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one pound; bran, five pounds; linseed meal, two 

 pounds; cotton seed meal, two pounds. 



Corn silage, 25 pounds; mixed hay, seven pounds 

 bran, six pounds; cotton seed meal, two pounds. 



Turnips, forty-five pounds; wheat chaff, seven 

 pounds; silage, fifteen pounds; oats two and one- 

 naif pounds; pea meal, two and one-half pounds. 



Alfalfa hay, thirty-five pounds; wheat bran, 

 seven pounds ; barley three pounds. 



Prairie hay, twenty pounds; corn stover, ten 

 pounds; corn meal, eight pounds; bran three 

 pounds; linseed meal, one-half pound. 



Timothy hay, ten pounds; clover hay, ten 

 pounds; corn, eight pounds; oats, one and one- 

 naif pounds. 



The amount of various foods which can safely 

 and most economically be fed to dairy cows will 

 obviously vary greatly in different parts of the 

 country on account of the variation in the prevail- 

 ing market value of different crops. 



Influencing Milk by Means of the Ration. It 

 has long been the dream of the dairyman to be 

 able to increase decidedly the amount of fat in the 

 milk by means of suitable changes in the ration or 

 by feeding certain materials which would increase 

 the amount of fat secreted in the milk. This, 

 however, has not been possible to any marked 

 extent. In fact the belief of all dairy experts and 

 the general statement on the subject has been that 

 the amount of milk obtained depends partly on 

 the individual cow but can be greatly influenced 

 by the character of the food while the percentage 

 of fat in the milk is purely an individual matter 

 with the cow and not subject to influence by the 

 kind of food in the ration or by any changes in the 

 ration. As a rule all experiments carried on to 



