Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1890-08-28
DAIRY AND CREAMERY.
THE FEED THAT PRODUCES AN ABUN-
DANT FLOW OF MILK.

Half Bushel Of Brewers Grains and
Eight Quarts Of Corn Meal DaiIy-Add
Dry Hay in Winter and Green Fodder
in Summer-Cows Fat and Sleek.
A copious yield of milk requires moist
food, even when the cows are in pasture,
and milk producers have found that
brewers grains or corn starch feed
(gluten meaD from glucose factories.
with corn meal, are the best foods for
the purpose. The Test milk dairymen
give their cows, which are mostly large
animals and grades Of shorthorns, half
bushel of the brewers grains and eight
quarts Of corn meal daily, with as much
dry hay 90 they viii eat in the winter.
and the came ration with pasture, and
green fodder corn when the pasture is
not in the best condition, in the summer.
This feeding produces a rich milk, with
a good creamy color and considerable
density, and it viii be in every way
above the legal standard and quite salts
factorv to the consumers.
Where the grains OF gluten meal can
De procured these are cheap and good
foods when used fresh before they be-
come sour. Where they cannot be had
very good substitutes can be provided in
malt sprouts-which are dry-bran and
middlings. In my own practice when
producing milk for sale have used these
three foods in the following proportion.
VIZ. for twenty cows one bushel Of malt
sprouts, one bushel Of bran and two
bushels of coarse middlings or shorts
were put into barrel and mixed with
water and stirred to the consistence Of a
semi-huid paste twelve hours before
the feeding; that is, the mixture was
made for the morning feeding as soon as
the cows were fed in the evening, and
so on. After twelve hours the food was
about as moist as brewers grains and in
a good condition for feeding and the
above quantity made up about twelve
quarts of the wet mixture This was
given night and morning. with three
quarts Of mixed corn and oats ground to-
gether.
This feeding gave me an average Of
fourteen quarts Of milk daily from ordi-
nary native cows Of not more than 800
pounds live weight, and kept the COWS
i'll high condition and always fat and
sleek. In the summer, feeding for the
highest milk yield and good quality of
product, a liberal quantity of green fod-
der is indispensable for profit, so that
this grain food, corn fodder, or other
green feed should be supplied freely.
The average quantity Of cream on the
milk produced in my dairy was 25 per
cent, and when the milk became III
profitable through close competition no
change in the feeding was required to
change to butter making Malt sprouts
are rich and cheap food, as they con
tain 26 per cent. of albuminoids, 454 per
cent. of carbohydrates sugar, starch
and nucilage, the first especially-and
l. per cent. of fat; and having III per
cent. of water they imbibe large guam
tity Of moisture OF other foods pre-
fer mixture, for instance. one part
middhngs, one part bran and one part
each Of corn and oats ground together:
but the malt sprouts are the most pro
ductiye Of milk Of all grain foods, when
mashed as above mentioned They
should never be fed dry on account Of
their greedy absorption of water Hen
ry Stewart in Rural New Yorker.