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Show Good Pasture Proves Asset To Dairymen Records at the dairy experimental experi-mental farm of the Utah State Agricuuiral college indicate the prpnl tiliip nf pnnri nn.stnrp.s in the dairy business, according to George Q. Bateinan superintend ent of the Utah experiment stationary sta-tionary dairy farm at Logan. These records show that over a 184 day pasture season .9 of a day's pasture replaced 15.6 pounds of alfalfa hay and 41.7 pounds of corn silage. Furthermore the cows produced .09 of a .pound more butterfat per day while on pasture pas-ture than during the winter when they were barn fed. These figures are based upon a five year average. aver-age. Even more imporant, the feed cost per pound of butterfat was 8.91 cents higher during the winter win-ter when the cows were barnfea compared to summer, when the cows were on pasture. There were 5384 cow days winter feeding during the course of the experiment experi-ment and 6695 cow days of pasture season. This indicates plainly that good pastures are a most economical econom-ical dairy feed. They must be taken care of, however, and dairymen dairy-men can afford to spend more time on their pastures in order to make them produce the maximum maxi-mum amount of feed. Pastures should never be allowed to dry up. Every effort should be made to give the pasture an irrigation as well as any cultivated crop, says Superintendent Bateman. It has frequently been found desirable to cut large pastures into in-to smaller ones and pasture them in rotation. This method keeps new green feed available all the 'ime if the pastures are irrigated sufficiently. Another advantage for the pasture is the fact that the cows do the entire harvesting of the crop and it is a crop that possesses pos-sesses great value. |