| Show I Tn D l t. t FA-as FA DAIRY cows ARE ROUGHAGE EATERS Certain wrIters on economic pro lenns lems state that In the future farm animals ani- ani mals must more and more depend on roughage and the by products r ain that are not suitable f They say that this ne net ity will 0 a ato to supply food for tor t the c rapidly I Jag Ing numbers In the pop pOI pOIl i. i l lIon hon Whether thIs condition come or not we do know that the grain Is the expensive part ot of the cows cow's ration and the lie more nearly roughage can be mae made to supply the feed the cheaper will milk an and milk products be produced produced pro pro- writes W. W II H Woodley extension exten- exten extension sion daIryman college ot of culture University ot of Arkansas Grains hIgh In protein content are especially Yx- Yx pen pensive he The farmer Carmer Is fortunate In that becan he be can raIse a roughage that Is high in J protein and supply thIs much needed milk producing element In hay cheaper cheap r than he can buy it In graIn There is 18 probably no section where some kind kindor or of legume hay cannot be raIsed An acre of land that will produce two tons ot of soy bean hay bay yields three times the digestible protein that the same acre wl will 1 produce In corn ears and stover and five times more than prairie or other grass hays can be raised It yields about the same amount ot of total digestible nutrients as the acre of corn nn and twIce the lie amount in praIrIe or grass hay So to the cowIt cow cowIt It Is both hay and graIn The milk cow wIth her ben four stomachs achs and her to consume about five times as much feed as the horse Is essentially a roughage anImal and can only do her best work and do It most economically when she Is supplied sup sup- plied with nil all the roughage such ns as mentioned above that she will con con- sume A farmer can buy good grain In the market and the kind that he wants but even It if It was vas as economic to do doso doso so lie he can seldom find hay of the quality Ity and kind that lint It Is best to feed so 80 In self defense he must raIse It |
