Show y e FALSE ECONOMY IN RATIONS FOR COWS it ts Is common practice among many farmers who teed feed dairy cows to feed liberally of f ear corn or a plain mixture of corn and cob cormeal ineal and ground outs oats thinking that if they feud feed enough of it there will he be no necessity of buying so go called expensive protein feed those these practices aro seldom given ghen much attention until they como come into the tha range 0 of cow testing associations when N such men irien do to become mem bet of some cow testing asso association clation it la Is often difficult to induce thern them to decrease the total amount of grain fed and add adi a high protein feed to their present ration saya it writer in the successful punning fanning their argument arguin ent Is usually the teed feed will all cost too ton much the following illustration wits was used by the writer quite recently to prove that such la Is not the case A member nie niber of the jefferson JetTe raon county lowa iowa cow testing association was uia feeding its ills cows it a ration of SOO 1300 pounds of corn and cobin cormeal cob meal al and pounds of ground oats oata the average monthly production of lili his herd fiord wits waa pounds of milk and 24 pounds of butterfat ills ration was costing him per pounds to IS 18 cow cows a lie was feeding to I 1 7 1100 pounds of grain during t alie he month fit at a cost of A suggested ration of pounds of corn and aw pounds of ground outa oats pounds of 0 bran pounds of cottonseed rueal meal and pounds tit of oil meal would cost him film per IW pounds this ration Is 14 considerably more expensive per pounds but at it the rate lila its cows were producing pounds of the suggested ration would have been sufficient to keep up the cows production during that month however pounds were suggested to allow for putting some of the cows cowa in a little better condition thia amount of grain would cost hero idere la Is a saving of 1449 for thy the month apart from this saving the fact should not bo be overlooked that the suggested ration contains more protein consequently nit nil increase in production can reasonably be expected the own on ora ration contains only about 7 per tnt ont protein which Is altogether too little for largo and economical prodoc 1 the suggested ration will contain about 12 1 l per cent protein tho the pasture which these cows were getting was not abundant find and it a little supplementary roughage would have ini conditions considerably another member was feeding along with fair pasture past ir 10 pounds of oar ear corn to cows quito recently fresh at GO CO cents per basliel tills feed would cost 1 him 1 lin for each cow cov per month lar 1 3 ar corn Is not tin an economical leod ivol at any time because of the quite largo percentage that Is not digested seven pounds of the same ration as was lid ad in the previous case would cost for each cow per ahk would be a saving sang of 24 cents on eich each cow apparently alili Is only i f small saving but the higher protein content of the suggested ration would no douht bring brin about an advance in pro which would lo directly be a further saving it should lie easy to see front from thesa illustrations flint what appears to be a saving in refusing to feed high protein rations Is simply filse false economy in many cases ie ps pounds of grain in it a balanced ration will bring more economical results than n liberal amount of feeds deficient in that abao cutely necessary milk making food pro feln if the conditions in thit first Ith illustration istra lind had been the same for the entire year it a saving ol of could liaf hayr been effect effected and it costs only about aboul 40 to be a of it a caw et detesting estIng association for it year |