Show Dairymen Up Production By Feeding Good Legume A number of dairymen are advising keeping your cows literally stuffed with good legume hay to step up milk production and cut feed C. S. of the University of says 25 pounds of high-quality alfalfa hay will furnish all the protein a cow needs to produce 30 pounds of 4 per cent It will also furnish all the needed calcium and is the best source of carotene and vitamin D during the winter Alfalfa hay will provide both one pound of protein and pounds of total digestible nutrients at lower cost than soybean oil or corn and cob One pound of protein in alfalfa hay costs only eight but it costs 11 cents in soybean oil 22 cents in oats and 25 cents in corn and cob Alfalfa will furnish pounds of for but it costs In soybean oil In oats and in corn and cob |