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forty-five pounds of ensilage and five pounds of hay; from the 

 10th of January to the 10th of March, sixty pounds of ensilage 

 and four pounds of middlings to dry stock, and two pounds 

 more to milch cows; from the 10th of March until May 1, sixty 

 pounds of ensilage, one foddering of oat straw, and six pounds 

 of grain to cows in milk. He regards sixty pounds of ensilage, 

 with six pounds of grain for an averaged-sized cow per day as 

 a full ration. 



Col. LeGrand B. Cannon, Vermont, fed an average of 

 eighty-five pounds per head for three-year-old steers daily for 

 five and a half months, with three pounds of grain daily. Cattle 

 fed as stated made a greater gain and were in better health and 

 condition than others fed on twenty pounds of chopped hay and 

 three pounds of grain. 



Mr. Wm. B. Eager, of Nebraska, fed forty pounds per day 

 per head. The midday feed was of cut dry corn-fodder, or cut 

 millet hay, with ground feed. Occasionally for a trial he fed 

 meal upon the ensilage, but abandoned it and fed ensilage alone, 

 and meal upon dry food or cattle would not eat it. The herd of 

 over three hundred milch cows came out in better flesh than 

 when taken from pasture. 



Prof. J. McBryde, of Knoxville, Tenn., says: " All our 

 milch cows receiving ensilage showed notable improvement in 

 milk. Butter made from milk of cows fed on ensilage is of ex- 

 cellent flavor. Three yearling steers, fed exclusively on long 

 forage, one weighing 428 pounds, received a daily ration of 

 twenty pounds of hay, gained twenty-two pounds in twenty- 

 eight days; another, weighing 457 pounds, received ten pounds 

 hay and twenty pounds ensilage, gained twenty-eight pounds; a 

 third, weighing 442 pounds, received forty pounds ensilage, and 

 gained thirty-eight pounds. Two pounds ensilage gave better 

 results than one pound hay. It is plain that animals should be 

 fed on mixed rations of ensilage and matter rich in albuminoids. 

 Mr. W. L. Weeks, of Wisconsin, says: I feed milch cows 

 from forty to fifty pounds at two feedings, morning and night, 

 mixed with two pounds of corn-meal, and same weight of some 



