Show balanced mixtures for cows mean more milk in spite of much experiment to ta determine the best ration for milk cows there are still farmers who fd unbalanced mixtures that do little more than keep up the animals normal weight leaving only a small amount to produce milk prof W J frazer of the dairy department part ment of the university of illinois says a great loss of milk production among cows Is due to insufficient feeding and a still greater loss to an unbalanced ration lie ile has been making an intensive study of the way illinois dairymen feed cattle and urges them to feet feed a better mixture which will return more than enough extra money in the cream or milk check to pay tor for the additional trouble and expense lie ile sy say i alfalfa and clover clove rare are the crops needed to balance icorn corn in the necessary supply of protein and minerals and that the dairy mans lowest factor today lies in his fall failure to grow aro sro w enough legumes for this purpose the average farmer in illinois can caa grow both of these crops but only a small percentage Is doing it according to professor frazers fragers Fra figures only one third of 1 per cent of the tillable land in illinois to Is alfalfa and only cpr cent Is in clover here in the intensively farmed section of 0 illinois in the five dairy counties of the northern end of the state there la Is only 10 16 per cent of alfalfa and 41 per r cent of clover |