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narrow nutritive ratio. Consulting the table, it is found 

 that among such are linseed meal, cottonseed meal, gluten 

 feed, malt sprouts, buckwheat middlings, etc. For the 

 northeastern states, buckwheat middlings is usually 

 reasonable in price. It is suggested to substitute it for 

 corn in the ration. Again, taking the figures from the 

 table, we have: 



Nutritive ratio, 1:7.4 



While this ration is much improved over the previous 

 one and will produce a more abundant flow of milk, it 

 is still too wide to produce the best results. If the timothy 

 hay is reduced two pounds, and two pounds of cotton- 

 seed meal put in its place, we get: 



Nutritive ratio, 1:5.4 



