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TYPES OF BALANCED RATIONS. 



By J. B. LiNDSEY. 



Because of the high prices of all concentrated feeds, dairymen are 

 ■frequently in doubt as to the kinds to be selected and the amount 

 to be fed in order to secure the best returns for the money invested. 

 Farmers selling cream to the creamery, or located where there is not 

 a quick demand for milk, probably will not find it economical to feed 

 over 5 pounds of purchased grain daily, and will use maximum 

 amounts of hay and silage (i to 1^2 bushels of silage and what hay 

 the animal will eat clean). If the silage is well eared, 13^2 

 pounds each of cottonseed meal and flour middlings, sprinkled over 

 the silage to distribute it, will produce a fairly well balanced ration, 

 and prove helpful in maintaining the milk flow. If corn meal is a 

 home product rather than silage, mix by weight }(, bran, ^2 corn 

 and cob meal and }( cottonseed meal (100 pounds bran, 200 pounds 

 corn and cob meal and 100 pounds cottonseed meal), and feed 5 to 6 

 quarts daily, together with one feeding of cut or shredded corn 

 stover and what hay the animal will clean up. 



Producers of market milk generally find it advisable to feed some- 

 what more grain, and a number of combinations are suggested which 

 will produce satisfactory balanced rations when fed with what hay 

 the animal will eat clean (18 to 24 pounds a day), or with one bushel 

 of corn silage and 10 to 16 pounds of hay. 



I. 



125 lbs. bran. 

 100 lbs. flour middlings. 

 100 lbs. gluten feed. 

 Mix and feed 6 to 8 lbs. (7 to 9 qts.) 

 daily. 



III. 

 100 lbs. wheat bran. 

 100 lbs. gluten feed. 

 35 lbs. cottonseed meal. 

 Mix and feed 7 lbs.( 8 to 9 qts.) 

 daily. 



V. 

 75 lbs. wheat bran. 

 150 lbs. corn and cob meal. 

 ,100 lbs. cottonseed meal. 

 Mix and feed 6 to 8 lbs. or quarts 

 daily. • 



II. 



125 lbs. bran. 



100 lbs. corn or hominy meal. 

 100 lbs. cottonseed meal. 

 Mix and feed 6 to 8 lbs. (7 to 9 qts.) 

 daily. 



IV. 

 125 lbs. malt sprouts. 

 100 lbs. corn or hominy meal. 

 125 lbs. gluten feed. 

 Mix and feed 7 lbs. (6i to 7 qts.) 

 daily. 



VI. 

 100 lbs. distillers' grains. 

 100 lbs. malt sprouts. 

 150 lbs. corn meal. 

 50 lbs. cottonseed meal. 

 Mix and feed 7 lbs. (7 to 8 qts.) daily. 



