Show t A BALANCED RATION i there la Is a direct relation between the quality of at tile food and the quality of allie the product it Is a well knoten fact that a ra ratio rio of corn la is a very tat fat producing pro dicing on one while a wheat or bian ratio t WL produce a greater proportion of iran meat luceine la Is not so much a fat producing food as t timothy mot I 1 ly A tho the two principal elements of 0 rood food are re protein and pro feln goes to build up tin the frame of 0 the bone an and muscle while the chief unction function of 0 carbohydrates Is licati producing when we talk ot of lucerne ind had bran being highly nitrogenous foods ke e mean incan that they have a high percentage of 0 protein when we talk ot of a carton accous ration we mean ti a ration niton in which the be proportion ot of car bolly drates to 10 pr protein lela Is very large now fat a netro nitrogenous ge ous ration Is 19 th best ration for growl aig animals and for milk COWS while to fatten an animal quickly a carbonaceous ration Is necee ry the diat re suits in reeding are ara obtained lien hen the pieper proportion of pruell to 0 o carbohydrates Is observed ved by y the fer ferder feeder der an animal could not live long on protein alone or on carbohydrates hydra tea alone the great thing for the feeder to 6 ob lb I 1 is IB the proper proportions i odthe 0 the element ele or of food not so 30 much the kind it of food 1 for instance na lance a ration of 0 j thmothy ani and corn would be a very apishly AriSh I 1 ly Y carbonaceous one such a ration watt of would bo positively bad to feed to la an animal tor for any length of time tal I 1 hit D 11 1 the he animal should final itolle Itol ly 4 d die 1 I 1 it lv would ul d not prokp that corn com 1183 as not a good food tor for animals or rant timothy was not hot superior to cloi clover or air lucerna lucer nn it wo would id only prove that the animal had an under proportion of ont one particular elin cl nent L n I 1 of 0 plant food un on the ibo other ba annl rid a ration ot of lucerne and bran or say nay cotton gi fd nita meal would be highly a liuch uch it a ration that would be unsafe L to 0 leed ea to ta an for any length of time but should the results of 0 feeding such nuch a ration t turn ur out e tory it would not that t prove elthe cither r tran ran tan or lucerno lucerne or OP cottonseed cotton seed meal win 11 it a bad anim animal ill food the fact la 13 that tha t it if either corn or timothy is fed some acme other food rich in protein should be b fed to balance balan cp the raton timothy and bran in right portions would be all right so eo w would 1 d corn and lucerne por for a growing aul niu inal or cow one pound of 0 pr pro feln tein to about rive five 0 f carbohydrates Is about the ra ratio tio while tor for tat toning an animal one pound of pro r feln to seven or right eight or aint ot of c carbohydrates b would be e better olter chemical anal analyses sea hate haie shown w what I 1 in t percentage of 0 food elements clements I 1 if s con in the different a animal foods i arid and front from these percentages the feeder Is 1 led to figure out a 11 balanced i ration |