The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20

ent from the protein, Of oats, peas and
beans; and the thing to know Is how to
get One-fifth of the ration of protein, and
how to get the five pounds of starch to
go with it. and this known, the mystery
vanishes. The moment we know that corn
and corn fodder are the ideal starch foods,
and that coarse hay, roots, potatoes, and
the class of the most bulky foods, and
easiest grown for that matter, are also In
that class; and that oats, peas, beans.
puckwheat and that sort of grains are the
proteins, and that clover hay, beans aiiul
pea straw are also rich in nitrogen and
albuminous matter, the next question to
consider is, can 1 raise protein cheaper
than l can buy it in the form of bran,
shorts, cotton seed meal and the Oil meals?
There is then this to know, that pea and
cotton seed meal are nearly three times
bean meal is between the two,
and that clover hay is about as
rich in protein as oats, pound for pound,
and that when COW has been fed four
pounds of actual protein in a day, the
rest of her food should be in the bulky
starch folders, and of them, the one east
est to obtain, and easiest and most COM
pletely digested in corn stalks, well cured,
IS per cent of which is digested to little
over so per cent in hay. If we examined
list of foods fed by the leading dairy
men we should find this idea we'll illus
variety of the plants and grains that con-
tain the needed elements and proportions
give different favors to the food, which is
a great thing in palatability and possibly
an aid to digestion. The main question is
If we raise 100 tons of starchy foods
on the farm. can we not raise 20 tons of
the other classes and so combine them that
they in food nutrients as valuable
even If not quite concentrated, as sale
meats, as cotton seed and the like? Every
time dairyman can add a home grown
food to his list and. to certain extent,
replace an imported food, he has reduced
the price to produce the milk and butter,
and the difference between the two will be
extra profits. Study feed tables and how
to compound rations, and you will in this
only be doing in kind what every other
producer and manufacturer in the country
is doing.
MILKING
In reply to a query, rs there any Sc
cret' about milking a COW as to get a re-
suit not wholly related to the food and
care of the cow?' we would say that sue
cessful milking of a COW to secure the
greatest and best results is a sort of
''fraternal' and commercial treaty with
her. The COW has a maternal side to be
considered. Milk is secreted first and pri-
marily for the calf, and dairying and good
milking is plan to get the milk and have
that mother office extended. To do this
maintained, to the end that milking this
COW shall be pleasure quite akin to sup
plying her calf; and some authorities claim,
keep in continuance the "emotiOnS'' that
can be called without violence to humanity,
true affection. The good mixer seeks to
win the good will of the COW, so that milk
ing is not a period of fear to the COW or
expected violence, but an occasion Otto
her-actual enjoyment. The man who pets
a COW, and will feed her and does not give
her pain when he milks, may be said to
be more than a mechanical mixer, but one
who has gone further, and is-although in
an artificial way-keeping alive the cows
maternal affection, and this can be but
stimulativ influence to induce milk secre-
ton. The reader has witnessed on untold
occasions the cows great desire to suckle
her calf, or be MIXED, and if milk giving
and milking can be closely associated by
pleaSurabe contact, there is at once an
swer that there is a secret in milking,
and it is fashioned on the everlasting law
of good care and kindness.