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Show Balanced Ration Is Best for Producing More Milk Twenty good cows were recently placed tn an experiment at the Illinois Illi-nois agricultural experiment station, and the results are very definitely In favor of a balanced ration. The 20 cows were divided into two lots, and during a preliminary period, both received re-ceived a balanced ration, which consists con-sists of 30 pounds of corn silage, 8 pounds of clover hay, 4 2-3 pounds of gluten feed, 3 1-3 pounds of ground corn. The nutritive ratio of the ration ra-tion is 1 :0. After the first period, one of the lots was taken off of a balanced bal-anced ration, and given the following Instead: Thirty pounds of corn silage, si-lage, 5 pounds of timothy hay, 3 pounds of clover hay, 8 pounds of ground corn; nutritive ratio of 1:11. At the end of 131 days, lot 1, which had a balanced ration, had gained from 1.7 to 10.65 pounds of milk per day. The lot which was changed to an unbalanced ration gained from .00 to .305. In other words, even though the second lot was getting what many dairymen might call at a glance a good variety of feeds, It was falling to gain along with the balanced ration by a long ways. This Illustrates very well the point we have mude before: Even though you may be feeding roughage and a grain you are not getting get-ting all the milk you could from the same cows unless you know that the feeds are balanced. |
