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Show Farm News-Notes By LEW MAR PRICE County A Kent Limited Grain Ration Most Economical I Many of our dairymen in Beaver County, in the effort to cut down the cost of the production of milk, have acquired the habit of feeding roughages rough-ages alone to dairy cows. More net profits per cow can be made under jour conditions by feeding a limited I grain ration throughout the year. A ' heavy grain ration is not recom-I recom-I mended for. econbmy o production, ! although a greater yield does result. Results of surveys made over a period of years and tests recently completed by the U. S. ' Bureau of ' Dairy Industry which confirm the findings of these surveys show that jbutterfat is produced cheapest when a ration of one pound o grain is j given for each six pounds of milk produced. That figure must vary slightly with the butterfat content of the milk. On the average a cow producing 2 5 pounds of milk should receive approximately four pounds of grain mixture when given all the alfalfa al-falfa hay she will eat with or with-j with-j out silage. ! Cows fed the limited grain ration 'with all the good roughage they .want are more healthy and vigorous, produce more uniformly throughout the year, and have a longer productive produc-tive life. They milk more freely, and do not react so readily to unfavorable un-favorable conditions of weather or feed; and they breed more regularly and produce more liveable calves. We do not need to go out of our own communities to find these statements state-ments to be facts. A sufficient number num-ber of dairyment in our county practice prac-tice this system to definitely establish estab-lish it in the minds of the most skeptical if we will only investigate. One Hundred Scholarships Offered To 4-H Clubs In 1831 Cyrus Hall McCormick, a Virginia farm boy, gave to the world its first successful grain reaper. In 1931 the International Harvester company will pay tribute to his memory by awarding 100 scfiolar-ships scfiolar-ships of S500.00 each to outstanding outstand-ing 4-H club members. The scholarships schol-arships will be given to 100 farm boys and girls for work done in 1931, the centenary of the invention of the reaper. Cyrus McCormick, Jr. made this announcement at the luncheon given by the company, Dec. 3rd to 1400 boys and girls attending the national 4-H club congress. This 550,000.00 gift of the International Inter-national Harvester Company to 4-H club boys and girls is an expression o their faith in the practical development devel-opment gained by participants in this system of training. Shall Beaver County Become XT. S. Accredited? A new regulation has recently been adopted regarding the accrediting accredit-ing of counties in range and semi-range semi-range territories. The regulation provides for testing test-ing of all the bulls, purebred breeding breed-ing cattle, milk cows and at least 10 of the semi-range breeding females, fe-males, and such other cattle as are thought necessary. Dr. F. E. Murray, Inspector in charge of T. B. testing, advises that at the last meeting of the U. S. Livestock Live-stock Association some states adopt-jed adopt-jed rather drastic regulation;) regarding regard-ing the admittance of cattle into those states. Some of the states have gone so far as to require that no cattle shall be admitted in to the state for any purpose whatsoever, unless they are from an accredited county. This wonld mean that feeder cattle cat-tle could not be shipped into states 1 with this regulation, and that other ; states would probably hold out to buy at a discount because of no ac-credation. ac-credation. Beaver County dairymen have submitted to the test for several years, and now almost unanimously appreciate the benefits of same. Are we ready to submit the other cattle coming under the new regulation? |
