Prof. D. H. Otis, telling of experiments with the dairy herd at the Kansas agricultural college, states that, “it is usually recommended to feed a cow all the rough feed she will eat, and then balance up the ration with grain. The experience at the college indicates that much rough feed is wasted in careless feeding. The cow will eat the best first, and, if given too much, will pick the most desirable morsels, leaving what might be called passably good, which too frequently is treated as waste and thrown under foot. No more hay should be given an animal than it will eat up clean. This refers to first-class quality, however, as a cow could not be expected to eat poor hay clean. “In feeding the rough feeds, the following table has been used by the college as a guide: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ROUGHNESS.--Value per ton when alfalfa is worth $1.00 per ton ---------------+-------+-------+-----------------+---------+----- | Total |Protein| | Total |Protein | nutri-| nutri-| | nutri-| nutri- FEED | ents | ents | FEED | ents | ents ---------------+-------+-------+-----------------+-------+------- DRY ROUGHNESS | | |GREEN ROUGHNESS | | Alfalfa | $1.00 | $1.00 | Alfalfa | $0.34 | $0.37 Corn-fodder | .32 | .19 | Corn silage | .13 | .12 Cowpeas | .97 | 1.02 | Fodder corn | .14 | .09 Fodder Corn | .40 | .24 | Pasture grasses| .03 | .24 Millet | .64 | .42 | Sorghum fodder | .12 | .06 Oat hay | .59 | .41 | Soy-beans | .28 | .30 Oat straw | .33 | .15 | | | Orchard-grass| .60 | .45 |ROOTS AND TUBERS | | Prairie hay | .51 | .33 | Mangels | .10 | .09 Red clover | .70 | .64 | Sugar-beets | .14 | .10 Sorghum | .43 | .23 | Turnips | .11 | .08 Soy-beans | .98 | 1.02 | | | Mixed hay | .67 | .56 | | | Timothy | .47 | .27 | | | Wheat straw | .25 | .08 | | | ---------------+-------+-------+-----------------+-------+-------