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and gets red, taking care all the time that none of the potash comes 
in contact with the skin surrounding the horn. In a few days the 
place will scale over. One application is sufficient. 
258. Sample rations for the dairy cow. — The following rations 
are collected from various sources, and furnish a guide in deter- 
mining the kind and amount of feed that should be allowed a dairy 
cow. They apply to a 1000-pound dairy cow yielding 22 pounds 
of average milk : — 
Ration 
No. Ratio 
Grain Forage 
3 Ib. corn meal : 
1 3 lb. oats 20 Ib. hay 1:6.7 
2 Ib. linseed meal 
3 lb. oats 
2 |3 1b. wheat bran 50 Ib. roots 1:6.9 
2 Ib. gluten feed corn stalks ad lib.” 
3 lb. middlings 
3 |3 1b. dry brewers’ grains | 40 Ib. corn silage 1:7.3 
2 lb. linseed meal corn stalks ad lib. 
2 Ib. oats 
4 |4 1b. wheat bran AO lb. corn silage 1:6.8 
2 lb. gluten meal hay ad lib 
3 lb. oats 
5 |2 1b. wheat bran 50 lb. corn silage 1:66 
1 lb. linseed meal hay ad lib. 
1 lb. cotton-seed meal 
2 lb. oats 30 lb. corn silage 
6 |2 1b. wheat bran clover hay-ad lib. 1:7.4 
2 |b. corn 
7 |41b. wheat bran 30 lb. alfalfa silage 1:5.0 
2 lb. corn meal clover hay ad lib. : 
8 | 4 Ib. oats 20 Ib. alfalfa hay 1:44 
2 Ib. corn meal : 
9 | 4 1b. wheat bran 30 lb. corn silage 1:7.8 
2 lb. cotton-seed meal cotton-seed hulls ad lib. 
10 | 6 lb. wheat bran 40 lb. corn silage 1:5.9 
cowpea hay ad lib. 
