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8. Clover silage, 25 pounds; hay, 5 pounds; cornstalks, ad lib. ; 
oats, 3 pounds; corn meal and linseed meal, 2 pounds each. 
9. Clover or alfalfa silage, 30 pounds; hay, ad ltb.; bran, 4 
pounds; middlings, 3 pounds; linseed meal, 1 pound. 
10. Alfalfa hay, 20 pounds; oats, 4 pounds; corn meal, 2 pounds. 
11. Hay, 20 pounds; cotton-seed hulls, 10 pounds; cotton-seed 
meal, 4 pounds; wheat bran, 2 pounds. 
12. Corn silage, 40 pounds; alfalfa hay, 25 pounds; barley, 4 
pounds; dried beet pulp, 3 pounds; wheat bran, 2 pounds. 
13. Corn silage, 30 pounds; cotton-seed hulis, 12 pounds; bran, 
6 pounds; cotton-seed meal, 3 pounds. 
The time of feeding is also important. The feeding should 
be as regular as the milking. Many farmers feed either hay or 
grain feeds directly before or during milking, but this is not, as a 
rule, to be recommended, both on account of the tendency it has 
to interfere with the letting-down of the milk, and the danger of 
contamination of the milk with dust and bacteria that it involves, 
especially when hay is fed directly before or during the milking. 
A good order of the day’s work in the dairy barn during the 
winter is as follows: Cleaning gutters, watering, feeding” hay, 
grooming, and cleaning cows, milking, feeding grain, feeding 
silage, turning out in the yard. (on pleasant days for one or two 
hours in the early afternoon), watering, cleaning stable, feeding 
grain, cleaning cows, milking, feeding silage, a last feed of hay 
if desired, and arranging bedding. 
Feeding the Dairy Bull.—The bull at the head of a dairy. 
herd should receive a large share of his feed in the shape of dry 
roughage, hay from the grasses or legumes, cornstalks, ete., with 
only limited amounts of concentrated feeds. Of the latter, wheat 
bran, shorts, oats, and a little corn meal are to be preferred. Roots 
are good as a relish, while corn silage and other kinds of silage 
should be fed very sparingly to breeding bulls. Fattening feeds 
and excessive grain feeding should be avoided, so that the animal 
may be kept in a vigorous, active condition. Corn and other fat- 
tening feeds are, for this reason, to be fed with care; high feed- 
ing and lack of exercise are common causes of impotency in bulls; 
a wrong system of feeding. and management has been the cause of 
shortening the period of usefulness of many bulls. 
QUESTIONS 
. Give the average composition of cow’s milk. 
. State ten factors that influence the milk secretion of cows. 
. What is the effect of (@) excitement, (0) time of milking, (c) condition 
of the cow, on the quality of the milk secreted? 
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