Show Cheap Protein Feed for Cows The dairyman is left to solve the I problem how to get cheaper heaper feeds for tor his cows especially the protein Maybe he will eventually have to sow some buckwheat and grind It up to get the It is only a dozen years since the king of cereals wheat was put up as a sacrifice for forthe forthe the cow and for the pig In the far West and it suffered the humiliation of ot being fed whole to both cows and pigs The cost coat of feed teed bills is greatly reduced reduced re reo in the alfalfa districts but it is sot ot ot every section so situated that can grow alfalfa Many will try it and many will fail tail If It some men would pay jay as much attention to using red clover dOTer as they theT do in the cultivation of alfalfa they ther would let jet good crops of ot clover and probably as much and as ai cheap protein as in the alfalfa But that would not apply to the alfalfa districts where irrigation does the work Of or course these are in a class claRS by themselves Cottonseed meal gl gluten ten m meal al and bran command high prices prices at the mills and as the they ar are good for the cows some men men will n not t leave them out of the ration Steaming corn silage silage sil sll age In the silo up to a temperature of degrees makes males the silage sweet and In this condition it has a anice anice anice nice aroma quite different from ordinary ordinary or or- silage and more easily digested di di- Mixed silage e of cow cowpeas and silage corn are excellent and ways and means may be found to make them a practical suc success success ess in putting them into the silo with equal tion Of course the trouble is how to easily get into the silo such a balanced balanced balanced bal bal- ration not only in the silo but alike in growing ripening and handling handling handling hand hand- ling into the silo When bran gets over 14 a ton there are cheaper protein protein protein pro pro- tein feeds that could be furnished the cow unless butter bultel ranges higher than at present The The Jersey Bulle Bulle- tin |