Show DAY FACT iJ SUMMER iMER PASTURE FOR DAIRY COWS Prepared by br tM the United Unite ret Department or of Agriculture One ot of the harde animals on the farm tarm Is the producing high producing daIry cow Proper feeding to supply her with the nutrients necessary for tor milk production Is essential at aU all times The fact that proper feeding Is neglected In summer more often perhaps than at any other season Is due no doubt to the mistaken Idea that Olat pasture Is an sufficient aU-sufficient teed feed Some hInts on the feeding of dairy cows In summer are presented by J. J It Dawson dairy husbandman ot of the United States Department ot of Lure ture In a six page page Illustrated leaflet Issued by the department It Is known as Leaflet No 7 L and copies be obtained application to the can n. n on to the United States Department in Of ur Lure ture Washington D. D C. C A cow producing as much as 35 pounds or of milk a day Mr Dawson says cannot ordInarily eat and digest enough grass to furnish aU all the nu for Cor tier her needs A cow producIng ing only 20 O or 25 pounds per day will scarcely be able to get sufficient flu nu trient out ot of the good pasture grass which shy can eat cat to keep up this amount of production Yet thousands of farmers expect their dairy cows to produce more Ulan than this during the summer on poor p pastures tures wIth DO no ad ad- additional feed In n addition to good pasture cows producIng more than than 20 pounds of milk dally daily should be gIven one pound ot of graIn to each tour four or six pounds ot of milk produced The grain may be bea a mixture ot of the ordinary farm tarm graIns such ouch as corn oats wheat bran or barley and should always be ground For cows producing more than 35 pounds ot of milk dally daily a grain mixture should contaIn one protein high concentrate concentrate con con- such as the oIl meals otherwise other other- wise the ration will be too low In protein In with the carbohydrates carbohydrates carbo carbo- hydrates and fats When pastures are poor or dry It Is advisable to supplement them by other OUI oth- er succulent feeds such as summer silage or crops grown to be fed green Plans should be made now for tor a up up- ply of summer silage and green crops to pastures |