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W* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 3, 1924 
'T* am o roi.LqwTi*S 
FACTS FOR FARMERS 
Things Our Readers Want to Know 
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At fruit-drying time a boiling 1 per 
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For cleaning stables, churns, dog- 
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Red Seal Lye is used in making soap 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Ration Lacks Protein 
We are milking six cows ; feeding about 
five quarts of ground corn and oats (400 
lbs. oats to 300 lbs. corn), with a cup of 
oilraeal. We feed this amount twice a 
day. For roughage we have nice Alfalfa 
hay and corn fodder. Our cows seem to 
be doing well, but thought that with the 
proper ration they would do better. 
Ohio. M. A. M. 
No doubt your cows are in good condi¬ 
tion and surely they would increase their 
flow of milk if you were to increase the 
amount and variety of the protein which 
is the blood and muscle forming ingre¬ 
dient of a ration. Assuming that the 
ground corn and oats are home grown 
and that you wish to use these as a basis 
for your ration, proceed as follows: 400 
lbs. of corn, 300 lbs. ground oats, 200 lbs. 
linseed meal, 100 lbs. cottonseed meal, 
100 lbs. bran. 
If you have an abundance of Alfalfa 
hay and corn fodder, then it will be pos¬ 
sible for you to eliminate the bi'an; how¬ 
ever, this product at present prices is at¬ 
tractive. Your home grown oats when 
fed in conjunction with Alfalfa meal 
would make it possible to eliminate this 
product if desired. The amount of lin¬ 
seed meal which you have been feeding, 
in my opinion, is not enough to enable 
the cows to produce the maximum 
amount of milk. 
Feeding Thin Cow 
Will you suggest a good dairy ration 
for a family cow. milking about six 
quarts per day. She is about five years 
old and in very poor flesh. I have just 
bought her and want to get her in good 
condition. At present I am feeding Blue 
Bent hay for roughage, all she wants; 
grains, eornmeal. ground oats and bran, 
equal parts by weight; feeding 4 quarts 
morning and night; 5 lbs. of beet pulp 
per day, fed in equal parts. j. G. w. 
If the grade cow which you have re¬ 
cently acquired is thin in flesh and has 
been shipped in from some other terri 
tory, I fancy that the best suggestion 
would be to feed her a ration carrying 
a generous amount of carbohydrates and 
limiting the amount of protein to 17 or 
18 per cent. Such a combination would 
result from the use of a mixture of 100 
lbs. of eornmeal. 100 lbs. bran, 100 lbs. 
oats, 50 lbs. oilmeal, 50 lbs. gluten feed. 
As we have pointed out repeatedly, the 
best time to condition a cow is during 
her dry period, and perhaps the best com¬ 
bination to use in this instance is a mix¬ 
ture carrying equal parts of corn, oats 
and bran, to which has been added 10 
per cent of linseed meal. Do not overlook 
the fact that it is quite as important to 
feed clover and Alfalfa hay to a cow 
during her dry period as it is during her 
period of lactation, especially if one is 
anxious to raise a calf that will possess 
desirable propensities. 
Feeding Guernsey Herd 
I wish a balanced ration for a herd of 
12 Guernsey cows. I have on hand corn 
silage, good condition; dried grass for 
hay; good quality of sugar beets and car¬ 
rots ; bran, ground oats, gluten, linseed 
meal. M. E. E. 
There is an advantage in supplement¬ 
ing silage with a good quality of sugar 
beets. Carrots are unnecessary in case 
you have an abundance of the beets and 
silage. As you know carrots are highly 
desirable in feeding horses. 
Assuming that you referred to gluten 
meal and that the other products are of 
high grade, a ration compounded as fol¬ 
lows would yield 22 per cent of protein 
which ought to be adapted to your condi¬ 
tions : linseed meal. 150 lbs.; gluten meal, 
200 lbs.; cottonseed meal. 50 lbs.; ground 
oats, 300 lbs.; bran, 150 lbs.; corn or 
hominy, 150 lbs. 
It is unfortunate that you do not have 
a better grade of roughage. I should 
make sure that the cows had plenty of 
salt, and I should mix with this salt 
either some ground limestone or bone- 
meal. I should keep this mixture before 
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as well for it is known that under the 
best conditions dairy cows store mineral 
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mer to provide for many of the demands 
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