"fie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
25 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
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More Protein Needed 
Will you furnish me with a balanced 
ration for two cows? We have an abun¬ 
dance of clover hay. no corn silage or 
fodder. We made our first churning May 
11. the last on Oct. 24, and made just 250 
lbs. of butter, besides raising both^ calves 
to four weeks of age. During Fall we 
fed sweet corn, stalks and all; beet tops 
once a day, hay once a day while running 
to pasture, which was poor. We feed 
for a grain ration equal parts meal, bran, 
oats (ground) and middlings. They are 
in excellent flesh and would like to bring 
them through the Winter in the best pos¬ 
sible condition. j. E. B. 
New York. 
You have reason to be proud of the 
production of these two cows. A yield 
of 250 lbs. of butter, besides the milk and 
cream used in your household and the 
amount necessary to raise two calves, is 
very satisfactory. 
A ration restricted to the ingredients 
you mention, bran, oats, ground corn 
and middlings, is ill suited for use in 
feeding dairy cows. All of these ingre¬ 
dients belong to the carbohydrate group 
and are not at all suited in themselves 
for the making of milk. Some such con¬ 
centrate as gluten meal, gluten feed, or 
cottonseed, must be added in order that 
the blood stream may be intensive enough 
to stimulate milk production. 
It is not good judgment to buy mid¬ 
dling to feed dairy cows. Bran is a 
more desirable product 'because it is 
bulkier, carries more ash, is more laxa¬ 
tive, and thus better suited for cows in 
milk. A mixture consisting of equal parts 
of ground oats, linseed meal and gluten 
meal is proposed. This will give you a 20 
per cent protein mixture, which is neces¬ 
sary for cows of average production. 
I dare say you are making a mistake 
by expecting these cows to give milk 
during the flush grass season without 
feeding them some grain. I should use a 
grain mixture every day of the year, re¬ 
gardless of whether the cows were in 
milk or dry. This will enable them to 
extend their lactation period, and that is 
exactly what you want. The mere fact 
that the cows are in high condition and 
yet are not producing as much milk as 
you desire is ample evidence that the ra¬ 
tion is deficient in protein. 
Feeding Guernsey Herd 
Please send me formula for grain ra¬ 
tion for grade Guernsey cows. I have 
corn, oats, peas and barley, grown to¬ 
gether, with corn fodder and Alfalfa hay 
for roughage, and will also feed mangels 
or beet pulp. Does molasses have any 
feeding value? c. c. 
New York. 
Generally speaking, molasses is equiv¬ 
alent to cornmeal, pound for pound, for 
supplying carbohydrates in rations for 
live stock. Its chief function in a ration 
is to increase its palatability and thus 
prompt cows to consume an increased 
amount of grain. As a matter of fact, 
in actual practice a pound of molasses 
has less value than a pound of corn and, 
under prevailing market conditions, mo¬ 
lasses is a more economical source of 
carbohydrates. There is a limit to the 
amount of molasses that can be safely 
fed to dairy cows. When more than 1% 
or 2 lbs. a day is fed there is a tendency 
toward undue laxativeness that is unde¬ 
sirable. 
Where you have corn, oats and peas 
and barley ground together, Alfalfa hay, 
and good roughage, and where you have 
mangels and moistened beet pulp for suc¬ 
culence, then the simplest ration that can 
be proposed would consist of 300 lbs. of 
cornmeal, 300 lbs. ground oats and bar¬ 
ley, 200 lbs. linseed meal, 200 lbs. gluten 
meal. 
Bear in mind that I have used gluten 
meal rather than gluten feed, for, with 
the bulky products that you have it is 
desirable to use a concentrate carrying 
more protein. This will give you a 20 
per cent protein feed. The secret of 
your success will be based upon the fact 
that you have choice Alfalfa hay for 
roughage. Where one has a product of 
this character he can use a simplified 
grain ration and produce milk profitably. 
Comparing Corn Fodder and Alfalfa 
I am obliged to purchase hay and grain 
for dairy stock this Winter, and would 
like your advice as to the comparative 
value of Alfalfa on the one hand and part 
Alfalfa and part corn fodder. The corn 
is in shocks and has many two-thirds 
ripened ears of corn. It gets very cold 
here night and the corn is sure to freeze 
solid long before it can be all fed out. 
Will that hurt the feed value? The corn 
is only half as far a haul as the Alfalfa, 
but it will cost twice as much per ton at 
the rates asked for each. J. E. G. 
Wyoming. 
If the corn fodder in question consists 
of the stalk and leaves and the ears of 
corn then there is very little difference 
in feeding value between the whole shock 
corn and the Alfalfa, although the Al¬ 
falfa would carry considerably more pro¬ 
tein, and the corn fodder will yield con¬ 
siderably more carbohydrates. The first 
combination that you can use would he 
part corn fodder and part Alfalfa, and, 
if the corn fodder can be purchased at 
half the cost of the Alfalfa, then this 
scheme, by all means, is recommended. 
Alfalfa carries about 14 per cent of 
protein. It has less fiber than the corn 
fodder, is more palatable, and supplies a 
better roughage for young animals. Shock 
corn with the ears attached which has 
been cured and well preserved makes an 
excellent forage for dry cows and young 
stock, and can be used exclusively as a 
basis fo” wintering live stock. If the 
corn is mature before freezing weather, 
then the freezing is not injurious. 
Another Numbered Cow 
Seeing photos of calves with number 
seven on the forehead. I thought I 
would send you picture of my cow with 
perfect seven on its forehead. She is a 
IIolstein-Guernsey cow and is now 12 
years old. My son John is holding the 
cow. lie raised her; she is a fine cow 
and good milker. Frederick a. graves. 
New Jersey. 
It is remarkable how some of these 
black and white cows show their mark¬ 
ings. We had one once with a clear-cut 
profile of a man’s face on her side. The 
figure seven seems a familiar number for 
this marking. 
The “Alderney” Cattle 
Will you inform me what has become 
of the Alderney cattle we used to see and 
hear of years ago. f. j. s. 
The three distinctive breeds of dairy 
cattle, Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey, 
originated in islands bearing these same 
names located off the coast of France. 
There is very little difference between the 
Alderney and the Guernsey breeds. In 
fact, cows brought over from the Island 
of Alderney to the Island of Guernsey and 
mated with Guernsey bulls would produce 
progeny eligible for registration in the 
Guernsey Herd Book. They were known 
originally as “Foundation Cows,” and 
some of the best Guernseys on the Island 
today are recognized thus, and are not 
eligible for importation into this country 
on account of not being pure bred or 
registered in the herd books. In this 
country the term Alderney and Guernsey, 
while not interchangeable, were formerly 
used to identify some animals that trace 
to these islands. Popular usage has now 
permitted dairymen to drop the term 
Alderney and apply the name Guernsey to 
Channel Island breeds tracing to such 
origin. 
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