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A STUDY OF FARM ANIMALS 



namely, availability and cost. The following recommended 

 rations are by well-known American authorities on feeding 

 dairy cattle, and for that reason are here given. 



Prof. E. S. Savage of Cornell University writes.* "The 



Figure 136. The result of feeding too much wheat bran and poor roughage. 

 This cow was fed a mixture of 6 parts wheat bran, 4 parts corn stover. 

 Millers' bran disease resulted the cow aborting six weeks before her time. 

 Reproduced from Bulletin 302, Wisconsin Experiment Station. 



mixture I am suggesting for dairy cows this summer is as 

 follows : 



300 pounds wheat bran . .Cost $3.43 



. " 4.52 



330 

 300 

 100 



1000 

 100 



hominy .... 



gluten feed 



oil meal 



will cost. . 



5.17 

 1.71 



Cost 14.83 



" 1.49 



The above is for cows on pasture." 

 Prof. A. C. McCandlish, of the Iowa State College,recom- 

 mends the following concentrate rations in a pamphlet on 

 feeding dairy cattle, f it being assumed that corn silage 



*Holstein-Friesian World, July 9, 1921. 



fCircular No. 64, Iowa Exp. Station, March, 1920. 



