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Show Grain Mixtures for Any Medium Producing Animal Since there is seldom a deficiency in carbohydrates and fat when the dairy cow has all the roughage that, she can eat, a roughly lalanced ration may be obtained by balancing the protein pro-tein of the grain mixture to go with the roughage and disregarding the carbohydrates anil fat. For low to medium-producing cows good alfalfa hay and corn meal make up a reasonably rea-sonably good ration. To go with alfalfa alfal-fa hay, some grain mixtures are as follows: Mixture 1. 200 pounds corn, 100 pounds oats, 100 pounds wheat j bran, and 100 pounds liaseod oil meal. ! Mixture 2. 100 pounds barley, 100 j pounds wheat bran, and 100 pounds linseed oil meal. Mixture 3. 100 pounds barley. 100 pounds oats. 100 ; pounds wheat bran, and H00 pounds corn oil meal. Mixture 4. 200 pounds corn-and-cob meal, 200 pounds oats, 100 pounds wheat bran, and 100 pounds cottonseed meal. If prairie hay is used as roughage t'ne ration may be as follows: Mixture 1. 100 pounds com, 100 pounds oats, 100 pounds wheat bran, and 250 pounds linseed oil meal. Mixture 2. 100 pounds barley, 100 pounds alfalfa meal, 100 pounds corn oil meal, and 200 pounds linseed oil meal. |