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tein of any of the common feeds, and for that reason the most 

 valuable. Gluten feeds as now sold rank about midway between 

 this group and bran in feeding value. Bran and oats rank close 

 together in feeding value, the oats probably being a little more 

 valuable pound for pound. When oats are worth twenty-five cents 

 per bushel, bran would be worth about $14.00 per ton. 



Some Suitable Rations — The following rations supply the 

 necessary material to produce milk economically. If the cow will 

 not give a good flow of milk in the early part of the milking period 

 and when fed a liberal amount of one of these rations, it indicates 

 she is not adapted by nature to be used as a dairy cow and should 

 be disposed of. The amounts given are considered about right for 

 the cow giving from 20 to 25 pounds milk a day. For heavy milk- 

 ing cows these rations would have to be increased, especially in the 

 grain, and for light milking cows the grain should be decreased. In 

 making up these rations it is designed that the cow be given all the 

 roughness she will eat and sufficient amount of grain to furnish 

 the proper amount of digestible material. It is not designed that 

 these rations should be sufficient or best adapted for cows that are 

 being fed for making records, where a very maximum production 

 is desired regardless of expense. 



SOME GOOD DAIRY RATIONS. 



FEEDING AND CARE OF HORSES. 



STALLIONS, BREEDING MARES, YOUNG HORSES AND WORK HORSES. 

 (By E. A. Trowbridge, Instructor In Animal Husbandry, University of Missouri.) 



The growing demand for high class horses and mules of any 

 of the recognized market types has placed the production of these 

 animals among the list of profitable enterprises on the American 

 farm. Present prices, regulated by supply and demand, do not seem 



