PART IV— FEEDS AND FEEDING 



CHAPTER I 

 BUSINESS METHODS IN FEEDING 



The business man aims to secure the largest 

 returns possible for every dollar expended. There is 

 no business that requires more earful study and 

 forethought to accomplish this than that which rests 

 upon the dairyman when he faces the problem of 

 providing a palatable and well-balanced ration for a 

 dairy herd. The dairyman must not only be a good 

 producer and intelligent buyer, but it is fully as 

 important that he be a careful feeder. Give him 

 the best cows obtainable and it is possible for him 

 to feed them so sparingly or so wastefully that they 

 will not return a dollar's worth of profit. The ques- 

 tion of careful feeding becomes more important as 

 the variety of crops multiply and new feeds are 

 added to those already in the market. 



Proper feeding must begin when the animal is 

 young. If we feed the growing heifer nitrogenous 

 foods to develop muscle and bone and an abundance 

 of coarse fodder to develop a capacity for digesting 

 and assimilating a large amount of food, we may 

 expect these characteristics to show to a greater or 

 less extent in the full-grown cow. On the other 



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