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of feeding, and pursue it in the summer just as well as in 

 the winter. I believe this is the only way to get the most 

 from a dairy cow. 



Eye sown in August or early September will furnish 

 green feed as early as it is needed. Another sowing late in 

 the season will provide sufficient to last until spring crops 

 are ready. As soon as the soil can be worked in the spring, 

 a patch of spring rye, another of barley and peas, or oats 

 and peas, should be put in. Two or three weeks later, a 

 second sowing of oats and peas will provide the necessary 

 green feed, until corn from a patch of an early variety, 

 planted as early as possible, is ready. The dependence for 

 late summer and autumn should be corn, and an abundant 

 supply should always be provided. The ground from which 

 the early cuttings of rye and oats are made can be planted 

 to corn, and that from which later cuttings are made may be 

 sown to barley, which will make excellent feed after frost 

 comes. All these crops should be grown on fertile or well- 

 manured land, so as to insure an abundant yield. Cows 

 much prefer sweet corn, and evergreen sweet corn will yield 

 as much feed as any other variety. Many successful milk 

 producers consider it preferable to any other sort for the 

 main dependence. Rye should be cut before the head is 

 grown. Corn should be planted thin enough to insure an 

 ear on each stalk, and it is most valuable for feed after the 

 ears are grown. 



To make a balanced ration, some concentrated feed rich 

 in protein should be fed with the rank-grown soiling feed. 

 Wheat bran, gluten meal, oil meal and cotton-seed meal are 

 always in the market, and all are rich in protein. There are 

 numerous other by-products of manufactures on the market, 

 many of which are economical sources of protein. These 

 articles vary in price from time to time, and the bulletins 

 and reports of the experiment stations furnish the informa- 

 tion that will enable the dairyman to select the feed that will 

 furnish the needed protein at the cheapest rate. Much labor 

 and thought have been expended by the experiment stations 

 in efforts to discover crops that will be good substitutes 

 for purchased feed stuffs rich in protein, and that can be 

 economically raised on the farm. Such crops have been 



