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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
March  17,  1923 
You  CAN  get  more  milk  from  your  cows 
—  now,  and  all  through  the  winter  and 
spring.  Read  how— and  why— then  act. 
Late  fall,  winter  and  spring  months  are  a  severe 
strain  on  the  milch  cow’s  system.  Winter  feeds  are 
harder  to  assimilate  and  turn  into  milk  than  green 
pasturage.  The  digestive  and  milk-making  organs 
become  run  down.  Less  milk  and  lowered  vitality 
results. 
BUT — you  can  easily  maintain  vitality  at  summer 
level  and  decidedly  increase  the  milk  flow  by  a  one- 
week-a-month  use  of  Kow-Kare.  This  famous  medi¬ 
cine  for  cows  tones  up  the  genital  and  digestive 
organs— enables  them  to  throw  off  disease  and  make 
milk  faster. 
Thousands  of  dairymen  follow  this  plan  and  find 
the  very  slight  cost  of  the  treatment  repaid  a  hundred 
fold.  Only  a  tablespoonful  of  Kow-Kare  morning  and 
night  is  required  —  and  only  one  week  out  of  the 
month. 
If  disease  does  creep  into  the  herd,  Kow-Kare 
goes  to  this  origin  of  the  trouble  and  adts  promptly. 
For  Barrenness,  Retained  Afterbirth,  Abortion,  Scours, 
Milk  Fever,  Bunches,  Loss  of  Appetite,  etc.,  Kow-Kare 
has  been  the  standard  remedy  the  country  over  for 
twenty-five  years. 
Make  a  test  of  this  more-milk  plan — try  it  on  part 
of  your  herd  and  convince  yourself.  Your  feed  dealer, 
general  store  or  druggist  will  supply  you — large  size 
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Live  Stock  Questions 
Answered  by  Prol.  F.  C.  Minkler 
Feeding  for  Milk 
I  have  a  Jersey  and  Ayrshire  cow, 
five  years  old.  weighing  about  800  lbs., 
in  good  flesh.  Milk  tests  5  per  cent. 
Last  year  she  gave  35  lbs.  per  day  ;  this 
year  20  lbs.  I  have  a  warm  basement. 
I  feed  second  cutting  Alfalfa  mornings, 
bean  pods  noon  and  third  cutting  Al¬ 
falfa  at  night.  I  am  feeding  four  quarts 
of  feed  twice  daily  made  of  500  'lbs. 
barley,  500  lbs.  oats.  500  lbs.  bran.  300 
lbs.  corn.  100  lbs.  oilmeal  and  100  lbs.  i 
cottonseed  meal  (43  per  cent).  She 
freshened  Nov.  23.  She  does  not  give 
the  flow  of  milk  she  did  last  year.  Can 
you  tell  why?  m.  f.  s. 
Perry,  N.  Y. 
A  mere  calculation  determining  the 
amount  of  protein  that  you  are  feeding 
indicates  that  your  ration  would  be  very 
well  adapted  to  a  beef  steer  on  full  feed, 
but  ill  suited  for  a  dairy  cow  producing 
milk.  It  carries  only  14  per  cent  of  pro¬ 
tein.  while  20  or  even  24  per  cent  is  re¬ 
quired  for  the  best  results.  Your  mix¬ 
ture  carries  too  much  barley,  oats  and 
bran  for  the  concentrates  accompanying 
it.  No  doubt  the  cow  is  carrying  con¬ 
siderable  flesh,  although  the  amount  of 
grain  that  you  are  feeding  is  likewise 
insufficient.  The  following  combination 
of  the  same  ingredients  is  proposed,  and 
will  give  you  better  results :  150  lbs. 
oilmeal,  150  lbs.  cottonseed  meal,  150  lbs. 
gluten  meal,  200  lbs.  eornmeal,  150  lbs. 
bran,  100  lbs.  barley,  100  lbs.  oats.  Make 
sure  that  the  gluten  meal  is  not  gluten 
feed,  and  insist  that  the  cottonseed  meal 
carries  43  per  cent  of  protein.  Feed  1 
lb.  of  this  grain  mixture  for  each  3  lbs. 
of  milk  produced  per  day,  and  allow  the 
cow  all  of  the  roughage  that  she  will  com 
sume.  Unless  salt  is  available  add  15 
lbs.  of  salt  to  100  lbs.  of  the  feed  mix¬ 
ture. 
Dairy  Ration  with  Cooked  Beans 
Will  you  give  a  dairy  ration  for  milk 
Cows,  using  cooked  beans  as  a  part, 
Alfalfa,  bean  pods  and  corn  fodder  for 
roughage?  l.  c.  G. 
Ilolley,  N.  Y. 
Usually  beans  can  be  depended  upon 
to  yield  about  22  per  cent  of  protein. 
This  refers  to  common  varieties,  includ¬ 
ing  the  horse  bean,  but  does  not  include 
Soy  beans.  Salt  should  be  added  to  the 
beans  at  the  time  of  cooking  in  order  to 
produce  the  best  results ;  otherwise  they 
are  not  palatable  .  With  Alfalfa  avail¬ 
able,  and  realizing  that  you  wish  to  use 
some  of  the  bean  pods  as  well  as  some 
corn  fodder,  it  is  believed  that  the  fol¬ 
lowing  combination  would  produce  re¬ 
sults  :  200  lbs.  beans.  250  lbs.  corn  or 
hominy,  150  lbs.  linseed  meal,  200  lbs. 
cottonseed  meal,  200  lbs.  bran.  This  is 
intended  for  cows  in  milk.  I  should  not 
include  any  of  the  beans  in  rations  in¬ 
tended  for  dry  cows.  You  will  find  that 
the  animals  will  not  clean  up  the  bean 
pods  with  relish  unless  a  small  amount 
of  salt  is  sprinkled  over  them.  Allow 
them  all  of  the  roughage  that  they  will 
consume,  and  feed  1  lb.  of  this  mixture 
for  each  3*4  lbs.  of  milk  produced  per 
day  for  cows  yielding  less  than  30  lbs. 
Tonic  for  Pigs 
To  my  15  Berkshire  shotes  I  have  been 
feeding  the  following,  as  recommended 
by  the  Government  as  a  good  tonic  to 
supply  mineral  matter  to  hogs :  Copperas, 
2  lbs.;  slaked  lime.  4  lbs.;  wood  ashes, 
1  bu. ;  sulphur,  4  lbs. ;  salt,  8  lbs. ;  fine 
charcoal,  1  bu.  Since  feeding  this  I  have 
found  that  copperas,  when  fed  to  brood 
sows,  in  however  small  quantity,  causes 
them  to  abort.  I  would  like  to  keep  a 
few  of  the  best  sows  for  breeding.  Would 
there  be  any  bad  effects  from  feeding  this 
tonic?  II.  b.  Y. 
Boyertown.  Pa. 
We  do  not  have  any  information  that 
would  confirm  your  suggestion  that  cop¬ 
peras  when  supplied  in  small  quantities 
causes  abortion  in  brood  sows.  I  am 
satisfied,  however,  that  pigs  do  not  re¬ 
quire  a  tonic,  and  that  a  simple  combina¬ 
tion  of  ground  limestone,  bonemeal  and 
salt  is  all  that  is  requisite  for  providing 
an  abundance  of  mineral  matter.  No  one 
has  been  able  to  suggest  why  pigs  need 
copperas  or  charcoal,  and  unless  there 
is  good  reason  for  including  these  sub¬ 
stances  they  certainly  are  unnecessary. 
If  brood  sows  have  access  to  Alfalfa  or 
clover  hay.  their  body  requirements  for 
vitamines  will  be  amply  supplied. 
I  should  not  hesitate  to  retain  the 
sows  in  question  for  breeding  purposes, 
but  I  should  not  supply  the  ingredients 
mentioned  as  a  tonic.  Rather  I  should 
limit  my  mineral  mixture  to  ground  lime¬ 
stone  and  salt,  or  equal  parts  of  ground 
limestone,  steamed  bonemeal  and  salt, 
and  would  make  sure  that  they  have  ac¬ 
cess  to  some  green  forage  during  the  Sum¬ 
mer,  and  to  clover  or  Alfalfa  during  the 
Winter.  The  mineral  mixture  proposed 
should  not  be  mixed  with  the  feed,  but 
rather  provided  in  convenient  receptacles 
where  the  pigs  could  help  themselves  and 
consume  all  that  their  appetites  might 
prompt.  Where  ingredients  of  this  char¬ 
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