HOW TO USE TABLE B. 



The feeder who has accepted the fact that his 900-lb. cow re- 

 quires 2^ lbs. of albuminoids, and i2i lbs. of non-albuminoids, 

 next wants to supply that amount of food material, and he must 

 make it up out of the fodder he has at hand or can buy ; and 

 here I want to say that I do not believe in following the rule 

 blindly, or with the idea that it is absolutely accurate, for such is 

 not the case. It is a good safe guide, and reasonably accurate, 

 and to be followed within reasonable limits, but variations are 

 admissible, and often profitable, since the market price of grains 

 and fodders varies, and hence grains which at one time are most 

 profitable to use at another time may not be ; here is where the 

 ingenuity of the individual comes into play. A cow should have 

 from 1 to i^ per cent, of her live weight daily of hay, and about 

 as much of any coarse fodder like straw, corn-fodder, swale hay, 

 etc. With the present high price of hay, owing to a very short 

 crop, it will prove profitable to use but little over the i per cent. 

 If ensilage is used, take 5 per cent, of the live weight. 



RATION FOR COW WEIGHING goO. 



Albuminoid. s. Non-Albuminoids. 



10 lbs. mixed hay furnish 0.37 lbs. 4.76 lbs. 



10 lbs. corn fodder furnish 0.21 lbs. 4.13 lbs. 



3 lbs. corn meal (2 quarts) 0.23 lbs. 1.99 lbs. 



3 lbs. cotton seed (2 quarts) .97 lbs. 1.26 lbs. 



li lbs. gluten (i quart) -2,7 lbs. .93 lbs. 



Total 2.15 lbs. 13.07 lbs. 



Required by standard 2.25 lbs. 12.15 lbs. 



At present prices this ration would cost about 18 cents, and a 

 trial of this one ration would convince most farmers, I am sure, 

 that it pays to know what we are feeding. 



RATION CONTAINING ENSILAGE. 



Ensilage, 40 lbs 0.60 lbs. 5.6 lbs. 



Hay, 5 lbs 0.19 lbs. 



Middlings, 4 lbs. (3^ quarts) 0.54 lbs. 



Corn meal, 2 lbs. (ij^ quarts) 0.14 lbs. 



Gluten, 3 lbs. (2 quarts) 0.76 lbs. 



Total 2.23 lbs. 



Required 2.25 lbs. 



