Show RIGHT RIGI-IT FEED FOR FORA A DAIRY HEIFER Dairymen should become more farsIghted farsighted farsighted far- far sighted In raising young oung stock for the quality of the future herd depends largely on breeding and inherited pro- pro productive productive e capacity If the heifer Is stunted by poor feeding and neglect she will not become the kind of mini mini- minimal mal we want when she calves She will be lacking In capacity and as the consumption of roughage Is n necessary ces sary sar for economical milk production It will be found that In the end i l does dues not pay to neglect the young oung stock One cause for lor the marked difference In iu tl the e size of cows of the thc same breeding breeding breed breed- i ing as found In different herds Is this factor of ration when young says sas JI JI J. J I I 1 LaMaster chief of the duh dairy division divi divi- division I sion at Clemson college South Caro Caro- lina During the summer on good pasture pas pas- ture tUle little If any grain Is needed If the heifer is at least ten months old but when pastures are poor or dried drle I up a u little grain Is 13 necessary In winter however to get the most rapid growth It Is necessary to supply a considerable proportion of the nutrients nutrients emits in the form of concentrates Where here even the ue best roughage Is fed alone the growth will wilt not be as us much muchas as ns where grain Is fed also The rite following are suggestions for rations for heifers in winter 1 When silage and legume hay are ure available corn silage alfalfa cowpea or so soybean hean hay at ut will For heifers less than titan ten months old two pounds of grain dally daily In addition The grain must be equal p parts of corn and und oats For heifers within three months of calving in order to Insure good flesh at nt that time lime three to five pounds of grain should be fed depending on con con- 2 When corn silage Is available but not legume hay ha Silage at will and ond hay or fodder Two or three pounds of concentrates should be fed dally daily one pound of which should be of high protein content such as cottonseed meal Equal parts of corn oats and bran and und third one-third cottonseed meal 3 When legume hay Is on hand but no silage sage Feed all the hay they willdean will clean dean up and und also two pounds of corn cornand cornand and oats 4 When illien no silage or legume hay Is available n It will pay to buy leg legume me hn hay or If grass gruss ha hay is fed alone feed all they will clean up A grain ration ra ra- ration tion for mixed hay will ha have haC C to be somewhat higher In protein such as ns three pounds of a mixture of two parts of corn com and one part of cotton cottonseed cottonseed seed meal |