CHAPTER VI 



FEEDS AND FEEDING 



The Right Basis for Food Tables — A 

 Few Very Simple Directions Regarding 

 THE Feed for Various Kinds of Live- 

 stock. 



IT should, of course, be the aim of every 

 owner of a country place to raise, as far as 

 possible, all food consumed by the live-stock on 

 the farm. If his farm is located in the oat belt 

 or north of the northern half of Pennsylvania, 

 all feed should be grown on the place except 

 cottonseed or gluten meal, wheat, and bran. 



Home-grown foods are divided into two 

 groups; those raised for winter feed and those 

 raised in the way of soiling crops for summer 

 feed. The former class includes grasses, corn, 

 oats, peas, barley, and roots. To the latter 

 class belong clover, field and sweet corn, oats 



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