Digestible Albuminoids, 2.50 lbs., 



Digestible Non-albuminoids, ^3-5° lbs.. 



We will next see what our two "foundations " furnish, from 

 Table II it is easily figured that : 



15 lbs., mixed hay and clover, furnish, 

 10 bs corn stover, furnish, 



Total furnished, 

 Total required, 



Deficiency to come from grain, 1.72 2.22 



The following will give a ration near enough to the standard. 

 Cottonseed 4 lbs., = 3 qts., = 1.26 1.68 



Shorts, 2 lbs., =^ 3 qts., = .26 1.04 



7 61^ 2.43 14.57 



Required by standard, 2.50 ^3-5o 



This ration has a nutritive ratio of i : 6 which is as narrow 

 as we can afford to go. 



Our second " foundation " figures as follows : 



2.39 14-34 



Computing and balancing rations by the aid of the tables 



requires nothing but simple arithmetical calculations, which any 



feeder in the state can make if he will and while many will find 



that by years of observation in the barn they have hit upon 



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