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FARM ARITHMETIC. 



110. When corn stover, clover hay, cottonseed meal, 

 and wheat bran are available, what quantities of each 

 may be fed a cow weighing 1,000 pounds and yielding 11 

 pounds of milk daily? 



Important truth. Animals to do their work effi- 

 ciently must be properly fed. A feeding stuff is valuable 

 in proportion to the quantity of digestible nutrients 



Poor Way to Feed Sheep. 



A large amount of fodder is wasted beca-se sheep will not eat it after they have 



once run over the stalks. 



it contains. For this reason rational feeding calls 

 for a variety of materials in order that all nutrients may 

 be furnished in correct proportions and quantities. A 

 ration properly compounded may mean not only better 

 work or more milk or more rapid development, but a 

 saving in cost as well. 



Cost of digestible nutrients. That the daily ration 

 fed an animal should be furnished as cheaply as possi- 



