Show A ami cism COW CANNOT EAT ENOUGH PASTURE home grown feeds will fill out grain ration by J C NISBET extension dairyman kansas state agricultural college the needs of dairy cow and what they eat when on pasture will add to the dollars from the malli bucket green succulent pasture Is naturally high in protein but Is low in total digestible nutrients A cow malling over 20 pounds of milk a day cannot eat enough pasture to provide the necessary carbohydrates to maintain that production grain feeding of tills cow on pasture Is absolutely necessary her grain ration need not be high in protein home grown feeds will balance the pasture A mixture of pounds of corn and pounds of oats should be fed at the rate of one pound of grain to every tour and one half pounds of milk from the ayrshire jersey and guernsey and one pound of grain to five pounds of milk from the dry pasture contains about one third as much protein as the green succulent grass an understanding of this fact males the successful dairyman begin to add a high protein feed to hla grain ration as soon as pasture starts to dry the grain mix then la composed of pounds of corn pounds of oats and pounds of cottonseed meal ahe rate of feeding Is changed to one pound of grain dally to every pound of fat produced a week abundance of pasture Is very important to the dairy cow being the hardest worked animal on the farm she docs not need a bare gymnasium for exercise every time she produces five gallons of milk she has used up more energy than a team of 1500 pound horses plowing through an eight hour day cooling milk supply Is not difficult problem the summer spells are accompanied by the usual loss to milk and cream shippers much milk has been returned aa unfit for use due to souring and the aggregate loss in only a few days would run into thousands of dollars in a single county and in every such hot spell there are many farmers who never lose a can of milk and many others who always do why the difference it Is all summed up in two things cleanliness and cold the first la most important where all dairy utensils are concerned improper washing and scalding mill do far more to spoil milk than dirty cows or dirty stables on any farm A cooling tank at the well through which the water intended for the stock flows Is effect the and in common use ice Is desirable but many farmers who never am e had a can of milk returned are also without ice A survey of their methods would show real cleanliness in handling the milk and cooling as well as well water will allow controlling abortion Is not difficult task contagious abortion is not difficult to control dr robert graham purdue university stated recently at the meeting of the inglina Dairy mens assoil atlon ai burdue before attempt lne to curry out eradication plans the dairymen should learn how the als aae Is spread correct understanding of the na ture of the disease the importance 0 he abortion test segregation of the infected animals and clean stables and clean yards are in con arol of the disease it the manager or oner of the herd Is not aware 05 va sanitary goeas it t Is nest to impossible for him to carry out a good fhe 1061 assisted by the laboratory is able to give the dairymen assistance that will act results veterinarians know that sos cows that calve normally maye spreaders of the disease sunflower peed k p thear ow east er when f early cut sunflowers sun flowers la the silo and they lose less in weigh when ted silage from tle early cut ing than when citing silage from the vt the freshly cut plants win be very aa ni run out s me plants are allowed tn win 1 bafs ti eating for bloat la best nent for b tt |