American Agriculturist, January 26, 1924 
by 15 Years* 
Growing Success 
F OR over 15 years, Hin- 
man Milkers have been put 
to the test of time, experience 
and practicaluse on thousands 
of dairies, large and small. The 
owners of these machines 
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out just what their Hinman 
Milkers can do. 
Hinman users have given the 
results of their experience, in their 
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Salt in the Ration 
E. E. Roe 
T HE impressions we get in early life 
stay with us. One of the first things 
I can remember is going with father on a 
Sunday morning to the back pasture to 
salt the young stock. In the fall, after 
they had run all summer, they were as 
wild as young deer, but their eagerness to 
lick the salt made them for the moment 
forget their fear of us. This impressed 
me with the great need of always seeing 
that cattle have all the salt they want. 
As a general principle, I think most 
dairy cows get too little salt. Different 
feeders have different ways of feeding salt. 
I keep mine within reach of the cow all of 
the time so that she can take an occa¬ 
sional lick whenever she feels like it, and I 
find that she feels like it pretty often. 
Some men feed salt at irregular intervals 
with the regular ration. The trouble 
with this method is that one is apt to for¬ 
get it for a too long time so that a cow gets 
too little most of the time and probably 
over-eats of it when she does get it. 
I have a theory with which I think 
most dairymen will agree that the more 
water a cow drinks, the more milk she is 
apt to give. It is the one legitimate way of 
watering the milk. I think also that one 
of the best ways to get a lot of water down 
the milch cow is to see that she gets all 
the salt she will possibly eat all of the time. 
WHAT ABOUT LIME AND 
PHOSPHORUS IN 
THE RATION? 
I have heard a good deal of talk in the last year or two 
about feeding cows more lime and phosphorus. Is this 
a necessary practice; [if so, why; in what forms should it 
be fed; and how?—H. W. T., New York. 
G OOD feeders have been giving more 
attention of late to the necessity of 
minerals in the cow’s ration. The scien¬ 
tists tell us that the animal body requires 
at least a dozen different minerals and 
that a continued lack of any one of them 
will cause trouble. Fortunately, most of 
these minerals are contained in a plentiful 
supply in the regular feed but there are 
two or three which are apt to be lacking. 
Of course, salt is one of them. Lime and 
phosphorus also probably need to be sup¬ 
plied. These last two form at least nine- 
tenths of the mineral content of the ani¬ 
mal body, and about half the mineral 
content of the milk. So large is the de¬ 
mand of the cow in heavy production for 
lime and phosphorus that if these two 
minerals are lacking in her feed, she will 
take them out of her bones. 
Legume hay, such as clover and alfalfa, 
are very rich in lime and feeding them is 
a good way to supply needed lime in the 
ration. Steam bone meal or finely 
ground limestone contains both lime and 
phosphorus and can be added cheaply to 
the regular feed. Care should be taken 
however to put them through at least a 
twenty-mesh sieve. Feeding these min¬ 
erals is yet in the experimental stage. No 
one seems to be absolutely sure, but most 
of the knowledge so far points to the ad¬ 
visability of their use. At any rate, the 
cost is very small and there is no known 
risk in feeding them. 
FEED FOR A COW ABOUT TO 
FRESHEN 
I have a young cow which is noV dry, due to freshen in 
about a month. Would you kindly advise me what feeds 
to include in her rations and in what proportion they 
should be used. The animal is 33*2 years old, had one calf 
in 1922 and has been milked from that time until a month 
ago. Her greatest past production has been about 16 
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T HE amount of feed necessary for this 
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1200 pounds. She should be fed all the 
good hay she will eat. She should be 
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ground oats and 200 pounds oil meal. Of 
course, this ration should have added to it 
a small amount of salt, possibly about 
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