The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
FOR THE FARMERS.
REFORMATION ABOUT AGRICULTURE
AL MATTERS.

REFORMATION ABOUT AGRICULTURE.
AL MATTERS.
Food Experimenty in a Hundred
Dairies-A Handy Box or Trough
A Grain Chute-Abnormal Milk
Farm Notes.
The Wisconsin Experimental Station
has issued bulletin thirty-eight, which
| contains reports on dairy rations from
| one hundred dairymen covering several
states. This report gives valuable in
formation relating to the value of the
various rahons available for the dairy,
the economy Of their use and the nutri-
| tive value Of all the known food pro-
ducts. We quote from one or two as
follows: Silage from fairly matured
corn, sliced "ears and ALL" about fifty
pounds per head has been fed, and
| eight to ten pounds clover hay. l have
not fed pound of dry feed to my cat
| tie in five years. For over twenty years
kept a large dairy, fed dry corn stalks
and hay with lots Of grain and it cost
us fully twice as much as it does now.
Corn silage, 81 per ton; clover hay, Sc
per ton and oats $24 per ton. Corn en-
silage is the large southern white corn
which will ripen here sufficient to grow,
but it deteriorates in size, and we do
not plant home grown seed except for
experiment. Clover hay is a good crop
here, fully averaging two tons per
acre, While our own corn silage will go
twenty tons. My average for the past
five years has been more.
About twenty cows in the herd are
giving milk and from these, old and
young, our average yield of butter is
25O pounds or more, which at 25 cents
per pound, as I sell on CONTRACT makes
$62.5O per COW, and the skim milk from
deep setting, with the buttermilk,
4 amounts to over $3.50 more per head
as feed it. I adopted the silo seven
years ago, and with my ten acres of
corn every year for grain crop and dry
feed, twenty to twenty-five head Of cat
tie was the full capacity Of my farm,
and not as good results as now, with
moist silage feed and winter butter; be-
sides my millers toll or cash for grind
ing and cost of carting to mill md back
.. made my winter keep of cattle fully
twice as much per head as it now is.
Estimating cost of summer pasture at
25 cents per week, and then winter ra-
lions, as given, the farmer cannot
crowd SIS feed into the average dairy
cow annually as figure the cost. Good
liberal pasture feed, allowed to have a
, good growth in spring and not turn on
to it until late, with silage until well to-
ward the middle Of May solves the
r problem of cheapest feed for cattle.
Another says: find corn meal the
! greatest milk producing food I ever
tried; corn meal and ground oats about
? one-half and one-ba]f with bran, mid
dlings, a little oil meal, and roots the
1 best butter producing feed I even tried
I My usual amount of cut feed, for a full
grown COW, is about fifteen pounds
daily in two feeds, morning and after
noon. 1 try to have it two parts clover
e hay, one-half part timothy hay, and one
Q half part corn fodder; it is all steamed
and my grain ration thoroughly mixei
8 with this cut feed at the time of feed
+ ing After my COWS have eaten thi'
o feed give them two or three pounds
of loose dry, hay and some Of them ca
d very little straw. I always turn al
r my cows out in we'll sheltered yar(
1T at about S a. ~, and take them in at
L p. NJ, unless the weather is very storm,
4. they have rough corn fodder befOr
1t them all the time in the yard, and ca
u what they want Of it, which is not nue.
b. should say not over three or fou
Is pounds. My cattle do much better
S. keep in good health and condition
e. without any signs Of being forced or be
" ing fed more than they should be to d
e we'll; If they are kept in stable one O
III two days, owing to bad weather, n
at matter how much hay or fodder the
r; get, they fall off considerably in mil
II. flow and butter fat. I have exper
" mented considerably OF late, and fin
It. my best results come from a grain r;
en- ton of mostly corn meal and groun
et oats. I believe before long I will max
ct my entire grain ration of corn, GA
is, and oil meal; this, with good clover ha
nv a little Timothy and corn fodder, an
ed some good uaoots, carrots or beets, I
ad Iieye will give the best all around r
suits, health, milk and butter, as we
as cheapness Of feed being 'considere
Ter I would prefer corn silage, but have
not, so steam my cut hay, which I co
I'D slider next best. I turn out to gra
about NIay I and keep out until Oct
in Der Is. I am after large mixers; whe
for ! nave ttNS i1ul1h, all pIcCGt sure u u
blltter.
w MANDY Box or Trough.
The illustration, re-engraved fro
or Gleaninss in Bee Culture, represen
e. a handy continuance which would
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