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almost AS much carbohydrates as the heavily worked ox. Though there 

 is little tax on the muscles, yet a large amount of protein is needed for 

 the cheese portion of the milk. To elaborate this, as well as the sugar 

 and fat, makes a heavy demand for food by the dairy cow. 



Table II is compiled by the German scientist, Dr. Emil Wolff, and 

 gives the amount of digestible substances he considers necessary by 

 our farm animals: 



TABLE II. Fwding standards. (According to Wolff.} 



[Per day and per l.fnwi pounds, live weight.] 



From TaMrs I and II wo are now in position to calculate a ration for 

 a fattening steer or a dairy cow. Let UM form a ration for a dairy cow 

 \\ i-ighing 1 ,(Mio pounds and yielding a full How of milk. Suppose we have 

 at hand the following common feeding stuffs: Corn fodder, clover hay, 

 bran, corn meal, and cotton-seed meal. By the last table we fiml the 

 requirements for a cow weighing 1,000 pounds to ho 2.5 pounds diges- 

 tilili- protein; 1J..~ jKmnds digestibl<> earbohytlrates, and 0.4 pound 

 digestible ether extract. 

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