The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-05-29

and the city diaries paid 20 cents a gallon for
milk
1 You are for the most part producing per cent
milk and we will figure from that basis.
100 pounds Of this milk would bring 81 go at the
coDdensery, 1912 minus the freight at the city
dairies, and ST. "a at the creameres and your skim
milk returned. The freight on your milk from
here to Baltimore is about cents per gallon.
This leaves $500 per hundred Skim milk is
worth about 25 cents hundred for feeding pigs
: and calves. This would amount to Sl49 per
hundred for milk at the creamery. From these
figures you may determine for-yourselves which
is the best paying proposition.
Mr.. Balderson tells me that one of your greatest
problems here is that of eliminating or judicous
feeding of commercial feeds.
1t is always advisable to raise as much of your
required feed as possible and reduce the greatest
expense of the business, that Of buying feed. In
view of this iactit is necessary to growas near
balanced ration as practicable.
The dairy feeds best adapted to Maryland soii
and conditions are corn, rye, oats, cowpeas,
crimson clover red clover, blue grass, vetch.
alfalfa, wheat and timothy.
/ From these variety of balanced rations may
be compounded. In compromising ration we
must first consider what constitutes balanced
ration. That is. the feeds that produee heat and
energy balanced in the proper ratio with those
that supply muscle, nerve, milk skin, tendons.
etc. The former are composed largely of carbon
and hydrogen and are called carbohydrates.
The latter are composed largely of heterogeneous
substances and are called protein. A properly
balanced ration for dairy COW while in her
normal milk flow is one part Of protein to parts
of carbohydrates,
| Tho nrotoin faods on,,oirt Of olFalf, oloya.
Yctch, cowpeas, wheat bran. middngs and cotton
seed meal. The carbohydrates consist of corn,
rye and timothy. From corn we may obtain corn
forage. SIEGE corn slower, corn meal, corn and
cob meal. gluten feed and hominy chop. All
these can be successfully produced on your farms
with the exception of the cotton seed. This how
| ever should be fed in small quantities and with
precaution In balancing rations with these feeds
we use the following combinations, as described
| in bulletin So of our State Experiment Station.
Green Alfalfa so lbs ; Corn chop Ia lbs.
Alfalfa hay Is ibs. Corn chops his; Corn fodder
5 ibs.
Alfalfa hay II u.s.; Corn chop II lbs.
Alfalfa hay Is tbs.; Corn chop lbs; Corn
Siege 20 lbs.
Alfalfa hay II ID Corn Siege 40 n; Corn chop
5 H.; cotton seed meal ID gluten meal ID.
Alfalfa hay IL ib.; corn silage 80 ID corn chop
6 D.; gluten feed ID.
Alfalfa hay II ID corn silage 80 lbs; corn chop
6 lbs; cotton seed meal ~ lbs.
falfa hay IL lbs; corn silage 20 lbs corn chop
lbs wheat bran ~ lbs; cotton seed meal l lb
Alfalfa hay 20 lbs corn silage 40 lbs.
In all these rations vetch or clover may be
substituted for alfalfa with slight changes of other
ingredients.
Vetch is new crop in this State, but when the
land has been properly lined it grows luxurianty
and produces about three tons per acre. Where
sown with rye it grows about four feet high
Sown with wheat three feet, with oats two and
one-half feet, and when sown alone it lodges and
like cowpeas is very hard to cut and handle.
Oil meal or linseed meal is an excellent feed for
putting an animal in good condition. but small
amount is usually sufficient and its use need not
| be long continued.
In feeding cows which produce large flow OF
| milk we must consider that the drain on a cows
System in the production of milk is similar to
running sore which never heals Her self main
tanning faculties have been reduced by special
purpose breeding until the nutrition of about 40
per cent of what she eats goes into her milk
| supply. She should therefore be given the best
possible care and never subjected to cold storms,
excitement or Ill treatment
l II phys W Iest every COW III tne nero TWO or
| three times year and ascertain whether or not
she is a boarder or money maker If you have
| not Babcock tester send the samples to the
Dairy Department Of the Experiment Station and
we will test them for you free of charge. You can
never tell by looking at milk whether or not it
is rich in butterfat any more than you can tell by
looking at a COW whether or not she has
tuberculosis.
This hriUpe ID q I'M onf aipff In ~
dairy business. The tubereuline test. Your COWS
may or may not have tuberculosis, but you should
satisfy yourself in this matter There is no law
in this State compelling you to kill them if they
have the disease, but for your own children's
sake you should ascertain whether or not there
are any unhealthy COWS in your herd. If so they
may either be killed or isolated to separate
buildings so as to prevent the entire herd and
also your calves pigs, and chickens from con-
tracing the disease The greatest source of con-
tamination from this disease is from the excreta
voided by diseased animals. If there are any
such animals in your herd, your pigs and barn.
yard fouls are thus subjected to the most danger
Gus source of contamination from tuberculosis |
This as previously mentioned is one of the reasons
for having your manure taken from the barn as
often as wagon load accumulates.
Considerable discussion followed
the reading of the paper and vote
of thanks was rendered Prof. |
Melick, also to Messrs. Robert !
Balderston for some samples of
alfalfa, crimson clover and vetch
and M. @. Reeder for samples of
excellent apples of the York I'm.
perial and Red Romantic varieties.
Mr.. Polk brought some fruit tree
twigs showing injury by some in
sect which Prof. Melick said he
would take to the College for ex.
animation and report.
On motion the Club adjourned to
meet with j. P. Wilson on June 10.