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good oats and corn, you understand, 400 pounds of bran, 

 either bran or ground alfalfa hay or ground soy bean hay, 

 and sometimes I alternate the two because of the fact of 

 the increased palatability if nothing else; and when you 

 grind alfalfa hay it is much cheaper than the use of bran, 

 and it has the same nutritive ratio. Combined with 200 

 pounds of oil meal and 200 pounds of cottonseed meal, that 

 will make you a ton of feeding material. You can find that 

 in Mr. Wilson's lessons on feeding. Let me repeat it: 



600 pounds of ground corn. 



600 pounds ground oats. 



400 pounds bran or ground alfalfa or ground soy 



bean hay. 

 200 pounds of cottonseed meal, making the total 



1600 pounds of mixture. 



Or, you can leave off your linseed meal and use wholly 

 cottonseed meal if you are feeding silage very heavily. 



That is my grain ration, and here is the thing I want 

 to say to you in passing, that no man ever made a profit 

 on his dairy cows because he was short of feed and had 

 cut the feed off. You want a better selection of cows 

 rather than to cut off feed from the dairy stock you have, 

 because it isn't profitable business. Run the machine to its 

 capacity or get rid of one of your machines. 



Then with this ration of grain which I have been talk- 

 ing to you about, I feed my silage, I feed a silage of ordi- 

 nary corn which we grow, with soy beans grown in it. 

 They make the finest silage I have ever tried to feed. I 

 have fed the corn silage with the sunflower, and it is not 

 nearly so palatable as the green silage with the soy bean. 

 Cattle like it so much better and they will eat so much 

 more of it. It is so much better than the old rule of thumb 

 method of feeding. 



I like to feed my cows well ; my Jerseys I like to feed 

 one pound of this ration to every two and two and a half 

 pounds of milk which they will produce for me. Let me 

 say I think it is just as essential for you and I to know what 



