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Ontario Agr. College: 45 Ibs. corn silage, 6 Ibs. clover 

 hay, 8 Ibs. bran, 2 Ibs. barley. 



Nappan Experiment Station (Canada) : 30 Ibs. corn 

 silage, 20 Ibs. hay, 8 Ibs. bran and meal. 



The criticism may. properly be made with a large 

 number of the rations given in the preceding, that it is 

 only in case of low prices of grain or concentrated feeds 

 in general, and with good dairy cows, that it is possible 

 to feed such large quantities of grain profitably as those 

 often given. In the central and northwestern states it 

 will not pay to feed grain heavily with corn at fifty cents 

 a bushel and oats at thirty cents a bushel or more. In 

 times of high prices of feeds, it is only in exceptional 

 cases that more than six or eight pounds of concentrated 



AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF SILAGE CROPS OF DIFFERENT 

 KINDS, IN PER CENT. 



