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add variety. The following rations will give good results with 

 the average Missouri herd: 



1. Clover or cowpea hay, 10 pounds; silage 30 to 40 pounds, 

 and a grain mixture of equal parts of corn and cob meal and wheat 

 bran or oats; or of corn and cob meal three parts and cottonseed 

 meal one part, fed at the rate of 1 pound of grain to 3 pounds of 

 milk. 



2. All they will eat of clover or cowpea hay and a grain 

 mixture of five parts of corn and cob meal, three parts bran or 

 oats; or three parts corn and cob meal and one part cottonseed 

 meal, fed at the rate of 1 pound of the grain to three pounds of 

 milk. 



3. All the alfalfa or cowpea hay they will eat and 1 pound 

 of corn and cob meal to 3^/2 pounds of milk. 



If you have corn stover allow the cows to have access to it 

 through the day or combine it in small amounts with any of the 

 rations given. 



MY EXPERIENCE IN BREEDING UP A PROFITABLE DAIRY 



COW. 



(By Wm. H. Bruns of Concordia, Mo.) 



My first stock was Shorthorns. I read about the high prices 

 they brought in New York, so I obtained a roan bull calf. His 

 calves were nearly all roans, so I thought good calves would result. 



They gave good milk for about five or six months. Some of 

 them did not give enough to raise a good calf. Then I began to 

 look around for something else. One day in August my wife and 

 I went to see one of the neighbors and took dinner there. They 

 had some butter on the table that stood up straight on the dish. 

 Our butter would do that when first brought out of the cellar, buc 

 would soon melt down. I inquired the cause. The lady answered : 

 "We have an old black kicking cow that is the cause of that ; I can't 

 milk her." I inquired if I could get a heifer calf of that cow. 

 "No," she said, "her relatives had already spoken for more calves 

 than the cow would ever have." But in a year or two this family 

 had a sale and sold off everything, so I bought that old black cow 

 and bred her to a Shorthorn bull and raised three heifer calves, but 

 not one of them had milk or butter like the old cow. I then learned 

 that the calf would take more after the sire than the dam, in the 

 matter of milking qualities. 



