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Answered  by  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler 
Ration  for  Dairy  Cows 
I  am  feeding  twice  daily  silage  from 
well-eared  corn,  heavy  clover  mixed  hay 
at  noon,  with  a  grain  ration  morning  and 
night  consisting  of  the  following :  200 
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oats,  150  lbs.  gluten,  75  lbs.  cottonseed 
meal  (43  per  cent),  75  lbs.  oilineal  (old 
|  process),  5  lbs.  salt. 
I  have  plenty  of  corn  and  oats  on 
hand,  and  want  to  use  as  much  as  would 
be  practical  in  making  up  a  good  ration. 
Would  you  advise  wheat  bran  in  above 
mixture?  j.  v. 
New  York. 
In  order  to  bring  the  protein  content 
of  your  mixture  up  to  the  minimum 
standard  add  25  lbs.  of  oilmeal,  double 
the  amount  of  cottonseed  meal  and  add 
100  lbs.  of  bran.  If  the  cottonseed  meal  ’ 
carries  43  per  cent  of  protein  and  the 
linseed  meal  is  free  from  weed  screenings 
this  combination  will  effect  a  20  per  cent 
protein  combination.  Ten  per  cent  is 
the  minimum  amount  of  bran  that  it  is 
safe  to  incorporate  in  a  standard  mix¬ 
ture.  This  reduced  amount  is  sanctioned 
•  largely  because  you  state  that  you  have 
j  clover  bay,  and  we  are  assuming  that 
I  you  are  generous  in  the  distribution  of 
this  roughage.  Unless  the  cows  have  ac¬ 
cess  to  salt  other  than  the  5  lbs.  that 
you  have  incorporated  in  the  ration,  I 
should  increase  this  to  15  lbs.  of  salt  fed 
on  1,000  lbs.  of  feed. 
Y'ou  do  not  state  whether  the  gluten 
feed  used  is  gluten  feed  or  gluten  meal. 
This  makes  quite  a  difference.  Gluten 
feed  carries  approximately  22  per  cent 
of  protein,  while  the  gluten  meal  con¬ 
tributes  35  per  cent  and  is  a  better 
product  to  use  with  corn-and-cob  meal. 
The  corrected  ration  would  read  200  lbs. 
of  corn-and-cob  meal,  300  lbs.  ground 
oats,  150  lbs.  Buffalo  gluten  meal,  150 
lbs.  43  per  cent  cottonseed  meal.  100  lbs. 
qld  process  linseed  meal,  100  lbs.  brail 
and  15  lbs.  salt. 
If  any  of  the  cows  give  an  excess  of 
50  lbs.  of  milk  a  day  you  can  safely  allow 
them  some  additional  cottonseed  meal  and 
gluten  meal,  sufficient  at  least  to  bring 
the  mixture  up  to  the  24  per  cent  pro¬ 
tein  basis.  You  understand  of  course 
that  this  ration  is  intended  for  cows  in 
milk  rather  than  dry  cows.  The  latter 
should  receive  a  simplified  combination 
of  corn,  oats  and  bran,  with  some  linseed 
meal,  sufficient  to  enable  them  to  gain  in 
weight  and  condition. 
Feeding  Pigs 
On  page  91  you  say  that  for  young 
pigs  a  combination  of  70  lbs.  corn,  20 
lbs,  of  wheat  middlings  and  10  lbs.  of 
digester  tankage  will  provide  an  appro¬ 
priate  ration.  If  this  combination  is 
mixed  with  water,  about  how  much 
should  be  fed  to  young  pigs,  and  should 
they  be  fed  two  or  three  times  per  day? 
Onondaga  Co.,  N.  Y.  J.  m.  b. 
Where  cornmeal,  wheat  middlings  or 
red  dog  flour  and  digester  tankage  is  used 
as  a  ration  for  growing  pigs,  enough 
water  should  be  mixed  with  the  combined 
ingredients  so  that  they  will  approach 
the  consistency  of  buttermilk  when  fed. 
The  amount  of  the  dry  feed  to  use  will 
depend  of  course  upon  the  age  and 
weight  of  the  animal.  Pigs  from  two  to 
three  months  old  and  weighing  around 
50  lbs.  will  require  about  2  lbs.  per  day, 
while  pigs  five  or  six  months'  old  and 
averaging  150  lbs.  will  require;  about.  3*4 
lbs.  for  each  100  lbs.  of  live  weight.  This 
means  that  it  will  require  about  4  lbs*,  of 
grain  to  establish  1  lb.  of  gain;  and:  on 
the  theory  that  a  pig  should  gain  a  pound 
a  day  you  will  find  that  the  amount  of 
grain  to  supply  will  vary  from  2  to  7 
lbs.  per  animal. 
Perhaps  a  safer  rule  to  follow  permits 
the  use  of  all  of  the  grain  that  a  pig 
will  clean  up  with  relish  two  or  three 
times  per  day  if  he  is  being  fattened  for 
slaughter  or  market  purposes.  It  is  a 
pig’s  job  to  eat  and  sleep  and  grow  and 
gain  in  weight  every  day  of  its  young 
life,  and  nothing  is  gained  by  holding 
pigs  on  a  mere  maintenance  ration.  The 
more  they  eat  the  quicker  they  will  fat¬ 
ten  and  the  sooner  they  can  be  sold  and 
slaughtered.  The  objective  of  successful 
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policy  of  obtaining  the  greatest  possible 
gains  in  the  least  possible  time  with  the 
minimum  amount  of  food  per  unit  of 
gain.  Usually  it  is  desirable  to  have 
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for  pigs  are  diluted  with  so  much  water 
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