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flow, but helps to keep the bowels in a lax condition, which is 

 essential to high production of milk. The analyses of a few 

 of the most used succulent feeds are given in Table IX. 



TABLE IX 



COMPOSITION OF GREEN CROPS 



159. Palatability of feed. Feed must be eaten with relish 

 to give the best results. If a ration is not palatable, an animal 

 will not eat it in sufficient quantities to make for productive- 

 ness. A mixture of feeds is often more palatable to an animal 

 than one feed; a little more succulence in the ration often 

 causes the animal to eat with a greater relish ; the substitution 

 of one kind of mill feed for another is often an advantage. 

 Moldy feed is not relished by animals and often it may cause 



