Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-14

are growing thin in flesh. Am feed
ing clover hay once a day and sweet
corn fodder, ears and all, twice a
day, in addition to about four pounds
mixed feed in the following proper
tion: Two hundred white bran, 200
graduated oats. 100 corn and cob
meal, Jog cotton seed meal, 100 gluten
meal. How can l improve the ration
Madison. n. II. s.
You fail to give the weight of your
COWS or the quantity of milk being
given by them, which particulars are
essential in compromising a ration
best adapted TO the COWS in question.
We are assuming, however, that your
COWS weigh about $50 pounds and are
averaging thirty pounds daily. which
eight pounds of your feed should
make, besides maintaining the COW.
An analysis of the ration you are
feeding shows it is a narrow one
that Is, the amount of protein. COM
pared with carbo- hydrates. is greater
than should be fed. While this will
make the cows give a good deal of
milk, it has tendency TO make them
! thin.
The ratio should be about 1:55. You
are feeding about 1:5.1.
We would suggest that YOU feed the
following: Mixture 200 pounds bran.
200 pounds oats, fifty pounds cotton
seed meal, $50 pounds corn meal. 100
pounds gluten, 100 pounds molassine
meal
Feed one pound of the above mix
[ ture 10 every three and one-half
pounds milk; clover hay once q day.
all they will eat, and the green corn
fodder twice day so long as you
| have it. On account of the ratio
! being narrow, the amount of cotton
/ seed has haan
corn meal for corn and cob meal,
using more of the former than you
did of the cob meal All this widens
| the ratin
| To secure best results, the cows
must have some form of succulence
You have it in your green corn, but
that Will not last long. When you
have no more of that, and have no
silage, you should buy dried beet
pulp, and feed about three pounds to
four pounds per day to each COW,
diiuting it with about six times it's
| own bulk in water before feeding.
! The molassine is a milk maker IT
also helps to keep the cattle in good
condition and excellent health and
allays any tendency to stomach
trouble, keeping all the tracts clear.
OF course, the dried beet pulp will
take the place of the green corn. so
/ thdt YOU VIII StlH Ieeu one DOQnQ
i grain to every three and one-half
pounds milk
| Drawf Fruit Trees.
/ After reading your article on fruit
| trees last week, would like to know
more about dwarf trees
| Belleville P. I. r.
just because they are not so large
| as the trees from which they are
| grated the suburban gardener is
| generally apt to think they are not so
valuable. But they have some things
tabout them which make them pref
cradle to the large trees for the small
suburban place.
| You can grow dwarf trees IN the
| half of barrel filed with earth, or in
boxes, and they can be taken up in
the fall or winter and replanted in the
spring. That is a handy and convent
emit way in which the busy man with
the small suburban lot may have
movable orchard.
When planting the dwarfs. they
should. be placed about six or eight
feet apart. If they are kept in boxes
during the spring, summer and fall,
they must, of course, be fed: other
wise they would use up all the nutri-
ment in the soil to which they were
confined.
Dwarfs are the products of graft
ing. Graft a q 5late pear upon
ounce stock afsf .4arf tree is the
product. Thess5 ;.ing can be ac-
complished by AaaGIng upon other
varieties of stock.