EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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the prices adopted are necessarily arbitrary they are intended to repre- 

 sent the average yearly prices that prevail in the Michigan markets. 



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SCHEDULE OP FEEDS AND PRICES. 



Clover hay $5 00 per ton 



Corn silage ' 2 50 " 



Green corn 2 00 " 



Succotash 1 50 " 



Roots 2 00 " 



Corn meal 20 00 



Wheat bran 18 00 



Oats 20 00 



Dried beet pulp 15 00 



Dried molasses beet pulp 16 50 



Gluten feed 20 00 



Oil cake 28 00 



Pasture for season 5 00 



It has been the plan to handle the herd in as uniform a manner as pos- 

 sible, making variations only in amounts of feed as demanded by the 

 milk yield, the stage of lactation, and the individual peculiarities of the 

 animal. They were all kept in good milking condition, but were not 

 allowed much increase in live weight except toward the close of their 

 milking periods and while dry. So far as it could be controlled each 

 cow was allowed to go dry from six to eight weeks. 



The regular winter ration of the cows was com silage, hay, and grain 

 supplemented at times by mangolds. During the summer they had pas- 

 ture and grain, supplemented by silage, succotash, or green corn as the 

 condition of the pasture, the milk flow, and the maturity of the soiling 

 crop dictated or permitted. 



In Table III are given the pounds of food consumed by each cow, ar- 

 ranged as to kinds. The costs of grain, roughage, and pasture are given 

 separately. For convenience roots are classed under roughage. By the 

 use of the Schedule of Prices the cost of any item of roughage or grain 

 for any cov/ may be obtained. 

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