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Show 'winter feeds for heifers ; Young Animals Should Not Be Com. pellsd to "Rough It" During Cold Weftther Period. Young heifers should not be expected expect-ed to "rough it" during the winter, but should have feed and shelter. Thf feeds should of course include bulk) feeds, such as silage, stover, hay, fod tier, etc., und concentrates. The young animals should have enough such con ccntrates as cottonseed meal, wheal bran, shorts, rice flour, alfalfa, pea hay peanut hay to develop body. Practice of Testing Cows. The practice of testing cows to de teruilne their milk and butter fat pro ductlon and . feed consumption . b; means of eow-testlng associations ha: become widespread. There are nov 402 associations of this kind in thi United States. Cracking Velvet Beans. Velvet beans, as a dairy feed, an Improved by cracking, soaking am grinding. Cracking alone does not pa; for the work of doing It, but grludlni did, in feeding test In Texas. |