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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 21, 1924 
On the threshold of the 
Electrical Farming Era 
Many farmers of the west receive electric service. They pump 
irrigation water electrically, and because they need much power for 
this purpose alone they find it profitable to install electric labor- 
saving devices and lights in their buildings. 
But in other sections several million farmers are without elec¬ 
tricity. They live in sparsely populated districts where conditions 
are at present against the profitable use of electric power. 
Agricultural and electrical engineers believe that if all the con¬ 
ditions are known, farming and electricity can be adapted to each 
other so that human and animal labor can largely be displaced by 
electric motors. 
To study this problem a National Committee is assisting in the 
organization of State Committees. Groups of farmers are receiving 
experimental electric service. They are keeping accurate compara* 
tive records of production costs under electrical and non-elec¬ 
trical conditions. Farm-paper editors and state agricultural colleges 
are cooperating with these state groups. 
Thus the needed information is being collected under the con¬ 
ditions of actual practice. As practical results are demonstrated the 
kerosene lamp will give place to the electric light and animal and 
human muscle to electric motors and push-button conveniences. 
The National Committee in charge of the 
work is composed of economists and engi¬ 
neers representing the American Farm Bu- 
reauFederation.theDepartmentsof Agricul¬ 
ture, the Interior and Commerce, the Power 
Farming Association of America, the Amer¬ 
ican Society of Agricultural Engineers and 
the National Electric Light Association. 
A booklet has been published by the 
Committee. It will be sent on request free 
of charge. Read it and pass it on to your 
neighbor. Write for it either to Dr. E. A. 
White, American Farm Bureau Federation. 
58 E. Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or 
to the National Electric Light Association, 
at 29 West 39th Street, New York City. 
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Live Stock Matters 
Conducted By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Keeping Cows in Good Flesh 
Some time ago you advised a reader the 
following dairy ration : 200 lbs. ground 
oats, 250 lbs. bran, 150 lbs. oilmeal, 100 
lbs. gluten. I have tried this and find it 
a good milk producer, but not a flesh 
builder. What would you advise when 
cows are on pasture? I have used just 
corn and oats when on pasture. i>. A. H. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
The combination of ground oats, bran, 
oilmeal and gluten meal in the propor- 
'tons indicated represents a 2iy 2 per cent 
protein mixture. This is deemed highly 
desirable for feeding dairy cows of aver¬ 
age production, and it is interesting to 
know that you have found this mixture 
an economical milk-making ration. Man¬ 
ifestly it is not a flesh or tissue builder. 
If it is your desire to use a ration that 
will enable your cows to increase in 
weight and condition, then it is desirable 
to add to this combination some corn or 
hominy meal, and so reduce the protein 
content to a level which will enable the 
animals to store flesh rather than to man¬ 
ufacture milk. Of course you realize 
rect. Even though many people think 
that the feeding of grain during May and 
June is a useless and expensive proced¬ 
ure. I know that it is best in the end. If 
cows do not carry considerable flesh dur¬ 
ing May and June when July and August 
and the Fall season approach the annoy¬ 
ance from flies and short pasture will 
take away what little surplus flesh and 
energy they have and they will approach 
the Winter with little vigor and thin in 
flesh. 
Feeding Buckwheat and Oats 
Will you give me a formula for figuring 
a ration for cows? I have 10 Holstein 
and Jersey mixed cows. I have no silo. 
I have only Timothy hay and a little bit 
of clover. The only grain I have is buck¬ 
wheat and oats ground together, hut I 
can get some other grain. I feed five 
quarts of buckwheat and oats to a mess, 
morning and evening. But I get no profit 
out of the cows. j. E. 
Schenectady Co., N. Y. 
If you realize that buckwheat and oats 
contribute the same ingredients in a ra- 
Prize Hereford Bull “ Headlight ” 
that it is not an easy matter to influence 
persistent milking cows, which have in¬ 
herited this milk-making function, to put 
on flesh and produce milk at the same 
time. The best time to induce gains in 
weight with dairy cows is during their 
dry period. Since they are good feeders 
and have good appetities it is an easy 
matter to induce them to put. on flesh 
during their idle period. Remember that 
corn and oats are earboyhydrate or flesh¬ 
building ihgrediente; that oilmeal and 
gluten meal are protein carriers; bran is 
a bulk provider, a balancer, and a con¬ 
tributor of mineral matter. 
As to a suitable ration for cows on 
pasture, let me propose a combination 
consisting of 400 lbs. of corn or hominy, 
300 lbs. ground oats. 200 lbs. high grade 
cottonseed meal, 100 lbs. wheat bran. 
The wheat bran can be eliminated if corn 
and cob meal is used, or if the hominy 
selected is of a coarse variety. The bran 
is incorporated merely to increase the 
bulk ; but the mixture would be quite as 
well and less expensive without this in¬ 
gredient. This will make, if the cotton¬ 
seed carries upwards of 40 per cent >f 
protein, about a 17 per cent protein feed. 
For dry cows I should not include any 
cottonseed meal, but would merely use 
this protein carrier for the milk cows 
that are in good flesh and are yielding 
the greatest amounts of milk. Corn and 
oats for cows on good grass during May 
and June is all sufficient. 
The amount of grain that you are feed¬ 
ing, based upon the production, is cor¬ 
don, and that both of these products 
when fed alone or fed together are de¬ 
ficient in protein, you will understand 
why you have not been able to feed your 
cows a mixture of these two feeds profit¬ 
ably. Buckwheat in itself is an econom¬ 
ical source of protein and carbohydrate, 
but it must be mixed with a greater va¬ 
riety of feeds if it is to serve most ef¬ 
fectively. As we have stated repeatedly, 
it is much better to convert the whole 
buckwheat into buckwheat bran and mid¬ 
dlings and flour, and secure from the mil¬ 
ler the middlings and allow him to have 
the other products. This is economical 
even though you have to load the buck¬ 
wheat and haul it to market and return 
the middlings to your barn. A mixture 
consisting of 300 lbs. of buckwheat, 200 
lbs. oats. 150 lbs. linseed, 150 lbs. cotton¬ 
seed, 100 lbs. gluten feed, and 100 lbs. 
bran would give you better results under 
existing circumstances. During the Sum¬ 
mer season the mixture that you ha’ r e 
been using, buckwheat and oats, would 
serve much better than during the Win¬ 
ter, especially if the cows have access to 
luxuriant pasture during May and June. 
‘‘Your boy Josh says he’s going to 
town to seek employment.” “Yep,” ans¬ 
wered Farmer Corntossel, “I don’t blame 
him. Everybody feels occasionally like 
gittin’ away an’ lookin’ fur work ’staid 
o’ stayin’ where he knows it’ll be waitin’ 
fur him regular.”—Washington Star. 
“What’s the matter?” “I wrote an 
article on fresh milk, and the editor con¬ 
densed it.”—Pelican. 
