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and feed to the cows. At present, with oats' 

 worth twenty-seven cents a bushel and wheat 

 bran and coarse middlings $13 per ton, it figures 

 as follows: A ton of oats is sixty-two and a 

 half bushels, and at twenty-seven cents equals 

 $16.87. Grinding at two cents a bushel makes 

 $1.25, and this added to $16.87 makes a total of 

 $18.12. If a farmer has no mill to do his grind- 

 ing it makes no difference whether he draws 

 his oats to mill and back or draws the oats to 

 market and draws home other feed. The Wis- 

 consin Experiment Station has proved by the 

 cow that oats are worth 10 per cent more than 

 wheat bran to feed cows. When bran is worth 

 $13 oats are worth $14.30. Now, can I afford 

 to feed them when they are worth $18.12 in 

 market? 



Rejected food. — The silage and hay left by 

 my cows are removed from the mangers and 

 given to the young heifers, with grain food 

 added, so nothing goes to waste. It will not 

 answer to let rejected food remain in the man- 

 gers or feed-boxes, as it will cause a cow to get 

 off her feed and off in her milk, and away goes 

 the iDrofit. 



The calving. — My cows drop their calves in 

 the months of September to December and go 

 dry on pasture and milk as long as they ought 

 to — in fact in many cases longer than they 

 ought to. I do not feed these cows ground feed 



