by the animals 
during this four months’ period. I should 
say that an allowance of $17.50 per 
month, per cow. would be a reasonable 
charge. This will allow you market price 
for your roughages, and the manure as¬ 
sembled ought to be ample remuneration 
for extra labor necessary for their gen¬ 
eral care. If you desire an additional 
profit over and above this figure, then a 
fixed charge of $20 per month, per eow, 
would not be out of range. 
Feed for Cows at Pasture 
I am milking 10 cows. Will you tell 
me a good feed for cows on pasture? 1 
have plenty of last year’s oats and a cut¬ 
ting machine and green cornstalks. 
New York. m. s. p. 
A combination of sheaf oats and green 
cornstalks would not appropriately sup¬ 
plement the pasture grass for dairy cows 
in milk. Both of these products are bulky 
and relatively low in nutrition value. I 
take it that you propose to run both of 
these materials through a power cutting 
machine. 
While the cows could be fed generously 
of this bulky feed, you would obtain 
more satisfactory results in case you fed 
the animals in addition a grain mixture 
consisting of equal parts of cornmeal. 
wheat bran and gluten feed. As to the 
proportion to mix the sheaf oats and 
green corn in this roughage mixture, I 
should recommend four parts, by weight, 
of the green corn to one part of the sheaf 
oats. By starting in on say 10 lbs. per 
day of this mixture you could increase it 
gradually until the animals were sub¬ 
stantially on full feed. 
Feeding Younsj Jersey 
I have a three-year-old Jersey, regis¬ 
tered and tuberculin tested. She calved 
May 23, and since has been giving ap¬ 
proximately 12 to 15 quarts of milk per 
day. She has had little grain since her 
birth, and none now, making her milk 
simply, on pasturage. What would be a 
good grain ration to give this young cow 
in order to build up a good frame or body 
structure and to stimulate and maintain 
a good milk flow? She is small as yet. 
New York. w. d. t. 
It is asking too much of a three-year- 
old Jersey heifer to complete her growth 
and at the same time produce from 12 to 
15 quarts of milk per day on pasture 
grass alone. This performance gives evi¬ 
dence of a profitable dairy heifer, and you 
should immediately provide her with a 
substantial grain ration to supplement the 
pasture grass. By so doing you would 
enable here to continue her daily produc¬ 
tion of milk and at the same time main 
tain her flesh and vigor in such a way as 
will enable her to extend her lactation 
period. I would suggest a grain ration 
as follows: Corn or hominy meal. 50 
lbs.; ground oats, 40 lbs.; wheat bran. 40 
lbs.; gluten meal, 25 lbs.; oilmeal. 25 lbs.: 
peanut meal. 20 lbs.; sait, 2 lbs. 
Feed 1 11). of this mixture for each 
or 4 lbs. of milk produced per day. and in 
addition, especially when the pastures are 
short and the grass unpalatable, allow the 
heifer to have access to some clover or 
Alfalfa hay. 
If you desire a ration more simplified, 
although clearly not as nutritious, equal 
parts of cornmeal, wheat bran and gluten 
meal will serve your purpose. Y~nu can 
substitute cottonseed meal for peanut 
meal in case it is not possible to secure 
the latter product. 
Supplementing Pasture 
Can you give me a fair ration for cows 
on grass, to be mixed from the following: 
Corn or corn and cob meal, ground oats, 
whole wheat (slightly musty) or wheat 
bra n ? c. E. n. 
Maryland. 
All of the products that you have men¬ 
tioned are carbohydrate, or energy yield¬ 
ing materials, and in order to obtain the 
best results in feeding your dairy cows it 
will he necessary for you to add some 
protein carrier, such as cottonseed meal, 
linseed meal or gluten meal. I should not 
use any of the whole wheat for use in 
the dairy ration, but would rather use it 
for either the poultry or pigs. I should 
suggest the following mixtures: Corncob 
meal. 250 lbs.; ground oats, 200 lbs.; 
wheat bran. 250 lbs.; cottonseed meal. 100 
lbs.; gluten meal, 100 lbs.; oilmeal, 100 
lbs. Salt should be kept before the ani¬ 
mals at all times. 
Salting Silage 
Would it be advisable to salt the silage 
corn in the silo? c. H. J. 
Silver Springs, Md. 
There would be no advantage in using 
salt in the silo. Our reports show that 
it has been tried, but with little if any 
benefit. Some years ago certain farmers 
advocated the use of charcoal in the silo, 
claiming that this gave a better quality 
of silage. After a year or two. however, 
this seems to have been given up, and we 
do not at this time know of anyone who 
uses chemicals of any kind with the 
silage. In some parts of the West it 
seen; to be customary to put ground 
phosphate rock into the silo as it. is 
filled. This is on the theory that the 
rock may improve the quality of the 
silage by adding a quantity of phos¬ 
phorus. In any event, this is a good 
way to get the phosphorus into the 
manure with a fair chance of having it 
available. Aside from this, we do not 
know of any use of chemicals with the 
silage to preserve its quality. Possibly 
some of our readers have tried plans of 
this kind, and if so, we shall be glad to 
bear from them. 
“I AM far from being an infidel.” ad¬ 
mitted the backyard farmer, gazing a 
trifle ruefully at where his garden had 
been. “Indeed, I believe the Scripture, 
as old man Jacklin said, ‘from kiver to 
kiver.’ But in the light of my own agri¬ 
cultural experience this past season, espe¬ 
cially in planting and nurturing Congres¬ 
sional garden seeds, I cannot help won¬ 
dering a little about the text of Scripture 
which says that what a man sows that 
shall he reap.”—Country Gentleman. 
