The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-26
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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
lions, 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 Pennsylvania correspond
! ent of Hoard's Dairyman.
Then the farmer who knows it is
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 a 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.
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, a 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 I'M
due unbalancing of the farmers bank
account.
Dairy Cow Rations.
L
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-
10
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 cows flow of milk
drops off for some cause or other, he
increases it by feeding roots besides
the grain for time and then holds it
by grain alone. Incidentally he men
toned q cow which failed to breed for
four years which gave 800 pounds of
! butter fat the fourth year and seems
| to 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 is
given.