CHAPTER X. 



TYPICAL RATIONS FOIfi DAIEY COWS. 



While quite a number of dairymen have fig- 

 ured out balanced rations for their cows, accord- 

 ing to the feeding standard of the scientists 

 which are now used a^ a basis, most farmers 

 prefer to have this work done for them. They 

 would rather adopt a ration suggested in plain 

 pounds by some authority on food stuffs or one 

 known to have given profitable results in actual 

 use. For the benefit of dairy farmers I have 

 collected rations from widely separated parts of 

 agricultural America, embracing nearly all the 

 feeds that are used in milk making in this coun- 

 try. The dairy departments of state agricul- 

 tural colleges have furnished this matter at my 

 request and iu several instances the professors 

 have submitted also helpful comments. I 

 recommend these various rations to the study 

 of farmers as coming from eminent authorities 

 on dairy cattle feeding both from the scientific 

 and the practical point of view. 



University of Illinois. — The Department of 

 Dairy Husbandry of the University of Illinois 



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