Show FEEDING DAIRY COWS the following clipping afta aks taken front from the tha idaho dairy extension news letter tor for october 1929 it has some good suggestions on corn and grain feeding tor for dairy cows which might interest some ot of our dairymen in garfield county high producing dalry dairy cows will pay a good price for grain when fed at the proper time the associations which report from thirty five to seventy per cent of their members member a feeding gra st have an average monthly production of almost seven pounds of tat fat higher than the associations reporting no grain feeding it tills this seven pounds ot of tat fat Is due to the grain ration it means these dairymen are aie receiving a good price tor for their home grains through their cows TK seven pounds pound of h i mertat sold at fifty cents centa a pound would bring in ing it if the cows received an average ot of live pounds of grain a day or pounds a month the cows paid 1 per ono hundred bundled pounds of grain it should riot not be inferred that we recommend feeding grain to all the cows or feeding the same amount of grain to each cow the high producing cows will pay a good price for grain while the low producer will not the best beat res will be obtained when the cow Is given from six to eight weeks dry rest period and fed so ss as to be in ipox ex 0 o jant condition at freshening time in case of high producers continue to teed feed grain successful dairymen do not make the common mistake ot of waiting until the cow coly milks down thin lit in flesh ad low in milk before starting to feed grain but they begin feeding a grain supplement ent to the high producing cows cowa when trash and hold the milk flow to a high point during the whole lactation period it la Is unprofitable to peri per mit mil a cow to go down in flesh and lio bof bet re starting to grala grain as aa it Is seldom that she will regain her former flow of milk the T io value of a grain supplement to la in III holding the cow to a high production during the whole lactation period and not in the immediato increase in creaso of mill flow when grain feeding la Is started es ee cnally cc ally it if abo cow havo have been milking 1411 um vial ital monteas and are aio milked down lit in flesh and production COUNTY AGENT 1111 |