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MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



TABLE II. 



All feeds were charged to the Individual cows according to the following tables of values. 



Feed. 



Price per ton . 



First Sixty 

 days. 



Second sixty 

 days. 



Alfalfa hay 



Clover hay 



Corn silage 



Green cut clover 



Green cut corn 



Green oats and peas 



Corn meal 



Bran 



Hominy feed., 



Oil meal 



Cotton seed meal 



Ground oats 



Rolled oats 



Gluten feed 



Distillers grains 



Union grains 



Wheat middlings 



Malt sprouts 



Oorn hearts for Slioithorns and .lerseys. 

 Corn hearts for Holsteins 



$6 50 

 6 00 



2 00 



3 00 



2 00 



3 50 

 15 00 



15 00 



12 50 



24 00 



25 00 

 22 00 

 36 00 



16 00 

 24 00 



17 00 



10 00 

 16 00 



13 50 



$7 .50 

 7 00 



2 50 



3 00 



2 50 



3 50 

 20 00 



18 00 

 IS 00 

 24 00 

 26 00 

 20 00 

 36 00 

 20 00 



20 00 



19 00 

 l!S UO 



20 00 

 IS 00 



The table of values for the first sixty days was established before 

 the beginning of the demonstration by the representatives of the various 

 breeds. Before the beginning of the second sixty days the supervising 

 committee decided that the values found in the second half of the table 

 were more nearly an average of the market values for all parts of the 

 country. Throughout the whole test the feeders were permitted to feed 

 whatever feed thy desired in such quantities as in their judgment would 

 j)roduce the most economical results. 



The two "checkers" were assisted in their work by the Jefferson 

 Guards, three shifts of these being on duty during the twenty-four hours. 

 They were under strict orders not to leave the barn or permit the cows to 

 be fed except at the prescribed time. They also saw that stranger.-; did 

 not enter the stalls of the cows. 



The question that naturally presents itself to our minds is. ""what 

 are the practical lessons to be learned from the test?" The first is, use 

 good cows. No other kind will, at any price of feed, net the best returns. 

 It is a trite saying but no less true that this kind of a cow requires little 

 more actual w^ork in her care than one which is being kept at an actual 

 loss. True, the cows in the demonstration were selected individuals, 

 but a large proportion of them came from small working herds. Al- 

 though Missouri does not boast of being a strictly dairy State, it is 

 worthy to note that seven cows came from Missouri herds and it is not 



