Show Dairy Cattle Need but Few Minerals Farmers who buy complex mineral mineraI mixtures to feed their stock usually pay a n price for salt snit and limestone tha that thatIs t Is six or eight times their value and at the time they get a lot of other substances sub substances stances In the tile mixture that may not only be unnecessary but may be positively lively harmful according to the time New NewYork NewYork York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca Most mineral mixtures or proprietary tary mineral mixtures as they ar art are called contain a variety of substances that dairy cattle do not need at all all because calcium or lime phosphorus salt and iodine are the only minerals that are commonly needed The Time college says probably el eight ht In ten cases of lack of minerals are due to lack inch of calcium and this tills can un be furnished by ground limestone which costs one half a u cent a II pound A mineral min mm- eral mixture which will vill supply calcium cat cal clam and phosphorus where both are needed consists of ot equal amount of steam bone meal and limestone with so some ne salt if the time mixture Is fed separate sep sep- arate from the grain Rone Bone meal Is much more expensive than limestone so bone m meal al or phosphorus should not be lie fed unless stock will vill benefit from fromi i It A mixture of twenty pounds each of limestone steam bone meal and ani salt snIt may be a added ded to each ton of feed and fed Ced with the time grain or 01 may be fed by Itself at the time rate tate of two or three ounces a n day to each minimal animal In addition add addi tion Uon to the time grain |