Principles and Practice of Stock Feeding 2.'! 



may not be made from the farm and the receipts applied to the purchase of 

 higher grade feeds. May not timothy hay and grain be sold and bran, cotton- 

 seed and gluten meals and, perhaps, clover hay be bought without much if 

 any extra outlay, and to the actual improvement of food and manurial sup- 

 plies? The tables of analyses, digestible ingredients, fertilizing ingredients, 

 etc., in this bulletin, together with a knowledge of market prices and a little 

 figuring will enable any one of experience and judgment in cattle feeding to 

 answer this question for himself and to plan his feeding operations intelli- 

 gently. 



The following suppositious case is worked out at length by way of illus- 

 tration. It is recommended to the careful consideration of feeders who find 

 it difficult to gain the wherewithal to purchase feed. 



A herd of 20 cows, averaging 1,000 pounds weight, are to be fed in the 

 barn from fall to spring, 200 days. The roughages and grain mentioned are 

 available and are assumed to have saleable values in the vicinity as shown. 



25 tons timothy hay $10.00 a ton. 



10 " clover hay 7.50 " 



80 " silage (mature corn) 3.00 " 



300 bushels oats 25 cents 1 a bushel 



There are also on the farm seven tons of oat straw, worth, say, $5 a ton, 

 which it is designed to use as bedding, but which may be fed if needed. 



The following feeds may be bought in the neighborhood at the prices 

 named : 



Corn meal $16.00 a ton 



Wheat bran 17.00 



Wheat middlings 19.00 



Mixed (wheat) feed 18.00 



Cottonseed meal 24.00 



Linseed meal, new process 26.00 



Chicago gluten meal 24.00 



Buffalo gluten feed 20.00 



Quaker dairy feed 17.00 



What, if any, sales and purchases may be made in order to winter the 

 herd successfully, and to render more likely a better milk yield at little or 

 no extra outlay and without depleting the plant food supply of the farm ? 



Twenty cows fed 200 days are equivalent to one cow for 4,000 days. 

 The sundry standards prescribe the following amounts of dry matter and 

 nutrients for 4,000 days ; and the hay, silage and oats furnish the amounts 

 shown below : 



i A low price as oats sell in New England. If, however, a higher figure is assumed 

 the favorable outcome of the scheme is made yet more successful. 



