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use home-grown corn to feed in connection with this 

 roughage ; and, finally, to supplement roughage and 

 corn with other concentrates purchased outright or 

 secured in exchange for corn and fed in such ways 

 as will give balanced rations to meet the ever- 

 changing needs of the steers under feed. 



SOME SAMPLE RATIONS 

 Maintenance Ration for Breeding Cows. 



The following rations are for cows during the win- 

 ter and without calves : 



1. Corn silage, 20 pounds; clover hay, 3 pounds; 



oat straw, 10 pounds. 



2. Shock corn, 8 pounds ; clover hay, 3 pounds ; 



oat straw, 10 pounds. 



3. Shredded stover, 10 pounds; clover hay, 5 



pounds. 



Winter Yearlings With and Without Grain. 



1. Corn silage, 15 pounds; clover hay, 15 pounds. 



2. Clover hay, 10 pounds ; corn stover, 10 pounds ; 



corn, 3 pounds. 



3. Timothy hay, 8 pounds ; clover hay, 8 pounds ; 



corn, 3 pounds. 



4. Alfalfa hay, 10 pounds ; corn, 5 pounds. 



5. Cowpea hay, 10 pounds ; corn, 5 pounds. 



6. Clover hay, 14 pounds; corn, 3 pounds. 



7. Alfalfa, 7 pounds ; corn stover, 6 pounds ; corn, 



3 pounds. 



