Show FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF COW Results Given of Studies of Department Depart Depart- Department ment of Agriculture and Purdue University Prepared by the United States Depart Depart- mont of ot Agriculture Bossle Is one of the champion consumers consumers con con- sumers of the universe according to results of studies of the United States department of agriculture and Purdue university In the neighborhood of Porter Porter Por POl ter county Indiana where Uncle Sam Sara kept tab for tor two years on the food requirements of ot about cows that were producing market milk for tor Chi Chi- cage cago As s cow Hying expenses have Increased proportionally to those of the he human family these results are notable as an nn index to which the average average aver aver- age dairyman or the owner of a family tam fain ily ly cow can refer in doping out the menus and amounts of feed which his animal or animals require The grand average maintenance and pr production ration for the good grade gradt cow yielding about pounds of ot l N T v Nc I f t it t 1 Wh I b I 1 r 1 J i O 1 11 r r ri f 1 1 ir t N. N y A Y r. Av VM If Bossle BossIe Is to Yield a Bountiful and Persistent Yield She Must Be Fed Adequately and Well Welt milk a year included 2046 pounds of grain as well as pounds of hay hayand hayand hayand and corn stover oT ol sll- sll age and pounds of straw for bed bed- ding The average cow required a little little lit lit- tl tle less than 1 11 Y acres of good pasture to furnish grazing for sit sir months of the year To keep her In proper icon icon- condition and to milk and feed her regularly regu regularly regularly regu regu- required 1645 hours of human labor as well as hours of horse labor tabor to haul the milk The studies in Indiana showed that the annual overhead charges for Bossie Bos- Bos Bie sie aggregate 2711 Inclusive of the Interest depreciation and taxes on buildings cattle and equipment as ns aswell well VeIl as miscellaneous expenses such as IlS provision and am maintenance of cans palls pails dippers shovels forks scoops lanterns and the like medicine and veterinary costs fly sprays gas ten ten- engines en en- gines windmill and milk milk wagon repair repairS repairs re re- re- re pairs pair and nd similar items The cost of bull service tuberculin-testing tuberculin expenses expenses expenses ex ex- ex- ex and testing cow-testing dues are also Included The tests show that a ca calf crop of approximately 87 ST per cent is usually raised so that each cow is credited with the production of of one calf as well as the providing of ot 68 tons of manure which which which-Is is hauled to the fields fields' as fertilizer Massed together under one roof the grain groin and coarse feed which Bossie will eat In one year would fill a small barn Generally speaking high production production production pro pro- of milk is closely associated with a large and healthy cow appetite appetite appetite appe appe- tite and th the dairyman who clos closes closs s his accounting records at the y years year's rs r's end with the maximum net return is the theman theman man who provides the greatest va variety variety va- va n rl ty and a proper propel mixture of the goodies of or the cow world for tor the bos boa sies ales of his herd according to their Individual In In- production and capacity |