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and at morning and night a mixed grain consisting of five parts 
wheat bran, three parts cottonseed meal, one part linseed meal 
(O. P.), and one part wheat middlings. 
For April and May corn silage was fed in the morning and at 
noon and clover hay at night. The mixed grain fed morning and 
night consisted of six parts wheat bran, two parts wheat mid- 
dlings, two parts corn meal, one part cottonseed meal, one part 
linseed meal (O. P.), and one part ground oats. 
For the first ten days in June alfalfa forage was fed in the 
morning, rye forage at noon and mixed hay (red top, clover, 
etc.) at night. For the rest of the month alfalfa forage was fed 
morning and noon and hay at night. The mixed grain fed 
throughout the month, morning and night was composed of five 
parts wheat bran, four parts corn meal, one part ground oats, 
one part wheat middlings, one part linseed meal (N. P.). 
For the first fifteen days of July oat and pea forage was fed 
morning and noon and mixed hay (mostly clover) at night. For 
the rest of the month alfalfa forage was fed morning and noon, 
hay at night. The same grain was fed in July as in June. 
The ration for August was mixed hay (mostly clover) three 
times daily until the fifteenth. After the fifteenth, hay (alsike 
clover and timothy) morning and night, and oat and pea forage 
at noon. A mixed grain, fed morning and night during the first 
half of month contained three parts wheat bran, three parts corn 
meal, three parts ground oats, one part wheat middlings, one 
part linseed meal (O. P.), one part ground flaxseed. For the 
latter half of the month the mixed grain contained five parts 
wheat bran, five parts corn meal, four parts gluten feed, two 
parts ground oats, one part wheat middlings, one part cottonseed 
meal, one part linseed meal (O. P.), one part ground flaxseed. 
' For September the ration was alfalfa forage in the morning, 
mixed hay (mostly timothy) at noon, and corn forage at night 
with the same mixed grain twice a day that was fed for the latter 
half of August. 
For the first twenty days of Gototer alfalfa forage was fed in 
the morning, mixed hay (mostly timothy) at noon and sorghum 
forage at night. After the twentieth, beets were fed morning 
and night and hay at noon. The mixed grain fed throughout 
the month was composed®of six parts wheat bran, three parts 
