The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-02-24
ON STOCK RAISING.
VALUABLE EXPERIE NOE
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, who 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 enSiage.
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 San, Feb
ruarY 18th. 1905.
Thirty one Guernsey and grade
Guernsey cows were selected for
the test, and in the year 1908
we're fed a daily ration of 80
pounds corn Sllage, pounds
bran pounds gluten and l
pound of cOttOnSetd meal and
what good mixed timothy and
clover hay the COW would eat.
and during the growing season
had the run of 1902 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 1908 these 81 cows gave a
total of 171.40I pounds of milk.
an average for each COW of >, 122
pounds for the year, allowing 81
pounds to the gallon of milk. or
513 gallons to each. The milk
was sold at 145 cents a gallon on
the farm, returning for each COW
S9L5S. 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.
"In 1904, having an abundance
of well cured alfalfa hay. mixed
corn and COW pea enSilage, he
put the same 81 cows on a daily
ration during the winter months
of 80 pounds-cOrn and cowpea
silage and all the alfalfa hay
they would eat, and during the
growing season they had the run
of the l02 acres of blue grass
pasture supplemented with a
Tally feed of green cut alfalfa,
and no concentrate were fed then
during the yea:-and on this
home grown ration the cows
yielded 1851 pounds of milk,
or an average of 1854 pounds 10
each COW and 81 pounds to a gal
lon making 700 gallons at l45
cents, returning SOL. 81 for each
COW, showing a 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 1908 for protein in shape
of commercial concentrate"
Mr.. H. 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
tlcularly so on having detailed
figures to back up yonr state
meut."
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 bed and set down in his
jourTt The amount of milk is
adt3g mp, and at the end of
eysrI R2nth is placed to the
credV OF Ire COW on his ledger,
where a complete history of the
cOw( 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
muscles 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
Palo Alta ranch.
Our government has found out
its value and feeds the cavalry