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cow pea hay, S Ibfe. wheat bran, 3 lbs. of com, 2 lbs. cottonseed 

 meal. 



North Carolina Experiment Station.— (1) 40 lbs. com ^ilage, 

 10 lbs. cottonseed hulls, 5 lbs. cottonseed meal. 



(2) 50 lbs. corn silage, 5 lbs. orchard grass hay, 4% lbs. cot- 

 tonseed meal. 



(3) 30 lbs. com silage, 10 lbs. alfalfa, 6 lbs. wheat bran, 5 

 lbs. cottonseed hulls. 



(4) 40 lbs. com silage, 15 lbs. cow pea vine hay. 



(5) 40 lbs. corn silage, 6 lbs. wheat bran, 6 lbs. field peas 

 ground. 



(6) 40 lbs. corn silage, 4 lbs. cut com fodder, 3 lbs. ground 

 com, 4 lbs. bran, 1 lb. cottonseed meal (ration fed at Biltmore 

 Estate to dairy cows). Silage is fed to sjeers and cows, and corn, 

 peas, teosinte, cow peas, millet and crimson clover are used aa 

 silage crops. These crops are put into the silo in alternate layers. 

 "Will never stop using the silo and silage." 



South Carolina. — 30 lbs. corn silage, 6 lbs. bran, 3 lbs. cotton- 

 seed meal, 12 lbs. cottonseed hulls. 



Georgia Experiment Station. — 40 lbs. com silage, 15 lbs. cow- 

 pea hay, 5 lbs. bran. 



Ontario Agr. College. — 45 lbs. corn silage, 6 lbs. clover hay, 

 8 lbs. bran, 2 lbs. barley. 



Nappan Experiment Station (Canada). — 30 lbs. com silage, 20 

 lbs. hay, 8 lbs. bran and meal. 



The criticism may properly be made with a large number of 

 the rations given in the preceding, that it is only in case of low 

 prices of grain or concentrated feeds in general, and with good 

 dairy cows, that it is possible to feed such large quantities of 

 grain profitably as those often given. In th4 central and north- 

 western states it will not pay to feed grain heavily with corn at 

 fifty cents a bushel and oats at thirty cents a. bushel or more. In 

 times of high prices of feeds, it is only in exceptional cases that 

 more than six or eight pounds of concentrated feeds can be fed 

 with economy per head dally. Some few cows can give proper 

 returns for more than this quantity of grain even when this is 

 high, but more cows will not do so. 



