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Show Proper Winter Feed for a Fall Calving Heifer What feed should be given dairy heifers in order to winter them satisfactorily satis-factorily for fall calving? a. When legume hay and corn silage si-lage are available Lay and silage at will and two pounds dally of corn, cane, or knfir grain. b. When legume hay but no silage la available legume hay at will and two pounds of grain per day. c. When corn silage but no legume hay Is available silage at will, some dry roughage as hay or fodder, and two or three pounds of a grain mixture mix-ture cousisting of one part of some high protein feed as cottonseed meal, linseed meal or gluten feed, and one part of corn, oats, or bran. d. When neither corn sllnge or legume le-gume hay are available buy legume hay. Feed one-half legume hay, one-hnlf one-hnlf nonlegume "roughage, and' two pounds dally of a mixture of two part corn and one part high-protein feed. |