Show ia jam THE taid 1 SUGGEST RATIONS TO LOWER COSTS use wheat barley and oats in feeding cows dairymen can cab cut feed costs by substituting wheat barley and oats oat forlorn for corn and hominy feed in dairy rations at present prices and by feeding a grain mixture with a protein content that corresponds to the roughage linge fed advises prot prof P F B borrlson Morr lson head of the department ot of animal husbandry at the new york state college of agriculture ue he sug gesta formulas for use with various j types of roughage for feeding dairy 7 cows in these formulas wheat or barley ji may be used depending on the local i prices for dairy cows these grains i have substantially the same value ton for ton since wheat Is aheady a heavy conr I 1 ly cent rated feed it Is best not to use i more than GW GOO pounds of ground I 1 wheat per ton of dairy feed also 0 some bulky feed like oats or wheat I 1 al ll i aran bran should be included in the mix i lure lire ground rye may be substituted for wheat or barley in these formulas 0 since rye Is usually not quite as palatable as these groins grains it Is best bp not J to use more than to pounds of rye per ton of feed when little or no legume hay Is t i used feed a 24 per cent total protein mixture as pounds of ground wheat or barley pounds of ground gronn oats sno pounds of wheat bran binn pounds of gluten feed pounds ot at cottonseed mea meal pounds of lin seed meal and pounds of gluten meal with mixed clover and timothy hay and corn silage use a 20 per tent cent total protein feed us its COO pounds of ginand ti fl wheat or barley pounds of ground i oats pounds of gluten feed pounds of cottonseed meal al 1 pounds of linseed meal and pounds of soy bean meal or gluten meal with clover hay and corn sli ange a ge only 18 per cent total protein Is 9 J needed in the grain mixture mature made as follows pounds of barley or wheat pounds of oats ax pounds of gluten teed pounds of linseed meal and pounds of cot meal with alfalfa hay and corn silage the grain mixture can be reduced redi iud to 18 16 per cent total protein 80 I 1 pounds of ground barley or wheat ano and barley sm pounds of ground oats ailts 1 pounds of gluten feed pounds of linseed meal and pounds of CO cottonseed meal i |