Show la D SUGGESTS THREE GRAIN MIXTURES coin oats bran and cottonseed for dairy cows feeling fee i ng dairy cows rations atiat tt at make econom lent production Is one sure way to cut it gli gh feeding costs cots states S iii salisbury special 1st in ani ant ml wil husbandry at the 01 lo 10 state university wio wl sug suggests ests hat tl at the most economical grain mixture un ler prices consists of corn oats hran bran and cottonseed meal vuen alfalfa hay is a available he recommends recon mends that the grain mixture be made up of three parts each of corn oats and bran with nith one part of cottonseed put rut if clover cloner or mixed hay is fed the ration might be moli inclined fied to 2 r arts each of corn oats and bran and I 1 part of cottonseed meal ineal A good grain mixture to feed with tiro din oti y hay consists ot of equal parta parts of corn oils oits bran brin oil met meil and cotton seed meal these rations may be fid fd with or without allae at the rate of I 1 pound for each or 4 pounds of in mak ik produced the most practical met od of pro v d ng a grain ration for d ary cattle Is to feed one of the suggested ra eions to the entire in aking herd ac c arding to salisbury if one co v tends to become fit and her in 11 ik prodoc tion fills off too early it Is well to add a little extra high protein feed to her ration this has a tendency to stimulate milk production rather than tie tl e accumulation of fat if another cow Is milking heavily and has his a tendency to become too thin it Is best to add extra corn and oats or other high carbohydrate feeds to her ration it Is not he po tits out to attempt to mal e a separate grain mixture for each cow As there are about 87 5 pounds of water in every pounds of milk and as a cow consumes three pounds of water nater for every pound of milk she produces it is essential that she drink plenty of water ater salisbury says in cold w eather veather water cups in tl tie e barn are oftentimes responsible for a 10 to 15 per cent difference in milk pro measuring efficiency of cow Is the latest task electricity s latest task Is a boon to the dairy industry in tl e labora tories tortes of the college of agriculture Un university hersity of california at davis I 1 calif there has just been completed a ration chamber in which the input output efficiency of a co v mis be tested electric lily in fact pro visions are made for tests on two cows at one time II 11 e animals are provided with coin com for table stalls in air tight cl el ambers and are fed watered milked an ani I 1 cleaned under careful laboratory con d gioi s the feed Is we gl ed tie tl e wa ter Is analyzed anal zed and tie air in tip tl P chambers Is cooled and humidified attendants who enter the chamber at regular li it must pass through an a r flock clock auxiliary chamber to pre rent all leakage tl 71 e breathing of the animals ls 6 mei measured by an elaborate dechant ine chani cal cat lui g device c led an asp designed and built by doctor II kleiber eiber on tie tl e staff of the college A class fier fler in the basement under tl ti e ration cl amber separates the waste products tl TI e entire equipment it k about tl ree times the size of a lare motor 1 us and it cost nearly three times as much dairy cows rustling in stalk fields for feed dalry cows forced to rustle around a cornstalk field for a part of their feed in winter cannot produce enough milk to make them profitable ren en when tl tt e very best of grain feeds are fed e to 0 cows ws which are called upon to get all their dry roughage in the stalk field there la is very little chance f r them to make a worthwhile milk yield one reason for this Is that cos co s that thit are kel ke t out of doors use up most of their feed to keep warm and the other reas n Is that there Is very little in c installs from alich a cow can moke mike milk A goo gool I 1 milk producing cow Is ally tl ti in in flesh she is thin skinned and cannot stand the cold sl st e nee Is to be kept in warm quarters to be he j comfor comforth tJ fl ie anen under such con li it tl it ns sl e cai cat not mike much use of forn foristall orn stall s as a part of I 1 er feed sl SI e ee 1 Is plenty of d gest ble milk mik in feels fee Is all the time Is true ki wl I 1 ether sl qi e Is in milk or in dry con d don wh n she Is not biking mik milk she he shot 11 I 1 I 1 be fed I 1 borally so tl it she will keep on producing m ik profitably when she freshens again ground soy beans ground soy beins beans are a verj er satis salts factory source of protein on many miny lalov firms usually only f corille con lon n ent Is heard beard from men feed ng being beins durina the cold weather in s it 11 n er I 1 lofever oni ever a lack of pila p ila ity in the ration nino tl e round roun I 1 he ins is often I 1 in most case I 1 boeer the beans are not refused ly the herd when first ground but r ther after ti tie e feel fee I 1 has his teen I 1 ean ground iwo two weeks or more the finer the th beans are 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