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DAIRYING. 



Artificial Feeding.* 



In artificial feeding of > cattle, the flesh-forming and heat-pro- 

 ducing elements should bear a given relationship to each other, 

 according to the season. If a cow is not in milk, she may not need 

 any more albuminoids than in warm weather ; but she will need 

 more heat-producing food. But when she is in milk, she will require 

 a much larger proportion of albuminoids ; so that to keep up the 

 flow of milk she must receive those kinds of food in which albu- 

 minoids bear a larger proportion, as compared with heat-producing 

 materials. These kinds of food- would be meal of various kinds, and 

 grains generally, oil-cake, cotton-cake, and hay cut: a little under- 

 ripe. The following table shows the proportions of these different 

 elements in various kinds of food, and a careful study of it will 

 enable a farmer to give his cows such a ration as will admit of the 

 least waste of food and loss of money : — 



VARIOUS FOODS. 



Linseed Cake 



Decorticated Cotton-cake . . 

 Undecorticated Cotton-cake 



Bean Meal 



Pea Meal 



Rye Meal 



Indian Corn 



Rice Meal (best) 



Palm Nut Meal 



Wheat Bran 



Oats .......] 



Barley 



Malt 



Malt Culms 



AlsikeClpver in Blossom. 

 White Closer in Blossom 



Red Clover in Blossom 



Lucerne ......".- • 



Common Meadow Hay . . 



Pea Straw 



Oat-Straw , '. ] . '. 



"Barley Straw ; .'...■ 



Wheat Straw '.'. '.. 



Potatoes 



Carrots. .. 



Turnips 



Mangels . . . : 



