320 ARID AGRICULTURE. 



own scientific principles for other branches of 

 farming. Some of the stations are doing much 

 of this kind of work and are already making val- 

 u able discoveries. 



VALUE or Wheat and corn have been found of prac- 



BATION^OB tically equal value as stock food, but greater care 

 DAIRY cows must be used in feeding wheat, as it is more apt 

 to injure stock not accustomed to it It is a safe 

 plan to mix wheat with some other food, as 

 ground barley or oats, or the ground grain may 

 be mixed with chopped hay. Some feeders suc- 

 cessfully use wheat alone, but they are careful to 

 feed small amounts at first, gradually increasing 

 the feed until the animals take the full ration. 



Malt sprouts is a valuable food, rich in nitro- 

 gen, but not very palatable to stock, so cows usu- 

 ally cannot be made to eat more than two pounds 

 per day in connection with other feed. Malt 

 sprouts should be soaked before feeding. 



As an illustration of what may be clone by 

 the farmer in saving money- on feed, by giving 

 some attention to the computation of rations 

 from cheaper foods, we publish the following 

 five rations, comparing each with the standard 

 as worked out for a 1,000 pound dairy cow giv- 

 ing 22 pounds of milk per day. This compari- 

 son is based upon the principle that the kind of 

 feed is not of so great importance as a combina- 

 tion of foods which gives a well-balanced ration. 

 The five rations, then, are considered approxi- 



