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Show Must Mave Protein in Ration for Dairy Cow Protein is the expensive ingredient in most rations and it is essential that dairy cows have plenty of that substance sub-stance if they are to milk profitably. As a source of protein five pounds of snapped corn would equal three pounds of alfalfa hay. On the other hand as sources of total digestible nutrients nu-trients five pounds of snapped corn would equal eight pounds of alfalfa hay. The following is a good grain ration for dairy cows: Ground snapped corn, 200 pounds ; ground oats, 100 pounds ; bran, 100 pounds; cottonseed meal, 100 pounds. This should be fed to cows in the proportion of one pound for every three and a half or four pounds of milk produced together with all the alfalfa al-falfa hay that they will eat. Nebraska Nebras-ka Farmer. |