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CANADIAN FARM YEAR BOOK. 



Feeding Dairy Cattle 



Mr. J. H. Grisdale, Director of Ex- and ensilage, 

 perimental Farms, Ottawa, has issued The meal usually consisted of a 



the following statement with regard mixture of 800 lbs. of bran, 300 lbs. 



to the feeding of dairy cows at Ot- gluten meal, and 200 lbs. of linseed 



tawa. This statement will serve as a oil.caKe meal. 



guide to the feeding of dairy cows The meal was scattered on the 



under average conditions. roughage mixture of roots, ensilage 



The winter ration has been on the and cut straw after it was before the 



average about as follows: cattle. The hay given was uncut. 



Hay 5 lbs. and was fed after the other material 



Corn ensilage 30 lbs. had been cleaned up. 



Roots 10 lbs. Of course the amount of roughage 



Straw 4 lbs. fed depends on the appetite of the 



Meal 7 lbs. cow; the amount of meal is influ- 



The hay was mixed with clover and enced by the amount of milk being 



timothy. The corn silage was of good produced. 



quality, rich in grain and well pre- Her meal ration is gradually in- 

 served, creased after calving, until at three 



The roots were mangels, sugar or four weeks, she is supposed to be 



mangels, sugar beets or turnips. They on full feed. The amount of meal is 



were usually pulped and mixed with judged by the milk produced. If 



the ensilage. she responds freely to the increase 



The straw was, of course, oat, and in meal, she is fed the more liber- 

 was of good feeding quality. It was ally, usually up to that point where 

 cut and mixed with the pulped root an increase in meal does not seem to 



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