ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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After milking in the morning, I feed bran. After breakfast 

 ieed sheaf oats; these are eaten while the man is filling the 

 racks with corn fodder. If the oat straw is free from rust and 

 cured in good condition, the cows will eat it as greedily as hay, 

 and you will find that the oats are thoroughly digested. 



Allow one half acre of oats for each cow. Cut when the 

 grain is turning and about two thirds ripe. Be sure the berry is 

 ripe enough to fully mature in the shock, for we want the full 

 benefit of mature oats. Bind in bundles, the same as usual; put 

 in shocks, and as soon as safe move into the barn. 



After the oats are eaten up, turn out the cows, clean the 

 stables, fill the mangers with fodder corn for the night. After 

 milking at night, feed bran again. 



By having shoats to follow the cattle there is no waste what- 

 ever. You have saved in a dairy of fifty cows, for grinding, at 

 least, $125.00. You will sell $300.00 worth of hogs, five to 

 seven hundred dollars worth of hay. One man can do the work 

 of caring for the fifty cows and thirty shoats and ten calves. 

 Your corn fodder will not cost you to exceed $1.50 per ton. 

 You have saved in the cost of the feed, well, let us see. 



A BALANCED RATION. 



8 lbs. bran, 5 lbs. oats, 26 lbs. corn fodder. 



P. C.H. F 



8 lbs. bran, i. 3-52 .24 



5 lbs. oats, .37 I -80 .17 



26 lbs. c. fodder, .70 7.38 .25 



39 lbs. 



2.07 



2.70 



66 



@ $9.00 $.036 

 @ .18 .027 



(a). 1.60 .02 



.083 



Comparison of cost of two ways of feeding. Each system 

 .containing 1-3 corn, oats and bran by weight. 



