Show feeding cows grain in summer summers Sum merIs Is profitable there are some splendid lessons to be learned from cow testing associations because of the records they keep one herd of eight cows that was fed an average of three pounds of grain per day during june and july lust hist your year produced pounds in more 0 re mill and pounds more fat lhnn the same cows produced during the corresponding two months the year before when no grain was fed to supplement the pasture valuing the arnin mixture at 30 a ton the extra feed cost 2230 2250 if we assume that the pounds of butterfat butterf nt had a value of 40 10 cents a pound the increase in the gross income was dihe the net profit from froni grain feeding during those two months therefore amounted to fk 52 or pet per cow per month As a rule the better the cows the larger will be the returns from grain feeding on pasture |