Show I- I EThe IT PAYS TO FEED COWS IN SUMMER Big Mistake to Overlook Grain in Dairy Ration New York dairymen who do not feed grain to their milk cows in summer while they arc are on pasture are ure overlooking overlooking over over- looking a n sure method of Increasing their net income sn says s 's F. F B. B Morrison head of ot the tine animal husbandry department depart depart- ment at Cornell university It Is surprising surprising surprising sur sur- he says that many men who take much trouble In providing their cows with excellent rations during the tire barn feeding period of the tine year depend depend depend de de- de- de pend blindly on Dame Nature In sum sum- mer iner Pasture alone was satisfactory for cows in early da days s 's when even e the best of them titers yielded an amount of milk we would now no consider too low lowlor or lor profit By y skillful selection and breeding the modern yielding high dairy cow has been developed with a capacity for producing milk mm so great I that any ordinary pasture will not furnish furnish fur liar nish her enough feed both for milk production and for body maintenance I The rhe proper feeding of milk mill cows on pasture Is much simpler titan than during the winter an and says Professor Morrison Morn Morri son doubtless this Is the reason why so many farmers busy with their crons full fall to tn dve their thir h herd hirl the fun nei H DO u essar essary attention In summer summer Often the tine cows are merely turned to pasture after milking at night and aud morning with no further thought as ns to the supply supply sup snip ply of feed fee actually available- available for them Olem It is no wonder that when pasturage pus pas becomes scanty in midsummer the Ule cows run down in flesh and fall falloff falloff off decidedly In milk yield Even If fed led liberally when feeding barn-feeding starts In the tine fall quite commonly they cannot cannot cannot can can- not then be brought brou ht back to normal nominal arid and usual production It Is especially Important to feed grain liberally when pastures become short and parched This TInis Is Important I any year and of particular importance tance this summer when every erv farsighted far- far farsighted sighted dairyman desires to cI do his share In providing pro sufficient milk In Inthe Inthe Intine the tine New York milk shed during the tine shortage period next November Under typical pasture conditions inthe In Inthe Inthe the state state- lie he says sa s 's experience shows that It Is best to feed a grain mixture containing about IS 18 per cent protein at the rate of one pound of grain to three pounds of Jerse Jersey and Guernsey milk and one erie pound of grain to four pounds of Holstein Ayrshire or Shorthorn milk |