Show cows individuality limits amount of feed wheat has about the same value as corn as a dairy feed while oats has a value of 10 per cent less than corn pound for pound the amount of feed which should be fed a cow depends in the first place upon individuality size of the an animal amount of milk produced and butterfat butter fat content of the milk also bear important relationships to the amount of feed necessary A grain mixture should be fed in the proportion of one pound to each three pints of milk produced dally daily by the cow if the cow produces more than five gallons of milk a day however feed at the rate of one pound of grain mixture to each four pints of milk under most circumstances feed all the roughage she will ivill eat up clean only if she tends to become should the quantity of roughage be restricted feed all she will respond to in milk production when she begins to put on flesh eat cut down the grain |