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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 19, 1924 
Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Fattening Ration for Steers 
Will you give me a feeding ration for 
fattening steers? I have 30 to fatten this 
Winter. The feed that I am giving now 
consists of: 400 lbs. corn and cob. 100 
lbs. cottonseed meal. 100 lbs. ground oats, 
100 lbs. bran, 10 gallons molasses, 100 
lbs. corn fodder, 100 lbs. hay. All this is 
ground together at the mill and mixed by 
a big mixer at the mill. G. F. D. 
Newtown, Pa. 
The combination you are using for 
feeding steers is scarcely as economical a 
combination as it will be possible to 
devise. I should eliminate the bran, 
since the steers are getting a good qual¬ 
ity of hay and oats, and I should in¬ 
crease the amount of corn and cob meal 
to 500 lbs. I know that the practice of 
grinnding the grain and roughage and 
combining this mixture with molasses is 
common in certain sections of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. It is not the method which will 
enable the feeder to obtain the greatest 
gains at the lowest cost. A better plan 
is to combine the ingredients in the pro¬ 
portions suggested, and gradually bring 
the steers up to a full feeding of grain. 
Under these circumstances they will con¬ 
sume a relatively small amount of rough- 
age; but it must be remembered that the 
gain in weight is the result of consuming 
grain rather than roughage. The mo¬ 
lasses increases the consumption of this 
mixture, but the only result from this 
method is to limit the amount of total 
gain. Of course molasses at its pres¬ 
ent price is attractive ; in fact, it is sell¬ 
ing considerably under corn, but there 
is a limit to the amount of molasses that 
can be economically fed. At the Iowa 
Station any amount of molasses over 1 
lb. per steer per day did not justify its 
use. 
The ration that you are feeding carries 
about 20 per cent of protein; the one 
recommended, about 20 per cent. If you 
will include in your ration an increased 
amount of cloxer or Alfalfa hay I fancy 
that your production will be quite as 
much and certainly much more eco¬ 
nomical. 
Protein Percentage in Feed 
How much protein is in following ra¬ 
tion for dairy cows? What do you sug¬ 
gest in regard to same? Have you a 
cheaper ration that has enough protein 
to produce the most milk in Winter? 
200 lbs. ground oats or barley, 100 lbs. 
wheat bran, 200 lbs. hominy or cornmeal, 
300 lbs. gluten feed, 200 lbs. cottonseed 
meal or oilmeal. For roughage, Alfalfa 
hay and clover hay. What per cent pro¬ 
tein in gluten feed and gluten meal? 
Bergen, N. Y. r. l. s. 
The grain ration that you have sug¬ 
gested, provided the ingredients are of 
standard analysis, will carry 20 per 
cent of crude protein. The combination 
is a very good one, although I should use 
the oilmeal rather than the cottonseed 
meal under existing market values. Glu¬ 
ten feed carries from 23 to 25 per cent 
of protein ; gluten meal carries about 40 
per cent of protein, depending upon the 
bran and the guaranteed analysis. The 
hominy would be more economical than 
the cornmeal, provided the corn was not 
raised on your own farm. It is assumed 
that the mixture of oats and barley car¬ 
ries about equal amounts of both grains, 
and that both are ground before being in¬ 
corporated in the mixture. If your cows 
are yielding more than 40 lbs. of milk 
it might be necessary to feed some beet 
pulp in case you do not have silage in 
order to stabilize their production. 
This picture shows Guernsey cow, Noce’s May Rose 91329, with yearly record of 
18,119.9 lbs. milk and 932.84 lbs. butterfat, the test starting at 3 ^ years of age. 
Feeding Millet Hay and Bean Pods 
For our three cows we have millet 
hay cut very green, bean pods, and a poor 
quality of corn fodder. What grain ration 
should we feed, using as large a portion 
of oats and beans as possible to make 
up a good feed? We have no silage, or 
roots. R. A. w. 
Michigan. 
If the barnyard millet hay was cut 
very green and nicely cured then it can 
be safely fed to dairy cows. On the other 
hand, if this product was well matured 
and does not come out of the mow in 
a nice, crisp, attractive form it is doubt¬ 
ful whether it should be used for feeding 
cows in milk. 
I do not know just what proportion 
of beans is included in your oats and 
beans mixture but we are assuming that 
it is about a 50-50 combination. If this 
is true then a mixture consisting of 50 
lbs. ground oats and beans, 25 lbs. corn¬ 
meal, 25 lbs. linseed meal is suggested 
as a suitable combination for your cows. 
It would be highly desirable if you could 
secure some beet pulp to supply succu¬ 
lence ; otherwise, with the bean pods 
which are in themselves very dry, the poor 
roughage which is available would not be 
palatable enough to prompt your cows 
to consume enough feed for best results. 
When beet pulp is fed with a poor rough- 
age it is surprising) the increased amount 
of milk that will result. 
A young woman who was reared in an 
Eastern Kansas town read in a poultry 
journal that poultry-raising was remun¬ 
erative, so she decided to try it. She 
purchased a hen and set her on 13 eggs. 
She wrote to a poultry journal that poul¬ 
try-raising was much to her liking and 
wondered how long the hen should re¬ 
main on the eggs. The paper wrote back. 
“Three weeks for chickens, and four 
weeks for ducks.” Later she wrote to the 
poultry journal as follows: “Many 
thanks for your advice about the setting 
hen. She remained on the nest three 
weeks and at the end of that time there 
were no chickens hatched. As I did not 
care for ducks, I took her off the nest and 
sold the eggs.”—Clyde (Kan.) Voice Re¬ 
publican. 
Ration for Holstein 
Will you give me a balanced ration for 
a herd of Holstein cows, purebred and 
grade? We have the following feeds: 
Corn and cob meal, ground oats, mixed 
hay (some Alfalfa, clover and Timothy), 
wheat bran costs $38 to $43 per ton; 
mixed dairy feed, $43; silage, and stalks, 
both extra good. w. H. p. 
Newark, N. J. 
The following formula is proposed: 200 
lbs. wheat bran. 150 lbs. ground oats, 300 
lbs. cornmeal, 100 lbs. 43 per cent cotton¬ 
seed meal, 250 lbs. oilmeal. Allow the 
cows of average production 1 lb. of this 
grain mixture for each 3 1 /: lbs. of milk 
produced per cow per day. In addition, 
let them have a full feeding of silage 
twice daily, and all of the hay, containing 
some Alfalfa and Timothy, that they will 
consume during the middle of the day. 
This combination is intended for cows in 
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milk. 
For dry animals and young stock the 
ration can be simplified to consist of 300 
lbs. corn and cob meal, 300 lbs. oats, 300 
lbs. bran, 100 lbs. linseed meal. 
Faulty Ration 
Not being satisfied with the ration I 
am feeding. I seek your help. At present 
the ration is as follows: 400 lbs. gluten 
feed, 400 lbs. wheat bran, 400 lbs. ground 
oats. 400 lbs. 30 per cent cottonseed meal. 
400 lbs. old process oilmeal, late cut hay. 
This ration comes mixed from a local feed 
mill. I would like to increase the protein. 
New York. F - B - 
The combination that you are using, 
consisting of equal parts of gluten feed, 
ground oats, cottonseed meal, and old 
process linseed meal, is faulty, inasmuch 
as it is expensive, carries an extravagant 
amount of protein, and does not include 
any of the cheaper feeds that will supply 
concentrates at less cost. You have ovex 1 - 
looked entirely the use of cornmeal, hom¬ 
iny meal, or buckwheat middlings, ami 
any one of these feeds would supply heat 
and energy more economically than oats 
or the concentrates that you are now 
using. Linseed meal is cheaper today 
than cottonseed meal, pound for pound, 
and. under the conditions you have de¬ 
scribed it would be more desirable to use 
this material. It is pi-oposed. therefore, 
that you simplify your ration and include 
the following: 400 lbs. hominy meal, 100 
lbs. wheat bran. 100 lbs. ground oats, 200 
lbs. linseed meal. 200 lbs gluten meal. 
It’s Results That Count 
“We have used Sugared Schumacher Feed as the maintenance part 
of our dairy herd ration for years and find that when fed with cotton¬ 
seed meal or other protein concentrate, 'it gives us the most satis¬ 
factory and economical ration we can buy. Our cows do splendidly 
on this feed, giving us maximum milk yield—stay in splendid flesh 
and physical condition and deliver well developed strong calves.” 
Hofwyl Plantation Dairy, Brunswick, Ga. 
Such is the gratifying experience of the thousands 
of dairymen who make 
SUGARED 
SCHUMACHER FEED 
the base of their herd ration. It supplies the energy—staying 
power and ideal physical fitness which is absolutely neces¬ 
sary if your cows give their maximum milk yield throughout 
their entire lactation periods. That’s why it helps cows give 
more milk—it keeps them in perfect, vigorous health. 
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seed meal, gluten feed, linseed oil meal and other val¬ 
uable milk producing ingredients, and note the increased 
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TheQuaker 0afs C om P an Y 
Dept, lbsi, Address CHICAGO U. S. A. d-k> 
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