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Show BALANCED RATION FOR COWS iFeeding Should Be Governed by Ani-trial's Ani-trial's Capacity to Produce Milk Good Rules for Winter. The feeding of tlio dairy cow should bo governed by the cow's capacity to produce milk. ' Iiy keeping a dally record of each cow's production, the nkillful feeder soon finds that some cows In the herd respond to an increased in-creased allowance of feed and return u good profit on it, while others are limited In milk capacity and overfeeding overfeed-ing them is unprofitable. Profitable feeding requires a thorough knowledge knowl-edge of the Individual cows us well as of the values of feeds. The following general rules will be found Invaluable as a guide for wln- Mm v ..mM MiX -vW- mm Mature Ayrshire Cow With Record of 11,708 Pounds of Milk and 536 Pounds of Butter1. ter feeding by the Inexperienced feeder : 1. Under most circumstances the cow should be fed all the roughage thut she will eat up clean, adjusting the grain ration to the milk production. produc-tion. Only when the cow tends to become be-come overfat should the quantity of roughage be restricted. 2. A grain mixture should be fed in the proportion of 1 pound to each 3 pints or pounds of milk produced pro-duced by the cow, except In the case of the cow producing a flow of 40 pounds or more, when the ration can be 1 pound to each 3 or 4 pounds of milk. An even better rule Is 1 pound of grain each day for every pound of butterfat produced pro-duced by the cow during the week. 3. Feed all the cow will respond to in milk production. When she begins to put on flesh, cut down the grain. |