l88 FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



Cereal grains are often fed dairy cows, corn more 

 so than other cereals. On farms where alfalfa and 

 clover form the bulk ration, corn may be fed if its 

 market value is on a level with better-class meals 

 and other grains. If corn silage be fed in connection 

 with timothy or mixed grasses and corn stover, corn 

 will not be a desirable food. There will be wanted 

 in this instance and in others like it, concentrates 

 like oil meal, wheat bran, gluten, distillers' grains or 

 other concentrates of which protein is the predomi- 

 nating factor. 



Grain and Quality of Butter. The character of 

 the food frequently influences the quality of the but- 

 ter. The white, hard, tasteless character of winter 

 butter results from the food given. Fresh pasture, 

 bright legume hays, corn silage and soiling crops 

 give color to the milk and to butter. Gluten or corn 

 produces a soft butter. Wheat bran makes a harder 

 butter than either. If much of gluten is introduced 

 into a ration, the butter will be soft, but its hardness 

 may be improved by the use of cottonseed meal, a 

 feed that makes a very hard butter. By mixing the 

 two, a better grade of butter will be obtained than if 

 either is used alone. A pound or two of cottonseed 

 meal when the cows are on pasture helps to counter- 

 act the objectionable softness of butter during the 

 pasture season. 



FEEDING YOUNG DAIRY STOCK 



During the First Winter. Calves dropped in the 

 spring and early summer will be growing nicely by 

 the time they are put up in their winter quarters. A 



