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P£^ t Absolutely 
day Clean Milk 
A. Strainer Funnel. 
B. Sterilized cotton through which 
milk MUST go. 
C. Coarse wire screen ring for clamp¬ 
ing cotton pad to bottom of 
funnel. 
D. Wire Clamp. 
THAT’S ALL 
That’s about all it costs when you 
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TANKAGE 
Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Buckwheat for Live Stock 
I have about 700 bushels of buckwheat 
and would like to feed it to our cows. 
Can this be done, and how much other 
feed can be mixed with it? j. b. d. 
New Jersey. 
Repeating the advice that has appeared 
in this paper consistently. I would sug¬ 
gest that you take the 700 bushels of 
buckwheat to the mill and exchange it for 
buckwheat middlings. You will be able 
to obtain more pounds of buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings than you take in straight buck¬ 
wheat, and the miller will be glad to pay 
you well for the buckwheat flour. The 
buckwheat middlings have about three 
times the feeding value of the ground 
buckwheat, and can be used very effi¬ 
ciently in compounding a ration for cows 
in milk. I do not know just what you 
refer to as to cow beans, but the follow¬ 
ing combination of grains to be fed in 
conjunction with clover or Alfalfa hay is 
worthy of consideration : Buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings, 350 lbs.; wheat bran, 200 lbs.; 
ground oats, 250 lbs.; oilmeal, 200 lbs. 
This combination, if the ingredients are 
of standard analysis, will give you a 22 
per cent protein mixture, which, when 
fed with Alfalfa or clover hay and some 
succulence, will give excellent results. 
Unless you have the oats and it be¬ 
comes necessary to purchase corn or hom¬ 
iny, they can be used to replace a portion 
of the oats ; but it must be remembered 
that the oats are included in this in¬ 
stance largely because they are bulky, and 
also to the fact that the buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings and the oilmeal are highly con¬ 
centrated. A given amount of bulk is 
necessary for the best results, and the 
bran and oats in this instance provide 
this quality. 
If the cows do not relish this mixture, 
reduce the amount of buckwheat mid¬ 
dlings, at the outset replacing a portion 
of it with cornmeal, gradually reducing 
the amount of cornmeal and increasing 
the amount of buckwheat middlings as 
their appetites warrant the change. 
Fattening Calf 
I wish to know how to fatten a young 
Calf. F. K. 
New York. 
There is nothing quite equal to whole 
milk for fattening young calves. This 
practice provides veal of the highest qual¬ 
ity. If one cow does not supply enough 
milk to give the calf all that it will con¬ 
sume, then two nurse cows may be pro¬ 
vided. Make sure that the calf is con¬ 
fined in a box stall heavily bedded and 
darkened. This will prompt him to lie 
For 
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Excess of Wheat Feed 
Would these ingredients be a good milk 
producer: 300 lbs. bran. 300 lbs. oats, 
200 lbs. middlings, 200 lbs. gluten, 200 
lbs. cottonseed meal, 200 lbs. cornmeal? 
Long Island. h. d. 
The mixture which you propose car¬ 
ries 17 per cent of protein. Its cost can 
be reduced somewhat |?y replacing the 
middlings with oilmeal, for a ration car¬ 
rying 300 lbs. of bran and 200 lbs. of 
middlings would contain an unnecessary 
amount of wheat feeds. The wheat mid¬ 
dlings will carry between 16 and 17 per 
cent of protein; nevertheless, one can¬ 
not afford to purchase this wheat feed for 
its protein content. A brand carrying 
12 per cent of protein and more mineral 
matter and greater bulk would be more 
desirable. Then again, this amount of 
linseed would bring your protein content 
up to about 20 per cent which is the cor¬ 
rect amount to use under the circumstan¬ 
ces. 
We are assuming that the gluten men¬ 
tioned is gluten meal rather than gluten 
feed; that the cottonseed meal carries 
not less than 38 per cent of protein. Then 
too, we hope that you have some legume 
roughage to feed in conjunction with 
this mixture. 
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teal ha 
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tyhe 
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