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_  .OBERT  S.  MARSHMAN  is  one  of  those  very 
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Burrell  Milker  and  secure  an  extra  profit  with 
low  bacteria  counts.  In  a  recent  letter  he  said : 
“You  may  be  interested  to  know  that  during  the 
year  just  ended  my  average  bacteria  count  was 
approximately  5500  per  c.  c.  which  meant  nearly 
$600  in  premiums  added  to  my  milk  checks.” 
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of  the  single  tube  system  and  unlined  teat  cups.” 
As  to  the  year-in  and  year-out  service  of  the 
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milking  skipped  due  to  any  fault  of  the  machines. 
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Live  Stock  Questions 
Answered  by  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler 
Poor  Roughage 
We  have  on  hand  corn  and  oats  and 
can  get  oilmeal,  cottonseed  meal,  bran 
and  middlings.  We  have  practically  no 
hay,  but  have  oat  straw  and  corn  fod¬ 
der.  Some  years  ago  you  helped  me  with 
a  ration,  and  your  formula  was  very 
effective.  l.  e.  t. 
Pennsylvania. 
By  combining  250  lbs.  of  cornmeal 
with  200  lbs.  of  oats,  200  l'bs.  of  cotton¬ 
seed  meal,  150  lbs.  of  linseed  meal  and 
200  lbs.  of  bran  you  would  have  a  20 
per  cent  protein  feed.  This  is  deemed 
sufficient  for  Jersey  cows  of  average  pro¬ 
duction.  You  are  certainly  handicapped 
in  not  having  any  Alfalfa  or  clover  hay. 
Straw  and  corn  fodder  are  quite  as 
essential  and  useful  under  the  cow  as 
they  are  in  the  cow.  Oat  straw  is  fre¬ 
quently  very  high  in  fiber,  low  in  digest¬ 
ibility,  and  while  it  will  provide  bulk,  it 
does  not  contribute  much  nutriment.  If 
this  grade  of  roughage  is  all  that  you 
can  supply  it  might  be  well  to  increase 
the  amount  of  linseed  meal  in  your  ration 
by  50  lbs.  The  use  of  beet  pulp  for  the 
heavier  producing  cows  would  stimulate 
their  production  and  make  it  safer  to 
feed  a  relatively  highly  concentrated 
grain  mixture. 
Using  Corn  and  Cobmeal 
I  would  like  to  know  how  much  corn 
and  cob  meal*  to  put  with  100  lbs.  cotton 
seed  meal,  41  per  cent;  100  lbs.  linseed 
meal,  32  per  cent;  100  lbs.  ground  oats, 
100  lbs.  wheat  bran.  I  have  silage, 
clover  hay  and  cut  corn  ‘fodder  for  rough- 
age,  and  grade  Holstein  cows  giving  six 
to  seven  gallons  milk  per  day.  I  am  feed¬ 
ing  40  lbs.  ensilage  a  day ;  cows  were 
fresh  in  the  Fall.  L.  H.  d. 
Pennsylvania. 
One  hundred1  and  fifty  pounds  of  corn- 
meal  or  200  lbs.  of  corn  and  cob  meal 
mixed  with  the  amount  of  the  ingredients 
mentioned  will  bring  your  mixture  up  to 
22  per  cent  of  protein.  Corncobs  con¬ 
tribute  very  little  nutriment,  if  any,  to  a 
ration  intended  for  dairy  cows,  but  with 
the  highly  concentrated  combination,  such 
as  you  have  proposed,  it  is  scarcely  pos¬ 
sible  that  you  will  notice  very  much  dif¬ 
ference  between  the  cornmeal  and  the 
corn  and  cob  meal.  If  I  had  plenty  of 
silage  and  clover  hay  and  corn  fodder,  I 
am  sure  that  I  would  not  utilize  the  corn 
and  cob  meal,  unless  it  was  more  con¬ 
venient  to  grind  the  corn  and  cob  than 
it  was  to  grind  the  corn  and  crush  the 
meal. 
Ration  for  Cows;  Destroying  Thorn 
Bushes 
1.  I  have  a  herd  of  cows  and  would 
like  to  have  a  good  feed  ration  for  them. 
I  have  to  buy  my  feed;  hale  Alfalfa, 
clover  and  cornstalks  for  fodder.  2.  I 
have  a  pasture  full  of  thorn  apple  bushes, 
which  I  am  cleaning  out.  Is  there  any¬ 
thing  you  can  put  on  the  stumps  to  kill 
them,  as  they  always  grow  out?  A.  j.  k. 
Seneca  Co.,  N.  Y. 
1.  With  Alfalfa,  clover  hay,  and  corn¬ 
stalks  for  roughage,  a  good  combination 
would  result  from  combining  the  follow¬ 
ing  grains:  Cottonseed  meal  (43  per¬ 
cent ),  150  lbs.;  linseed  meal,  150  lbs.; 
oats,  150  lbs.;  bran,  200  lbs.;  cornmeal. 
200  lbs. ;  gluten  feed,  150  lbs. ;  salt,  15 
lbs.  This  will  provide  a  20  per  cent  pro¬ 
tein  feed  that  will  be  both  palatable  and 
nutritious  for  cows  in  milk. 
2.  I  know  of  nothing  that  can  be  ap¬ 
plied  to  the  stumps  of  thorn  apple  bushes 
to  prevent  them  from  growing.  After 
they  have  been  cut  off  a  number  of  times 
their  vitality  will  be  materially  de¬ 
creased,  and  this  is  the  only  way  to  con¬ 
trol  them  that  I  know  of. 
Milk-fed  Calf 
Will  you  give  me  a  ration  for  fatten¬ 
ing  a  veal  calf?  I  have  a  large  size  calf 
nearly  four  weeks  old  which  I  am  trying 
to  fatten,  and  am  feeding  him  three 
quarts  of  whole  milk  three  times  a  day, 
but  he  does  not  seem  to  be  getting  any 
fatter.  Calf  is  healthy  and  seems  to  he 
satisfied.  w.  p.  m. 
Newtown,  Conn. 
The  choicest  veal  is  produced  from 
calves  which  do  not  have  access  to  grain 
or  roughage  and  whose  ration  is  limited 
exclusively  to  whole  milk.  It  would  be 
feasible  to  allow  your  calf  to  have  an  in¬ 
creased  amount  of  milk,  and  I  dare  say 
the  best  results  follow  where  the  calf 
sucks  the  cow  rather  than  is  fed  milk,  as 
you  have  suggested.  Keep  the  calf  in  a 
dark  stall,  one  that  is  fully  bedded  and 
clean.  If  you  allow  the  calf  to  have 
any  grain,  the  quality  of  the  veal  would 
be  depreciated  and  would  take  the  form 
of  beef  rather  than  veal.  The  bulk  of 
the  choice  veal  that  is  produced  in  this 
country  is  obtained  from  calves  that  are 
allowed  to  nurse  the  cows  and  from  those 
that  are  confined  as  indicated.  If  one 
cow  does  not  give  enough  milk  to  satisfy 
•  the  calf,  allow  it  to  nurse  two  cows  until 
the  desired  amount  of  flesh  is  visible. 
