FEEDING DAIRY CATTLE 251 



. 1. Hay, 20 pounds; oats, 3 pounds; corn and cob meal, 3 pounds; 

 linseed meal, 2 pounds. 



2. Hay, 10 pounds; cornstalks, ad lib.; wheat bran, 3 pounds; corn 

 meal, 2 pounds; cotton-seed meal, 2 pounds. 



3. Roots, 60 pounds; stover, ad lib.; oats, 3 pounds; bran, 3 pounds; 

 gluten feed, 3 pounds. 



4. Corn fodder, ad lib.; corn silage, 40 pounds; shorts, 2 pounds; 

 dried brewers' grains, 2 pounds; linseed meal, 2 pounds. 



5. Corn silage, 35 pounds; hay, ad lib.; bran, 4 pounds; oats, 2 

 pounds; gluten meal, 2 pounds. 



6. Corn silage, 30 pounds; hay, ad lib.; oats, 4 pounds; linseed meal, 



2 pounds; cotton-seed meal, 1 pound. 



7. Corn silage, 30 pounds; clover hay, ad lib.; bran, oats, and corn 

 meal, 2 pounds each. 



8. Clover silage, 25 pounds; hay, 5 pounds; cornstalks, ad Ub; oats, 



3 pounds; corn meal and linseed meal, 2 pounds each. 



9. Clover or alfalfa silage, 30 pounds; hay, ad lib.; bran, 4 pounds; 

 middlings, 3 pounds; linseed meal, 1 pound. 



10. Alfalfa hay, 20 pounds; oats, 4 pounds; corn meal, 2 pounds. 



11. Hay, 10 pounds; cotton-seed hulls, 10 pounds; cotton-seed meal, 



4 pounds; wheat bran, 2 pounds. 



12. Corn silage, 40 pounds; alfalfa hay, 25 pounds; barley, 4 pounds; 

 dried beet pulp, 3 pounds; wheat bran, 2 pounds. 



13. Corn silage, 30 pounds; cotton-seed hulls, 12 pounds; bran, 6 

 pounds; cotton-seed meal, 3 pounds. 



The time of feeding is also important. The feeding should 

 be as regular as the milking. Many farmers feed either hay or 

 grain feeds directly before or during milking, but this is not, as a 

 rule, to be recommended, both on account of the tendency it has 

 to interfere with the letting-down of the milk, and the danger of 

 contamination of the milk with dust and bacteria that it involves, 

 especially when hay is fed directly before or during the milking. 



A good order of the day's work in the dairy barn during the 

 winter in northern states is as follows : Cleaning gutters, watering, 

 feeding hay, grooming, and cleaning cows, milking, feeding grain, 

 feeding silage, turning out in the yard (on pleasant days for one or 

 two hours in the early afternoon), watering, cleaning stable, feeding 

 grain, cleaning cows, milking, feeding silage, a last feed of hay 

 if desired, and arranging bedding. 



Feeding the Dairy Bull. — The bull at the head of a dairy 

 herd should receive a large share of his feed in the shape of dry 

 roughage, hay from the grasses or legumes, cornstalks, etc., with 

 only limited amounts of concentrated feeds. Of the latter, wheat 

 bran, shorts, oats, and a little corn meal are. to be preferred. Boots 

 are good as a relish, while corn silage and other kinds of silage 

 should be fed sparingly to breeding bulls, not over 10 pounds per 

 head daily. Fattening feeds and excessive grain feeding should be 



"Ohio Bulletins 295, 308, 330. 



