Show DAIRY FACTS TIMOTHY HAY NOT GOOD FEEO FEED animal husbandry Hut bandry men at new now york state college point out supora superiority of legume if you want to increase tho the coat cost of producing milk ilk toed feed timothy hay to 0 o ur aulry thim ie to tho we way tho hus hu handry trien int n nt at tho now york state college of agriculture culture are pointing out to the file of the the of liny tiny over tho the non k ganes euch such as an thmothy thu othy ine ing they toll tell of AD an experiment which allom showed ed thie this clearly two lote lots of cowe cows received elved identical rations outdo from the tile hay food feed the croupe grouls bere alternately tely fed either ton pounds of alfalfa tiny or ten pounds of timothy buy hay the result indicated that the ration produced 17 per cent tent more milk por for dairy cow cows clover cloer and alfalfa havo have practically nily the name value A 1 falfa sharpen sharpens the appetito and give gives greater gains in weight hut but feeding without sufficient variety may nay tho the kidneys legume hays are rood good substitutes for concentrates in tho the ration with nil all factors equal ni as to cown feeds ratio and the tile like milk production hns has been fully ully sustained in soine tents by substituting eight pounds of alfalfa tiny for eight pound pounds of wheat bran good eoy soy hean bean hay can bo be umed in tho the same way with wheat hran or other concentrates nt at 45 a ion ton and alfalfa and clover at 20 what this mean in cheapening rations ho the college thinks a g apparent AGE FOR BREEDING HEIFERS safe rule to follow is to walt wait until animate animals are at least seven teen month months old it in 1 a recognized method among tho best dalry dairymen men that crowding helfers to breeding season never makee makes them an na strong and la in apt to lower their production later breeding them too young say at twelve to fourteen months of age often gives trouble at a time they are usually smaller and not sa strong as an more mature heifers hei bel fers and seldom have as good records li helferd elfers tant are well fed at t the start sturt may be bred earlier than those alch chich hae haie but little feed besides pasture A safe rule to follow Is to unit olt for breeding until they are at least seventeen mouths old and later if they are not well ell aroun SOY BEANS SUPPLY PROTEIN provide valuable supplement to ra ton tion of corn silage alfalfa hay and oats boy soy beans grown on the farm give promise of providing many dair dairymen men with a valuable protein supplement which will mako make them independent of high priced protein feds say tile dairy men at iowa state college experiments carried on with a number of cows showed that cracked soy beane beans proved to be worth 00 A ton for the feeding of milk cowa cows when old process linseed was worth 45 per ton and so they prove to bo be a valuable supplement to a homegrown home grown ration of corn silage alfalfa hay bay cracked corn and ground oats onta in other words cracked aay beans when fed with tho homegrown home grown ration mentioned are n v rth arth one third more than oll moal meal PUREBREDS REPLACE SCRUBS nearby 1000 inferior bulls discarded in contest recently cloaked in kansal in the kaman better betten hull bull contest recently closed lle stock men and agricultural ri college officials of lie the state replaced nearly 1000 scrub hulla bulls ith purebreds this Is at phirl of if nn nit c purebred puru bred the tile ex tension oce of the th state 1 Is 13 3 con ton duct ducting Injo OA six in lit lun hut bai y has hwn de indr in lit the work and Is co alth the united states department of arlell Arl Agri eul ettl ture in lit better sires alres bettor better k 1 nv tie tivi ties DEHORN CALVES CALM WHEN YOUNG stick should be kept in handy placa by all 1 horn soon killed every romuld keep it inns min tic tie stick handy anti deham tales ats while young when tile rulf ralf Is it din or two old the hom or buttmi hut tm arv ur small and can be he gaall taken on off calve balve around tle the hutton button before rubbing on the caustic will III evin protect the alln and the tiny horn hom will soon disappear one application Is 1 usually sufficient clent butter made on an fanne while of pounds of butter are made in the large creni nerl it Is estimated CO per cent of all the butter ud in the united states ie to mode tunde un on farius and from herds berds of leu less than 10 cows con 9 dairyman when you find a clock a ter a sot set of milk r calm and a milk record sheet in dally use in the cow barn bam you are quite certain to be in the vicinity let tilty of a successful dairyman or of one who m will ua succeed nc ced |