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Show Hay Roughage Useful in Winter Ration for Cows Feed all the roughage the cow will clean up. This will be approximately three pounds corn silage aud one pound of liny, or live to six pounds of roots and one pound of bay, or one pound of dried beet pulp soaked 12 to 24 hours before feeding and one pound of hay, or two pounds of legume hay or other dried roughage, for each 100 pounds of live weight. Where at all possible It Is desirable that both a succulent and a leguminous hay be used in the roughage portion of the ration. The most economical production produc-tion of mill; Is not ordinarily otherwise other-wise possible. Feed the grain mixture according to the amount of milk produced. This means about one pound of concentrates concen-trates for each three to three nnd a half pounds of milk produced in the case of n Jersey or Guernsey, r for each three and a half to four pounds of mill; produced when feeding an Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, or Uolstein. |