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Show I..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..T..f..T..T..TT..T..T..T. Dairy Facts I 'I"I "I 'l"I"j,,l',l..l"l"l,,I"l,,I,,l"l,,l"l"l"I"I"I'I"l"I. The nmnnnt of milk fed a weaning calf should vary ac'corrling to its size. An abundance of good ronphafre is of the greatest importance for full milk pails at profitable prices. Alfalfa hay is an important dairy feed because it contains a relatively high amount of protein and calcium One of the surest ways of helping solve the feed problem and incident ally to aid the whole dairy situation Is to cull out the low producing cows When the daughters of a hull come Into production, that hull will soon he proved to he either a vain able breeding animal or Just so much soup meat. Newly freshened cows should not he fed heavily at first. A warm hnin mash is very beneficial lmnipdiatel. after freshening. Ground oats, bran and oil meal can he fed later. Italian and perennial rye grasses-are" grasses-are" quick growing grasses and are well sailed to he a part of a good many pasture mixtures, one of their advantages being that they act some what as a nurse crop until the slowet growing grasses irot n root-hold. Wheat makes h good dairy feed in amounts up to one-third of the en tire grain mixture. It should be rolled or coarsely ground nnd mixed with bulky feeds, such as bran or oats In addition to enough protein feed to balance the ration. I |