The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
679 
Henhouse Suggestions 
I am sending a plan of my henhouse. 
I have the low side to the South and 
high to the North and big windows at 
each end and have the roost higher than 
opening at the South and have never 
had any frozen combs or sick fowls in the 
years that I have had it. 
I would like to know what you think 
of this kind of a henhouse. I have had 
the curtains up only twice since I have 
had the henhouse. j. n. 
New York. 
We are printing a cut, from photo¬ 
graph, of another poultry house built as 
yours is, low in front and high in the 
rear. This house stands on the grounds 
of the State Experiment Station at Mor¬ 
gantown, W. Va., and I was told by Prof. 
Andrews, who has charge of the plant 
there, that they considered it a very suc¬ 
cessful type of building, being cool in the 
Summer and as warm as any in cold 
weather. The low side of this building 
faces the South, overlooking the hill or 
mountain tops and narrow valleys that 
form so large a part of West Virginia’s 
landscape. This is a reversal of the usual 
type of poultry building, in which the 
front is high and the rear low and is a 
good illustration of the fact that hens are 
not machines, requiring unvarying care 
to keep them in good order and make 
meal, linseed oil meal, wheat bran, brew¬ 
ers’ grains, cane molasses. I buy this 
mixed, from the dealer. Do you think 
this is too high in protein? Do you 
think.it would be all right to feed beet 
pulp in place of silage with this ration? 
New York. f. h. 
The mixed feed referred to does not 
carry an excessive amount of protein. 
As you have a poor grade of roughage 
(and I should consider Timothy hay in 
this class) I should use a ration carry¬ 
ing not less than 22 per cent and not 
more than 24 per cent of protein. Under 
ordinary circumstances wheat bran is 
more desirable than wheat middlings be¬ 
cause it carries more mineral matter and 
generally can be purchased at a less cost 
per ton. 
It certainly would be worth while to 
add beet pulp to your ration especially 
since you do not have silage to carry 
you through the Winter. Undoubtedly 
beet pulp is more expensive than silage, 
but it is more expensive to feed dairy 
cows without beet pulp than it is to let 
this high lime carrying constituent sup¬ 
plement a grain ration in the absence of 
roots or silage. 
If your cows are giving less than 25 
lbs. of milk a day you can well afford 
to add 30 lbs. of equal parts of corn and 
Poultry-house on Experiment Station Grounds, Morgantown, W. Va. 
them profitable. Methods and systems 
may be very different in different places 
and yet be equally successful if only the 
fundamental requirements of the fowls 
are met. m. b. d. 
oats to each 100 lbs. of this 24 per cent 
feed. This would substantially reduce 
the cost of your ration. f. c. m. 
Improving Ration 
Could you make up a better ration than 
we are feeding now? We feed 100 lbs. 
cornmeal, 100 lbs. bran. 200 lbs. oilmeal, 
right fresh from the factory. We have 
some cows off on feed. We have one cow 
giving bloody milk out of one teat. We 
have another big one off on feed; was 
milking 30 quarts, but went down to six 
quarts, and eats very little and slow. We 
also feed dried beet pulp, iy 2 quarts each 
feed for each cow. E. P. 
A ration intended for dairy cows which 
is limited to bran, cornmeal and linseed 
meal, fed in the proportions that you in¬ 
dicate, would be ill-suited for profitable 
results. You have not only used too much 
linseed meal, but you have failed to pro¬ 
vide variety enough and bulk enough to 
satisfy the exacting demands of cows 
■ which produce milk at a profit. Such a 
; combination, if fed in large amounts, 
would prove unduly laxative find would 
cause other irregularities in the process 
of digestion. A more suitable ration 
would result from combining 250 lbs. of 
cornmeal, 200 lbs. bran, 150 lbs. linseed 
meal, 200 lbs. gluten feed, 100 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed meal, 100 lbs. ground oats. Unless 
you have some form of succulence, use 
beet pulp. 
For the cow vliic-h is giving bloody 
mlik, deny her access to the regular grain 
ration and feed her a mixture consisting 
of equal parts of beet pulp, bran, ground 
oats and linseed meal. Previous to the 
using of this ration, give her a purge con¬ 
sisting either of a quart of raw linseed 
oil or a pound of Epsom salts dissolved 
in a pint of warm water to which has 
been added a pint of molasses, f. c. M 
Improving Dairy Ration 
I would like to know how to feed my 
cows. I have Timothy hay and some 
clover, but no silage. I am feeding a 
mixed dairy feed which contains wheat 
middlings, eocoanut oil meal, cottonseed 
Too Much Cottonseed Meal 
Please combine the weight of the fol¬ 
lowing for a feed for milk cows in mak¬ 
ing butter: Cob and corn meal, ground 
wheat and cottonseed meal, 37 to 41 per 
cent protein. Roughage is corn stover, 
Timothy and clover hay, mixed. Do you 
suggest anything to add to the above feed, 
as I wish to get the best results possible? 
IIow much of this mixture should be 
given per cow to a gallon of milk? 
Virginia. j. o. c. 
A safe rule to follow in determining 
the amount of grain to feed to cows in 
milk is to allow 1 lb. of feed for each 3 
or 8y 2 lbs. of milk produced per cow per 
day. If you are making butter, it would 
be appropriate to feed the cow as many 
pounds of grain per day as she produces 
pounds of butterfat in a week. 
I should doubt the wisdom of permit¬ 
ting cottonseed meal to provide all of the 
protein in any ration, especially if this 
ration were fed during the Winter, and 
provided further that it had as a com¬ 
ponent part of the combination ground 
wheat and corn and cob meal. Certainly 
the addition of linseed meal would he 
necessary to produce the best results. 
Ground wheat may replace cornmeal in a 
ration, but nevertheless it is advisable to 
incorporate some wheat bran in the mix¬ 
ture that carries the general run of 
ground wheat, although corn and cob 
meal in this instance will provide some 
additional bulk. 
With mixed hay and no silage, it is pro¬ 
posed that the following grain ration be 
provided : Corn and cob meal, 300 lbs.; 
ground wheat, 250 lbs. ; 43 per cent cot¬ 
tonseed meal, 200 lbs.; linseed meal, 150 
lbs.; wheat bran, 100 lbs. 
For the cows that are yielding more 
that 40 lbs. per day I should feed them 
from % to V 2 lb. additional of cottonseed 
meal or gluten meal. If beet pulp is fed 
to provide succulence and to increase the 
energy content of this feed, then it would 
be permissible to add 100 lbs. of 40 per 
cent gluten feed to the combination. 
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