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Tarle No. II. — Showing the Amount of Feed Required 

 for, and Feed Cost of, 100 Lbs. of Milk and 1 Lb. 



of Butterfat. 



The above table shows that it required practically 

 the same amount of ground velvet beans and pods to 

 produce one hundred pounds of milk and one pound 

 of butterfat as it did of the mixture of corn meal and 

 cottonseed meal. It is also shown that the feed cost 

 is cheaper in each case with the velvet bean and pod 

 ration. However, Table I shows that the production 

 of milk is 10 per cent, greater and butterfat 16 per 

 cent, greater with the gi-ain mixture. Table III, fol- 

 lowing, shows that the cows eating the velvet bean and 

 pod ration lost an average of 2.9 pounds per cow dur- 

 ing the 56 days, while those eating the mixture gained 

 24.6 pounds per cow. 



Table No. III. — Showing the Influenee of the Two Ra- 

 tions on the Weights of the Cows. (56Drtz/.9). 



The above table shows that the grain mixture was 

 more efficient for maintaining the weight of dairy cows 

 in milk than a ration of ground velvet beans and pods. 

 However, observation and figures on the individual 

 cows show that in the instances where the velvet beans 

 were nearly all consumed the weights were maintained 

 and some of the cows gained in weight. 



Summary 



1. A grain ration of 7 parts corn meal mixed with 

 8 parts cottonseed meal, fed with corn silage, produced 

 more milk and butterfat than ground velvet beans in 

 pods with silage. 



2. The velvet bean ration produced milk and Init- 

 terfat at a lower cost than the corn meal and cotton- 

 seed meal mixture. 



