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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 26, 1924 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Buckwheat in Dairy Ration 
What would young stock need, and in 
what amount, besides oats, buckwheat 
and corn ground together with cob? I 
am feeding them molasses on roughage. 
New York. J. p. 
We have repeatedly emphasized the de¬ 
sirability of exchanging-whole buckwheat 
for middlings if it is desired to use this 
product in ration for dairy cows. Buck¬ 
wheat feed, that is, the ground buck¬ 
wheat, carries about 11 per cent of pro¬ 
tein. The miller takes out the buck¬ 
wheat flour, which carries about 4 per 
cent of protein, and the residue, common¬ 
ly known as buckwheat middlings, carries 
28 per cent of protein. This means, of 
course, that the buckwheat hulls have 
been removed from the mixture. Com¬ 
paratively few dairymen realize the im¬ 
portance and high feeding value of buck¬ 
wheat middlings of this quality. There¬ 
fore, since you have some whole buck¬ 
wheat, I should take this to the miller 
and exchange it for the middlings. 
With silage and Timothy hay for the 
cows in milk I should use 150 lbs. of oil- 
meal, 200 lbs. buckwheat middlings, 300 
lbs. cornmeal, 200 lbs. bran, 100 lbs. cot¬ 
tonseed meal. 
For the dry cows, provided I had a 
sufficient amount of buckwheat middlings 
to use, I should combine 30 lbs. of buck¬ 
wheat middlings, 20 lbs. oats, 40 lbs. 
corn and 10 lbs. linseed meal. 
There is very little to be gained by add¬ 
ing molasses to a poor grade of roughage. 
True enough, it enables the animals to 
eat more of the roughage, but this is of 
doubtful value. Molasses can be used to 
replace some corn or hominy in a ration, 
but it is not wise to feed molasses on 
roughage during cold weather. 
The young stock could be fed the same 
mixture that is proposed for the dry cows. 
If you have molasses, however, and can 
dilute it with warm water and sprinkle it 
over the roughage, it should be used. 
Ration for Holsteins 
Will you give me a ration for my herd 
of Holstein cows? I am feeding silage 
morning and night, and at noon clover, 
Alfalfa and Timothy hay, mixed. J. s. 
New York. 
With silage and clover hay, a grain ra¬ 
tion consisting of 300 lbs. of cornmeal, 
200 lbs. oilmeal, 200 lbs. gluten meal, 200 
lbs. bran and 100 lbs. buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings would give good results. In the 
absence of buckwheat middlings, gluten 
meal might be substituted. In such case 
it would be necessary to increase the 
amount of bran to 100 lbs. In your sec¬ 
tion it ought to be possible to obtain the 
buckwheat middlings, not the buckwheat 
feed, at a very attractive price during 
this season of the year. 
Developing Young Stock 
I would like a ration for my purebred 
Jersey cows from the following feeds: 
Wheat bran, $30 per ton; hominy corn 
feed, $44 per ton; old oil process oil- 
meal, $55 per ton ; barley and oats, equal 
parts, homegrown. I will have to use 
clear oats soon, worth about 40c per bu. 
For roughage, the following: Corn fod¬ 
der with some soft corn in it, and good 
quality red clover hay. The cows are 
four heifers and one mature cow, milking 
‘fairly well, but losing flesh. The feed at 
present consists of four quarts per day 
of barley and oat chop, with corn fodder 
and clover hay. J. D. M. 
Canada. 
The ingredients mentioned at the price 
quoted form an excellent basis for a ra¬ 
tion intended for young growing stock, as 
well as for cows in milk. Red clover hay, 
supplemented with corn fodder, provides 
a good roughage. Assuming that all the 
cows are in milk, and taking into consid¬ 
eration that they are thin in flesh, the 
following proportion of ingredients will 
constitute a mixture carrying IS per cent 
of protein : Ground barley and oats, 200 
lbs.; hominy, 300 lbs.; bran, 250 lbs.; 
linseed meal, 250 lbs. 
When the barley and oats are of sub¬ 
stantially the same analysis, no modifica¬ 
tion of this combination need be made 
when the barley is exhausted. Of course 
it is of doubtful judgment to rely upon 
the linseed meal to provide all of the pro¬ 
tein, yet we cannot overlook the fact that 
