384- 



CATTLE-BREEDING. 



Good rations, fitted to ordinary use, may be 

 readily compounded on the basis of this stand- 

 ard, of which the following are examples: 



TABLE II. 



TABLE III. 



The simplest tables, containing only bran or 

 crushed corn, with hay and chopped oats, are, 

 in my judgment, the best for the practical 

 farmer, and may be readily calculated. But 

 while the tables of the scientific investigator 

 are the touchstones to try our work by, even 

 those who prepare them admit that they are 

 only approximate. The personal equation is 



