The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-15
Vermont Experience.

A. N. T. of Worthwhile writes to
Hoard's Dairymon: 81 wrote you
asking how to get a COW to give down
her milk, and succeeded by tying her
calf by her side 30 it could not quite
reach to suck. / have had some trouble
with caked udders soon after calving,
and have cured very bad case this
winter. Her feed was hay and ensi-
lage and eight quarts of potatoes. For
treatment, took pint to quart Of hot
water in pail and put in one single
handful of salt and two handfuls of
corn meal. l rub the udder with this
three times daily, fifteen or twenty
minutes at time. 1t has done better
ways at hand"
The correspondent adds: " am feed
ing whole ensilage of Sanford corn,
we'll cared. The ears were glazed
when put in, and hay cut early in bloom
but not much clover, and bran and Da-
venport, Iowa, gluten meal. am feed
ing eight pounds hay, fifty pounds en-
silage, three pounds bran, two and one
half pounds gluten meal, in two feeds,
from 5: 90 to 7: 100 A. NJ. and from 3: 90
to 8: 90 P. NJ, and water at a brook
near by after each feed. The water
should be warmed, but I could not get
! it and build the silo the past year. /
fed corn meal till the past week. The
COWS have gained three or four pounds
a day since have fed the gluten. But
l cannot measure the whole ensilage
and commonly judge by what they will
eat, and l have one COW off her feed
to-day. She milks all right, only less
1 shall take away all feed for day, ex-
cept little hay and potatoes. Hay il
worth S15 per ton at barn; bran and
gluten, eighty-fve cents per hundred al
village. Please give ration for me.
dunn sized Jersey COWS and heifers
1 have fed the heifers that were new
mixers the same as old cows, except
the ensilage,-they eat lees of that
The dry cows and heifers get all the
hay and silage they will eat and three
pounds bran day, and have no trouble
about getting up alone"
The Dairyman makes the following
suggestions: 1.-THE ration, as now fed
if tabulated in formula, would foot UP
about as follows: 21.16 pounds organic
matter, 1.95 pounds protein, 1914
pounds carbohydrates and 81 pounds
ldt' "A COlD pdlloOu VIII IuC iCCuiAS
standards will show this ration to be
deficient in all nutrients except fat
We believe the addition of half pound
of gluten meal and of bran would make
sufficiently large ration for S00-pound
Jerseys; the standard is for l ,000-pound
cows. 1t is scarcely probable that the
cows eat so much ensilage, but if such
should be the case we would feed some
more of the bran and some straw, if il
can be had chearly. Experiment with
feeding some of your COWS more grain
and some less. 1t is almost certain that
some will be found that will return an
increased profit for more feed and some
less profit The grain feed is quite
small, and it would seem as though
these Jerseys would need more of il
and would be unable to take care of the
large amount of roughage now fed. II
would be well to, at least, make the
experiment of feeding more grain, but
it must be remembered that what goes
to feed the COW this year is almost Ger.
tain to show its effects for either good
or evil in her next years production"