Show DAIRY FAITS o FEED COWS GRAIN It I WHEN ON PASTURE PASTUR t I r Keeps Up I Up 1 ilk Flow for Fall Fal Production j The better belter dairyman knows that It 1 ip pays S 'S to fe feed d his cows In the summer as well wll as In winter says SOS G W Tall by Jr of the New York State Col- Col College Col Col- lege of or Agriculture For the past ten ten tei years dalr dairymen In nil all parts of ot New v NevI NewYork I York state have ha been feeding theIr cons s better in the summer As an nn example of results from rep ree- reel L l i ord and better belter feeding Mr spoke poke of or a dairyman In OS county who five fi years cars ago had Imd 16 10 cows which produced pounds or of orr r r milk with 17 1 pounds of ot butterfat the next year 17 Ii cows produced I pounds of milk with 2335 pounds but but- butterfat but the third year 13 cows pro pro- produced duc T pounds of ot milk with 1974 1914 pounds of ot butterfat and time the fourth year 1 14 cows produced nGi pounds of milk with pounds of butterfat During the first summer the cows were fed no grain during June or July and only four pounds a n cow v a addy aday dllY durin during August During the fourth summer the cows received an nn aver aYer average average age of ot four pounds n a day and were fed somewhat according to production although they were still underfed The 9 pounds average a for the fourth year ear W was S nt at least partly due to better summer feeding One dairy herd Improvement ement association association I member said recently I find that It pays to kee keep the cows VS In the barn until June 1 Then the grass has a n good start and has some sub sub- substance substance substance stance In It My Iy cows have hn good pasture pas pas- pasture pasture ture for June but I continue to give gl I them a little grain about four pounds a day So Soon n after July 1 I I begin to toI I cut green alfalfa for them and oral also increase the grain This holds up p the 1 I milk flow flo and keeps the cows in hi incon In con con- condition con for tor next fall I I I II |