Show CHEAP SOURCE OF FEEDS FOR DAI DAIR i Good Pasture and Liberal Libera Supply of Legume Good pasture and a plentiful of ot legume hay are the two cheapest sources of dairy feeds feels especially these are economically produced Records kept on four herds of 1 cows In GuIlford and r 11 coun coup counties counties ties show the thc average monthly teed fee cost a cow during the six non pasture non pastur months to be bc 1221 sn says s 's John A Arey dairy e extension specialist at nt th the North Carolina state college DurIng During Dur ing lag the six pasture months thin nv aver average average age feed cost for each cow was only Ci The Thc difference of was ft 4 saving sa due to pasture i But Mr Are Arey also says more mn mil mils was produced during the pasture sea seah seas jj son Bon than during the pasture non sea seat son The value of ot the e extra tra milk wa was a cow per month The total Increase In iri crease In the Income from the 1 It cows during luring the pasture season Wj wa was was 67 07 t 4 This money says sas the dairyman dairy dairy man represents the savings sa In the th the feed hill hilI made possible by the use o pasture together with the small In iri crease in Income from rom the extra milk 1 produced ty 1 t The Thc area grazed razed by each cow aw nc act cording to the records records war i 1 one and one-fourth one acres Th t i 1 seasonal return per acre therefore g was 44 reckoning the milk sold ti a ajl E Il 30 cents a gallon Mr Arey says the United State Stately u bureau of dairying has conducted ce f j s stamn a tain tamn tests showing that milk may bV- bV produced economically on pasture and an 1 good roughage alone The rou roughage used In the thc tests however howe was good alfalfa hay and corn silage An aver average avert n nage E age production of pounds 1 01 milk and pounds of butter fa tat was secured from the ten cows used r Many North Carolina dairymen will wll o obe be skeptical of or these results e e says says MYS because grain rain Is fed liberally in i state and hay m mery y very ery sparingly because ws so little is grown The absence of pa pas pasture and Is al a ture tore home-grown home legume hay handicap to successful dairy d. farming In North Carolina Mr Arey believes DI |