Show SUM SUMMER BUMMER E l MINERALS R ALS S' S NEEP NEEDED NEEDED- l BY COWS r J t fa Calcium Calcium- Phosphorus Store U Up Ener r f for fr o r Winter Winte v r To Insure b healthy robust robust animals Is able to produce the tIlt milk needed this coming winter Dr L L. L A. A Maynard of th the Com Cornell U tinh university rS ty agricultural experiment ex eJ ex experiment station m says that cows V must t have plenty of calcium and ana phosphorus phosphorus du during lf g the summer r. r The usual sum summer me ration of pasture and grain h. h he says does 4 not con contain enough oft of t these ese el elements Further experiments show that cows will wll make better use of or mineral supple supplements Dt 4 during dosing ing t the pasture season than at t other times The liberal feeding of m minerals now now will wilI not only provide for current needs but will also enable the animal to store up reserves reserve for forthe the period when their assimilation of ot food tOOd Is to La more dif dIt- dItcu cu t. t A mixture of equal parts of of steam bone meal finely ground limestone and nd salt or pr a mixture ot of two parts of ot the bone m meal n and d one part of sn salt makes a good mineral supplement supple supple- ment ent The simplest way Is to place one of these mixtures Ina In a Box in Iii tl the barnyard where the cows cows can enn eat It If at will Some sort of ot a cover should be built over the box boa box to to pr protect It from rain It Is a good thing to give the cows access to one one of these mixtures mixtures mixtures mix mix- mix mix- tures even eve when the grain mixture re contains minerals because th the gT grain ln fed during the summer summer r may not contain contain con con- tam tain n enough A better way to feed the minerals but one that takes more time is to mix three to four tour ounces of ot the tike mixture with one of the grain feeding each ench day All animals whether er dry or milking should be fed the extra minerals Aside from common salt calcium and phosphorus are the only mInerals mins minerals min mIn- that are needed as a mineral mineraI supplement The purchase of a complex complex com com- plex mineral mineraI mixture containing laxatives laxa laxa- laxatives tives and tonics Is a waste of money says Doctor Maynard |