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Show Dairyman Outlines Proper Cow Ration "Even though alfalfa hay is considered con-sidered to be the best single feed that can be fed to dairy cows, it does not necessarily mean that when fed alone hat it always makes the best ration or gives the highest or most economical econom-ical production," says George Q. Bate-man, Bate-man, superintendent of the Utah experimental ex-perimental dairy farm at Logan. "Dairy cows "that have an inheritance inher-itance for high milk and butterfat pioduction cannot produce to the greatest advantage on alfalfa hay alone. The dairy cow that when fed liberally on roughage alone produces -!75 pounds of butterfat in a year or more, needs the proper amount of grain in the ration, in addition to roughage, if production is to be the most economical." Mr. Bateman recommends, however, how-ever, that alfalfa hay, when available, should make up the basis for the dairy i a: ion, but when wet beet pulp, beet nolasses, pea vine silage, or corn silage sil-age are available at a reasonable price, they should be added to the ration. Wet beet pulp can be fed at the rate of from 30 to GO pounds per day, depending on the size of the animal to be fed. It will take from six to ,-ight pounds of wet beet pulp to replace re-place one pound of alfalfa hay. A jood rule to follow in feeding corn silage is to feed three pounds per 100 pounds body weight of animal. At this Late a 1000-pound animal would be fed 30 pounds of silage a day. Or-.linarily, Or-.linarily, it will take from 2.5- pounds o 3 pounds of corn silage to replace one pound of alfalfa hay. Cows in the dairy experimental i;eard at Logan are fed grain according ac-cording to the following rule: Three-"ourths Three-"ourths of a pound of grain per day for each pound of butterfat produced during the week. |