Show DAIRY COWS FED TOO MUCH GRAIN i j Greatest Quantity at Lowest i Cost for Production Makes Dairying D Profitable HOLSTEIN l COW MADE RECORD Produced d More Milk and Butterfat on Pasture Silage and Roughage Than When Fed Grain Grain Feed Feed Stuff Grown on Farm Prepared by the United States Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of or Agriculture Profitable le dairying dues does not consist In producing the greatest gle possible q quantity of milk It does consist however ho cr c In producing In ing th the greatest possible quantity of milk at the tilt lowest t possible cost lOst To produce more milk many dalr dairymen dairymen dairy dairy- men lI feed fe II too much grain brain and pile IllIe up stupendous feed fell bills But the grain does doos not always Increase the now How of milk above what It would have been without grain enough to pt pay the difference difference difference dif dif- ference In the feed bill hili Dairy specialists special special- of of the United States department dell of agriculture believe that in to many cases more gram grain Is fed to dalr dairy cows that can be Justified b by the results In milk and butterfat t. t If your our neighbor told you ou that lint his cow that had not eaten a pound of Brain crain for a whole hole year produced pounds more milk mill and 50 PO pounds more t She Produced More Milk Without Grain Than With It butterfat than Mian she ever did when fed the regular grain and md roughage ration well well what would you ou believe belle If your neighbor told you ou that And yet et I that has actually happened At least that Is substantially the stor story that the United States department of agrIculture agriculture agriculture ture tells about Its Holstein cow Helen Calamity Up to the time Helen was eight years rears old o III she had always been fed feda fedEl a El grain silage and roughage ration and the best she lIe had ever cyer done was pounds of milk mill and pounds of butterfat When she was eight years old that being in the spring of 1918 HUS It was decided to feed feeder I tier er no grain for a year She lived for a n full 12 months mouths on pasture si silage silage silage si- si lage and roughage And Aud that year ear she Bhe produced 14 2101 pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat The experiment was carried out at Huntley Huntle Hunt- Hunt Icy ley le Mont A Revolutionary Cow I Helen may properly be referred to toas toas toas as a 1 revolutionary re cow Some other cows In testing cow-testing associations and elsewhere re hu have ve shown similar tend tend- envies encle And AmI the result I Is that the dalr dairy specialists are urging dairymen to see If it Is not possible to produce milk mille and butter without feeding so much grain as ns Is commonly fed The basis of successful dairy feedIng feeding feed feed- In Ing Is now said to be to feed the cows cowson cowson cowson on the time stuff that the farm produces Instead of buying n a great deal of grain and other concentrates The dairyman dalry- dalry man JlIan should plan his feeding and crop growing to take care of the herd he has Instead of buying as ns the need arises for more feed He lie should devote devote de de- vote yote special attention to having the I |