Show J MILK OFTEN TO INCREASE YIELD Striking Results Obtained at Beltsville Farm Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture One ay way to make malee a n cow give more milk Is to milk her three times Umes a day ay Instead of at twice This fact has been demonstrated a number of times Umes In recent recent recent re re- re- re cent years jears emS but perhaps the most striking ing results have been obtained at the dairy ulry e experImental farm of the United States Department of Agriculture at Beltsville Belts Md 1 Here It was found that the extra milking gave per pel percent percent cent more mill milk and aud 2 4 per cent more butterfat Much of ot this Increase Is attributed to the fact that the cows milked three times a n day held up better In their milk flow The decline in production from the first to the last 30 CO days of nr the lactation was only about CO per percent percent percent cent as great with the cows cO ml milked three times Umes a n day as with those milked twIce In the e. e experiments six cows were milked for two lactations each ench and I two for three lactations each roch making I In all eighteen lactations In eight I of U these ese lactations the cows were I milked twice a day and In the other ten they were milked three times a day Conditions were the same for all nil lactations e except the number of times a day the cows cons were milked In order to determine whether milking milk milk- milking ing three times a day clay Is a profitable practice one must know v not only the probable Increase In production but also the quantity and cost of the grain groin needed for the increased production the cost of the extra milking and the thel value of the Increase In production These hese Items vary In different localities localities ties and each dairyman will have to figure It out for himself Is the conclusion conclusion conclusion con con- reached by the department |