TYPICAL RATIONS FOR DAIRY COWS. ^^ 



Lexington, mentions the following as the best 

 rations for that section, and not as those gen- 

 erally used: 



In many parts of our state, especially the bluegrass 

 region, we have an abundance of grass and therefore 

 feed very little concentrates in the, summer time. A 

 good daily winter ration for a cow in full flow of 

 milk, giving from 32 to 40 lbs. of milk per day, is 

 as follows: 



Ration No. 1 : Bran, 8 lbs. ; corn meal, 2 lbs. ; cot- 

 ton seed meal, 2 lbs. ; linseed meal, 1 lb. ; clover or 

 alfalfa hay as much as will be eaten. 



Ration No. 2: Bran, 6 lbs.; crushed oats, 2 lbs.; 

 cotton seed meal, 2 lbs. ; silage, 30 lbs. ; and clover 

 hay as much as will be eaten. 



Dry cows and young stock dan be fed com fodder 

 or stover, clover hay and probably a little com. Glu- 

 ten feed is not much used in this state, although it 

 oould be substituted for the cotton 'seed meal in pro- 

 portion to the protein it contains, or substituted for 

 somq of the bran, using one pound of gluten feed in- 

 stead of two pounds of bran. Any ration should be 

 changed according to the capacity of the individual 

 cows. 



Greorgia State College. — ^Prof . 0. L. Willough- 

 by. Dairyman, Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Experiment, responds thus with an out- 

 line of the feeding of dairy cattle as practiced in 

 the South: 



The rations submitted are among a nuni;ber which 

 have been recommended by the Georgia Experiment 



