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Show ' When Cows Chew Wood When cows chew wood or bones and eat dirt it shows that the dairy ration Is deficient in mineral matter, mat-ter, which should be corrected at once. Examine the ration carefully and add those feeds that are high In tuinerals. Legumes hays, such as cowpea, soy bean, clover, and alfalfa al-falfa are rich In calcium and will supply a sufficient amount of this mineral for the averge cow. Thos-phorus Thos-phorus is supplied by wheat bran, cottonseed meal, and aoy bean meal. These feeds contain about 30 per cent of this mineral. It might be well to add two pounds of a mineral min-eral mixture composed of equal parts of finely ground limestone and steamed bone meal to each 100 pounds of the concentrated ration. |