The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
ON STOCK RAISING.
VALUABLE EXPERIENCE
WITH CATTLE, HORSES
AND HOGS.
Mr.. Charles A. Councilman
Conducts a Milk Producing
Test With Success-His Sug.
gestions for Breeding Horses,
Producing Milk, etc.

Baltimore county, VINO has been
so successful in growing alfalfa
as his forage crop, has been con.
Quoting a test to determine the
comparative value of home grown
ration, the protein for which is
obtained from alfalfa, hay and
cOwpea and corn ensilage.
ration in which the protein is
purchased IN shape of bran.
gluten and cottouSeed meal He
has written the following account.
which appeared in the Sun, Feb
rnary 18th, 1905
Thirty one Guernsey and grade
Guernsey cows were selected for
the test, and in the year 1903
were fed a daily ration of 80
pounds corn sllage, > pounds
bran, 4 pounds gluten and
pound of cOttonseed meal and
what good mixed timothy aud
clover hay the COW would eat.
and during the growing season
had the run of 102 acres of blue
grass and white clover pasture,
and while in pasture were led
pounds bran and l pound of
gluten meal. and during the
dry "SpellS" in the summer green
cut alfalfa was fed every day.
On this ration at the end of the
year 1903 these 81 cows gave
total of III. 40l pounds of milk,
an average for each COW of ., 1872
pounds for the year, allowing 81
pounds to the gallon of milk, or
5I3 gallons to each. The milk
was sold at 145 cents a gallon on
the farm, returning for each COW
S9I5S. He paid S6S292 for his
bran, gluten and cottonseed meal
during the year, which are known
as "concentratS" or commercial
feeds. which he fed in the above
rations to produce this result.
"ln 1904. having an abundance
of well cured alfalfa hay, mixed
corn and COW pea enSilage, he
put the same 81 COWS on daily
ration during the winter months
OF 81 pounds-cOrn and cowpea
silage and all the alfalfa hay
they would eat, and during the
growing season they had the run
of the 1902 acres of blue grass
pasture, supplemented with
daily feed of green cut alfalfa,
and no concentrate were fed them
during the yea:-aud on this
home grown ration the cows
yielded lS4, 81 pounds of milk,
or an average of 1854 pounds to
each COW and 81 pounds to a gal
lon making 700 gallons at l45
cents, returning Sl01.5l for each
COW, showing difference of
1892 in each in favor of the
home grown ration, and in addi
tion'a saving of S5S2.02 that was
paid in 1903 for protein in shape
OF commercial concentrate
Mr.. II. j. Patterson. director
of the Maryland Experiment Sta
ton, who has been consulted by
Mr.. Councilman during the test,
snms up the result in a letter as
follows:
1.-The average yield is certainly
exceedingly satisfactory, and par
ticularly so when you consider
that all the feeds have been
raised on the farm and the cost
OF production much reduced. The
performance OF some of the COWS
is quite erratic, but these things
are always happening and cannot
be explained. | thank you very
much for giving me the use of
this record. You are certainly 10
be congratulated on the fine
showing you have made, but par
ticularly so on having detailed
figures to back up yonr state
ment."
Mr.. Councilman keeps a regular
set of books for his cows. and
each COW is numbered, and has
her individual page on his ledger;
her morning and evening milk is
weig he'd and set down in his
Journal The amount of milk is
added up, and at the end of
everN month is placed to the
credT OF the COW on his ledger,
where a complete history of the
cowl is kept. Mr.. Councilman
claims that greater results can be
obtained fran alfalfa in fattening
beef for market.
HOW TO RAISE HORSES.
Mr.. Councilman says alfalfa is
natures choicest gift to the
horse. 1t builds up his bone and
and gives him nerves of
iron. The late Senator Stanford
lowered the worlds trotting rec.
ords with the colts he raised on
alfalfa and white winter barley,
both of which grow and yield as
well on limestone lands of West
ern Maryland as they do on his |
Paio Alta ranch.
Our government has found out !