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HOME GROWN RATION FOR DAIRY COW 



* Figures of the legumes are approximate. 



If timothy hay had been used in place of cowpea 

 hay, several pounds of meal and bran would have 

 been required to furnish the protein to balance the 

 ration, and supply the deficiency in the roughage 

 feeding materials. Clover and alfalfa are as nutri- 

 tious from the standpoint of protein, and can be 

 used in the same way. Every stockman should 

 consider well the bearing this fact has upon feed- 

 ing, for with it may lie success or failure. He can 

 at least be assured that with its practice greater 

 profit will result. 



Growing Crops for the Greatest Quantity of 

 Digestible Nutrients. — We are prone to call a crop 

 a crop without considering its productive capacity. 

 This is a mistake; especially when it is not a 

 source of protein supply. It should be our policy 

 to grow such crops as are heavy producers. When 

 we consider the matter in this way we see that one 

 acre often produces as many pounds of digestible 

 nutrients as two acres of some other crop. The 



