292 STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



foods used here will reveal the fact that a majority of the farmers fail 

 to provide suflBcient succulence and concentrates, and compel their cows 

 to depend too much on dry, coarse feeds for their sustenance. 



With no animal is liberal feeding so essential to profit as with the 

 dairy cow. While some farmers feed wastefully at one season, and 

 stintingly at another, a majority of those who fail, do so first because 

 they do not supply sufficient foods, and. second, because' that which is 

 supplied is lacking in variety and succulence. 



