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tive values; in fact, their values must be regarded as approximate rather 

 than equal. 



The following rations are suggested as types based upon the above classi- 

 fication, which will lend itself to a wide variety of combinations; the feeds 

 used are usually found in any feed store : — 



I. 



Cottonseed meal or linseed meal, ..... 



Gluten feed, ........ 



Corn meal or hominy feed or ground oats or ground barley. 

 Wheat bran, . . . . . . 



Wheat middlings, ....... 



II. 



Cottonseed meal or linseed meal, ..... 

 Corn meal or hominy feed or ground oats or ground barley, 

 Wheat mixed feed or wheat bran, .... 



Pounds. 



300 

 300 

 300 

 200 

 100 



100 

 100 

 100 



Use one or more feeds in each group, providing the total number of pounds 

 in each group does not exceed the total number of pounds indicated for that 

 group. 



111. Pounds. 



Gluten feed, 300 



Wheat bran or wheat mixed feed, . . . . . . . . 200 



Corn meal or liominj" feed or ground oats or ground barley, .... 100 



Use two feeds in last group, one of which should be corn meal or hominy 

 feed, the other ground oats or ground barley. 



Following is the average retail ton price of some unmixed products which 

 the farmer could use in home-mixed rations, as compared with the average 

 retail ton price of ready-mixed dairy feeds for the same period (September 1, 

 1919, to April 1, 1920) : — 



Based on the preceding prices, ration I, containing 300 pounds of cotton- 

 seed meal, 300 pounds of gluten feed, 300 pounds of hominy feed, 200 pounds 

 of wheat bran and 100 pounds of wheat middlings, would cost $73 a ton. 

 Ration II, containing 100 pounds of cottonseed meal, 100 pounds of corni 



