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ing good quality to milk or butter. For this 

 reason corn-meal is extensively fed, although 

 there are other grains, as bran for example, 

 that may increase the milk flow. Among the 

 great cattle feeders of the West either the grain 

 or the fodder of the corn plant forms the lead- 

 ing food for beef production. It is not desir- 

 able, however, as has already been explained, 

 to feed corn entirely. Bran or shorts and a 

 little oil-meal may be added to the grain rations 

 whei'e fed to milk or beef stock and better 

 results secured. This question was asked Prof. 

 Henry by a reader of the Breeder's Gazette: 

 "With corn at 25 cents per bushel, oil-meal 

 $22 per ton, bran and shorts $12 per ton, would 

 you recommend feeding a so-called balanced 

 ration, and what should the steers eat of the 

 mixture?" This is the reply: "At the price 

 named for corn some oil-meal or bran or both 

 can be fed to profit, I think, keeping the ration 

 largely corn, however. Five or six pounds of 

 bran or two or three of oil-meal per day will 

 aid digestion and keep the steer in better-con- 

 dition and less liable to get off feed than if the 

 ration is made up wholly of corn." This ration 

 was for a 1,000-lb. steer. 



In making a study of 100 feeding rations used 

 by owners of dairy cattle in the United States, 

 Prof. WoU of the Wisconsin station notes* that 



*'Farm and Dairyman, January, 1885, 



