pounds of milk and one pound of butter was practically the same for 

 the two rations, viz., 70.2 cents and 14.5 cents, respectively for the 

 good ration, and 70.3 cents and 15 cents for the poor ration, yet 34.1 

 per cent more milk and 38.9 per cent more butter were produced from 

 the good ration than from the poor ration with practically the same 

 amount of labor and capital. The results, therefore, indicate that twenty 

 cows well fed, yet with no attempt at forcing, would produce as much 

 milk as thirty cows equally as good if fed an abundance of corn stalks 

 and timothy hay and four pounds of corn meal per day. If, then, 

 there is any profit in producing milk from a ration made up largely of 

 roughage of a carbonaceous character on the basis of this experiment, 

 the profit might be increased one-third by feeding a ration containing 

 a larger amount of concentrated feed and properly balanced in respect 

 to food compounds. It has been claimed that, other things being 

 equal, a small herd well fed will prove more profitable than a large 

 herd poorly fed and the facts brought out by this study emphasize 

 the correctness of this claim. They point to the importance of good 

 feeding in the economical production of milk and butter." 



In addition to all the food the cow will eat, she should be provided 

 with as much pure water as she will drink. During the winter the 

 water should be slightly warmed. 



A cow requires from three-quarters to one ounce of salt each day. 

 It is a good plan to keep in some convenient place in the cow lot a few 

 large lumps of rock salt. 



Ear Corn Compared with Corn-and-Cob Meal 



Lane of the New Jersey Station compared broken ear corn with an 

 equal weight of corn-and-cob meal with the results shown in the 

 table: 



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The table shows the returns from the corn-and-cob meal exceed 

 those from ear corn by 9.4 per cent for milk flow and 4.5 per cent in 

 the yield of fat. These returns in favor of grinding corn are not materi- 

 ally different from those secured with fattening steers and swine. 



