TYPICAL RATIONS FOB DAIRY COWS. 73 



University of Wisconsin. — ^D. H. Otis, Asso 

 oiate in Animal i Nutrition, College of Agricul- 

 ture, Madison, offers the folloiwing: 



Probably the best dairy ration for Wisconsin eon- 

 ditioDB would be corn silage 30 lbs.; clover hay 12 

 lbs. ; corn meal 4 lbs. ; oats (or wheat bran) 2 lbs. The 

 roughage should be regulated so as to give the cow 

 all she will eat up clean. The amount of grain 

 should be regulated according to the production of 

 the cow. One pound of grain daily for each pound 

 of butter-fat produced weekly is a fair guide, al- 

 though it may be a little too much where clover or 

 alfalfa form the roughage. 



University of Minnesota. — T. L. Haeciker, 

 Dairying and Animal Nutrition, Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, St. Anthony Park, presents 

 some rations which have been in use in the sta- 

 tion dairy herd: 



Three of these practical rations are from our win- 

 ter's record. On account of weighing feed stuff to 

 each animal during the past twelve years, we have 

 used only upland prairie hay. We do this because 

 cows eat it up cle^n, and because it. is of uniform 

 composition. I use prairie hay, silage and grain; 

 fodder corn, bay and grain; clover and grain, and 

 clover and timothy and grain. 



The proportions of the different kinds of grain are 

 largely governed by the market prices. In one ra- 

 tion I have 00m 4 lbs., barley 1 lb. This is because 

 barley is so expensive. I do not want to feed five 

 pounds of corn and no barley, because more variety 



