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How Many Cows 
To Make Burrell Milking Profitable 1 
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lRE you one of those dairymen who 
feel that they milk too few cows to afford 
a Burrell Milker? If the time required for 
milking with a Burrell and for cleaning 
the milker just equals the time consumed 
by hand milking, would you consider that 
an even break between Burrell milking 
and hand milking? 
The profit — or saving — from a Burrell 
Milker involves much more than simply 
the direct cost of the two methods of 
milking. You should consider the use of 
a Burrell Milker from the standpoint of 
true economy —interest on your invest¬ 
ment and cost of operating the machine 
(these are small); time required for actual 
milking and caring for the milker; more 
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attractive work for whoever does the milk¬ 
ing; more correct milking; more uniform 
treatment of the cows udder; more cleanly 
milking. And to these add the fact that 
the Burrell is always dependable—always 
on the job and always even-tempered. 
Even when you have so few cows that 
the labor of hand milking is less than in 
Burrell milking, you can profitably use a 
Burrell because the many other advanta¬ 
ges in Burrell milking far out-weigh any 
saving in time. Exactly how many cows 
to make Burrell milking profitable varies 
under different managements — but the 
number is fewer than perhaps you think! 
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weight in pure, fresh 
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Live Stock Questions 
Aniwered by Prof. F. C. Minklef 
Beet Pulp with Silage 
I would like to have you give me a 24 
per cent dairy ration for Jersey and Hol¬ 
stein cows. I have corn on the cob and 
oats; for roughage, mixed hay and corn 
fodder. Is heet pulp profitable to use in 
place of silage, and how much per cow 
to use? f. s. 
It is desirable to use beet pulp to re¬ 
place silage or perhaps to supplement 
silage, for it is assumed that you do not 
have enough silage to carry you through 
the feeding period. One feeding of silage 
and one feeding of heet pulp per day is 
superior to a plan which means the feed¬ 
ing of all silage during one period and 
all heet pulp subsequently. If you de¬ 
sire a 24 per cent feed which will utilize 
the products you have on hand proceed 
as follows: corn and cob meal, .°»00 lbs.; 
ground oats. 150 lbs.; 43 per cent cotton¬ 
seed meal, 200 lbs.; bran, 150 lbs.; lin¬ 
seed meal, 150 lbs.; gluten meal, 100 lbs. 
If you have more of the oats than you 
have of the corn and cob meal than you 
can increase the amount of ground oats, 
and if gluten meal is substantially cheap¬ 
er than the cottonseed meal on a tonnage 
basis then you can use equal amounts 
of both of these products. The bran and 
the linseed meal remain constant, for 
this is about the minimum amount of 
these products that can be incorporated 
in a ration of this character. You cer¬ 
tainly can afford to feed some beet pulp 
as a source of succulence. When soaked 
for 12 hours previous to feeding, it seems 
to increase the palatability and digesti¬ 
bility of its companion feeds and, in ad¬ 
dition, it provides a great deal of lime 
which is extremely beneficial for feeding 
dairy cows where they do not have ac¬ 
cess to clover or Alfalfa hay. 
Feeding Calves 
Would you please advise me what to 
feed to young calves that I want to raise 
for veai? I gave them skim-milk but 
there is not enough nourishment in it. I 
would like to put something in the milk 
that will fatten them up. I keep the 
calves till four or five weeks of age and 
then butcher them. I was told that buck¬ 
wheat flour is good and have tried it but 
do not see any change in the calves. [ 
would also like to know what is best for 
scours. I have been using castor oil. 
New York. a. y. 
It is almost impossible to produce veal 
of the desired quality unless calves are 
fed new milk from the very outset. Calf 
feeds on the market are intended pri¬ 
marily for growing calves rather than for 
fattening calves for veal. In Denmark 
where the best grade of veal is produced 
from black and white cows the practice 
is to confine the calves in darkened box 
stalls which have been heavily bedded 
The calves are allowed to nurse their 
dams three or four times daily and if 
one cow does not provide enough milk 
to .satisfy, the calf then an additional 
nurse cow is provided. The practice of 
using an abundance of bedding serves to 
induce the calf to lie down and not exer¬ 
cise unduly which condition seems to im¬ 
prove quality and tenderness of flesh. 
If it is your purpose to produce veal of 
the desired weight and to meet the exact¬ 
ing demands of a specialized market I 
believe that it is necessary to use new 
milk and not provide any grain supple¬ 
ment. 4 - 
For scours ii> calves which' are being 
fed skim-milk supplemented with either 
flaxseed meal or prepared calf feeds, use 
blood meal. This can be secured in small 
quantities at a drug store and a table¬ 
spoonful fed to the calf either mixed in 
milk or placed on the tongue in powdered 
form will correct such disorders. 
If you are raising calves to supple¬ 
ment your herd then it is desirable to 
limit the amount of milk that they 
would have and substitute skim-milk for 
the new milk. Use a grain ration con¬ 
sisting of equal parts of wheat middlings, 
ground oats and bran, with 10 per cent 
of linseed meal. 
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