The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-18
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If every dairy farmer will plan to
make an effort to establish seeding
of alfalfa and will try soy beans,
cowpeas, Canada peas, crimson clover
and any other heterogeneous plant suit
able to his climate and farm opera
tons, we shall see the beginning Of the
solution of the protein problem and a
relaxation of the squeezing Of the
trusts controlling the protein of COM
merce says a Pennsylvania correspond
ent of Hoard's Dairyman.
Then the farmer who knows it is
best and wisest to balance his ration
will do so from the fullness of his own
harvest. With the experiment station
of New Jersey, where they do possibly
as little guessing on practical farm
matters as at any station in the coun-
try, authority for the statement that
over six tons of alfalfa, almost equal
to as many tons Of good wheat bran,
were produced last season per acre. no
progressive dairyman has an excuse
for not having at least trial patch of
alfalfa. ...
Three tons of cowpea hay can be
raised per acre on good ground. and If
one must have meal to supplement the
silage the cowpea hay may be ground
into meal and make as much milk as
it's weight in best wheat bran. If
Ten tons of soy beans can be cut
green to mix with the corn in the silo
from an acre or from 20 to 80 bushels
of seed harvested. This seed ground
to meal will give about three times as
much digestible protein as is found in
the same weight of wheat bran and
three times as much fat as in corn.
By devoting less range of pasturage
to the cows and practicing summer
soiling. or. better. substituting the sum
mer silo, fair proportion Of the land
! heretofore used for pasture can be
utilized for the growing Of some of
these protein crops and next winters
ration not only be balanced, but the
operation be performed without an un-
due unbalancing of the farmers bank
account.
Dairy Cow RatiOns.
Professor II. L. Hacker of the Min
nesota experiment station after nine
years experience gives the following
as to the best ration for dairy cows:
Ensilage is the foundation feed used,
and the grain feed consists Of five parts
bran, five parts cornmeal and two parts
of new process gluten meal, which con-
tains 81 per cent protein, and the ra-
lions are from five pounds to nine
pounds Of this mixture, according to
the amount of milk given. 1t general.
ly takes three pounds of ensilage and
half pound corn fodder for every pound
! of grain feed. If a cows flow Of milk
drops off for some cause or other, he
increases it by feeding roots besides
the grain for a time and then holds II
by grain alone. Incidentally he men
toned COW which failed to breed for
four years which gave 300 pounds OF
butter fat the fourth year and seems
ito intend to keep up that gait.
Ration For Calves.
Flaxseed meal is now too high to be
used with profit. says Professor w. A.
Henry. A little gluten feed or gluten
meal might be used instead. A mix.
ture OF one part each OF bran, mid
dlings and oats, by weight, should
prove satisfactory. Determine the bulk
OF the feeds by weighing once and then
] mix by measure. Do not allow the
feed to remain in the troughs between
feeds, but have the young things clean
up each allowance before the next 4
given.