milk-making food. Do you wonder, then, that David's cows soon 

 began to grow fat and dry off ? They were starving for nmscle- 

 makers, though ghitted with fat-makers. Tiiat well-filled corn crib 

 of yours will make you lose many a dollar in the same way if you 

 trust to it entirely for feeding your milch cows. David fed timothy 

 hay. John fed clover hay. The table tells us that clover hay has 

 nearly three times as much muscle-making food as timothy hay and 

 almost as much fat-making food ; yet you will pay $12 a ton for 

 timothy and feed it to your dairy cows, when clover can be bought 

 for $9. Is there profit in this ? 



I have nothing against your corn crib, if you loill only use it 

 wisely. I have tried to show that corn is a fat-maker ; yet you feed 

 it alike to shotes and hogs, team horses and roadsters, broilers and 

 laying pullets, milch cows and fattening steers. You say that you 

 can get most anything you want out of your stock with corn. Have 

 you had anything to compare it with? How do you know that 

 you could not get better results with another ration ? Suppose you 

 make your farm a little experiment station by feeding John's ration 

 to part of your cows, and David's to the remainder. Or take four 

 fresh cows giving about the same amount of milk a day, and feed 

 John's ration to two and David's to the other two. I know it is 

 rather hard to see how the figures in these tables are going to make 

 differences in the milk pail ; but if you can see what goes into the 

 manger and what comes into the pail you will doubt no longer, for 

 most every man believes his own eyes. Try it ! I shall be pleased 

 to hear the results of your own experiment. 



To this the correspondent replied essentially as follows : 

 I think I begin to see into this feeding problem more clearly. 

 What you want me to do is to prevent a waste of food, do you not ? 

 If 1 am keeping cows for their milk you want me to feed a ration 

 which will make milk, and not be wasted in making fat. To feed 

 with the milk-making food a lot of fat-making food which is not 

 needed would be poor economy. 



There are a few things in those tables which I do not understand 

 yet. What has that first column, called " Total dry matter," to do 



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