Show r DAIRY TRADITION RUINED BY FACTS common belief dairymen a that cow cows freshening freshen ID in th spring produce milk more economically than row cows freshening at other seasons of the year does not clec kith with the tb pure fact facts Evi evidence deace against this common opinion has ha e we tu to rural economist economists st at the he ohio atte university from the he tudy study of record records kept for five years by medina county dairymen the economists divided the herd herds into three croup groups those la in which leu less than 25 per cent rif f the th cow cows freshened in three thre spring months month march april ilay abose la in which between 29 25 and ila V per cent of the cow cows freshened in the spring print and those herds in which more than 31 per ivr cent of the cow rows freshened in DO fall Ite covas on these group groups showed that cote of feed and labor were re deuced in both groups where print spring fret freshening hening us practiced more exten ifill production per cow indrea increased wil t irever and cost cort of producing pounds ands of milk decreased as the pro portion of spring freshened towe cows in the herd increased production per cow during the year years averaged VIA pounds a year la to herd berds where fall freshening predominated pound pounds in the halfway groi etoir r and pound pounds in the herds lre raring fres freshening lening predominate pd coms of producing pound pounds of it milk varied accordingly from mat in the fall freshening group to in a the spring freshening freshen inz group soy beans are valuable feed for dairy cattle another experiment has been completed vi here soy soybean bean meal and sop bean been oil meal has been found satis dattory for feeding dairy cattle thi this last experiment has been reported by the delaware experiment station anti an substantiates other experimental lati on oil thin this subject ir IT ahli experiment the different form forms of eoy soy I 1 cam w were ere fed in comparison with peanut oil meat meal and the results bowed showed that it tta uns superior to thie this product in three experiments conducted by other ration in which toy bean cake or r eal eat wa was compared with unwed fill ell tn meal al the eoy soy bean benn rake cake or meal was found to be equal lit in one and slightly superior in avio MO for milk p production in one experiment here soy soybean bean cake was compared with ith cotton ge eel ea rale cake soy oy bean cake was found to be superior perlor gu to action seed cake coke for milk 1 production all of these diff diffident trent experiment experiments teni ten to show the of fur bishing cow co with home grown protein supplements self feeding dairy dalry cow Is found unprofitable what Is i good economics in feeding net cattle and hoes hogs Is a waste when tried wed on dairy cowa 9 according to it he e university of t wilch hag has just reached this con lulon after expert menu menti in allowing dairy cow i to help thema thern elea selles to the feeds the want in the quantities they will eat more feed than necessary ran eaten it w as found 0 o two cow cows hail had ti it e same prefer preference eure for feed 4 heern general different kindi kinds of mill faedi as well as whole crain grain ensilage and hay bay being used in this experiment hence the cow testing associations hare have been on the right track in teaching dalry farmer farmers to 1 their cows in sanitary tails stalls wath ien ventilation lation stenn feed and litter carriers individual drinking cups and special attention to the individual production awl a I 1 demand dinand of ali the daltry S scrub bull lowers herd record to goat level in many of our dairy herds today cuilan cull ln hould should alth ith tl it ion tion of the tire ays says dr vr 3 C ile dokell of the bureau of dalry indus try state department of ae at Il reeding to inferior bull bulls may ma y pull production alin as ai fat fait ns as the culling of low cows builds it up aktor mcdowell tells of one her tier I 1 in which aich a scrub cow produced 1419 pounds of butterfat butt erfal in a year tier daughter cirod by a crib scrib bull pro 1 deuced 1203 1120 pound pounds and the brand grand laughter daughter earel tire I 1 by tie ame scrub bul bull produced il POT 7 houndt fierily as rauch much at as the world a record for a roat the owner finally oke up sold the scrub beir to the butcher an ant I 1 pur chased a good registered hull bull |