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Show Feed for Dairy Cow. A 1,000-pound dairy cow requires seven-tenths pound of digestible protein, pro-tein, seven pounds of digestible carbohydrates car-bohydrates and one-tenth of one pound of digestible fat for maintenance. main-tenance. When producing 25 pounds of 3 per cent, fat milk, she needs in addition ad-dition to her maintenance requirements require-ments one pound of digestible protein, 4.75 pounds of digestible carbohydrates carbohy-drates and four-tenths pound digestible digest-ible fat for sustaining the milk flow. This result may be accomplished by compounding a ration of four pounds of ground corn, three pounds of rolled barley, seven pounds of alfalfa hay and 31 pounds of corn silage. |