Show AMOUNTS AMOUNTS- OF FEED FOR COWS Upon pon Capacity of Animal Depends Quantity of Daily Portion of I Grain and Roughage The quantity of silage to feed a cow depends upon the capacity of the animal She should have as ns much muchas as os she will clenn cleanup clean up without waste when consumed with the grain and hay is the advice given farmers by bythe bythe bythe the United States Department of ot v Agriculture A A- goo good 1 cow should be fe fed 1 Just short of the limit of her ap petite The smaller cows usually eat from 20 to S 30 pounds of silage a da day and the larger animals 40 pounds or I more The The hay needed ordinarily ranges between 5 and 12 pounds per cow a 0 aday aday day or 08 1 pound oun per pounds of live weight when fe fed 1 In connection with silage e. e SlI Silage ge should be fed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the proportion of ot about 25 to 3 pounds per poun pounds of live weight Concentrates Concentrates Con should be fed according to size size of animals and richness of milk One poun pound 1 is required for each 2 to 4 pounds of milk produced Although corn com silage Is 18 one of the best fee feeds particularly for dairy co cows s there are lire some som milk producers US use It too freely It It Is not a complete c f feed ed neither Is It It Ita a food that will give best hest results with only leguminous w Il hays 8 as ag alfalfa or 01 cowpeas Since cows colts cannot consume enough of the these thes-e e rough feeds to produce the tha best results under ordinary conditions to feat concentrates It Is necessary ary in addition particularly when th the price is Js not high as ns Is the case this this' this Making Making Mak year Farmers Farmers' Bulletin GiS The in ing ing and Feeding of Silage contains much helpful Information on feeding when silage Is the basis of the ra ra- ra- ra tion |