Show PROPERLY BALANCED RATIONS report of results of tests made by illinois station digestible nutrients saved Bs ja H R P FLINT minnesota experiment station A balanced ration Is one in which each of the different food materials or nutrients Is present in just the right proportion and amount to meet the needs of the animals sas bulletin of the illinois agricultural experiment station tests indicated that cows coves fed balanced rations a pound of butter tat fat lor for each 17 pounds of 0 total nutrients consumed while 21 pounds were consumed to a pound of butter fat when an unbalanced ra tion was fed the use of the balanced ration thus saved tour four pounds of d dl bes bastible tible nutrients for each pound ot of butter fat produced or a pound and a quarter of butter fat was produced by the same number of pounds of digesti ble nutrients in balanced rations as was required tor for a pound of butter tat fat when the unbalanced ration was fed not only was the butter fat more economically produced but the cows given a balanced ration finished the hith aith better appetites and in much better flesh and general physical con than the others it Is not specially difficult to gain the profit resulting from the balanced ration |