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Show DRIED GRAINS TO DAIRY COW Really More Valuable, Pound for Pound, Than Bran Anlmale Should Have Oat Straw. It is our opinion that the dried gralna are really more valuable, pound for pound, as a feed stuff, than the bran, and yet for the Bake of variety, aa well as for other purposes, pur-poses, we should hardly go to the extent of using grains exclusively, ssys a writer In an exchange. On the contrary, we think it would be better bet-ter to mix the grains and the bran In equal parts by weight. This mixture mix-ture would carry about 18 per cent, of protein, and, when fed fn connection connec-tion with good corn silage, corn stover sto-ver and oat straw would make a very good ration Indeed. If the amount cf sllsge on band will justify feeding so liberally we suggest the use of 40 pounds of It dally, and In connection five pounds of alfalfa bay aa long s it will last Ten pounds of the mixture mix-ture of grslns and bran, fed in connection, connec-tion, would be quite sufficient for the production of 40 pounds of milk, and five pounds will probably suffice for the production of 25 pounds of milk; for amounts between 25 and 40 feed In about the same proportion. In addition to the foregoing, give the cows all the oat straw or atover they will care to cat |