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Show Many Dairymen Fail to Balance Their Rations Many stock keepers fail to balance their rations because they feel it necessary nec-essary to feed what they have at hand. For example: A farmer may have a large supply of alfalfa or clover and, knowing that this is an excellent feed, especially for dairy stock, he will feed too much protein, which will result in a loss of feed as well as production. it probably would pay him very well to soil some of his alfalfa and buy corn or barley. On the other hand, he may have a large supply of timothy hay, corn silage and corn, and his ra-. tions woefully lack protein as well as minerals ; for' in our protein feeds we generally have a high per cent of minerals min-erals and vitamins. There are many feeds in the form of forage, grains or mill stuff, and in any state or county they generally can be produced in sufficient quantities quanti-ties and at low enough prices to warrant war-rant profitable production of stock and stock products. But to obtain results re-sults It. is necessary to give the animal an-imal a balance as to protein and carbohydrates. car-bohydrates. This also applies to minerals. |